March 2013
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Sachhi moochchi
So one of the times when our end-term exams were approaching, my friend and I decided to do some no-nonsense combined studies. Obviously, the first 2 hours of motivated learning gave way to serious discussions about our Facebook timelines. Eventually, that led to a stupid game.. We took turns showing each other people on our friend list from the opposite sex who we think the other will find hot...
January 2013
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Of Twitter ratios and scams
The other day, I was chatting with my friend who’s part of the student body that handles our college PR. About how our college twitter handle needs to be revived, how there are little/no updates, whereas such a lot of interesting stuff keeps happening every other day! And since I’ve been nagging him with this for months now, and he hasn’t done anything about it, I was surprised...
December 2012
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July 2012
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Moi summer playlist
Everyday for the past couple of months, I’ve been waking up with these numbers in my head.. 4,13,49,51,52,74.. Switching between these music channels, with a cuppa tea in my hand my beeeautiful mornings would begin to a musical start! So here goes my favourite songs that’ve been playing on music channels this summer.. (Caution: This post requires you to know to be literate in...
May 2012
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Uncle Cyrus to the rescue
‘Tis that first quarter of the financial year and I call it the “love” quarter. With people updating their status from “Single” to “It’s complicated”, and all your crushes getting married (okay, there should be an upper limit on crushes one can have !!), and in some cases folks at home decide it’s time to marry their son/daughter away..
Well, with all this love in the air, I’m sure a...
April 2012
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The "Chir Sukh" myth
You’re handed a birthday card of a friend to write a personalised message, and you almost reflexively end it with a “Keep Smiling” signature, don’t you? So do I!
Amy Lee in the superbly composed song “Lithium” talks about her sadness addiction. She wants to “stay in love with her sorrow” (Ironic?!), ‘cause it’s been her mate for a long time. Well, if you haven’t...
February 2012
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Looong after Inception!
Goa Institute of Management had the privilege of hosting some amazing music talent, the likes of sitarist Ravi Chary, tabla player Satyajit Talwalkar, percussionist Gino Banks, bassist Sheldon Silva, singer-keyboardist Sangeet Haldipur of Channel [V] Popstars Aasma fame, and his singer wife Anusha Mani and that too for free!!, or so say the organisers :). The show started in our very own open air...
January 2012
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Ende Ponnu kuttan Elle?
That’s Malayalam for “Aren’t you my dear child? You’re my sweetie pie, no?” Ever since childhood days, I’ve been hearing these words from my parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts.. Flattering.. Very flattering.. All through school you’re pampered like crazy. Even now when I’m 23 I hear my mum say it over the phone as a conversation-closer, “I’m old enough to...
December 2011
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Much more than Roshogulla!
While all the hulla-gulla surrounding the renaming of West Bengal as Paschim Banga has died down. Everyone has complained enough, debated endlessly.
“Since the name of the state starts with W, our representatives get to speak only at the fag-end of any function when most of the audience has left. To do away with the problem, the chief minister has suggested the name be changed,”...
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The birth of Tanya Mathew
It was the 2nd of February 1990, a chilly morning in Bombay. Salome woke up at 4:15am for the day’s work. Yes, she was still going to work even though it was the 9th month of her pregnancy. Her school principal was a tough woman, besides she wanted to spend as much time with her babe after its birth! She gave a call to Shantaram, the rickshaw-wala, to make sure he had left home. Shantaram was a...
November 2011
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Sexy?
Not everything good is “sexy”! A better word than “sexy” to express awesomeness? Coz “sexy” is not always apt. She and English purists will agree.
“Awesome” is way too common. There’s “fabulous” which is often shortened to “fab”. And then, there is “fantabulous” which makes those around you mumble:...
October 2011
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I hate mosquitoes
Yeah.. Yeah.. Yeah.. I know, this is my first blog post. And online advice tells me that I should write about the “Who I am”, “Why I’m blogging”, and ”What I’ll be blogging about”. But having found such stuff Oh-so-cliched I decided to write something on an issue I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT. Yes, mosquitoes.. Those ghastly creatures we so despise!
My dear brother knows how much this is true. He has seen...
