Born Spectator

शीर्षक अँग्रेज़ी में लिखा क्यूँकि आगे कही जाने वाली बातें प्रेम के संदर्भ में हैं। और कहीं न कहीं प्रेम के संदर्भ में की गई साधारण बातें हि...

"Dhyaan dibin dada, mayjik dakhabo!" - shouts the boy in an attempt to attract attention. The second class air conditioned...

I feel pain. Of the kind which doesn't tell which part of the body it's coming from - but it hurts; cruelly, tediously, steadily ...

Memoirs of skiing on the Ragged Mountains in the pristine town of Camden, Maine. I had mugged up the term 'self-motivated', amongst ...

A piece which played multiple times tonight, or should I say, morning: फिर कुछ इस दिल को बेक़रारी है सीना जोया-ए-ज़ख्म-ए-कारी है ( जोया : to...

You probably wouldn't get the feeling behind this post unless you have a firsthand experience.  Last week, I happened to visit the NIT C...

2:30 AM - Start getting stoned! You lose count of time. Forget count. Its like there was / is no time. Its eternity. You 'observe...

In 1998, an album 'Boondein' debuted at #1 and scorched the charts with its fresh, evocative soundscapes, including the underwater v...

Revisited the maestro after a long gap with "Ye jo halka halka suroor hai". There's this strange thing about music and litera...

How did I suddenly become so boring! It's a terrible feeling - finding haze all around. You are neither happy, nor sad. Neither good,...

I am afraid... I always was, of heights - acrophobia, logophiles would correct. Its just around 4 mts high, but still its scary. The sky ...

The second guy is back. At his first sight, the third one hastily went out of the waiting hall. Its his turn finally. His facial expressi...

Disaster Venue: Monarch Hotel, Bangalore (Panel 3) 10:00 am on 15th Feb 2007. GD: "In business, the rear view mirror is more clear tha...

he : oye? me : ....... he : pichhle 36 minute se dekh raha hoon, kya soch kar chawanni muskaan diye jaa rahe ho? me : chup be! la remote la,...

Here comes today's actual post. Its going to be rather long, but owing to negligible readership of my blogs, I feel I should continue w...

This was written around 50 days ago. I never got time (or rather, solace) to complete it or at least just post it. Finally today, I guess,...

I always considered myself to be one of those "organised" guys around. Clear about life, goals and all those seemingly abstract te...

"Life is a compromise between what you want to do, what your experience tells you to do, and what your inner self lets you do." Ho...

It's all over. A degree called engineering, much vaunted about, but actually a pile of nonsense, is finally accomplished. The only par...

This is what I had quoted from Illusions (Richard Bach) in the farewell invitation I had prepared for the outgoing batch of 2005:          ...