A professional blog. Like a professional resumé. Like its time to understand that the real world begins here and the little world encapsulated in your school, undergrad, internships and group projects has ended. Like it is now important to record your views about the media, those tiny comments, deep philosophies and underlying tones you notice [...]
Demeaning the Value of Education
I have a friend who is doing her Ph D. From US, University of Illinois in Bio Chemistry. She came to India this June, after finishing a year and was nearly in tears. Her roomie was harassing her, her guide was exploiting her, her work schedule was too much and she had lost more than [...]
The Class System in Local Trains
Chronicles of a train traveller Part four
15 Differences between:
“A First Class Ladies Compartment”
When someone steps on your feet, they look at you apologetically.
You wont hear anyone creating a ruckus in joy
When its crowded to the hilt, people will realign their bodies, fit them in grooves and niches to fit like one proper [...]
Lost home..
There is something called a deep-rooted, deep-seated fear. People fear huge things, gigantically, scary and really truly mortifying things. I just read Shantaram and I realized that there are a lot of fears which I haven’t seen, which I haven’t experienced.
Yet after last December, some kind of a fear has taken root in me, [...]
About blogging…
[ Disclaimer: I have finished my required three hours of studying today + my college work too {not that I'm boasting}]
I have been pondering from quite some time about blogging anonymously. I never had the option, or if I did, I didn’t consider it at that time.I started blogging as an experiment on MSN Spaces, [...]
Rude Women, Their Breaking Marriages And its Repercussions
Chronicles of a Train Traveller
Its 5 in the evening. Too late and too dangerous to take a fast train to Andheri from Churchgate. The train fills even before it stops to unload at Churchgate. And in Andheri, it is impossible to get down in one piece, even if that is managed, you are sure [...]
Shifty business
Chronicles of a train traveler Part Two
The window-seat right next to the window facing the station is a coveted seat in a local train. The trains have two window-seats, but only one of them is right next to the window, and at those times when that seat faces the opposite direction of the train, it [...]
Sketching a woman
This is what I call true talent.
Ukele song..
He’s playing ‘while my guitar sleeps’ And he plays it well by God.
Death and Blood
I walked uphill from the station towards my home. Half-way up I noticed that the side I was walking from was wet. The asphalt looked a dark murky grey, almost black compared to the light grey road all over. For some reason this intrigued me. Although a wet road during monsoons is not something novel. [...]
