The Creature 2
Warning: This post is a horror story. Parts of this story may be disturbing to young readers. Reader discretion advised.I crouched in fear under the cot in the pitch blackness of the night that lay...
View ArticleExistential dilemmas
After Monday, Tuesday has to be the worst day of the week... followed by Wednesday then Thursday and then Friday. Not necessarily in that order akshually. But I must say that Friday is a little better...
View ArticleSocial cocktails
Overhead at the cafeteria today where some 40 something techies (seniors) were having a conversation with a 20 something techie (junior). One senior looked at the junior and said "I love your language...
View ArticleThe ugly business
Year 2075, Bengaluru, IndiaA young lady walks with her head bent down through the narrow steaming gullies between the tall buildings. It is dark and a mild rain spray-mists the air in billowy swathes....
View ArticleIt's a mad mad biz world
There is a jinxed little shop near my house. It stands next to another shop that is used by some Christian prayer group for some activities which require a lot of jumping up and down and flailing arms...
View ArticleFakebook
In the beginning there was Fakebook.And Fakebook became a rage and made its dwelling on every PC, Laptop and other such devices. Everyone saw its glory, the glory of the one and only, who came after...
View ArticleCreative dead ends
Take a look at this outdoor advertisement for a leading cement brand. What do you think the security guard is trying to say?1. Look! I can lean sideways!2. Look! My left hand is bigger than my right...
View ArticleThe unsung ungeniouses
We were having coffee with Genius at the cafeteria. We call him Genius for a reason. You will see why very soon. Sunitha, a manager was musing aloud that her male subordinates seemed to have some...
View ArticleTangled webs of familial conflicts
My uncle and aunt are not talking to me. So are my other uncles and aunts. And grand aunts and grand uncles. And other extended family members too *sob*Well… the extended family members usually talk...
View ArticlePoverty whines
Salary days are well....salad days. But salary discussions are well...quite over the top specially when you take your payload home in a truck. Very well paid exec in our office: If my salary is delayed...
View ArticlePhotocrafty
Age 10: Beg, plead, cry, sulk, beg, plead, cry, sulk, and scream till your parents get you a point and shoot camera. Click away happily taking some awesome pictures. Age 18: Beg, plead, cry, sulk, beg,...
View ArticleSeeing red
While cooling my heels at my grandparents home in Kerala during a hartal/bandh, I decided to write a blog post. The blog post has nothing to do whatsoever with the bandh mind you! I was chumma...
View ArticleFamily khap panchayat
Approximately ten years to this day, she held the tiny sleeping bundle in her arms and smiled at the miracle of creation in her hands. He slept blissfully in her arms, wrinkling his face and...
View ArticleClueless in uniform
It’s been long folks. I plead guilty to neglecting this space. But in my defiance…err I mean defense, I must say that I was as appalled as the rest of the country at the atrocities against women and...
View ArticleFrandship forever
Today is International Friendship Day. A day to remember friends and commemorate friendships. Friendship is not be mistaken for "Frandship”, a word that took birth when Totally Random Indian Guys on...
View ArticleOf Rice and Men
It was a Monday morning meeting and I was waiting in the conference room for the Senior Product Manager (PM) to make an arrival. He was usually punctual. In fact he was always punctual. You can see...
View ArticleChaakli
It was 5 am and I was fast asleep, snug under a light quilt that protected me from the air conditioning. There was a jerk and the bed shook as my aunt
View ArticlePopular woes
Manager of newly popular pop musician: Dude!! Your song is a huge hit worldwide but specially in India, the people are going gaga over the number. They are dancing to it and singing and what not!!...
View ArticleThe evolution of the political vermin
The political worm or more popularly known as the political vermin (PV) is an interesting parasite. Among all the parasites out there, this is the only creature that evolves, yet doesn’t evolve. Now...
View ArticleOutsourcing
John was a colleague in the US. He was a good graphic designer. We worked together a lot and shared a lot of laughter over Zoom and beer when he came down to India to meet the Indian marketing team....
View ArticleWork life balancing act
Sometimes in the 1990’s Employee one: Whine whine whine whine Employee two: Gnash, Gnash, Gnash Employee three: Sob, Sob, wail, whimper, wails of despair… Employee four: No work life balance,...
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