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You’re In Love
you’re in love you’re in love with the idea of someone you’re in love with the idea of someone who's in love with you you’re in love with the idea of someone who's in love with the idea of you you’re...
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Architecture of Farewell
I’ve pondered on the architecture of farewell, without the benefit of hindsight – final or not the hope in platitudes “we will meet again” or just the pretense yes there are alternatives clean lines...
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Review: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice Death in Varanasi is a strange book on many level. I don’t mean strange in the negative or critical sense, but may be in statistical sense. Split in two parts, the “novel”...
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Death in Web 2.0 and other Stories
When blog died, no one blogged about her. The newspaper obituaries were so last decade, blog wouldn’t have liked them. Her wish was respected, thanks to her faded popularity. Prime time TV, mercifully...
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The Oracle
And when I finally found the Oracle, and asked him to advice me, he, without even looking at me, said this: “There are three rules of advice that you should know: One: Never ask Oracle for advice,...
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The Mythical Closure
Maybe I’m a sucker for closure. Maybe everyone is. But on those days when I’m feeling particularly peeved by lack of closure in past relationships (no I’m not talking about romantic relationships...
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First Is Just the Name of the Street
As a child, I remember being encouraged to stay in the academic race by my mom, mostly. The rest of the family was kind of unconcerned about it. My father, who would have been hard-pressed to know...
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Ides of November
In a sense, this post is a #I_better_start_writing_again post. Actually that’s all it is, whom am I kidding, anyway. It started with a FB post about (not) judging women over their choices regarding...
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Ethics of Unhappiness – Part I
She looked at him with exasperation. He was not childlike — as she used to believe, in the early days of their courtship, with the conviction that only those who have just fallen in love seem to find...
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Unbidden We Live On
Unbidden we live on seeking beauty meaning belonging achievement containtement happiness connection comfort power glory we pick an excuse and then another, sometimes just serendipitously, sometimes...
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Condescendingly Yours
Language is not just a tool of communication and thoughts. It’s also a record of prevalent attitudes of society. Recently, after years of deliberation, I picked up Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice....
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Why Are You So …
Why are you so offensive? Why are you so stubborn? Why are you so angry? Why are you so emotional? Why are you so intellectual? Why are you so restless? Why are you so sulky? Why are you so verbal?...
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Waiting to be Washed Away
We all love to leave behind marks of our ephemerality, just in case, the waves of time forget to wash away our footprints We all live on borrowed time waiting with bated breath for waves to wash away...
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Begin Again
No it’s not a post about blogging — as has become the habit of the blog writer here –although the title would have been very apt for a post like that. Too perfect, in fact. It’s been dormant (again)...
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Friends, Forever
Forever is long time. Actually I kind of lifted it off from an old Roxette song that never quite fades from my head (“Never is a long time”). But that’s not the point. Nothing about this post is...
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Piku: A Few Random Thoughts
Yes, I’m late to party. And yes I’m going to be a party pooper, although the party is pretty much about poop, so actually I’m not really pooping it, am I? Yes, coming from a family where dinner table...
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I am Happy, Mr. Superman (a not-quite-review of Bombay Velvet)
In Ayn Rand’s teen favorite book, The Fountainhead, the uncompromising hero Howard Roark is looking at the Enright House, a building he has designed, when a young photographer notices him, or more...
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Review of Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows
There is something instantly likable about Kamila Shamsie’s characters. Hell, it’s even easy to fall in love with the central characters, like Raheen in Kartography, or Aasmani in Broken Verses (or for...
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Unbearable Heaviness of Being – Life in the New Web
Umberto Eco, that brilliant Italian intellectual who writes medieval whodunnit (or rather whytheeffdidtheydoit) mysteries on weekends, when he is not teaching, or writing papers/books on semiotics, or...
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The Hangmen
After prime time (and not so prime time, yesterday night) drama lasting days, with appeals, and petitions, Yakub Memon was finally hanged today. First of all, I wish to thank the judiciary. Their job...
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