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I’m on the last day of a five day break before my last endsem. In a couple of hours, I’m going to zip out of Delhi, reach Patiala, study through the night, give the exam tomorrow, and zip back into Delhi. The past two or three days, I’ve been calling up almost my entire phonebook. [...]

Back after a long long break. Blame it on exams. (The long break, that is, not the being back). Coming to the point- Indian TV ads these days are filled with cute kids. Cute to the point of inducing nausea. I Am Not A Grinch and I have nothing against cuteness per se, but in [...]

In the India Today Special Issue on the Best and Worst States of India, there’s a guest column by a Market Strategy consultant called Rama Bijapurkar. I can’t seem to locate the online version anywhere, but you can try your luck on www.indiatoday.com. Anyway, the article discusses how Indian small towns are catching up with [...]

My brother is a racist. He looks down upon French and Bengali people. One of these prejudices has returned to bite him in the ass. Those of his batchmates who had taken French as thir optional language in Class X are currently on an exchange program where they’re visiting France. The ones who took Sanskrit- [...]

It’s been raining for two days now. The temperature has fallen, the air of Patiala smells fresh and clean, and my feet aren’t tanning any more. W00t! As a point of fact, my life is quite wonderful these days. Here’s a quick runthrough of why. I am almost assured of getting As in my two [...]

There are many problems associated with summer. The fruits and vegetables are tasteless and unappetising. Walking around Delhi dehydrates you, and iced tea isn’t exactly cheap. For that matter, neither is fruit juice. Until this year, there used to be frequent power cuts, but the privatisation of the distribution companies seems to have heped in [...]

I got back to Delhi yesterday. Once I hit the border, I switched my Walkman off my self-compiled tapes (Metallica, Ugly Kid Joe, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones among others for those who’re interested) and on to FM mode. I was curious to see what the three private FM stations that had launched while I was away [...]

British swear words are wonderful. They sound much more posh and poetic than their American or Punjabi counterparts. This may be because they tend to be longer. The extra letters and syllables seem to indicate that a lot of care and precision has been taken to cuss. You aren’t mouthing off in abject frustration, say [...]

I forget how much I’ve told you about the massive floor battles that have taken place within my family. So here’s a quick recap. Due to a judgment by the Supreme Court or the High Court, it isn’t feasible for us to move to Sainik Farms, and so we’re reconstructing the current house to make [...]

Even Preity Zinta can’t get me out of this mess: dt/dt = exp(-t) The above equation looks meaningless whether you have done calculus or not, but it’s true. What it means is that as the semester passes, time starts moving slower and slower. And thirty days before the semester ends, the rate of flow of [...]