Internet is one of the most wonderful inventions of modern times. It has literally compressed the world into a few square inches of your favourite device through which you access its immense interiors. Its power of making the virtual seem real and vice versa is grotesquely fascinating. Once it brought up to me an amusing [...]
Read On No Comments[simage=1980,160,c,right,][simage=1960,160,c,right,]‘You come to the Oktoberfest to feast on beer and boobs, lots and lots of them’, said a young, sozzled reveller from an Austrian group with whom I was sharing a table in one of the beer tents. Beer flowing out of huge vats and boobs spilling out of low cut Dirndls! Bacchus chasing Venus! That is October Fest for [...]
On arrival in Luxembourg, ‘the Gibraltar of the North’, our excitement turned into distress due to sheer carelessness. Stupid that I am, on reaching the hotel, I locked my car with the key still in the ignition. Imagine my panic and frustration as I was away from home in a foreign country with a limited time at my disposal. [...]
In three and a half years of my stay in Berlin, it was only twice that all four of us, that is us and our two boys, had been together. The first time together in the summer of 2009, we had made an amazing road trip to Switzerland. This time around in the Summer of [...]
Visiting places in Europe often gives this feeling that you have seen one and you have seen all. Generally, the places have a similar layout of cobbled squares or plazas in the centre surrounded by a church or a cathedral, a town hall, eateries/pubs with extended sit-outs full of people lazing around with a glass of beer or wine. The architecture may be different but [...]
‘April is the cruellest month’ metaphorically in the West perhaps because it stirs lives which have been hibernating lazily through the chill of the winter. April, but, is also a month which after ‘mixing memory with desire’ creates a euphoric mood of adventure and exploration . April, however, is truly the cruellest back home in [...]
Relationship is never easy. Born into one, getting into another and yet another and maintaining them through offer some of the greatest challenges in life. Relationship of blood and ‘in law’ are obvious ones but it is difficult to categorize a whole lot of other relationships born out of association, affection, love and companionship. Where [...]
A collection of 14 crime and detective fictions, edited by Hirsh Sawhney, the Delhi Noir delves into the underbelly of a murky, dirty Delhi where its glitters are dulled by greed, tricks, corruption and sex. It is a Delhi quite different from the one which is aspiring to become a world city. Stories give a [...]
Mary Ann Shaffer, assisted by her niece Annie Barrows, has created a literary masterpiece in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Reading this book was a real treat after a long, long time. I almost lived on the island with Juliet, Dawsey, Amelia, Eben, Kit and a missing Elizabeth as well as others [...]
