The Year I Was Born!
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 [...]
Oktoberfest
[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 [...]
Experiences beyond sensory perception?
Anuja, my wife, believes firmly in the power of intuition. She also betrays an almost unflinching faith in the self-fulfilling characteristics of a strong and ‘passionate’ intention. She thinks like Paul Coelho that the universe conspires to fulfil what you strongly desire or intend for. She is convinced that the quieter and calmer you are [...]
Crabbed Age and Youth cannot live together?
Life, when complete, is a story of our journey from infancy to infancy. In between comes childhood, youth, maturity, age, a second childhood and so on…Strangely, the first and the last phases of life are similar as they are phases of dependence on others and, often, of helplessness. Yet, there is a big difference. In [...]
Ah, bitter chill it was!!!
We live in Berlin. The city, the country, in fact, the continent is going through a very severe winter. You know enough already about it, thanks to an instant, overreaching media. [simage=264,288,n,center,][simage=267,288,n,center,] The entire city is clad in a snowy mantel and I have seen the thermometer dipping down to minus 20 degree Celsius at least once. [...]
When I got a thrashing…
I have been curious, experimental and a bit romantic, perhaps, since I was a toddler. Growing up in a small town, Darbhanga, where every one knew every one else, I developed an infatuation for a girl in my class when I was no more than ten. Her father, a doctor, was a friend and colleague of my [...]
Hypocrisy
I dislike hypocrites…Well I don’t hate them, but, because ‘they know not what they do’. Hypocrisy grows out of low self-esteem and has an incestuous relationship with arrogance. Share on Facebook
Resolutions!
You feel like beginning every New Year with certain resolutions. I also did so several times in the past but every time I lost focus even before the first month was out. Therefore, I have decided to begin 2010 without any. I plan to take life just as it comes and wish to enjoy every [...]