I was driving home one night. I stopped at a red signal, still thinking furiously about the movie that I had just watched. There was a long queue growing with cars coming out of the multiplex that I had driven out of. The driver in the car behind me got impatient and started honking. I [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2010’
Soniaji ki Second Shaadi
While fretting over some stupid business since a fortnight, I grossly neglected significant issues of national importance. The current one apparently is made up of headlines with Modi and Tharoor’s names and a voluptuous model’s pin-ups. I am yet to catch up with that, but an acquaintance this afternoon summarized briefly the current concluding issue [...]
Spreading Joy Through Reading
Cross-posted on I. Updated with information about modes of donation and contacts. Akshar Bharati is an NGO with a beautiful aim: opening libraries for under-privileged children. Since its inception 3 years ago it has opened nearly 200 libraries across 6 states. That is a great achievement for an organization in which there is only one [...]