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 [...]
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Another Way of Devouring Books
I have never been the voracious reader that I present myself as. I began reading very late in life and I remain a slow reader. In the best months I may read four books, but in most months I manage one. I am not in the numbers game. I simply wish to read more than [...]
Remembering the Dead
I learnt a new proverb today. chacchinODi kaLLu chAreDu. (The dead fellow had large eyes.) This will become the second proverb that I will recall from now on whenever a public figure dies. The first one is pOyinOLLu andaru machOLLu. (The dead are all good.) In school, our Telugu non-detail textbooks often had six long [...]
The New News Presenters
A decade ago the media in India was yet to realize its true potential. Those with a pleasant face and a good voice and diction were hired as newsreaders. All they had to do was to deliver the news with clarity and impassiveness. Some are remembered because they distinguished themselves with their voice, which is [...]
My Last Words For Now
I can’t immediately recollect the last time I wrote something in such a hurry. The current reaction time is nineteen milliseconds less than the last time I had been pinged by a girl on Gtalk. You must understand this desperation to say my last words and more importantly forgive me for its un-intelligibility if I [...]