I have loved Sound of Music for very long now, and have fond memories of kneeling outside class, thrown out for attempting a yodel in the middle of History period. (You can’t not want to yodel after you learn the “Lonely Goatherd” in Singing period just before that). The night I saw the film, I […]
I’m not sure when my obsession with Zombies began. To clarify, I’m not a 14-year-old Caucasian male, and the only exposure I have had to Left 4 Dead is… well none, but there’s enough to keep my obsession well fed in so many other places. Now why Zombies, you ask? Is it the blood and […]
EDIT: Back to having problems with linking stuff in my posts. I’ve listed all links at then end of the post. The Maharashtra (the state in which Mumbai is located) court recently announced that from now on, they would only hand out taxi permits to people who could speak, read and write Marathi fluently. I’m […]
In the wake of one of the worst natural disasters in history Pat Robertson, televangalist, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, 1988 US Presidential hopeful, host of the 700 Club (we even have ourselves an Indian version of the show ‘Ek Nayi Zindagi’ (a new life) on Star Plus), and sociopath dropped the following pearls […]
It’s appalling how violent we as a society have become. In the US, Cops are tasering, (I will NOT say TAZING. It’s not even a word. Come to think of it, neither is tasering. Nice to know that even though my vocabulary is going down the drain at least it’s going the urban dictionary way) […]
Vicktor Frankel and fourteen others were herded out of the tent and in line to get their heads shaved. A heavy silence clung in the air and the fifteen that stood in the freezing December morning knew that the prisoners from the other tents were watching them. Even though it was imminent for every peering […]
There is something absurd about it. The sudden throwing back of the head, the widening of lips and baring of teeth, the sharp intake of air and the equally sudden outburst of it and not to forget, the sound; the strange sound that comes in waves, wracking the body leaving the person breathless. It could […]