In India, every red light at traffic signals is a green signal for those small petty (size and quality) toy or cloth-sellers, unfortunately the toy or the cloth is not their selling point but the poverty. Similarly it gives ample time for those unfortunate souls, circumstantially or physically or morally (those who are not ready to work hard). A [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Cross-roads and a story
Posted in Random Musings, tagged Story Beggary Sujatha on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Few Un-Common People!!
Posted in Random Musings, tagged Cook, Story, Uncommon on November 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last year, we employed a cook for our batchelor’s den occupied by three. Her name was Vasantha. She used to laugh at my hindi as I was speaking it with a tilted south indian accent which she was doing too. She was really not a great cook but I learnt from her that she was undergoing a typical [...]
Few common people and uncommon incidents through Epilepsy!!
Posted in Random Musings, tagged Epilepsy Uncommon on November 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sarcar and I was going on my bike to my office not to break the mundane routine. The road curves into another main road with large buildings, erected in the name of IT/ITES in our country, in view. I am used to watching people lying by the roads after one or two pegs of morning indulgences. But this [...]
Greatness! Gladiator!
Posted in Films, Random Musings, tagged Gladiator Greatness on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gladiator, a movie that struck me hard. The visuals and the effects created a lasting effect on me. The rise and fall and rise of a man. In this film, I liked this particular dialogue by Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). Commodus: Yes…the greatness of Rome. And what is that? Lucilla: It’s an [...]
Chowringee by Mani Sankar Mukherji
Posted in Books, tagged Chowringee Sankar Book on November 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“The interpreter of maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri marked my entrance into the world of bengali literature. After few pages of Kunal Basu, Satyajit Ray and Amitav Ghosh, I stumbled upon this book. There was an orange stamp saying “Winner of the Vodafone-Crossword book award” on this book. ‘Set in 1950 Calcutta’ aroused my interest. [...]
A November sunrise!!
Posted in Random Musings, tagged First Post November Rain Sunrise on November 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I am listening to the notes flowing out of the Piano from the November Rain, a song that fits well this occassion, I start writing my first post for my blog. Few things happen in life. They just happen. I decided one dark night that I want to capture all [...]
