It rained in Mumbai yesterday like it has never rained in India before, with 37 inches of rain, thereby beating the high-school trivia of Cheerapunji, which had some 30 inches of rain in 1910. It poured, oh-my-freaking-heavens, it poured. I was mostly in my lab through the deluge, now and then flinching at the force […]
Month: July 2005
Attention Deficit
I am passionate. At this point, I tried looking up the meaning of the word “passion” in a dictionary, and much to my consternation, I couldn’t find a concise meaning that I could use here. So, I will just stick to my own interpretation of the word. I have been passionate about quite a few […]
Up, arranged, and re-chopped
Jadav (Bhatt ko) – Pralaynath Gendaswami kaise dikhta hai?Bhatt – Kya?!?!Jadav – Kis desh se hai tu?Bhatt – Kya?!?!Jadav – “Kya” naam ka koyi desh maine to nahi suna? “Kya” mein Hindi bolte hai kya?Bhatt – Kya!!Jadav – Hindi maadarchod!! Hindi – Tu bolta hai kya use?Bhatt – Haan!!Jadav – Toh tu jaanta hai ki […]
Meta-blogging
“The more interesting your life becomes, the less your post… and vice versa.” – Jorn Barger The first blog I came across was Kalyan’s, sometime in early 2002, and it struck me quite strange that someone could actually maintain an online journal. For the next two years, blogs appeared in and around places I inhabited, […]