And so we decided to spend the weekend trekking. “You guys are so planned and organized. It is so boring! Why can’t you be spontaneous?” my daughter had cribbed. So, one fine Saturday, I got up and planned to be spontaneous and decreed that the family will engage in a trek over the weekend. We picked the […]
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Author: Umesh Sharraf
Firing A Blank
Editor’s note: Proceed with caution..spoilers ahead! I had the good fortune of investing three hours of my hitherto worthless life in edifying myself when friends propelled me to a show of Gunday. I learnt that the Indian Police is so diabolically clever that they can lay an intricately plotted conspiracy to rival the best of Ludlums and John […]
It’s Raining VIPs
I was watching Rajdeep Sardesai getting into a blather on the VIP culture on CNN-IBN the other day. It appears that a Member of Parliament missed his connecting flight from Mumbai to Indore as his flight from Goa had been delayed. The Honourable MP had to spend the night in Mumbai. The DGCA has now asked the private […]
Gender Benders
The other day I was watching the rerun of a popular comedy show on TV with my wife. I found that out of the six main characters in the show- a man and his wife, a grandmother and an aunt with two women from the neighbourhood- as many as three female characters were being played by men. In […]
For Free?
Once upon a time every human was given 24 hours of time every day for consumption. This was free of cost. No, really! Then we humans messed it up. We started selling and spending this time. We sold this time and called it work. We spent this time and called it leisure. Work paid us wages. We earned these […]
Word Play
The other day my wife, newspaper in hand, interrupted my happy commune with my cup of tea and asked, “what is this ‘recuse’ business? Why is this chap recusing himself from editorial duties?” Glad to get in a word sideways in the house first thing in the morning, I pontificated as to how judges who perceived a […]
A Burning Issue?
‘The Child is father of the Man’, said Wordsworth and so it goes that kids in school must be taught that what will make them good men when they grow up. Yes, they must learn to read and write. They must mug up tables and dates. They must learn about the crops grown in outer […]