Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a tailor. He wondered around and ended up in a village of naked people. The tailor saw an opportunity so he rented a small shop and started a boutique. The village people has never seen such a thing as nice fancy clothes, so …
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Are you done (Tik)Tok-ing here?
It all started well. The extended family was meeting together to celebrate Rakhi. After lot of pondering about gifts the wifey has chosen an ensemble collection of good ol fashioned books to be given – all classics in their own merit. The gifts – nicely wrapped in “eco-friendly” 10 days old news paper, were handed …
Let them eat cake
“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” is attributed to Marie Antoinette, queen of France sometime during 1789-92, difficult even for AltNews to confirm whether its disinformation, misinformation or whatever. But it stuck to her just like the stain of cheap tomato sauce on your white shirt. Though it would be utterly childish to base the causality …
Mind passing me the umbrella sir?
Yesterday we celebrated our Independance Day. Though one should really wonder why we call it Independance when its rather more like a divorce – a rather messy one at that- from an abusive relationship at best. If at all someone was dependant on anyone it was the Brits – on Indian resources and cheap (free!) …
The butterfly flapped its wings
I don’t think when Shakespeare coined his famous “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio” quote, he had exactly the heaven on earth in mind – heck this heaven was probably not even discovered by the British when Hamlet was written. India – or the idea of it – was mostly a Portugese …
Who ate my Banana?
2 humble bananas lying coyly on a plate, fully wrapped in cellophane did what even Mallika Sherawat as co-star failed to do to Rahul Bose’s career as an actor – make him an household name. While one man’s misery turned out to be a million viewers’ amusement, you just couldn’t ignore the irony being played …
All Quiet on the Western Front?
It was exactly 20 years ago that the guns fell silent in Kargil. Now war evokes mixed sentiments among people. For some, especially the arm chair patriot types who will hog the limelight in all discussion – in person or WhatsApp/Twitter, its the greatest adrenaline rush one can buy for free. But its a costly …
For whom the bell tolls..
Taking inspirtaion from Metallica’s Turn the page – Here I am, on the keyboard again. To begin with, am a bit of anxious becaus it seems my one week prior rant on monsoon (which I think should now be named as monlate) have really shaken up some high and mighty. In a classic example of …
The Rain that never came
Nothing cheers up a bengali more than a few drops of rain!! Ok, I know its an overstatement, and probably rain will come much later in the cheerleader ranking, post Durgapujo, fish, pseudo- intelluctualist discussion, maybe even after 25 paisa increase in bus fares of Kolkata (am not a Kolkatan BTW). But what stops me …
One More Week 