It seems one can’t get decent service anywhere these days. Be it a restaurant, the local grocery shop, a department store, a fuel pump – well, the list is endless. The days of courtesy and amiability have been consigned to the archive of ‘undesirable qualities of the 21st century’, considered as a sign of meekness […]
In recent years, a plethora of innovations have changed how we perceive and interact with the world around us; we are forced to frequently update the methods we use in order to keep pace. That said, some things are more constant than others – a case in point being courier companies. There is always a
The day your sibling enters into the ‘blessed’ state of wedlock is one of joy, disappointment, and – depending on your own penchant for taking the vows – acceptance or rebuttal. The final feelings stem from your response to a barrage of clichéd questions asked by excited guests that aim to determine your state of
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Technology, and the lingo associated with it, evolves at such a rapid pace these days that one can get left out in the cold quite easily. I recently experienced this sense of disassociation (or so I thought) during a bus journey back home, when I heard a boisterous group of industry greenhorns rattle off a
That wonderful online know-it-all – Wikipedia – defines food as: “any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body”. Love it or hate it, food is an essential part of our lives. Speaking of which, we have all had our dislikes (especially during childhood) of certain foods that continue to linger as bad memories.
Tolerance is a difficult virtue to possess, as it is so easy to react to anything and everything. But sometimes, it is better to speak out and clear the air rather than let misconceptions linger. And that is precisely what i intend to do about this perception that Sumanth is very silent. Of course, I’m
If I wasn’t so lazy, my blog would have been overflowing with posts by now. Instead, all I have are remnants of sporadic bursts of literary frenzy. There have been so many occassions on which I would have been thinking of writing on a topic, only for that topic to come into the media limelight
If you were to catch someone in the act doing something wrong (morally or lawfully) and point it out to them, chances are high you will hear the refrain “Oh, I wasn’t aware of that” (if you are not unlucky enough to get a rude response, or worse still, suffer physical abuse). Now, I have
How often has it occurred that you go to a store or supermarket looking for a certain brand of product but see every other brand but the one you want? I have experienced this enough number of times to warrant a suspicion that it is no coincidence (or another cruel derivative of Murphy’s Law), but
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The debate between me and a friend had reached a crescendo. Retorts flew so quickly off our tongues that it became difficult to hear each other. It was a fight to the finish to see who would blink first. Just as I was gaining the upper hand, my friend unleashed his secret weapon – although