Ageless Bonding turns 50, and wonders why 50 can’t be just that, instead of being the new 40.
• At 40 it comes as a shock when a 25 year old calls you “aunty”; at 50 nothing affects you – not even when the 40 year old neighbour calls you aunty.
• People’s expectations from you are a [...]
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In a post that starts off with a humorous analogy, Plus Ultra quotes Dr. Atul Gawande, in what seems to be the toughest part of being a doctor - the knowledge that the slightest mistake will be fatal, and irreversible.
In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience- haltingly and humiliatingly. [...]
When the best payments are the ones made in kind…
Published by April 23rd, 2008 in Misc, Personal and Society. 0 CommentsGowri reminisces about the two elderly characters at their tea estate - the cook and the carpenter.
The poor old man would arrive at work early in the morning, hunched up and shivering. He’d go home for his breakfast and bath and come back at around eleven o’clock, now walking straight, and actually looking younger. We [...]
Housewives. Sweaty slaves of the kitchen fires! They woke up at unearthly hours, muttered ancient prayers, and produced breakfasts, lunches and dinners in endless succession. They wore faded cotton sarees, their blouses damp with sweat. They chased and scolded and cajoled children. “Home makers” they might be - but when their husbands summoned them by [...]
Read the little post from Arun Bhat, telling us about how he discovered some child’s play:
I don’t like someone throwing things at me, and I hate it even more when people take littering as their right. I throw my hands in the air and am almost ready to tell who-ever is in the balcony to [...]
“If you drive less than 5000 miles a year never buy a new car. One of my friends bought a new Toyota Camry last November. Till now he has put only 3000 miles on it. He goes to his work place by train and he uses his car only for small trips to the store [...]
Two days shy of a month, Quizzical is a trivia-quiz-blog by Sashi Kanth and Abhishek Nayak. So far, they have put up interesting trivia questions - Go on, put your answers in.
Bikerdude reminisces about bikes he has owned and especially his relationship with his black Hero Honda Splendour.
When it grew old and would stop in the rain, Id take it aside and curse it gently until it sputtered reluctantly back to life. When it had its customary flat-tyre at 11pm on a Sunday evening, I’d always [...]
Here an Indian, there an Indian
Published by October 28th, 2007 in Culture, India and Misc. 3 CommentsKetan talks about the whole idea of Being Indian and feeling proud of other ‘Indians’.
We love to laugh at the nouveau riche and the silly way in which they flaunt their baubles: driving up in a flashy red sports car, wiping themselves with branded toilet paper, wearing ice-cubes on their chunky fingers, and most [...]
Blue line buses… we’ve had so much going on in the media recently. Kaveeta Kaul reacts and presents her analysis of the situation:
All one recalls is the wailing of a mother, shown on t.v., pitifully mourning the death of her 8 yr.old son on his way to school. This and other such drain one of [...]
“I mean, do you sort of worship cows in India? I mean, i sort of heard that you can get into big trouble in India if you hit a cow with a car, much more than if you hit a person? I know that in Egypt, it is okay to hit a woman with a [...]
Uma writes on adversity, creativity and walking naked
“So one fine day your brain cells flash this ingenious idea at you. You act on it, decide to strip to the bare essentials and proceed to walk through the streets of the very conventional town in which you live, in protest. Although you manage to shock the [...]
Rochak writes about the mystery.
Roopkund is a place in Uttarakhand state of India, and it is the location of about three to six hundred skeletons at the edge of a lake—Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas.
The skeletons were discovered in the 1942 when a park ranger stumbled upon on one of it and find a mass [...]
Vikram Karve writes about the recently organized Blog Camp Pune.
We had a lovely time at the Pune Blog Camp yesterday [Saturday 16th June 2007] at the Symbiosis Center for IT in the Hinjewadi IT Park. The venue was marvelous – hats off to the “unorganizers’ for choosing such an apt venue. Being my first [...]
Aishwarya writes…dogs dying is something I cannot stand. But the worst bit has been the reports of the dogs being so trusting and friendly towards the people about to kill them. That part is horrifying to me.”
This is why people (real people) don’t kick puppies – because puppies have no reason to think they’ll be [...]
Alakananda writes a two part post *with pictures* on Bonsai - “the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees”
“Our ancient physicians tried growing hard to come by plants/trees in their own homes in pots as vamana vrikshas or miniature trees. There are also those that believe that visiting Buddhist monks who traveled back to China [...]
Suresh blogs about his encounter with sadhus psychedelics and philosophises.
Even Now lot of religions across the world use drugs as a source of glimpse to divine. You can get enough records of this usage in Aghori, Essenes, Sufiana, Tibetan traditions. But then this was a mystic science which got lost over a way and Drugs [...]
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