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This is not the map of my mind: 12/01/2014 - 01/01/2015
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This is not the map of my mind. On Winter and Change. Some enterprising merchant in Koramangala, Bengaluru, has tapped into the zeitgeist and put up a banner at an outdoor market where the pretty young things like to shop. Below neatly drawn sweaters in various styles is written “Winter is Coming” in a friendly font. Tell old Bengalureans that winter is here, and they scoff. This is not Bangalore (still Bangalore, not yet Bengaluru for them) winter, they say. Sure, winters are changing. The Bangalore...
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This is not the map of my mind: 05/01/2012 - 06/01/2012
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This is not the map of my mind. I was slicing up the season's first mango a week ago and remembered I'd written this for a friend's blog years ago. It still holds true today:. The mango trees were so many on campus- there were three within our hostel periphery, a very benevolent one in the Chemical Engineering department's courtyard and of course, the parrot-nosed mangoes outside the Electrical Engineering department. Now we have scattered into four corners of the country and abroad, it seems strange tha...
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This is not the map of my mind: What I Learned at IIT
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This is not the map of my mind. What I Learned at IIT. Did I feel like a fish out of water at IIT Bombay? I must admit that the first couple of weeks I was terrified. I’d heard so much about the institute as a child that certain ideas about the place were embedded in my mind. Everyone, I was convinced, would be a genius at their work. I’d be lost in a rarefied world. I wouldn’t understand them. I’d flunk out. That was not what happened. IIT Madras professors were venting the following in late March:.
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This is not the map of my mind: The Leperous Cesspit that is ICICI Bank
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This is not the map of my mind. The Leperous Cesspit that is ICICI Bank. Some fine day in December 2006, the stars were aligned wrong and chance made me an employee of a company that only did its banking business through the cesspit of financial shenanigans that is ICICI Bank. I had started my descent through Dante's circles of hell. First, call customer care and block card. Then, pray to all the saints that you will get the card back. I was wrong. The cretin who answered the phone suggested that the...
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This is not the map of my mind: 03/01/2011 - 04/01/2011
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This is not the map of my mind. Story published in Out of Print. Links to this post. March 5 and 6 2011 had to be the driest days I’ve experienced since I started living in Bangalore. I am not sure what March 7 will bring because, well, as of writing, it hasn’t begun. No doubt it will be drier still. The Hindu insisted that on March 6, humidity was 75%. And it predicts that March 7 will be one percent drier - 74%. And the next day the monsoons will start. Brighter than summers in Muscat and Kerala, once ...
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This is not the map of my mind: 07/01/2013 - 08/01/2013
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This is not the map of my mind. A Camel in the Land of Elephants. So this past Monday, in the midst of the wettest monsoon Kerala has seen in more than twenty years, I was successful in finally making it to the Lulu mall in Kochi. Six-muffins-in-a pack, plastic boxes of croissants (plain, cheese, zatar and chocolate), cinnamon rolls and chocolate doughnuts. Signs saying Ramadan Kareem. Hanging over large bottles of Vimto (on offer for Rs. 250 or thereabouts). And yet, here they are: taking time off their...
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This is not the map of my mind: 06/01/2012 - 07/01/2012
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This is not the map of my mind. The Leperous Cesspit that is ICICI Bank. Some fine day in December 2006, the stars were aligned wrong and chance made me an employee of a company that only did its banking business through the cesspit of financial shenanigans that is ICICI Bank. I had started my descent through Dante's circles of hell. First, call customer care and block card. Then, pray to all the saints that you will get the card back. I was wrong. The cretin who answered the phone suggested that the...
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This is not the map of my mind: 08/01/2012 - 09/01/2012
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This is not the map of my mind. On slumbering monsters and introspective liberals. In living rooms and in teashops and outside newsagents, those who’d trembled at seeing it again - that unwelcome, unwanted shadow citizen of this country - whispered thankful prayers. Walking in Bangalore on Monday evening, one could almost hear the relieved sigh. The monster’s shivery touch seemed banished, for the moment. Spines un-chilled. Flesh un-crept. And then, on Thursday, I read this. Buggana goes on to wonder abo...
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This is not the map of my mind: A Camel in the Land of Elephants
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This is not the map of my mind. A Camel in the Land of Elephants. So this past Monday, in the midst of the wettest monsoon Kerala has seen in more than twenty years, I was successful in finally making it to the Lulu mall in Kochi. Six-muffins-in-a pack, plastic boxes of croissants (plain, cheese, zatar and chocolate), cinnamon rolls and chocolate doughnuts. Signs saying Ramadan Kareem. Hanging over large bottles of Vimto (on offer for Rs. 250 or thereabouts). And yet, here they are: taking time off their...
