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Swan Songs: July 2007
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An Affair to Remember. I have an affair . its secret . but never mind, she knows and i know and that is all that matters. She is blind . but never mind, she speaks and sings most exquisitely in so many different tones . She has expensive tates . but never mind, the sweet nothings she whispers in my ear are worth it. She insists on coming eveywhere with me . but never mind, that increases the intimacy. She's not from India . but never mind, love is blind to colors and cultures. Links to this post.
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Swan Songs: August 2008
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If I could Wish Upon A Star. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for letter, four for toy. Every one of us has recited this rhyme at some time or the other in our life when we have happened to spy a mynah in one of these combinations. That, for me, is innocence at its peak. Much has been said about “innocence lost.” And much of that much is true. What would it take so that the next time we wish on that last sip of cold drink or a fallen eyelash or the first star, there is some hope of it coming true?
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Swan Songs: Of 10-packs and the after-effects
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Of 10-packs and the after-effects. A joke I read some time back was: Who left 6-pack Shah Rukh and 8-pack Aamir in the dust? Ans: A 10-pack Ramadoss. It's been 4 months since the ban on smoking in public places. So what did the ban achieve? Let’s do a ten count, shall we? 1 – Attached Gandhi’s name to tobacco. So years down the line, a ‘This Day That Year’ column will read – Gandhi born, Smoking banned. 6 – Population control. With smokers chasing pavements, pedestrians naturally avoid the R...7 ̵...
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Swan Songs: July 2008
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The buzzword or buzz phrase for some time now has been the rising price of oil, which one of my friends eloquently put in context saying, “Sala, Pamela ko dekh kar itna nahi utha hoga.” But has the price risen so high that it has hit even the price of your innocence? I am not that old to forget that once upon a time when I was six my folks decided I should graduate from ‘garah number bus’ and I came to possess my first set of wheels – a spanking new hand-me-down Avon cycle. Get on that bicycle and ride.
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Swan Songs: January 2009
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That apparently means "Truth is God and God is beautiful". As of this week, one down, two to go. Is it really surprising that ‘truth’ has fallen? After all it is only everyday that someone somewhere is cooking up a story to feed you. Let's start the examples with our beloved politicians - enough said. The government lies – there is no such thing as tax-free. Your vegetable vendor lies – yes potatoes are cheaper elsewhere. Weathermen – I once met one who was caught in the rain. Gandhi introduced us to the...
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Swan Songs: June 2008
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I find it simply amazing how much my spam account knows about me – and I’m not talking trivia here. It’s personal stuff – bed room stuff even. It almost seems like I’m the most well-known, or rather most well-known-about person in cyberspace judging from the mails I get. It started with a suggestively named female blondebitchsuck telling me that I owe her lunch “for this one.” I confess it piqued my curiosity and I wanted to know what I owe her lunch for then realized it was pretty obvious. Sm wrote, ...
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Swan Songs: Satyam Shivam Sumdaram
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That apparently means "Truth is God and God is beautiful". As of this week, one down, two to go. Is it really surprising that ‘truth’ has fallen? After all it is only everyday that someone somewhere is cooking up a story to feed you. Let's start the examples with our beloved politicians - enough said. The government lies – there is no such thing as tax-free. Your vegetable vendor lies – yes potatoes are cheaper elsewhere. Weathermen – I once met one who was caught in the rain. Gandhi introduced us to the...
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Swan Songs: February 2009
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Of 10-packs and the after-effects. A joke I read some time back was: Who left 6-pack Shah Rukh and 8-pack Aamir in the dust? Ans: A 10-pack Ramadoss. It's been 4 months since the ban on smoking in public places. So what did the ban achieve? Let’s do a ten count, shall we? 1 – Attached Gandhi’s name to tobacco. So years down the line, a ‘This Day That Year’ column will read – Gandhi born, Smoking banned. 6 – Population control. With smokers chasing pavements, pedestrians naturally avoid the R...7 ̵...
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Swan Songs: August 2007
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So Close, No Matter How Far. We live in the so called “jet age.” Here a place is a plane ticket away, any object we desire is just a card swipe away; people are just a push of a button away. It seems money has demolished physical distances and built up emotional ones. Remember those days (or at least as you saw in the old black and white films) where a mailman’s visit was as awaited as Santa Claus. And now, the online communities spread like wildfire burning up our need for the landline, the mails, the I...
