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Weekend with the Missus - A high altitude saga in two parts

(A narration of a true story that happened in April. Longish.)
Part 1
Finally it’s happened.
I won’t say I wasn’t warned. I was. I have head-high piles of old Cosmopolitan magazines, each comprising of maybe three issues, stacked away at home.
And every issue, alas my insolence, carried enough advice on how I could have prevented what [...]

Whatay Talented People

‘Chaudvi Ka Chand’.
Classic song that. Rafi saab gives that song amazing emotion. The way he emotes the word tabassum… sigh… Sheer magic.
Also CKC is possibly the only song I can pull off with moderate residual dignity apart from ‘Please Forgive Me’ on winter mornings when I wake up with a bad cold.
I grew up listening [...]

Sack-a-laka Boom Boom

So there I was the other day with the missus, Pastrami and a friend at the Hard Rock Cafe here in Worli. Some of you know Pastrami who makes frequent appearances in this blog in a suave speaking role.
He is this smart, rich investment banking types who makes truck loads of money by doing something [...]

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