Whatay idea Beeblotra ji

Have you heard about the idea Beeblotra Uncle shared? Arrey, about what to do with the extra room in the back. At the house in Ashok Vihar. No? Well it really made no sense. Not even if you heard it wrong like me.

Whatay goes to the UK - II

The second part of the multi-part account of Whatay’s recent excursion to various parts of the United Kingdom. In this installment the author reminisces his first ever trip to London. There is some unnecessary pondering upon the cultural diversity of the city, scary monsters made wholly of fungus and finally an auspicious start to the jaunt through Scotland via the UK’s perilously confusing rail system. The author wrote this till 3 in the morning. Please make it worthwhile by reading.

Whatay goes to the UK - Part 1

(A travelogue in many parts–I promise–written without any restraint at all. Truthful mostly.)

Trained by years of three-hour long summer vacation flights across the Arabian Sea, I am not one to dawdle with drinks and dinner inside an airplane cabin.
When you flew the dreaded Gulf Air connection between Abu Dhabi and Bombay your whole strategy was [...]

Since you guys asked…

Now I can finally tell you peeps why the blog slowed considerably over the last one year. Look what came in the mail today: (I’ve blacked yellowed out some bits due to contractual obligations.)
 
Couple of things to point out:
1. Yes my name is still causing trouble. Sigh. I might change it to something else so [...]

IPL 2009 - A detailed preview and forecast

Will the Rajasthan Royals once again surprise everyone by emerging as underdogs and winning the tournament? (No.)

Gettin’ duggi with it…

Now that Diwali is over and the in-laws have returned to Delhi after gifting me a PSP (yee-haw!) I can narrate recent Diwali related developments in peace.
As most of you may know Diwali is that annual festival where Hindus celebrate the return of Lord Ram, millennia ago, to Ayodhya. The natives, Ramanand Sagar reminded us [...]

What “Singur Tata” fiasco character are you?

One of the nicest features of social networking site Facebook is the ability to check out hot babes who are friends with the women who work in your office intermingle with other professionals in the same industry and swap ideas on, in my case, writing and publishing and so on.
Another wonderful thing about Faceboook is [...]

The Diligent Malayali

People often make fun of malayalis especially by sending that ridiculous email forward about how we do no work because we spend all day tying and untying our lungis. In fact many of us upright, honourable sons of Kerala soil (Malayalam: sow-yell) intend to fight this stereotype by going on a nationwide hartal sometime soon [...]

Tech-NO!

Close friends (Pastrami basically, and that fellow who sells dabeli outside Wadala station) know that this author has been harbouring a subtle fondness for the ASUS eee PC for some time now. Ever since the laptop made it’s appearance on tech blogs all over the world and took the 2007 Christmas gifting season by storm [...]

Living on the beach - Goa part 3

“Darling… you are impressed with my remarkable intellect yes?”
“Of course Sidin…”
“Not to mention that sense of humour that so bewitches you…”
“It still bewitches Sidin… except when you make puns of course…”
“Ha ha of course dear. Not so punny sometime eh?”
” ”
“Sorry…”
It is always good to sort [...]