The Great Ganesha

Rearranging the Car
After frantically evacuating my room on Day 0 (yesterday), and spending a great part of the morning rearranging the car (I thought I threw the cardboard pieces away, how the hell did they end up here?!), we started at the ripe and early hour of noon.
Lunch and Some Thundershowers

Lunch was a late and [...]

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Hoo boy! Just when you think you’re all packed, completely cleaned out and ready to move, you discover all the little things that you use every day. Between the RXGeek, The Great Gujju, Ganesha Part Deux and yours truly, it took two hours to completely clean out my apartment. And this was after around a [...]

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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
-Rudyard Kipling
I’m referring neither to the “east” nor to the “west” that is alluded to in the words of the great writer. In fact, my east and west will indeed be meeting. [...]

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(Sing to the tune of Summer Nights from the Grease motion picture soundtrack.)
[Me] Summer doldrums, make time so slow-oh!
[Adviser] That’s an excuse? We’ll never let you go!
[Me] I’m working hard, in the library.
[Adviser] You call that working? Get down on your knees!
[Me] A-a-ging, i-in grad school, getting a uh-uh P-h-D!
[The Juniors]
Don’t tell us more, don’t [...]

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Here’s to the profound religious experience that comes from doing a job well and being grossly underpaid.
Having successfully survived another meeting with a couple of my committee members, one of whom routinely strips me naked and flogs me, while the other idly stands by and watches with a smile, I decided to finish up [...]

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In an attempt to record the colorful verbiage that is emitted from the average Bombayite’s mouth, I have created a blog which is somewhat like the Urban Dictionary – a user-contributed dictionary of slang.
Feel free to go there (even if you’re not from Bombay) and contribute by clicking here. Or click on the ‘Bambaiyya‘ page [...]

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Seven bombs on seven different commuter trains on the Western Railways went off within minutes of each other on Tuesday (7/11) evening. Apparently all in first-class compartments. Officially, there are hundreds of casualties. Unofficially, there are probably thousands – each compartment holds somewhere in the range of at least two hundred people when full. And [...]

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While most people were (wisely) watching the Law and Order marathon on TNT, the RXGeek (who happened to be in town) and I went to an Indian wedding. It was the son of a close family friend and so it was unfortunately unavoidable. It was a fairly ritzy locale in NYC and, if nothing else, [...]

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With most people reeling over Germany’s loss yesterday, Agassi’s exit from Wimbledon and his impending exit from the Grand Slam circuit after the US Open, was old news for many and perhaps even non-news for some. But for me, it was the end of an era. An era which the BBC has gone so far [...]

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