The Great Ganesha

Two words: Desi and critic. They go together like, well, like flies and garbage. Every desi is a critic of something or the other. Amongst our favourite topics are, of course, our great homeland. I’m no exception. And I’m proud to say that my first post was published on Descritics.org today. Go ahead, check it [...]

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One surefire method of amusing yourself is taking a look at the kinds of searches that lead people to your blog. Amongst others, today I saw one that read “ganesha and madonna.” Curiosity took over, and I googled the phrase, frantically thinking that at some point in my foolish youth, I may have had something [...]

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So what happens when you’re sitting peacefully in a plane, flying somewhere over the Amazon rainforest, and you suddenly find out that your plane has been hit? Just ask Joe Sharky, columnist for the New York Times. With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet [...]

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Being of the academic persuasion, a side-effect of essentially having no real-world experience yet (I’m working on it), I find it quite amusing that people are so swayed by the so-called university rankings lists that come out every fall. In fact, many, many years ago, when I was applying for my undergrad here in the [...]

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The title results from having recently seen Munnabhai Part 2. But seriously, I just wanted to send Gandhiji some belated birthday greetings. On October 2nd (yesterday) he celebrated his 137th birth anniversary. Happy belated birthday, Bapuji. My family has some close ties with Gandhi, as I’ve written about in an earlier post. The matriarch of [...]

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This is Part Two of a three-part interview. This part continues from Part One, and continues on to Part Three. I continue to interview Nikhil Roychowdhury, Founder-CEO and President of The Simple Leaf, an online start-up that sells loose-leaf tea. Incidentally, he has his own tea-specific blog where he regularly writes all kinds of interesting [...]

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