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(Names have been changed to protect the identity of certain people considering their celebrity status!). One of the things one learns early in school is forging friendship and teamwork. And at times the best friendship is forged in adversity. It was sometime in early ’71 and I had just joined a new school in Mumbai…
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Prying eyes, that’s what I called him and it was not an effort to protect his identity either. A new job in a new town, I was yet to find a permanent place for myself so all my correspondence, be it from my family or friends, was addressed to me at my office. And every…
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One of my long-running social experiments on non-verbal, non-physical telepathic communications just got a fillip when I literally ran into a good looking-lady the other day at the airport. I was in a hurry to reach home and she was in a hurry to catch a flight. We were walking towards each other and to leave…
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How long a time frame is acceptable to prove a hypothesis? Can the experiment last for decades or even longer? Especially so when the experiment has been an accidental one. I was forced to rethink the postulate when I came across a book left by a previous passenger on the seat pocket of a flight…
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One of the hazards of a job that involves graveyard shifts, like that of a journalist, is the extreme possibility of encountering fear – fear of and from the unexplained. Paranormal you might call it. And no matter how practical, rational or fearless you are, there are moments that leave you rattled. One such event…
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I am a wise man. Not that it needs any validation, but it helps when it is authenticated. Like the other day when I visited a dentist who confirmed that I have a wisdom tooth! And that was the one which was giving me trouble. “Just a minor infection in the gum near the wisdom…
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Opinionated. As per the Oxford dictionary it means ‘expressing or having extremely strong opinions about things that you are not willing to change.’ I admit it does have a negative ring to it. But then it is not really so. Certainly not if you are in your 60s!. For then, it is not just right,…
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I sit hunched before the computer’s blank screen and staring back at me is the huge, dreaded writer’s block. And as I sit with a blank face, my son with his wit, especially reserved for me when I slip at times, says “Eh! Writer’s block? Why don’t you then write about writer’s block?” “Why not?…
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It is said, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. And if I may add, the way to a woman’s heart passes through the kitchen. In fact the kitchen is her exclusive zone. Notwithstanding all the noises of patriarchy and male chauvinism, everyone knows how dearly the women love their kitchens, their…
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“आज फिर वही हुआ जिसका डर था, आज फिर कुछ नहीं हुआ.” किसी के द्वारा कहे गए इस कथन से मैं केवल सहमत ही न था, बल्कि मैंने इस तथ्य को अनुभव भी किया जब मै विजयवाड़ा, आज से कुछ ३६ साल पूर्व, पहली बार आया। मेरी पत्रकारिता की यात्रा यहीं से शुरू हुई थी.…
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