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This romantic journey was long overdue. I had always wanted to take my wife on a trip to Vijayawada. Yes. you heard right, a romantic trip to Vijayawada. Vijayawada plays a seminal role in my life. For it was from here that I embarked on my journalism career in the offices of The Indian Express.…
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There are moments in your life that, though ensconced in the deep recess of the memory bank, spring up at particular moments or jump up as a response to some catch phrases. The following childhood incident never fails to make an appearance whenever Jallikattu (a bull taming sport prevalent in Tamil Nadu during Pongal) is…
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It is not that I am a bad teacher… Sorry, let me correct it. I am a bad teacher, and it is not that I haven’t tried. To clear the matters, I am talking only about the academic teaching.! Surprisingly though, my very first job was that of a teacher! I had just finished college…
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There are lies, bloody lies and Statistics. And then there is Sports Statistics! A hard-nosed sports fan will love to buttress his arguments with stats just to prove his idol is the best of all. But stats, in spite of all its wide acceptance and its uses, can never be the judge of the greatest…
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Oh! Those were the simple days. It is an all-generation quote on which every generation has a copyright. And not off the mark either. Growing up in the swinging 70s had an ineffable lightness to it. Take the summer holidays for instance. They were truly that… Holidays. No one was expected to acquire additional get-ahead-in-life…
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My wife and I were returning back home after devouring some vitamin D directly from the source when she spotted fresh green methis or as scientists would call it as Trigonella foenum-graecum, and she couldn’t resist herself. “We shall make aloo methi today for lunch,” she said. And, would I object! Aloo in any form…
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Whenever you come home, you are always welcome, just one thing you must not ask of me, “Show me your wedding album.”! No it is not one of those rants on privacy nor is it any anti-big-fat-wedding theme. It is just that the album does not exist, at least, not yet! Past the silver jubilee…
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A small land, barren, neither round nor square, For the boys, though it was their lair. By flats it was surrounded, For them it hardly mattered, As they played unfettered. With bat and ball, and played with no caution, The ball landed, hitting the flats often. Some tolerated, by some were they admonished, The game,…
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दिशाहीन ऐसे भी कट सकता है जीवन पर यह खेद रहेगा किसी वृतांत पर मेरा नाम न होगा चुप्पी सही पर समीर पर कोई संदेश न लिखा होगा छू गया हूं किसी को ऐसा तो मुझे आभास नहीं किसी परिप्लव पर मेरा चिन्ह भी न होगा बीत जाएगा जीवन ऐसे ही क्या यह भी कोई…
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The flip side of being retired is that you are, de facto, available for every chore that presents itself and there is no getting away from it. And when I tried, I have always encountered the Brahmastra from my wife which, ulike the film, never fails. Her retort. “and what are you doing that is…
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