Hit the Road

Found this place where you can make a map of the countries you’ve visited. Thanks, Roshan.
Is there anything better than travel? OK, don’t answer that and I won’t either. But I’m constantly longing to get on the road again. And while I can’t, there’s always the delights of travel writing to savour. Three of my [...]

Olympian blunder

The Olympics are coming to an end, probably as I type this, and I haven’t seen a single minute of it on TV. Explanation for that, another time. But I’m struck, as I’m sure many others in this country are, by the monumental failure of Indians to win medals, at this or any other Olympics. [...]

Hard Courts

Just got back from a tennis session, with the same thought I have after too many sessions: Tennis players, at least at the club I play at, have got to be some of the crummiest dudes in the world.
Entries from a long catalogue of complaints, below:
Item, oafish partner. Four of us get up to play [...]

You know how…

… the mighty Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited claim, via big ads placed in major papers, that it has a convenient mechanism to address your complaints/billing inquiries/suggestions/ingrown toenails? (OK, not the last). (But the first three, yes).
Indeed. Recent MTNL ads have said that the Minister of Telecom, Shri Dayanidhi Maran, wants to ensure proper response to [...]

This is a first

Been thinking about setting up a website for myself, been lazy about it for several months now. But a couple of weeks ago I met a fellow journalist who said, why don’t you blog to start with? See how it goes?
So … let’s see how it goes.
The name is one of the funniest bumper stickers [...]