Arbitrary Obsessions. Cities. History. Music. Feminism. Maami-isms. Patterns. Halwa. Identities. Free Verse. The Internets.
That’s on my to-do list. It’s a promising city.
Imagine remaining absent from duty for 15 years and still retaining the job. And to top it, securing a court order for payment of half the salary for the period.
This is the case of West Bengal resident S.N. Das, who was able to retain his job as [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, wtf | 12 Comments »
A kid in Noida is killed, and the media is having a field day. It looks like Aarushi (the child) was murdered by her own father. NDTV is going an on an overkill approach – a panel discussion, a peep into the kid’s school project, the clothes she bought for her upcoming birthday. The ticker [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Media | 18 Comments »
There’s something extremely funny in seeing a person defend what is probably a faith-based action as something with a “scientific basis” to it. Obviously enough, it’s not the previous generation that does it. My grandmother will insist on having a kolam because she likes it that way. Nothing else to it. But someone of my [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Random Links | 76 Comments »
Someone landed on this blog after googling for “sorry for affair poems“. Ah, someone’s had an affair and now is resorting to finding a suitable poem to apologize with. I am afraid my poems are way too cynical for such lofty purposes. However, one wonders, what exactly was this person searching for. Though affair obviously [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Random Links | 9 Comments »
Long time readers of this blog may know of my obsession with hair and hair styles. Well, as of today I am going to go out and obsess about how people part their hair.
…hair raising observation among corporate America that most of the successful CEOs including Pepsico’s Indra Nooyi part their hair to the left, [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny | 8 Comments »
Pangea Day! A day devoted to films. Four hours of film screened at various locations across the world. Paula (of GV) and I are in Somerset House (the main screening venue at London) and I am twittering this as it plays along. The wifi, as always sucks, so am not sure I can get the [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 6 Comments »
After half a year of heavy jackets and coats, the whole idea of being able to walk out of your house in a linen shirt is a little weird. It’s wonderful, but at the same time, every time I get into the lift, I get this crazy feeling that I’ve forgotten something. I also feel [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: London, Music, Film and Art, Photographs, Self | 11 Comments »
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