The ‘myriad hues’ of Holi

I was reading a Facebook status update by Ramesh Menon and it brought back memories of my days in college way back in the last 1970s. Let me ‘assure’ Mr Menon that even in those days there were hooligans who molested girls and misbehaved on the streets. I remember one Holi when we were having [...]

Irony or destiny?

We run into so many situations in life that seem ironical, don’t they? Take my situation for example – Over a decade ago, I loved eating sweets, especially Bengali sweets. I could polish off a dozen rosogallos, by myself; devour chocolates, cakes, pastries…heck the entire bakery; I could feast all alone on an entire family [...]

Another job, another life…

This one’s about stuck-up celebrities and film stars — not all of them are, but there are those who really make me wonder…. I met one the other day and she was so full of herself that I really wondered when she would implode!I worked at a five-star hotel for three years in the 1980s, [...]

Vaishali and that priceless feeling!

Some of my friends requsted that I use paras….so here it goes again Went to Vaishali after a long break. I’m pretty sure that if the management of this eatery on Fergusson College Road in Pune, ever gave out ‘frequent visitor’ discounts, they would go broke, because half of Pune city would be queuing up [...]