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Retreebution - America stikes back

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="154" caption="Leader of free world"][/caption] Twas all because of two twee tweets that the tree, bloody twat, broke in twain and wiped me out. I am sure of it. An international conspiracy, no less. As some of my tweeple maybe aware, the minutes and hours after Barack Obama won the ...

The alphabetical ardour of life

Earlier this week, the night before the solar eclipse thingie happened, I am sitting at the barber shop in Dwarka under the KFC outlet. And I am feeling particularly unsettled. It is my first visit to this place you see. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Style has no language"][/caption]I have no idea ...

Whatay idea Beeblotra ji

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350" caption="Defenceless prey"][/caption]So we're all trooping out of the in-law's place in Ashok Vihar last weekend for a spot of shopping. We walk out of the door, past the stairwell and down the narrow drive way with low boundary walls on both sides. Suddenly the mom-in-law freezes in ...

Some assorted humour clippings - I

Clipping 1: First of all there was the column in Friday's Mint about Google's mysterious and ominous new algorithm to pick out employees who were most likely to quit. There was much to think about that: ...

Whatay goes to the UK - II

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="London? Aye!"][/caption]Before we commence bravely onwards into the next installment of our UK travelogue, allow me to reminisce a wee bit. For what use is a trip journal if the writer does not a share a little about what he first vidi-d when he first veni-d ...

A fresh new Whatay

If you are going to screw around with your blog template at all, then Sunday is the best time to do it. Weekend traffic is the worst! So after many people told us that the old, warm orange Domain Maximus was boring and oh-so-Web1.0, we decided to clean up things ...

IPL - Hits, Ifs and Misses

Published on 23 May 2009. Fun little thing to do. Especially speaking to a bunch of people including Srinivas Bhogle, Aakash Chopra and Greatbong. Click top right to expand, read and so on. P.S. Prepared before the semi-finals. So some stars might be conspicuously absent. ...

Recently noted around Delhi - II

First of all I solemnly declare that I really did like Watchmen. Decent story, nice snarky sense of humour all over the place and lots of things, like costumes and guns, for little boys to gush over. Also heroine in latex suit. And heroine out of latex suit. But ...

Whatay goes to the UK - Part 1

(A travelogue in many parts--I promise--written without any restraint at all. Truthful mostly.) Trained by years of three-hour long summer vacation flights across the Arabian Sea, I am not one to dawdle with drinks and dinner inside an airplane cabin. When you flew the dreaded Gulf Air connection between Abu Dhabi and ...

Romance ही romance

When we first met and got talking, it sounded just like another one of those coffee-shop mouth-off sessions with Pastrami. (No. Not that Pastrami. This is about the other one. Different business. Same complicated personality.) Every couple of weeks Pastrami, the missus, a few other mutual friends and yours truly get ...