Category Archives: Countdown

Booyakasha and other words which only sound cool if Ali-G says it

No really. There are so many words which you think you can pull of in a social situation but which just end up as another frikkin social disaster. 8 I think I am going to turn polished. Like james bond … Continue reading

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Of runners, filter kaapi, inglorious weather and the rules of the game

There is an article in this weeks India Today (or is it Outlook, Open…they all look the same) about an ancient practice of employing “runners” to deliver mail which the Indian Post Office found too difficult to deliver. So these … Continue reading

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Where the wonderings wander in, little porcupine-like critters with no manners and runny noses

I think a traffic signal would look wonderful from the top. So well choreographed and with such a beautiful symmetry. I don’t particularly like that word, “symmetry”. It ain’t really symmetrical at all if you think about it. I wonder … Continue reading

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