Tag Archives: India

The Parents Are Learning to Say…No!

With noth­ing but budget-related tamasha all over, here is some­thing that might help divert your mind away from this rub­bish. Trust me! The bud­get as a rule is usu­ally com­pletely irrel­e­vant for you and I. Last week, at a Gujju com­mu­nity din­ner, I ran into a colleague’s par­ents.  While catch­ing up with them, I remem­bered that

If You Don’t Like, Don’t See It

My morn­ing rou­tine involves a 15-minute read of the front pages of all the Eng­lish news­pa­pers; rarely is there any item that pos­i­tively changes my men­tal out­look for the day. This Thurs­day though was dif­fer­ent. At least two papers car­ried a news item that had me chuck­ling through­out the day, keep­ing me so amused that

One Smile is All it Takes

Queues are stress­ful. Whether they are air­port secu­rity lines or the lines at the pass­port office; they are all uni­formly dis­taste­ful. Here’s what hap­pened two weeks ago. I have to get a pass­port renewal done. I reach at 9.45AM to see that a large line has already formed, since peo­ple have been queu­ing up from