The Issue: Waking up

The Soundtrack: All I have to do is dream

I’ve been having mystical experiences. Not only do I hear voices once I’m awake, but I hear voices that tell me, ‘Get up you #*@!er or I’ll be late!’ These, to be honest, were words I would wake up to in that half-drugged, half-very drugged state that I used to experience while, waking up somewhere between 8.30 and 8.55 am every weekday. [Read more]

The issue: The fall of the Berlin Wall

The soundtrack: Holidays in the sun

Twenty years ago is a long time in human life. It’s even longer in an ant’s life (most of the 20 years being spent in the form of an ant ghost). But it would be safe to say that things in the world have moved even faster than runs accumulated by Sachin Tendulkar over the last two decades of his cricketing career. [Read more]

The Issue: Not Going To Work

The Soundtrack: Santa Monica

I did a strange thing on Monday. I didn’t go to work. It wasn’t as if I had planned a picnic or a Dilli darshan or a long lunch with friends (most of whom had a chhutti thanks to Guru Govind Singh). [Read more]

The issue: Nehru-Edwina

The soundtrack: Tainted love

So the proposed Hollywood movie on the love affair between Chacha Nehru and Edwina Madam will never be out in a cinema near you. [Read more]

The Issue: Climate change
The Soundtrack: It’s too darn hot

It was nuclear disarmament when I used to wear shorts. Now that I wear boxers (as overwear only!), it’s climate change. Every generation gets its heave-ho with some global danger topic or the other. [Read more]