Rachna says

The media circus continues about the failure of the Indian cricket team in T20 WC. Get on with it and move to other things. This need to unnecessarily prolong such trivial things is a feature of late in the Indian media. People succeed and fail, teams succeed and fail. It…

He has started having a very pronounced and funny pout these days.As soon he steps out of the school ( I go to pick him up), he says school was good even before I can ask him :).His mood swings are maddening and for no reason he starts howling or…

Luckily for us, we stayed up only till midnight to watch the England vs. India game of the T20 WC. With England scoring just 153, we went to sleep thinking that India will do it comfortably. At least, our sleep was not ruined :). In the morning, shock of shocks…

I read a report that thousands of people are being fired in IT companies, well not officially fired, but “made” to resign in the last few months in India. The most horrifying part is that most of the people fired are actually good performances, get good reviews and rarer still…

The match against South Africa was a washout for Scotland with South Africa scoring a mighty 211 and Scotland collapsing to a double-digit total. With that Scotland bows out of the World Cup. Since they are not a regular cricket playing side, that was expected and understandable. But, have a…

The most amazing thing about most Indian names ( the Hindu ones especially) is that they generally do have a meaning to them. And, many people find that fascinating. Most names are derived from Sanskrit or pure Hindi and these days the trend is keeping names which are so weird…

There have been repeated reports of attacks on Indian students ( 4 in the last month) in Australia in the past days. The attacks are outrageous and seem to be motivated by racism. In a particular case where a student lies on life support in a grave condition, their house…

This one got the Man Booker Prize and hence the expectation is that it must be good, different perhaps. Different, it surely is ! It is the story of Balram Halwai who comes from a very poor family and his struggles through life as he is unable to be educated…

You know just like good spellings, grammar and mental arithmetic calculation; it seems that normally accepted social etiquette is slowly being foregone. Of late, I have noticed that some people find it perfectly alright to burp loudly and that too without eating anything without so much as a blink of…