This one I read somewhere – There are 5 steps to achieving true love. The first step is attraction. Two people feel attracted to each other – physically, emotionally, intellectually – maybe all at one time or a combination of these. The next step is friendship. Like I have harped so many times in the … Read More →

Hey, I got an opportunity to review a Restaurant – a Pizza place. A few days back thanks to my blog writing skills, I was approached by these Market Research kind of guys who wanted me to rate different places like Restaurants, shops etc. on certain parameters based on the guidelines they give. It sounded … Read More →

Friendship is so amazing. All relationships would flourish if only we are also friends with each other apart from being spouses, relatives and children. Yet, friendship is also so baffling. We have different friends – some we rely upon, we know they would be there for us when we need them. We can bank on … Read More →

Just yesterday, inside our layout a 27-year-old man collapsed in his bathroom. He suffered from a massive heart attack and till last evening he was on ventilator and was severely brain damaged. We did not know him personally but it came as such a shock to know that we are so vulnerable and that such … Read More →

There is an ashram for leprosy patients in Hyderabad. They also house tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infected patients. They have a team of German doctors. It is a very big campus with lush greenery and very neat living places for all the inmates and their caretakers. They also have a very nice hospitals. They mostly run … Read More →

Wow, there was a time when we did not have internet. It seems so difficult to imagine that time. though I have lived through it. My first foray with the world wide web came only pretty late, towards the late 90’s and I have actively felt its utility only in the last 5 years. Hey, … Read More →

Jaswant Singh has managed to get great publicity for his new book and sure, it is flying off the shelf like hot cakes. He has got suspended from BJP in the bargain. So, he has talked about Jinnah and said that the responsibility of Partition is equally shared by Nehru and Sardar Patel. Fine, who … Read More →

After my recent trip to Hyderabad, after getting back I developed slight sore throat. It became cold, cough and slight fever the next day. In other circumstances, I would have waited one more day for the fever to intensify to visit the doctor. But given the current spread of swine flu across the country, I … Read More →

Kids got to meet their cousins – my sis-in-law’s kids during our recent vacation. The girl (Isha) is slightly older than Siddharth and the boy (Akhil) is a year younger to Gautam. What is with boys and cars, first of all? I had taken along just 4-5 small toy cars for Gautam as his familiar … Read More →

Today, I spoke to one of my batchmates from my MBA days. She has moved to NY and I just recently got in touch with her through what else but Facebook. We got chatting and I realized that here is this gem of a person, I hardly knew when in college. Back then, we stuck … Read More →