“PAY ATTENTION!” bellowed my teacher. Her remark got me thinking (ha-ha-not-funny): what’s this mysterious ‘attenshen’? Some sort of new currency? And why should I have to pay a fine for daydreaming in class? Everywhere I go, everyone seems to be able to pay unlimited amounts of it, meeting even the high costs of school without flinching.

Shivering he made his way across the frozen lands so chill,
Icy flakes were falling fast, the wind was dancing faster still.
Howled the wind in mocking song “Oh little dog go back to sleep
Death will find your master soon, oh little dog go back and weep”.

I’ve been split into multiple personalities, just like the one in Sheldon’s ‘Tell me your Dreams’, or for the Tamil Movie types, the more recent ‘Anniyan’. One is a self-righteous, truly conscientious, energy-saving-buff and the other an insensitive, sluggish brat who wants to use all the conveniences of the technology on hand…

If you were to tell me, a short while ago, that bus journeys are boring and uneventful, I’d have agreed with you. But my present self would beg to differ, for it was just a while ago, that the opportunity of going to Kukke Subramanya presented itself before me - in a manner of speaking, […]

Ruskin Bond found his first book at a Shikari lodge in the middle of a forest. Good books have a way of turning up in the strangest places and some of my best reads have been randomly selected. Call it a scientific impossibility, but I always know whether a book is going to be good or bad once I have held it in my hand.