Colour me weird..

..but I feel happier about the death penalty being awarded to these guys that I have for any other case I can remember. There are people whose crimes have led to far greater destruction and death. Terrorists, mass murderers, genocidal dictators. But there is something particularly chilling about a group of men hunting down and [...]

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How to treat your women

This is probably the best article that I have read so far on the Woods affair. Whether you choose to have one partner or many, it is crucial that you invest in their emotional well-being if you care for your own. And try to be as honest as possible. Not just for their sakes, but [...]

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The things I do for love

Faces appeared in the window above him. The queen. And now Bran recognized the man beside her. They looked as much alike as reflections in a mirror. “He saw us,” the woman said shrilly. “So he did,” the man said. Bran’s fingers started to slip. He grabbed the ledge with his other hand. Fingernails dug [...]

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“Where the sick soul’s desire for solitude turns into misanthropy”

I find this passage from Arianna Huffington’s old article “Bernard Levin remembered” rather poignant for several  reasons. The italics are mine. We started a relationship which was to last until the end of 1980, when I left London to move to New York. And he was, in many ways, the reason I left London. I [...]

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Random notes

1. I am currently in Hawaii. It is most wonderful. And there is something truly special about doing math on the beach. Some day I hope to find out if it is as good as having sex on the beach. 2. I am in the final couple of months of my US stay. This is [...]

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Verbatim

When I walked out of the bathroom, she was still singing the same tune. She had been singing it on and off for the past several days. The song was now stuck in my head. I loved the song and loved her singing it. A thought struck me. “You know what, I just realized something.” [...]

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Prelude to a circle

“When did you see it last?” he asked his girl. “I don’t know,” she wailed. “It was on me when I walked into the restaurant.” She looked so sad, and her eyes were so large and ready to cry that his insides dissolved in a burst of affection. This led to kisses being exchanged and [...]

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The full circle

Certain events reminded me of this funniness I once wrote. So I called up K –  he told me of she he was with no more; So I asked him about the circles And he said he’d come a full circle. For some reason that makes me  sad.

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Intertwined

Conversations, news and movies inform me that it is pretty common for a person to say bad things about his or her ex. I have always found that practice mystifyingly alien. It is not that I necessarily have any moral objection to saying such things; just that I cannot ever imagine myself doing it. A [...]

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Very cute short film

The film reminded me of a Bangalore classroom years ago. Me and this-girl-who-was-not-yet-my-girlfriend were communicating via notes scribbled on paper. It was supposed to be a study session of course but when have such details dampened the excitement that comes with the early stages of a romance? Come to think of it, I am pretty [...]

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The Habanera

Below is an abridged translation of the Habanera, currently my favourite song in all of opera. When will I love you? Good Lord, I don’t know, Maybe never, maybe tomorrow. But not today, that’s for sure. Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain if it suits [...]

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A funny coincidence

As I was watching the opera today, it struck me that there were some remarkable similarities between the character of Carmen and a person I loved a long time ago. I was thinking of this just now and suddenly remembered that her cellphone ring tone used to be the March of the Toreador. She really [...]

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What’s the difference?

In view of certain recent events, it seems appropriate to re-post this wonderful video.

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An unexpected state of sleeplessness

It can’t be the coffee. I was really trying to sleep — lying down, waiting for thoughts to leave me in the same way they do every night, but they simply refused to. This has happened in the past when I have drunk a cup of coffee too late in the day. But why today? [...]

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Every day you play…

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” -Pablo Neruda. (For the full poem, which is one of my favourites, click here).

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