Freedom of Noise

In India, we enjoy great FREEDOM. No doubt about it. People fight for their freedom. Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Education Bill etc etc all ensure more and more freedom for everyone.
But the greatest of all freedoms we enjoy (probably even as a Basic human right) is the freedom to make as much noise as we [...]

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When I was drowning someone held my hand and pulled me up
Out of the waters I came tired, desolate and miserable
I was angry at the hands that saved me
Sweet and soft hands that tried to give me solace
I refused it. I rejected. I ran to fall again into another river
The hand yet again saved me
I [...]

On Autobiographies..Yawn

It was the year of 2008. I took up Gandhiji’s much hyped autobiography “My Experiments with Truth“. I started reading it. There was a tear drop on the side of my face. No, no, I was not touched or emotional. I was yawning away so much that my eyes were watering. I kept down the [...]

Dark recesses of life…

A story told here.
They fell in love. They broke up. They fell in love again and yet again broke up. This cycle continued. They din’t know why they were falling in love with each other and why they were breaking up.
Love was beautiful when they met. Passionate, Sexual, Exciting. The touch of each other’s bodies [...]

Taking credit

I was reading a story from the Volume 1 of Sherlock Holmes. This particular story touched me. Holmes was brilliant as always. The thing that striked me was Holmes was never attached to “fame” or “credit” he got for his work. Infact in the story, the police force approaches him and asks him to give [...]

Meeting people…

One of the most exciting aspects about being in U.S was meeting people from different countries. On my flight back to India, in the connecting flight from Birmingham to Chicago, a blue-eyed, soft featured, mid twenties man sat next to me. I was kind of tired having got up early so I put my head [...]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My association with Sherlock Holmes started with the story of the “Hound of Baskervilles” in school. It was a thrilling story. I remember the story so well, the Stapletons, Henry Baskerville. One of my relatives had the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories. I remember my brother devouring the whole series. Inspired [...]

A new year or just another day?

I dont really like celebrating my birthday. I like the birthday wishes I get and the surprise phone calls from lot of friends. But as such I feel birthdays are like any other day. I spoke to my boss in the morning and he told me birthdays are not merely for social celebration. They have [...]

Lesson learnt the hard way

Thoughts that always came in my mind are
“What can an organization offer me in terms of benefits or responsibilities?”
“This person will be a hindrance to my work”
“I can’t waste my time over this person or work”
The past week because of certain incidents I have learned how to change the approach.
The approach which I [...]

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

In drawing human faces, the important technique is not to name the parts of the face while drawing. You cannot look at a face and say, ok let me draw the nose, let me draw the mouth. If you do that you may end up drawing the “symbol” for nose or mouth that’s stored in [...]