Bad Mood Part II

Went ahead and gave myself a feel-good after all these days of feeling extremely frustrated. Had my most expensive facial ever and now I feel like some screen diva with flawless skin and all. Had some guilt about how much I was spending but then think of it this way, I haven’t smoked at all [...]

An Aside

In Calcutta now. For worse or for better I don’t know. What I do seem to know is that I was better in Goa than here. Sure I was sick there, but to faint because of the pain? To be injected painkillers? To look at Facebook and see everyone my age living a normal life [...]

Airport Security and Jammu & Kashmir

Call it inverted reasoning, but I find myself safer on a flight than a train. I know it is easier to hijack a plane rather than a train, and with a train accident you can still survive, but somehow given all the security at airports I feel safer. You know, the super efficient people walking [...]

Sex, Lies and Betrayal

And just when I thought there was nothing to write about, D tells me about Om Puri’s reaction to his wife’s shocking expose of his sexual encounters.
Ok, so all you married people know this already, tell your partner one thing in a moment of emotion, and it will come back to you. I can’t [...]

And The News Is…

…Goa had a baby typhoon all of the last two days and I spent most of it in bed with fever. It’s passed now, but believe you me, all of last night I was scared the window at the head of my bed is going to break into pieces with all that rain and wind [...]

I’ll Be Gone (Again!!)

I am going home again to have tubes thrust up and down me, and it will be a while before I get back. At home I usually do not blog, so there will be no posts from me here for two months at least. Probably.
And somehow like last time I am not terribly sad at [...]

Controversy Opens Here

Read a piece of news that said Muslims in India have issued a fatwa against the National Song because it calls us to worship the country. Even with some amount of patriotism, I think I understand their point, you know. Why would anyone go against the tenets of one’s religion, something that one follows in [...]