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The Auto-Rickshaw Manifesto
A love letter to India's most democratic vehicle — part taxi, part philosophy, part chaos theory.
Storytelling
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मलहम-ए -खिचड़ी
आपको देख दिल पे चल जाती है अभी भी छुरिया, पर आपने तो फेका था हमें जैसे सीली हुई भुजिया। खा पी कर ले रही हो तुम डकार, पर क्या कभी याद किया तुमने पुराना प्यार?...
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The Healing Chill of Hebbe Falls
A chill runs through my body, crossing my spine, and within touching distance of my brain. I can only feel the cold water massaging my bruises, playfully...
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Spicy Hot Summer, Served With Buffalo Dip
There are summers, and then there is that idiotic summer. I was interning with an organization studying tribal arts in the Rathwa tribe dominated Chota Udaipur...
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Return to Korba
Over the past 2-3 years I have travelled across various parts of the country. Most of these trips were planned and executed around a friend’s wedding, and...
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काश ये दिल होता Tupperware का
हम प्यार करते थे उनसे बेशुमार, उनके इश्क मैं हुए थे बीमार हमे लगा वो भी है उतनी ही बेक़रार, कर बैठे प्यार का इज़हार. फिर क्या कहे क्या हुआ अच्छे खासे दिल का...
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हैदराबादी प्रेम कहानी... जो हो ना सकी
महिना था फरवरी का, समय था वोह अफरा तफरी का Placement का चल रहा था त्यौहार, क्योकि आजकल वही तो रह गया है प्रबंधन शिक्षा का सार. मैं बैठा था interview कक्ष मैं,...
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Rattu ka Dabba
He could feel a few giggles right behind his back, he knew it was gone. Again! As Rattu turned back and put his hand into his bag’s tiffin box pocket, he felt...
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Fear. Indifference. Awkwardness. Fear
Past 2-3 months… It was that kind of a mad night, winter just about knocking on the door, truck flipping on road, tyre busting and finally a bang bang...
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गीत नया गाता हूँ
बचपन से ही मेरी राजनीति मैं काफी रूचि रही है। ९० के दशक मैं भारतीय राजनीति मैं खासे उलटफेर हुए, परन्तु उनमे से सबसे रोचक क्षण तब आया जब अटलजी ने प्रधानमंत्री...
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The SemiPali Adventure
Mondays were always like this, fking boring, although I am not allowed use the F word as I am still in class VIth, it brings out the haaawww from you. So we...
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Scooter ki Sawari
Scene 1: I was behind him, on 4th gear but always afraid to go a bit faster, my foot always flirting with the foot brake, and then something strange happened....
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Katti and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance
That thumb, the stupid angutha, the one which appears on Thums Up bottles and nowadays keeps fiddling with blackberry, goes near the incisors and gets itself a...
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Left Behind Part 2
Down there, next to the hot fish plate and shiny gravels, she just lies there, she belonged to someone stupid, someone ever so simple, disturbed, but happy at...
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Bachpan ka Hawww, Bani Jawani Ki awww...
Remember when we were kids and, - Someone fired an abuse like the dreaded S Word - Someone's pant dropped by mistake - Someone choked up after going on...
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Being Chintu
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The Times of Holi - Edition 1
Sometime in 1996, somewhere in Chhattisgarh “Bhaiya kuch fugge (balloon) dena, arre yeh nahi, who paani waale” “Lo Beta, 5rs ke 100, rang wagera chahiye” ...
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कहानी २५ पैसे के बोरकुट की
On all those cycle journeys back from school me, my namesake and few more friends spent most of our time chit-chatting, drinking water from my Milton bottle...
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Reliving छब्बीस जनवरी
Happy Republic Day. Enjoyed a wonderful morning today at college, all the National Events tend to be extremely pleasing events, and as I felt today if it was...
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Another Kiddie incident
Posted one long back on Kids. Today was time for another classic incident:) Words from a 6th Class Kiddo on the car backseat, "Virginity is a man's gift to...
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The Times of Navratri- Edition 4
Sometime in 2008, Mumbai J Midterms, horrible they are. I always thought the worst gets over after coming to a b-school, this is over and above worst. Midterms...
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The Times of Navratri- Edition 1
Sometime in 1998, somewhere in Chattisgarh Navratri is the best time of the year. Like yesterday I left from home at around 5 PM. After our customary cricket...
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is this the end???
Is this the end of the much thought of Small City Dreams, or is it just another passing phase. Past few months have been the most boring in my life, I am...
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कॉमिक्स और हमारा बचपन
लुईस कैरोल की एलिस को कल्पना के उस अद्भुत संसार में जाने के लिए खरगोश महाशय के घर का रास्ता नापना होता था लेकिन मुझे (याने जब में बच्चा था) या मेरे जैसे कई...
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Hardly anything great to Talk about...or maybe
When I used to read Naresh's blog while he was doing MBA I always thought it is surely something which I will enjoy. Talking about things which we {include...
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Vada-Pav, Totos and ... Girls :)
Vada Pav is God's Own Food in Mumbai. Have gulped thousands of them since being in Mumbai, it comes in various formats and my favorite one is one near NM (Vile...
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Who Enjoys It?
Some are doing it, some do not. I always seem to fall in the latter. They do different things, different activities and seem to enjoy it all. For me somehow...
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10 Hour Sleep...Kidding Ain't You!!!
Tired mind, tired soul, tired body, sitting in a lecture and looking at the red layer forming on my eyes is a habit now, it was the same tomorrow, my friend...
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City 3-tier
After two and a half months at SP, it seems I have slowly started realizing the fact that most my bakbak, most of my stupid and sometimes interesting jokes...
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Angrezi aur main...
Class 4th-5th It all started with that, we were given some sort of scholar badges and all (for consistent performances with a particular score in core...
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Kids are the Future, they know it !!!
Date 13th May’2002 Train Bangalore-Delhi Rajdhani Express AC III Tier Passengers Pattu (that is me, school nickname), Addu and Niddu Travel Purpose Journey...
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It was IIT time again...
Yesterday was IITJEE day. This time 2.5 lakh people appeared for it compared to 1.5 lakh which sat for screening when I gave it. Nice to read that they gave a...
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I Broke the Vow the Night India lost...
This thing getting blogged a couple of weeks later after it happened. Ok something finally went inside after a gap of almost 3 months(last time it happened)....
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So so so many things to blog...
Me in college, me in Gandhinagar and feels great, that drying heat in the afternoon, and that freezingly cold chill at night, R-World and Mohan Dhaba to...
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I wanted to be here...
Last to last week I had a reunion at my place with all my college ke friends (40 of them) having a great time. But somehow I miss my school ki junta too much....
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It's Children's Day ...!!!
It's 14th November. It's Chacha Nehru's Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY 14 years back in history me as a standard 2 student would have been receiving chocolates...
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Michael Jackson khub royega ...:-)
When I first saw the Thriller video as a kid I swear I was scared. I still remember seeing it first time at my Dad's friend house eating Salted Pistacho's when...
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Real Madrid vs Barcelona
Just today I saw a vintage Arsenal performance after so so many days. It was the same one touch football that Wegner had promoted all these years which was...
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Vicious Circle of Social Reforms
I came across this strange Geometrical figure in secondary school through an Ogden Nash poem on Visit to Dentist. These are the lines from the poem “It’s going...