Singing Sp(t)ree...

Lessons Lost

Anu : Baba, today is my Barbie's birthday!
Baba : Oh, great! Now, if I give her 5 boxes of 5 apples each, how many would she have?
Anu : Baba, she doesn't want apples as birthday gift! Can't you give her something else?

Twenty Years Ago

The Mirage of Financial Carefreeness

Till last year I used to invest in VPF and believe that I had done the best thing. But the government now is bent upon arm-twisting me into investing through SIP, markets and anything other than saving. The amount of tracking and in simple terms, work, that this may entail is very disheartening.

The Rise and Fall...

These days every minute of the day is filled with so many to-dos that the moment mind spots a gap, it's quick to try and make an escape. Two days of intense work and today the house was empty when everybody except me went swimming. I still hadn't finished cooking but my first instinct was to just roll on the bed with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, next look for some chocolates to eat. Of course I recovered sense in a brief while to return to the kitchen.

Love Jihad is quite similar to the anti-semitic propaganda used by Hitler and others in early 1900s...'Women's honour' to be exploited in more ways than one.

Laughing Budhdha

I now kind of appreciate why our old wise men said we should leave desires. In fact, desire is a very big word. I'm only talking of wishes here. 

Bordering on Lunacy

Today was one of the craziest days. If this is the kind of working-from-home I'm going to do for the next one month, I won't be fit to do any work by the end of it.