Enchanted

Goa government is asking its farmers to experiment with cosmic farming. Chant the vedic mantras for 20 days for better results. My first thought was Goa!!? Of course it's the fault of my prejudiced and ignorant brain which thinks Goa is made only of beaches and tourists(excluding me). But yes, Goa has farmlands and politicians too. Nevertheless, I wish they had rather experimented this on the endangered farmlands of Punjab. May be they'll soon also market it as some sort of disaster tourism or something.

Such news makes me angry. Angry that no distopian novel predicted such absurdity and that doomsday predictions couldn't be more specific. But I must admit that the idea is rather novel; I would've thought they were more useful with people, like the warring chiefs of CBI or the dirty-linen-washing RBI governors...

Endangered

John Chau's death comes hardly a month after this article in The Hindu. Why do we find it so hard to tolerate and understand diversity?

Waste Worries

One and may be the only problem I have with Amazon so far, is the amount of plastic it generates with each delivery. The way our civic body collects and disposes it, I end up worrying that half the stray plastic lying on the road may be from our house. 

Line of Duty

First they downsize us saying the attrition numbers are not up to the mark and now we have people leaving in numbers. And we don't even have a whiff of anything to come, I mean, not even rumours!

I was just wondering how many people I would miss if they went out of this place, apart from P of course. With Rajani half the world away, it's only three people - my boss, A and SK. All other people I would cry for are gone already.

It may be that I'm too much into Line of Duty, but Nidhi Razdan interviewing Aatish Taseer on his latest book was like AC-12 interrogating one of those coppers. If he was guilty of anything, he would've confessed in two seconds so he must be really innocent.

Work has picked up a little and I'm so damn grateful!

Golden Stakes

Our long-service mails are like obituaries. You may hate the guy, you may think he's the most useless in the world but when the HR comes calling for your comments, you end up writing all flowery tributes to him.

Saving the Day

Only thing that can save today is the possibility that tomorrow I may think of it as having been a better day.