Chicken Little is enjoying her walk in the woods, gazing at the flowers and the bees and looking at the tall shady trees, when she is hit by an acorn. She panics, imagines the worst and compounds her own problems by thinking that the sky is falling on her. She immediately starts running and seeks...Read More
I used to have a colleague who loved to use the word ‘basically’. He would start every sentence of his (it seemed) with it, and at the end of his monologue he would end with: ‘You know what I am saying?’ The rest of us would just nod, of course, because whoever has heard of...Read More
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), the southern hemisphere’s greatest annual celebration of Indian cinema, takes places from 1-11 May. This year’s festival explores the richness of contemporary Indian cinema across four program streams, with films spanning Bollywood to art house and the subcontinent, as well as establishing an international competition, the Indian Film...Read More
When a man tried to hide naked in a washing machine to surprise his girlfriend, he got stuck in the washer pretty badly and had to call the rescue teams to free himself. It was a quiet Saturday morning when paramedic and rescue staff was called to let free a person who got stuck in...Read More
The Homo sapiens defend themselves from numerous bacterial attacks every second, ever wondered which is the “largest” armament of human body which dominates all these attacks? It’s the Skin-human Shield, Thinnest yet tenacious. Skin is our largest organ—adults carry some 3.6 kgs & 2 sq meters. of it. What’s more, it makes up about 16%...Read More
Working through the dreaded Monday and the crumby Tuesday flick, you finally realise it is midweek. What tops your to-do list is to sit and plan the weekend with your gang and what you end up doing is prying on others lives on Facebook or strolling through the viral video lane on Youtube. And then...Read More
It is a great honour to be asked to write the cover story for Made in India. It’s also a cause for butterflies in the stomach. That’s because, with a whopping 22 languages listed in the Constitution as official (the most for any country), India is a linguist’s nightmare (or a dream come true). Of...Read More
Aaarghh!! The Queen!! How does she do it? I thought, with a pinch of envy though, as I was struggling to cope with a fit of sneezing. My remark had a lot to do with an article I had read sometime back on how the ever-so-graceful monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, at 76, manages to maintain...Read More
If you’re travelling in India, and you need one dish you want to rely on, trust the masala dosa. It is available everywhere, can’t be messed up, and gets made in seconds. This is the solemn advice of a North Indian friend of mine. A south Indian dish may have conquered India today, but twenty-five...Read More
Karthik had always heard about the world Down Under. For him, born in a small village in Southern India, a job secondment to Australia was by far, the biggest change in his life. Working in the northern countryside, finishing off the Friday, he entered the nearest drinking hole. Passing by the noisy crowd he parked...Read More