Mysorean

We were planning a gala get-together within our first and closest circle of friends. It was also meant to be a celebration of a landmark in our relationship - the 10th year of our meeting. Few of us have become husbands and fathers while the rest are looking to enter this stage. The planning was […]

[Via email from Hemanth]
Vivek Pradhan wasn’t a happy man. Even the plush comfort of the First Class air-conditioned compartment of the Shatabdi Express couldn’t cool his frayed nerves. He was the Project Manager and still not entitled to air travel. It was not the prestige he sought, he had tried to reason with the […]

Now that we have worked out the where to talk business, let us get down to the more important issues.
Irrespective of whether the location is her house or a common place ensure that you get enough privacy to talk to each other. By privacy, I mean, both of you should have the confidence that […]

I went through an arranged marriage. Thankfully, I didn’t have to go through too many UKs (Uppittu-Kesari Bath, what it means will be explained later in this post or the next!). But I know of my friends who went through 20 or more before ending their search. In order to avoid so many UKs and […]

Most elders I know cannot be practical for some reason that I cannot understand.
As long as things don’t affect me I am not bothered because those are their beliefs and they are entitled to have them. Like my friend Anand Balaji once said (A Voltairian quote), “I might not agree with what you have to say. […]

In one of my posts, we had a discussion about the culture of Mysore. Vatsan compared it with Chennai’s culture and said:
Mysore will become another silicon valley and lose its identity :), im pretty sure.
Chennai retains its identity because the labour working in IT firms is largely frm in and around TN, and chennai has […]

Five years ago on this day, the Indian symbol of democracy was attacked by terrorists. Our parliament was under sieze by a group of five terrorists (Arundhati Roy says “six”!). The entire nation watched the well-covered event on television. The session was on inside the parliament and they seemed to be going about their business as […]

Have been reading a lot around the blogsphere regarding relationships and how we should handle them as well as ourselves in these relationships.
People have various ways of looking at relationships. Some people like categorizing relationships on basis of blood and otherwise meaning: family and friends. Some say relationships are strong or weak; close or far; […]

Sometimes I wonder what a family is all about. The definition keeps changing whenever we look at it.
As a kid, family meant appa, amma and ani - my kid brother. I used to find their restrictions a bit imposing and probably intrusive at times, but then I had no-one else who would feed me! Ani […]

On 11th July I was roaming the streets of Chennai visiting various showrooms to look for a good home theatre system. As I was entering a particular Sony World, I saw ten TV’s showing what looked like a Mumbai’s local train. It was ripped apart into two halves like a coconut in front of our […]