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The thing with Indian graffiti is that in most cases only the guy who writes it can make out what it is and have a good laugh about it.. cos either his handwriting would be a graphologist's nightmare or it would give the creators of spell check a massive heart attack.. over the years ive seen things written on,in,below,between,along,above.. using up every possible centimeter available of various canvasses from restrooms,to trees.. to UNESCO world heritage sites! and the all time favorite Indian graffiti muse.. " the public transport ". But the thing that struck me most was the passion with which they do it, so much effort.. chiseling on sandstone or concrete is not easy... Although you would have seen a thousand examples of this dying art.. some of them just stay with you, either for their stupidity or uniqueness.. below are some of them that most of you might have seen.. but lets revisit to see if they were Write or wrong ! Fast fact : Most of the graffiti is bas...

As on Jan 10th this year i ceased to be 25 something.. now Ive crossed the threshold of a quarter century .. Oh my god i am 26 !! i haven't felt so bad since the time Himesh Reshammiya took to acting.. and before that when Double Decker buses were pulled out of Hyderabad. I am trying to downplay the thoughts that ring in my head when i think about being 26.. but then you suddenly tend to feel older than what 26 might sound like.. u wont understand until u r in my shoes . its kinda worse than becoming 20 enroute to finishing ur teens.. Well now coming to the part where i explain why i am writing this blog , its cos i want to list down a few " things to do in life* " before my next milestone (logically it would be 50yrs ) but ya that's flexible. Everyone has new year resolutions like the one for the board at SATYAM was to be honest this year!. see where they landed.Mine is more of a list * than resolutions.. cos it has a limited liability towards fulfillment :...

Traveling in Mumbai is an art .. err.. i think its a science .People who think its an art just sit back and admire the maddening crowd getting in and out of the trains and buses... while those who think its a science.. do what science endorses.. experiment .! There might have been around 1,85,678 documented past experiences of people's travails in local trains.. but i would want to focus on the lesser of the two evils.. the BEAST .. oh sorry, BEST buses. Although i would suggest that, if you are having a perfectly fine day and just for the heck of it want to experiment with how unforgiving life can be.. then just try getting into a Churchgate-Virar Fast local at DADAR at 5.56 pm. on a weekday . It will be enough pain,suffering and inspiration to write a book on the theme " My last few hours.. and how i was reborn ". Coming back to the task i set upon doing.. the journey in BEST buses.. hmm, well first things first. I have to admire the whole system and network of ...

Just when you thought i disappeared from the face of the most populous city of the second most populous country of the most populated planet... here i am.. back to college after a 2 month ' weight loss ' program called summer internship! ( 4hrs of traveling in the sweltering heat and you d agree with me) Being one of the lucky ones to have been to 5 of the 6 metros (Somehow never got a chance to go to BANDHladesh ... Kolkata for the uninitiated) i thought it would be fun to compare the road manners across the ones ive have lived in sufficiently and have had the privilege to experience : Hyderabad, Bengalooru and Mumbai . Congestion on roads is a common thread that connects all these cities.. but all the misery is to end soon .. what with the Bengalooru,Hyderabad and Mumbai metros coming up within no time.. just another 11-13 yrs ! But you never know.. the mumbai metro with a super charged Anil Ambani could be completed a few days before schedule and may be we can have ...

disclaimer : The views expressed in the tirade below are mine,mine and only mine.No committee or commuNitie endorses it .No offense intended to people connected to the facility.. But pun , definitely intended.. A serene location in west India , where a cook from karnataka prepares panneer for a hungry Andhraite ... globalisation ?? no that's recipe for disaster !! btw welcome to the place i eat or in local lingo Wat is called a ' mess '.Whoever coined that term, saw a pun in it.. at least earlier than i did! Gentleladies and gentleman, fasten your seat belts.. cos the ride is going to be MESS y I keep wondering if our mess is the world's most ' Aloo ' friendly mess.. Mr.Sharad Pawar can back me up on this.. its always 'aloo this' or ' aloo that', and if its not the case, then it is 'that with aloo' or 'this with aloo '. If ever there's a rise in potato prices due to shortage , then hopefully we will get to taste ...

Resolutions on new year are such a cliche .. talking of cliches one thing that is clichefied to the extent that new born babies can predict what will happen next are the chases in our movies... long live the ramp and the flower cart. (details later) The usual prerequisites for a cliched chase are an old jeep/bike, couple of crowded streets,a know it all hero ( who needs GPS? ), and a bunch of goons with ultra low IQ levels.. seriously i always think of all the goons in all the movies worldwide and i wonder why our desi goons have the lowest IQ levels, but they are the people who make the rajnis,mithuns and balakrishnas of our world look good.! The following is the 8 marks answer for salient features of Indian chases : (exam hangover i guess) * A bunch of goons will never be able to catch the heroine.. even if she is wearing 3 inch pointed heels and running in a desert.. and the chase ends in she bumping into the hero.. who btw has no work in life at that precise moment. * When th...

4 3 distinguished years.. 3 serene lakes (still don't know which is the third one ).. 3 months spent here.. 3 tough papers in the module exams.. and 3 seconds before i end this worthless paragraph.. :O Its been almost 100 days since I've come to this place and as some of you might be wondering why i haven't written what i do or have been doing all these days.. things really have moved at the pace of a 20-20 match and had my first sor e finger in years cos of 1 week of physical torture called module exams.. :( The invigilator kept offering me additionals ... but then everyone who wears spects and looks studious does not take 2 additionals :D Apart from watching a zillion episodes of many series... i also tried my hand at playing football .. and playing in the rain was always a sure shot happening :) but as the ground was not maintained (thankfully it is now) there was waist high grass and for onlookers it looked like we were a herd of wild buffaloes migrating ac...

disclaimer : wear your thinking shorts on ;) when was the last time you invented a game..? oops or atleast played a game? there was a time when i played non stop from 4pm to 8-9 pm every evening and most of the games where tailored to our fancies. It was like... wearing a chaddi gave u a licence to create and alter the rules. so, long long ago.. when i used to wear shorts day in and day out... there were a few games that i indulged in and let me try and remember some of those games and their rules.. wait a minute .. what rules? :) game1: Chor police The 'police' never catch the ' chor ' and the game always ends with one of the parents looking for their kid and finding him before the police does. Moral: u can never fool mom. game2: 'i spy ' or hide'n'seek commonly called ispice , eyespyce or whatever.. fastest way to count to 100.. learn from the guy who has to find everyone.people hide in the lamest of places.. seriously what was i thinking while...

The following is a collection of my PJs posted on a forum called pagalguy.com. Some of them might make u want to pull your hair out.. but cut me some slack, all of them are originals.. :) ! Starters: 1.) between 'dawn' and 'dusk' which is more authoritative..? Ans.) dawn... because he intimidates dusk by saying.. " main hoon dawn.! " 2.) Why dont most ppl wake up early.. i.e when the day dawns.. or sun rises.. but instead get up when the sun is already shining bright..?? Ans.) because they realised.. " dawn ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin.. naa mumkin hain.." 3.) What would be Karan johar's next movie's name if it were to star Salman Khan,Sanjay dutt and hrithik..?? Ans.) "Kabhi kushi.. Kabhi Gym " 4.) if Quentin tarantino decides to make a mushy bollywood romantic movie.. what will he name it..? Ans.) Kill Bill Pyar Vyar... 5.) If Ram gopal verma or Manirathnam decide to remake one of Steven Spielberg's classics with m...

my palms are sweating, the heart beat is around 100 bpm, my vision is getting blurred, i fail to pick up sounds in the vicinity and my mind is becoming numb... no i am not having a heart attack, i am actually at the helm of my hyundai santro, driving in Hyderabad and believe me, it ain't lesser than a heart attack .! If you are planning to learn driving in nawab land now, then u can kiss your driving dreams good bye, especially if you are the kind who has not driven anything apart from a scooty in your by lanes while occasionally hitting the milkman and the street dog with ur 25 kmph speed. Driving here has become anything but easy or enjoyable and at the end of the day, i derive pleasure from the fact that there has not been a single scratch/dent on my car. But unfortunately few months back, after an impeccable record of 98 days without any scratches on my car, a tractor guy decided it was enough and took out the rear bumper of my car.. and yeah he was a Rajnikant fan i guess... ...

i blink .. therefore i am.., but there are moments when you stop blinking and just savor the spectacle in front of you. The following is a travelogue on some of those awesome places that i have seen,felt,experienced.. and not blinked! hope to add to this list in the near future... here we go , the 10 wonders :) 1.) The Taj Mahal I had been to one of the wonders of the world, the feeling took a long time to sink :). There is an eerie calmness around the tajmahal, inspite of the huge flocking of visitors.A stunning beauty in marble and i realized its difficult to blink on the banks of yamuna..! 2.) Doddabetta, Ooty Ever had the feeling of walking amongst the clouds.? welcome to doddabetta,Ooty.! on a foggy evening, you will find trouble in tracing your friend who is walking 2 paces ahead of you :). You have to wait for the cloud to pass and then you can find your way again. Best place for ppl who want to get rid of their belongings :D [ read as wives ;) ] 3.) Mt.wellington, Hobart Thousa...

Statutory WARNING: High Satire content Ever wonder what kumar gaurav is doing now..? and where on earth is shakti kapoor..?? well today i shall take a dab at our forgotten celebrities (when they were celebrated) and what we can learn from them.. ya we can learn from everyone, including rabri devi.. what lessons did we learn..? Forgotten Celeb 1 Vinod Kambli : Never cry in public , especially if you remove your helmet to reveal diamond studded earrings and a punk style bandana.. it gives an impression that you are crying because you will no longer be able to make money to embellish yourself! Forgotten Celeb 2 Shakti Kapoor : Naughty boy.. Naughty boy, be a fatherly figure to your juniors... not a father to their offspring.. Forgotten Celeb 3 Rabri Devi : It does not hinder the process of running a state if you call up your husband in the middle of a meeting and ask how is the 3rd calf of the 4th cow doing..?! Forgotten Celeb 4 Manisha koirala : who..? Forgotten Celeb 5 Abdul Kareem Telg...

this one is from my archives, one of the 1st articles i wrote.. about 4 years back i guess i was obsessed with the bizzare then! :) read on... The following is a unique usage of COLOURS. the passage contains about 25 colours substituted in place of words... try to correlate each colour to a word sounding similar and you will understand it better. if you are still not able to figure it out , the original words follow the passage in the same order.Just put them in and read it out. ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THE FOLLOWING FEATURE ARE FICTIOUS AND BEAR NO RESEMBLENCE TO ANY PERSON.. LIVING OR DEAD. THE " COLOUR " OF MY LOVE Am i REDy fo this???? is this the end to my long WHITE?? someone has started appearing in my CREAMES and i am GREEN to know... who is this ? who just BLUE me away!!!! something is GOLDing me back and i have a PINKing feeling in my heart.. who is she??? am i a CYAN of her? why does it feel like she is saying YELLOW to me all the time.....