Thank you for your patronage over the last year. 2013 was a year of sudden growth, with many new readers coming…Continue reading→
Music
Occasionally music intrudes into my life…. about 10-15 times a day. I wake up with a song playing in my head pretty much everyday.
Here are all the posts I’ve written that relate to this strange thing called music.
The New Year
December has become the present. Just as November is the early present. The day after Halloween, stores change from orange and…Continue reading→
Merry Christmas!
And that’s what it should be, the greeting. Not ‘Happy Holidays’, but ‘Merry Christmas’ for the reason for the holiday is…Continue reading→
The Chemistry of Love
Science fairs for high schoolers were an annual affair. A large area with a perimeter of school stalls showing off hand-made…Continue reading→
Blogs and the "Common Man"
The other day I was pissed off at a comment I read on another blog (not mine). The commenter felt the…Continue reading→
The Date of the Jackal
Ashok found Meena fascinating. She, Meena, liked Jethro Tull. Ashok’s tastes were more Donna Summer’s gasping, moaning, sex-drenched disco. But Meena…Continue reading→
Bengali COBOL
In the early summer of the following year (following the on-time, on-budget arrival of Baby #1, (chronicled in this post) financial…Continue reading→
No Aloo? No point!
So this is it then. The end of civilization as we know it. The thin edge of the wedge. The most…Continue reading→
The First School Reunion
Schools, good ones, were hard to come by in Calcutta. Boys had a choice of St. Xavier’s, La Martiniere for Boys,…Continue reading→
Baby steps in
Things went back to normal after An Inauspicious Start. Of course, normal was the new normal which wasn’t quite the same…Continue reading→
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