Inverse Karma

I am sitting in a corner of my hostel room. There goes the 1st ring. A shrill tone of “Siragugal Vandhadhu” echoes in the corridor. Occupant A next door. She attends the call and starts the now famous walk-while-you-talk (Thanks to Abhishek Bachan.. What an idea Sir ji!). Then comes a crude mumbo-jumbo remix of [...]

When I was in high school there was an essay competition to choose a student representative for carrying the Olympic torch as it passed through India.  The moment my dad told me about it, I started writing. I wrote 6 sides and still was a good 4 pages away from completion! That’s when my dad [...]

Susi Ganesan’s Kanthaswamy took its time before it appeared on the silver screen. The promotional stills of the movie were good. The music was what one would call okay. But once again fans of Tamil cinema had to put up with a movie that fell short of expectations. In fact, it slipped and fell a [...]

Two years of a faithful wait for the movie made me as happy as Harry was on his first visit to Hogsmeade when I took delivery of the tickets to watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at a multiplex with one of my close friends – also an ardent Potter series fan! Right [...]

I created a record of sorts last month. I listened to a whopping number of my friends narrate stories of their love. Some of the lucky ones told me confident happily-ever-after stories, some told me they have entered into a commitment hoping for theirs and quite a few not so lucky ones told me the [...]

C’mon man cough up a few bucks! – there goes the last piece of evidence you had to prove you get pocket money. Well, all for a friend. But doesn’t it get too much? Sometimes don’t you feel like saying C’mon give me a break? Friends in flesh and blood are a necessity by default. [...]

I was talking to my best buddy today. I was telling him about my life, the years I’ve come through after my school life. The way it wasn’t as good as I had expected, the way I still managed to find some friends, I went on and on about many things. He just let me [...]