Tweet Power!
by Zephyr • June 20, 2010 • Kaleidoscope • 21 Comments
For someone who is not on Twitter and has only a vague idea of the working of the medium, I have extracted full mileage out of it, don’t you think? Boy, am I excited!
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We speak Indish!
by Zephyr • June 16, 2010 • Humour • 28 Comments
The errors are not only grammatical, but pertain to pronunciation, spelling -- the entire lot! They can confuse, confound and crack you up if not actually drive you crazy!
Read more →The lady has her moments too!
by Zephyr • June 11, 2010 • The L&M and the brats • 14 Comments
You have read about the foibles of the L&M and the Brats. Now read about the Lady of the house!
Read more →Psssst!
by Zephyr • June 7, 2010 • Kaleidoscope • 25 Comments
I have often wondered why these ‘doctors’ only advertise on the walls or in the classified section of the newspapers. It is almost clandestine, if you know what I mean.
Read more →The moving bug
by Zephyr • May 31, 2010 • Zephyr Times • 25 Comments
The tradition of moving houses has been passed on to us children from my parents. While my sisters and brothers have shifted houses, I take the cake having shifted about three dozen of them, give or take a couple.
Read more →Eating out, brat-style
by Zephyr • May 17, 2010 • The L&M and the brats • 30 Comments
If I want to eat a Chinese dinner, the L&M might want a tandoori night and the boys would want nothing short of a Moroccan meal or a Spanish feast.
Read more →All the world’s a village
by Zephyr • May 13, 2010 • Kaleidoscope • 24 Comments
All I need to do is log on to one of the social networking sites and I get to know what the Big B did over the weekend, what time Tendulkar turned in the previous night, what Priyanka Chopra had for lunch and so on.
Read more →Cute nursery rhymes?
by Zephyr • May 8, 2010 • Little People • 35 Comments
The one good thing about nursery rhymes is that they are taught to very small children who don’t ask you the meaning of the words but happily sing them!
Read more →A smile from the toothless
by Zephyr • April 25, 2010 • Kaleidoscope • 20 Comments
Human needs are strange things. We all know the basic needs roti, kapda aur makaan (food, clothes and a roof over the head). These are physical in nature, but more than these are other needs, which are motivated by factors and compulsions that are far from physical. They in fact become more and more...
Read more →Coaching or choking classes?
by Zephyr • April 22, 2010 • Little People • 22 Comments
A retired professor of IIT Delhi once said, “On the given day, the student who manages to retain his or her cool to answer the paper well, is the one to be selected. There is no magic formula.”
Read more →What's in a name?
by Zephyr • April 17, 2010 • The L&M and the brats • 48 Comments
The L&M uses a very complicated method of phonetics, word association and experiences and still manages to come up with a wrong name or no name at all.
Read more →Train-friends and tiffin carriers
by Zephyr • April 11, 2010 • Nostalgia • 24 Comments
Kids were also needed for an important job: the leather/rexine suitcases required one or several of us alternately sitting/standing/jumping on them to close them.
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