Life As I Know It

The biggest problem I find myself facing as an adult who is fully functional in this dysfunctional society is the inability of people to communicate with one another. I had been looking for a screw to fix a bookshelf that had faced neglect over the years. It was only recently that I started fiddling with it to see if I could use it for other purposes when I ventured on the idea of refurbishing it myself. I did too, after smoothing out the surface I coated it with polish let it dry out and all the while I did this it was missing a screw. I kept looking for one that would fit it. I finally found one that did. Except when I went to fix it, there was a screw that was already in place. I was furious. What made me furious is not that someone fixed it. It was just the fact that I kept looking for a fix all this while and there it was the bookshelf was perfectly fixed. I wasn't even told by the fixer that it was fixed. This is how the world operates. People fix things for others a...

Then, there'd be no face to see, No voice to hear- But most importantly, Your words will cease to hurt the dead.

Disclaimer: This post contains content that might not be suitable for people below the age of 18. Read at your own discretion. It is true that the Beatles sang, “All we need is love”, BUT in India the theme for what makes the world spin can be summed in one line, “All we need is a penis”. Here is why I think that – From the time you are born, the first thing people check is to see if you have an appendage between your legs. If you don’t, you easily qualify for the game – “Quest for a Penis”. Hereon onwards you have to go looking for one. The people around you will further emphasize the superiority of the Penis by telling you that EVERYTHING you do on this planet will be irrelevant unless you succeed in your quest for the Penis. BUT there is a catch, you can’t just get any Penis, you have to adhere to the laws of religion, caste, sub caste (if any) ooooh and dare you not forget-Gotra. If the penis you find doesn’t pass the above test, that Penis is useless. BUT if you find...

The world ushered the New Year on the 1 st of January. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans ushered the year of the Rooster on the 28 th of January. On 29 th January, Roger Federer bagged his 18 th title. Two months into the year of the rooster and us Konkans are celebrating Gudi Padwa :) What’s my point you ask? Well, the new year is still a new year. The financial new year begins on the 1 st of April. 14 th of April the Tamilians will celebrate Puthandu and the Malayalis will celebrate Vishu. Basically each state in our country will keep celebrating the New year till it actually becomes an old year which is towards November after which zero thoughts are given to the year. This day, in 2009 I wrote a post on this very topic and I said I would count the number of times we celebrate the “New Year” and I conveniently forgot about it and returned to google today only to find that Wikipedia got there first . I guess that makes my work easy huh? 8 years back we were ...