Steppenwolf

….in the middle of the road, that the bourgeois seeks to walk. He will never surrender himself either to lust or to asceticism. He will never be a martyr or agree to his own destruction. On the contrary, his ideal is not to give up but to maintain his own identity. He strives neither for [...]

History Of The Universe in 200 Words

Quantum Fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Particle-Antiparticle Annihilation. Deuterium and Helium Production. Matter Domination. Recombination. Blackbody Radiation. Local Contraction. Large-Scale Structure Formation. Violent Relaxation. Virialization. Galaxy Formation. Turbulent Fragmentation. Contraction. Ionization. Massive Star Formation. Deuterium Ignition. Hydrogen Fusion. Hydrogen Depletion. Core Contraction. Envelope Expansion. Helium Fusion. Carbon, Oxygen, and Silicon Fusion. Iron Production. Implosion. Supernova Explosion. Metals [...]

What I knew then …

Remember when you were a kid and used to imagine all sorts of scenarios about people around you. I mean I used to know what people were saying about me since way back. What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was -
Twelve
Conversation at Dinner with Mom and Dad’s friends
Loud [...]

Palindrome ?

Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I — lo! — rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live on. I do, O God!

Who Said ?

Commies, Hippes, Liberals, WMDs, Iraq, Mushroom Clouds, 911, 911, 911, 911, 911, Iraq, Nukes, Russia, Muslims, Death, Destruction, Pot smokers, Iran, Iran, Iran, Britney spears, Shahrukh’s 6 pack, 911, 911, World war III, Emergency, Elections, Emergency, Elections, Google, Google, 123, copyright, DRM, open, open, open, Iran, Iran, Iran ….
I think I’m sick !

At the Night

Let me sleep, let me be
Let me not feel your tender touches, let me
Not hear your whispered nothings
You and I are free if we have no lover
For love consumes time which is more dear to me
Now you are equal to me and at sea
So let me not feel the ache and irrational longing
For we had [...]

Advice ain’t free

Some snide today remark about my bull got my hackles up again today. There we were sitting peacefully at the top of my office roof at around 11 in the night watching all those Genpact girls (well we have a GE, ICICI, Verizon, HSBC call centers at my workplace) walk across and were into a [...]

Best Road Trip Songs Ever

A few songs combined with a ride can tell you a lot about yourself.
Harley Davidson came up with a compilation of road-trip songs, but we I don’t see eye to eye with them for many of those…. I’ve added songs that either put you in the rhythm with the ride or those which reflect a [...]

bits and floatsum!

found some prank calls floating over the net -
You kicked my dog !
Simply hilarious ! Some guy messing up with a punjabi family in us.
‘kisi dog noon kick kitta se ?? ‘
and here’s to Becky the cutest prank caller ever even though the site owner’s brazen self promotion pissed me off, this [...]

Almost ….

On Chance Encounters
There you go, zipping about on your scooty. You windswept hair flying about. Just a glimpse of a pale freckled face and a pouty expression. Now I can just see your slender back draped in a casual tee and that wonderful shock of black hair. Weaving in and out of traffic with [...]