It drizzling outside. After a few warm days, Delhi is cold again. This year has been unusually cold. Climate change…I guess. I just finished packing. I leave for Assam, tomorrow early morning. I should ideally be sleeping early so that I can get up and go to the airport on time. But sleep betrays me….
Read more50 things I miss about Cotton College
Spent 2 years in Cotton College from 2002-2004. Did my H.S. in Arts from there. Stayed at MNDP Hostel, popularly known as DS (Double Storey). Cotton College experience is almost inexplicable. It’s a league of its own. If you’re a cottonian, you know this. But here I list some things that I miss about my…
Read moreI don’t sing in the shower anymore !
I don’t sing in the shower anymore. It’s as if something has happened. The worse part is I did not realise it till now. What happened? Did something go wrong? I still try to figure ! I look at my life. Everything is fine. we are a family of 3, with my wife and our…
Read moreSurviving 16 Finns-A story of learning, togetherness and Laughter !!!
‘I have more balls than many of the men in my workplace’, she declares with utmost confidence. While another one asks question at every given opportunity, sometimes fun, sometimes not so much. 🙂 This bunch of participants have been a fun and exciting group. It is an interesting mix, from Dentists to Researchers, young leaders…
Read moreTHINGS I LEARNED RUNNING MY FIRST MARATHON
About 3 months ago, I was not a runner and could not even run a kilometer without panting. From that to successfully completing my first half marathon and writing about it has been a journey. I was an occasional crossfitter, though. But it also stopped because the gym where I worked out, closed down. But…
Read moreKathmandu Air Mishap and Public Services
On the morning of 4th March, 2015, on our way back from Kathmandu to India, we heard a heavy thundering sound, as soon as were ready to take the bus, to board the jet airways 9W262 flight to Delhi. We were of course confused with the sound and assumed it might just be thunder. But…
Read moreAre we actually free? or for that matter, does real freedom exist today?
The other day I was watching a video on ‘Freedom’ posted by Guardian. In the video, philosopher Slavoj Žižek argued that apparent freedom is actually governed by a complex series of conditions in the modern day.  For Žižek, a ‘pathetic, old romantic’, the highest form of freedom is in fact love. Rather than the video…
Read moreSCREW WEIGHT LOSS, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BENCH PRESS A BEAR
Almost all of us, who hit the gym, have an objective. Many work out for hours hoping for an elusive ‘six pack’ abs, while some strive towards weight loss. But only a select few go to become a fit. Let me tell you what my trainer says, ‘Work out to be fit, not to…
Read moreDeath Sentence to Delhi Gang Rapists: Neither ‘Just’ nor ‘Right’
On 13 September, the Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna of Saket Court, Delhi sentenced all the four found guilty of Delhi Gang Rape to death. Now, out of the six, Â four has been sentenced to death, one was found hanging in Tihar Jail in March, 2013Â and the last has been sent to juvenile home for…
Read moreAn Analysis of the Four Year Undergraduate Program in Delhi University
Delhi University, the biggest in India, recently introduced the Four Year Undergraduate Program (referred as FYUP) in its curriculum. The FYUP has received immense criticism from various quarters. Many see it as hastily implemented, while others plainly discard it off by saying that it is being modeled in accordance to the west and will merely…
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