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       The dictionary describes anniversary as the date on which something occurred the   previous year, celebration of this. In reality, it is nothing of the sort, it is an evolutionary process and had Charles Darwin been alive today, he would have concurred wholeheartedly. Darwin espoused the theory of “Survival of the fittest” and believe me, anniversaries are human race's way to ensure that only the very best survive this gauntlet. Anniversaries are not a celebration, they are a reaffirmation of the supremacy of the strongest.  A look at the history and advent of anniversaries shows us that they were started by women to browbeat and to control men. Women knew that men could not remember dates to save their lives so they started celebrating their birthdays- the 'anniversary' of their birth. It did not matter whether the man and woman were married or engaged or having a serious relationship or just an affair. What mattered was that men were sup...

Why the f**k can't people keep their cell phones in their pockets while they drive? In fact, they might as well keep them on the dashboard or any other damn place as long as the bloody thing is not glued to their ears. It has become a national pandemic to have people driving around with one hand holding the cellphone to the ear and the other hand on the wheel. Earlier (in the times before the damn cellphone screwed everyone's privacy and personal space), if you saw a vehicle weaving around between lanes or being unresponsive to people patiently waiting to overtake, you would assume that the poor sob was drunk or high on some other crap. Now, invariably when you see a bugger hogging the middle of the road and not letting anyone overtake, nine times out of ten the idiot will be yakking on phone. Even worst affected are the two wheeler riders, it's common to see their heads tilted at unnatural angles, trying to jam the freaking cellphone between the ear and the empty skull!...

With profound regret I have to inform you of the demise of my second bachelorhood! Second Bachelorhood? Yes, my wife had gone home to her parents and i was making hay while the sun shone. Perhaps a better simile would be mouse having a blast while the cat was away! The second, short coming of the bachelorhood was much, much more enjoyable than the first, much longer edition. The reason was because I knew it would finish at a pre-determined date, I made sure that I made the most of it. Every night was party night with the guys( and a few gals too, but don't tell her that!). If anyone wants to know how ancient Romans lived, how they had orgies lasting weeks together, you just have to see how a married dude behaves when his wife is visiting her parents, in this case ME! Late night parties used to finish at the crack of dawn and that too not because the guys(or the girls) were tired, but because some idiot got only a dozen bottles of booze. The days were spent recuperating from the ri...

My apologies for misspelling Dalai Lama as Dalia Lama in my previous post. Error is regretted.

Today, many newspapers carried a front page story that India( read Indian government) has refused the extension of Inner Line Permits(I.L.P.s) of the Indian journalists covering Dalai Lama's Arunachal Pradesh visit. I imagine I.L.P.s are kinds like intra country visas, required for visiting 'sensitive areas'. What I could find from Google  is that I.L.P. is required to visit a lot of places within India...even by Indians...Surprise surprise...we're required to get some visa like document to move within our own nation!! Hail Mogambo! With all the government sites/ links predictably down( I tried Sikkim govt link, Mizoram Govt. link, Arunachal govt. link- No go!), what i could find is that an I.L.P. is issued for at least a group of four people travelling together. On every checkpoint, all four people have to be together, though this rule is open to interpretation and bribes. I could get sued for slander and character assassination for saying/ writing things lik...

After going up 2-1 in the one day cricket series against Australia, captain M.S. Dhoni hinted at a 5-2 trampling of the Aussies at the hands of the marauding Indians. I just hope the rain lets up in Navi Mumbai for us to have the final match and see the final scoreline at 5-2....5 Aussies- 2 India. I am as much a patriot as the next Indian but these Foot-In-the-mouth gaffes are too priceless! Wish we had a mud pie slinging competition with the entire Indian cricket team as the targets. Guess the only guy who'll come out as clean as he went in is the little master- Sachin R. Tendulkar. The rest of them deserve mud pies and perhaps a few cow dung pies too- right in the face! An old saying goes- He who laughs last, laughs loudest. Ricky Ponting, especially after the Guwahati one dayer must not have stopped laughing. To quote another saying, even at the peril of seeming cliched, "Cometh the moment, cometh the man". To lead a badly depleted, injury plagued team to a great t...

The assault on M.L.A. elect, Abu Azmi in the Maharashtra assembly by M.N.S. goons is another example of hooliganism taking democracy by the scruff of its neck and using it to wipe the floors. The entire episode is rigged to earn the maximum political mileage for all the protagonists. M.N.S. hooligans have been emboldened by their recent electoral success, which they see as the validation of their terrorist like politics. The fact that they have eaten into the vote bank of Shiv Sena, who had toned down its anti north Indian rhetoric a bit, is an indication that MNS has gained some level of mass support and backing. The fear is that this will not only lead to more divisive politics by MNS but also other parties like Shiv Sena (with pro- marathi agenda) will also join suit. This is a serious danger to the supposedly secular fabric of India. Today north Indians are being targeted in Bombay, tomorrow we might see other minorities, living as migrants in other states bein...

The perception of love has undergone many changes with the times. The concept and meaning of love also changes according to the relationship between the two people who love each other and to a large extent even according to the culture of the land. The love that a mother and son share is obviously different from the love the same boy shares with his buddies or with his girl/wife. Without getting into too many details, lets talk about the love between lovers, irrespective of the sexual orientation of the participants.There was, once upon a time, what used to be called platonic love. This love has more or less become extinct. Now love also is in a constant state of flux with everyone's perception of it being different and because, even for an individual, love seems to be constantly mutating and changing colors, shapes etc... Recently, someone suggested a startling concept(at least for me, it was). He said, it is very possible and perfectly OK to be in love with two or more differe...

Potty is something which appeals to the gallows humor in almost all men..Potty and the potty pot are a source of many a joke and laughs. I am unashamedly a potty and potty pot fan. What do you do when  you are sharing an office lunch with colleagues and there is not enough to go around? Or when there might just be enough to actually satisfy everyone but the glutton in you? What do you do? I have found from personal experience that the moment you start talking about shit, people's faces start getting weirder and they kinda start cringing away from food, which leaves enough for a hard boiled, shameless glutton like yours truly. A simple and seemingly innocuous remark like, " Hard to believe that all this beautiful looking food gets converted into shit eventually" will take care of the weak hearted. For the slightly more stronger willed or hungrier folks, all you need to do is insinuate/suggest that a food item actually looks like shit/loosies when ...