Special. Everyone wants special. Nobody wants the ordinary, do they? It’s special this, special that. You sit in a restaurant and you order a special dosa because what, this one has better tasting dough in it? I don’t see the point, but whatever makes you sleep at night, right? If that extra twenty bucks is […]
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Supra as you will find from any mechanical or automobile engineer from India, is quite the deal. Graduating out of school from quite a small, closely knit community in an often forgotten part of Chennai, I was very happy to have enrolled myself in a good college for a course I’ve always dreamt of studying, […]
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” There couldn’t be more truth to this quote. It was 7 PM on a Sunday – 31st July 2016. I was lying relaxed on the bed in our hotel room at Madurai as the final day of urban survey was over and I was eager […]
May 7 2016 A driver of a Tesla Model S was tragically killed when his car slammed into a tractor-trailer that had veered into his lane. The Model S operated by Mr.Brown went underneath the trailer of a truck that had turned left in front of the car. The Tesla’s windshield hit the bottom of […]
We all know that as we reach season finale of Game of Thrones, we enter dangerously uncharted waters. The existential crisis of having no more episodes of your favourite show is maddening. So we’ve assembled a few series you may like to check out while waiting for winter, Azor Ahai and season 7 to arrive […]
Do you sometimes think you’re too good for this world? Do you sometimes think the world’s too good for you? Do you sometimes think that you’re in a separate realm, stuck between actual reality and your version of reality? It’s quite common. It’s actually priceless, those moments of sticking your head into the refrigerator and […]
Conversations are probably the most underrated aspect of human life, like Yuvraj Singh’s bowling or my ability to make comparisons. As a member of urban society, the other elements of life- academics, work, movies, TV shows, books, and Shikhar Dhawan’s runs, of the lack of it, are all pretty well documented and recognized. But the […]
Ram graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh in the early 1980s. Little did he know that his experiences in college would later help him make a film that will put him on the map. The film, path-breaking by every measure, soon attained cult status […]
Life. What am I doing in life? Well, for starters, you aren’t the only one asking yourself that. Everyone else your age is torturing themselves with the same question. This happens not just when you’re a college kid. It would’ve happened to you in school, as early as in grade nine, or earlier. Raise your […]
“I need some space. Give me some time. Not now.” Sound familiar? Pretty sure it does. I’m sure all of us have heard these very words every now and then, or at least once from someone that really means the world to us and wondered where everything went wrong. It could have been from a […]