Scratchpad of Life

Jan. 23, 2026 was Saraswati Puja Day. We, the Bengalis of Ganga Vertica Apartments, celebrated it with much fervour and warmth. As a part of...

The day before yesterday as the final episode of the final season of Big Bang Theory rolled to its conclusion, I capitulated to what the ma...

A few weeks back, my wife was down in the clubhouse library room adding some newly inducted books to the library shelf (we run a small libra...

I think this an ever-pertinent question for all of us. I may have written and spoken about them at various points. Probably, my answer was d...

If you have recently been to one of European or North American countries and land back in Bangalore, the difference in the nature of the tra...

This is an ordinary member of human species. He is upper caste, belonging to the religious majority. He had a small town lower middle class ...

I will remember the entire former part of 2024 as an extremely busy episode for me. While it was partly caused due to professional commitmen...