I happened to be looking at my Savings and Credit Card account statements today and all I can see is Amazon, BigBasket, Amazon, BigBasket, Swiggy, Zomato, FlipKart….repeat ad infinitum! And I don’t think it’s just me. If I stand at my gate, I can see these guys dropping off package after package through the day…
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Why not? So what?
On a Saturday evening stroll, my wife and I caught sight of a woman walking about 15-20 feet ahead of us. She had one of the most astonishing figures we had ever seen on a woman. She was very tall and beautifully built, and her superbly stitched evening gown shimmered like liquid silver on her…
But for the intervention of an angel
My wife and I had gone through the arrival Immigration and Customs process and were on the way out of the airport. She was carrying her purse and cabin bag while I was trotting a few steps behind with our two large suitcases. They were the old two-wheeler kind which you have to lift and…
Dark grey stilettoes
My wife and I were just strolling along window-shopping in the mall when suddenly she asked me, “Wow! Did you notice the stilettoes that girl was wearing! Instinctively, I asked, “Which girl?” It was a genuine question. (Later social media told me that this is the best and safest response to such questions.) But really,…
Honeymoon Dampener!
We made a quick dash to Mahabaleshwar, a hill station near Bombay, for our honeymoon. It was short mainly because I couldn’t get leave but more importantly, that was all we could afford. We had made meticulous expense calculations for travel and stay, even choosing an all-inclusive hotel which would give us three meals on…
Biscuit Lessons!
I was buying some milk and curd kind of stuff from my corner shop when an old beggar lady appeared asking for something to eat. I live very near a temple, so I am familiar with the beggars in the area as they are with me, especially their children. Many of them take shelter on…
Life’s Lemon Lessons
I was out on my post-dinner walk. It was quite late. Under one dim street light on my street, the old man was talking to a younger man. I had seen the old man a few times, pushing a handcart with a small pile of lemons around the area. He usually parked his cart for…
Casting pearls before the swine
Once, there was this man who wanted to be the best pig farmer in the world. He had always loved pigs. From food to medicine, they provided a lot to mankind. To him, therefore, pig farming was a noble occupation. When he was young, he would stop by the pigsties in the farms nearby and surreptitiously…
Cleaning up after yourself
Many years back, my wife and I attended SRK’s show, Temptations at the Allstate Arena in Chicago. It was one crazy show, with people screaming their lungs out, girls sobbing, crying, shouting “I love you, Sharukh!” over and over again even though there was hardly any chance of being heard above the deafening sound system.…
Titles and reactions!
The appointment letter from my new employer asked me to report to Tony at the security desk at 8:30 am on the joining date. Accordingly, I presented myself to the security guys at 8:15 am, told them I was joining XYZ company and asked for Tony. I was told he was not in yet and…