During my long life, I’ve collected many friends with strange habits and weird outlooks… next level eccentrics! A fair number of them are plain, home-grown-garden variety of loonies, few atheists, a couple of agnostics, many religious fanatics, a handful of hypochondriacs, one narcissist, some faddists and, last but not the least, an Anglophile, better known within […]
10:30 – Sunday morn! Darabsha wakes up. The night before, he and his chums had been to the airport to see their Missus off on a jamboree to London. Normally the Kootla Committee Members (KCM) would make a beeline to some historical place for their annual “jaunt to broaden their minds(?).” As this year marked […]
‘Diet’ is a four letter word. It is almost as bad as the word which, when we used to utter it, our dear mothers would threaten to scrub our tongue with soap and butara (a stick broom)! It is a different matter now, with the offending word becoming almost an accepted part of our vocabulary, […]