This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
I start the review of this book with apologies to the author, Vivek Agnihotri. I had been reading this book over the past week or so and I had copied the statements that touched me and kept adding them to this blog post to be posted later. While I had scheduled the post for today … Read more
We woke up as usual around 4 am but realised that it was raining, so we just chatted for a while before checking our respective iPads. We leave our phones in the living room on silent when we go to sleep but we do keep the iPads close to our bed because we are reading … Read more
That CONgress and other opposition parties need more time to debate the “No Confidence” motion that they brought against the government. The Lok Sabha speaker had agreed to hold the debate on this Friday July 20 :). Dr. Tharoor’s CONfusion is multifold – Am I a Hindu? Is India a Hindu Pakistan? Will India have … Read more
Lets admit it – Indians are gullible, easily CONned and we love dynasties. We love the color white, in people, cars, food and brides and we love the color black in money. Its easy to fool us, even more so if you speak in English. We feel ashamed if we cannot speak the foreign language … Read more
I started reading “The Missionary position” by Christopher Hitchens a couple of days back and am reeling from what I am discovering about Mother Teresa on every page. While the book is a tiny one, I will take some time to read it because am trying to find corroborative anecdotes and evidence… after all this … Read more
Its only in India that we will happily endorse and indulge a fool just because he belongs to an illustrious family. Rahul Rajiv is no different. The 50 year old great grandson of the first Prime Minister of this country has been launched and relaunched and re-re-launched umpteen times and the writing is on every … Read more
On Monday the man who will take oath in Kar-Natak-ah is someone whose party lost 116/222 seats they contested in. He is supported by a party whose history started undemocratically with the first Prime Minister of this country being nominated rather than elected… and the rest as they say is “HIStory”. By the time I … Read more
I wouldn’t have posted this excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s autobiography if a rabid Modi-hater had not posted this on Twitter yesterday – I wonder what his mother thinks of him !!! Say what you want to about Modi, he is a public figure and a politician so he has to deal with it, but why … Read more
How many countries can boast of a Prime Minister who wishes an unknown common citizen on his/her birthday ? India can. For the past three years, I have received birthday greetings from our Prime Minister, just because I am registered on his app. I know it’s technology that enables it, I know Mr, Modi doesn’t … Read more
Our dear yugpurush, the one and only CM of all cities of Delhi Mr. Arvind Kejriwal is suddenly on an apology spree…. First came this apology letter to Mr. Majithia. Before you could digest it came the apologies to Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal. CONgi Kapil Sibal found his CONscience and felt sorry for little … Read more