पीत्वा पीत्वा पुनः पीत्वा यावत्पतति भूतले।.उत्थाय च पुनः पीत्वा पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते।।.

Rephrase it: “Taking subjects of your choice is a privilege in this country.” There are many who picked up humanities despite wanting to take sciences because there were no affordable colleges, or because they were women and their families refused to send them anywhere far.

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First years recruited into college photography clubs click a random picture of traffic like this and put a monochrome filter and just write “शहर” as the caption.

My email, SMS and app notifications towards the end of every month:

The one thing that I have always loved seeing was how the language and format of government communications in the two countries are identical.

What is this weird allure of the GIFT City? It is a ghost town with tall and shiny unoccupied buildings. After 6pm, the roads become race tracks for rich brats in fast cars. You will probably bleed to death before reaching a hospital if one of them hits you.

She asked us if any of us had ever had a ‘Lal Masjid’. I almost spat my drink out. I learnt that it is apparently a thing in Pakistan. Murree’s spirits made palatable by adding copious amounts of Rooh Afza. Honestly, it was nice. Like something Mirza Ghalib would have enjoyed.

A couple of years ago on a rainy English night, we had run out of mixers. We still had a lot of liquor left to consider breaking it off. Scrambling through the cupboards of our host for the evening we found some orange juice and Rooh Afza, the Pakistani version.

My radical opinion of the day is the expediting of the full and complete dismantling of the joint family system in favour of a nuclear family system built around two partners and their children, with complete independence and non-interference about their finances and lifestyle.

I don't think you should be putting peas in aloo ke parathe. But then again, India remains a democratic nation. Might as well dunk it in ketchup.

I thought this was about the comedian.

Deep down, it makes me proud that there is at least one person in some hostile intelligence agency whose job is to keep attempting my recruitment, or at least use me to extract some information out from somewhere.

I sometimes feel low and unimportant, and then I get emails/LinkedIn messages asking to “connect over a secure line on Signal and/or Session” from shady Dubai/Hong Kong-based firms. Also thanks to AI, the telltale signs like misspelled words, bad graphics, etc. are becoming rare.

Emphasis on ‘mankind’.

Common cold is the deadliest disease known to mankind.

TIL that urban planning is Stalinist. And that unplanned urbano-dehati sprawl is the vanguard of international anti-communist forces.

Most Indians have truly battered their own tastebuds senseless with the brain numbing amount of chillies in their food. Heat is the only remaining‘flavour’ that they can feel.

This is a humiliation that the Trump administration wants to impose on India, and I hope good sense prevails in both Raisina and Capitol Hills. India should not back down until the proposed designation is changed solely to “Ambassador to India”.

Typically, the resident diplomats in New Delhi are simultaneously accredited to the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives, at most. Even international organisations do not accredit anyone to both India and Pakistan at once.

India has a international political footprint large enough to merit due consideration in the foreign policy of any country, and it has the right to not be clubbed with any other nation in the neighbourhood, esp. Pakistan.