The Mumbai Effect

As I lugged around my trolley at Bandra Terminus, I wondered: have I exaggerated my love for Mumbai? Is my eagerness to move here misplaced? It had been a little over a month since I graduated business school,

All because her name was Dumbhead

The year was 2007, when Orkut used to be a thing. Remember Orkut? People used to have cartoons and actors for profile pictures (predominantly females), apparently because the internet was thought unsafe to upload personal pictures. And today they feel comfortable uploading pictures of their families in swimming pools. Ah, progress. It wasn’t just the […]

Infinity

I am floating. Flying. Drifting. The feeling is that of weightlessness. Gravity is not the only thing that drags us down. We all have our baggage, and get weighed down by several things.

The Price of Benevolence

People often say that the Mumbai local is the lifeline of the city. But since I don’t need to travel long distances on a daily basis, I seem to have developed a similar relationship with the Mumbai Auto. This isn’t to say that every single auto-ride is a memorable one. We have a tendency to […]

A little change of heart

When I first started blogging, I didn’t really know what to write about. Not that I have the greatest ideas nowadays, but the purpose has changed, and so have I. The ‘How I met my Employer’ series definitely takes the cake, having given it a novel-like feel. But some posts were, now that I think […]

Just Relax

Time and again you hear stories or watch movies where some major incident happens to someone, in total randomness, and somehow changes that person’s life. It’s been six months in Mumbai now, and looking back at 2011, the contrast between the first and second half of the year has been stupendous for me.While there wasn’t […]