It is quite an everyday thing to be stuck in a plane on the tarmac at the Denver airport awaiting it’s turn to get on the runway. It is, however, not an everyday thing to have your plane bombarded by huge hailstones while it is there. At first it sounds like some firecrackers are g . . . Read more

It is my last afternoon in Golden, CO. I’m sitting by a window in a café in the small downtown, staring out at the clouded skies, at the still air and the gently moving leaves. Tomorrow I’ll head out from here and move over to another world. A part of me will stay back in Golde . . . Read more

"As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable . . . Read more

We were sitting at the far end of the pub, tired, exhausted, and relieved. I was slowly wiping the water that had condensed on the glass of my IPA with my fingertips, or was it a Belgian? We had conjoined two adjacent tables. The pub was playing some recent-old pop music, as usual. The lights wer . . . Read more

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There is an official page on Active.com about what an unidentified charge of $79.95 on your bank statement means. How many such websites have you seen in your life? Here is a website that deceptively char . . . Read more

EDIT: Heeding my (and undoubtedly) infinitely many other complaints, the Canadian embassy has changed their agency from CIC to VFS who are genuinely good at their job. No complaints anymore. Being an Indian means that I’ve to apply for a visa even for short . . . Read more

“We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those room . . . Read more

A cultured friend of fine, who owns an expensive Brompton Bike, once told me before moving out of Baltimore that the thing that he was going to miss the most about this city was the Baltimore Bike Pa . . . Read more

I always wonder what exactly is the world that Wes Anderson sees, does he really see things the way he . . . Read more