Category Archives: humour

Ignominious entry

As some of you know, I have recently undertaken a mindnumblingly shocking act of utter imbecility. In short, leaving my job cold turkey and shifting to Dubai and looking for greener pastures. The reason would be that my wife lives … Continue reading

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Eight and a quarter shudders

It would seem that my life has been changing in more than one dimension. One very important dimension would be the slow and creeping introduction of Bollywood in my life. This would mean that from the average interface of about … Continue reading

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On being 30 and such things.

Time : Midnight (the bitching hour). Location: Five miles from the Arabian Sea. Characters: A thirty something man Altamash, his wife Nida, a purple teapot and a rather irritable Kangaroo It is Altamash’s birthday and a microsecond after midnight, the … Continue reading

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w w w

Not the world wide web and the glories of the Information Age; rather, What women want. Recent excavations at the city of Pomplaneum in central Italy have unearthed an engraved tablet which contains the first few lines of a groundbreaking … Continue reading

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On the academic pursuits of Doctors Murphy, Tang, Iyer, Hamidi

Two questions have baffled mankind since the dawn of time. We must consider ourselves lucky to be living in times when these questions have been answered. Dr Murphy’s (of the Boston Murpheys) eminent “Compendium of Useful and Liberating Information” published … Continue reading

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Partial Eclipse of the Brain

Yours truly was overly excited about the great natural phenomenon which is a solar eclipse. Since I had been very bad the past one year, Santa decided to provide only half of my wishes and I was blessed with a … Continue reading

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Lipstick Jungle and the Ilk thereof

Work, life and more (The saga continues) I hate Sex and the City. And I hated the movie more than, oh so much more than, I hate stupid people. That is saying a lot. Listening to four grown women crib … Continue reading

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Feats of Prowess

Work, life and more The human brain is an amazing organ. It contains, at the same time, the seats of knowledge, thought and stupidity. Recent studies at the Institute of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences in Vienna have shown that the … Continue reading

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Teachers Teachers Everywhere

The quality of our students has dropped recently. Bright students, happy students, motivated students; this is the motto of the recently elected socialist leaning government. But the question is, how close are we to it? A group of angry mothers … Continue reading

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