Black & Yellow Chronicles – 3

The Mumbai cabby reveals how he actually makes money in the city.

Black & Yellow Chronicles – 2

“Now you only tell me sir, demanding fixed rate from a doctor is a crime in God’s eyes, but robbing a poor cabby of his daily wages? What will you call that?” – The conversation gets more interesting.

Black & Yellow Chronicles – 1

After many months, I enjoyed an extremely interesting conversation with a Mumbai cabby. In a freewheeling chat that lasted over 1.5 hours, the man enlightened me on a variety of subjects. It will take more than one post to do full justice to what transpired.

Zero for Advani 2.0

A couple of weeks back I was toying with the foolish notion of making some mini-bucks with my blog. Don’t laugh. Every noob blogger thinks he can rake in the moolah with the magic draw of his words. Never mind. After much online research, I turned to Adsense. Some trials and errors later, having done the [...]

Civil Obedience

There is a civil disobedience movement on in Mumbai. If that is the right term, then that is what is going on. I choose to say Mumbai, because so far the response has been strongest here. I have seen two primary opinions emerge. Let’s not vote. Let’s not pay taxes. These two have been voiced [...]

9/11.co.in

Random observations on the last 50 odd hours of terror, horror, hope, cynicism, sadness and fury. In no particular order, whatsoever. a. This was, undoubtedly, the most televised tragedy in this country as yet. It also invited, in all probability, the most intrusive coverage in every sense of the word. While a few channels displayed [...]