We have to train ourselves for brevity. Writing short form is the exact opposite of how small we think. Think small, write long. It is a part of India’s colonial legacy. Taking the long winding route to get to the point. The British made sure the natives picked up the English language, making brutal governance …
Traffic noise is music to my ears sometimes. That day my speaker broke down, leaving me to listen to parrot calls, screeching squirrels, and moaning cats. Yes, you’d say, far better than the noise of traffic, construction, or loud people. True, who wants to listen to human noises all day? But I’m not getting any …
Now what’s so special about this set of keys? What are the chances that you are driving the expedition lead car, you stop for tea when you drop the car keys unknowingly on the main road in Ooty, leading to Conoor, then frantically look for them all over once you realise they are lost, get …
Notice how you can tell a lot about someone from the way they drive a vehicle? The over confident types will zoom ahead from the left only to be stopped in their tracks by a lone cyclist that they failed to notice or a parked car that suddenly materialized. The insane ones will overtake from …
One weekend, Him & Her decided to go kayaking in the Kundalika River. The Kundalika is more like a thick turbid stream than a river, though wide like a river. The expedition was His idea, attractively packaged as an ‘adventure experience’. The ride to the starting point was about a 1.5 hours drive away from …
Came across these gems sometime ago. Robert turns all that we believed in so far on the head! I love the last one best! 🙂 And it is, oddly, the 11th maxim. Hmm. 1. Look for anomalies. Anomalies are where the action is, creatively speaking. 2. Listen. You can’t find anomalies if you weren’t paying …
I so remembered Gerald Durrell for the past few weeks! (Delightful author, bless his soul.)His colorful tales in ‘My family and Other Animals’ has aptly colored my imagination since the days I laid eyes on his work. However, it was not the animals, but the part about the Family that made me think of him. …
