Well… Normal services has resumed. The male population of our home got back to normal last evening, while the rest came back up today. Touchwood. Thanks a ton for all your messages. Some real work has piled up in the meantime. Blog reading/writing would resume soon.

In our family, we are having a (ill) health competition right now. Cold, high fever & throat infection – currently these are the categories in which all three are competing. I am proud to say that I am leading the pack at the time of writing.

Excerpts from Vaiko’s interview with Shobha Warrier of Rediff.
Interviewer: And, you called her (Jayalalithaa) a fascist then.
Vaiko: Yes. These are all part of the game. It has happened. Let us forget the past. If you stick to the past, no political party can forge an alliance with any other political party. So, [...]

Going by the timing of the announcement about Sachin’s injury, his prolonged slump in form etc, I very much doubt whether Sachin is really injured. Has he been given a decent rope to avoid the Ganguly like situation? If this is true, someone someday would write a paragraph in a book and make lot of [...]

In today’s Metro, I saw an advert of Vidal Sassoon advertising a £4.50 haircut at Central London. I haven’t heard about this shop/saloon before, but from the look & the location (Bond St.) of it, I feel that they must be one of the biggie barbers in town. Though it is a kind of introductory [...]

I had to call up my credit card provider to ask for some details. One of the security questions was about the last payment made to the card, for which I had to consult my wife sitting nearby. The guy at the other end refused to accept my answer since he could hear someone helping [...]

It hurts like hell to know that ‘Chumma’ Sowmya is no more. I know her only through her blog & through e-mail & comment exchanges. She was a regular blogger until about 6 mths back and one would be forgiven for thinking that her new life was keeping her away from the online world, for [...]