Ever heard of lodge doctors? If you had lived in TN and had read the vernacular weeklies like Junior Vikatan, Thuglak etc their full page adverts wouldn’t have escaped one’s attention. They would visit almost all the towns on a specific day of every calendar month, have consultation at their rooms in the lodge and [...]

From now on, my domain’s email would be handled by GMail. Not that it should matter to you in anyway, but I am very much relieved now as my mail id (chakra [at] chakkarapani.com) was literally hijacked by spammers as my web host’s spam filtering was very mediocre. So, I was forced to use my [...]

Went to the Brighton on a picnic along with 20+ people on Saturday. The thing that interested me was the sight of few auto rickshaws in the roads of Brighton. They were painted in various different colours and it was nice to see them ply. We also spotted some auto stops and people were queuing [...]

I reckon that the 0% interest on balance transfers is one of the most exploited options, when it comes to credit card. I know several people who have spend few thousand pounds through their credit card, transfer the balance to a new card who would offer interest free period for the first 6 or 9 [...]

Mumbled the sacred Gayathri mantra about 1000 times today. I am not sure of the count, but I guess it must be somewhere around that 4 digit number. 1000 or 2000 – it shouldn’t matter at all in any way. Lips were murmuring the mantra in express mode while the mind was thinking about the [...]

Learnt about an interesting (to me) usage yesterday. Among Urdu speaking people, whenever they want to say that something is next/close/nearer to the other, they use the phrase “unnees-bhees” (meaning 19-20). Their logic is that nineteen is almost equal to twenty and twenty is almost nineteen, so they are next to each other. Of course, [...]

My neighbour’s 5-year old grand son, who also happens to be Anirud’s friend(?!) asked me why I am wearing my mom’s long skirt. However much I explained to him that this is our traditional dress in India and has got a name ‘Dhoti’, he remained unconvinced and left wide eyed.