In an organization someone I know works for, there is a campaign going on to cut down electricity usage in the office. There are nicely designed flyers all over the place giving little statistics / tidbits on how much the company could save by switching off the monitors, light bulbs etc. The flyers even tell [...]

There is a passageway in our office that has got automatic doors at both ends. Yesterday, as I was walking through it, for some reason the control unit of the automatic doors developed some problems and both the doors failed to open. I didn’t have my mobile on hand to call anybody, so I waited [...]

Recently we visited Bournemouth beach which is by and large a very clean one. While I was living there a few years ago, I remember it being voted as the best maintained beach in England. While I was there, I noticed a guy with a metal detector combing through the sand. Although I have noticed [...]

An old shopkeeper asked me whether I am a Chilean. When told that I am an Indian, he apologised for having offended me though I thought Chileans might have got offended for being juxtaposed with me. Later he added, ‘There is no race on earth other than Indians who consider education of their children much [...]

For a long time now, my other half wanted to have a Hibiscus plant in our garden. We tried to get the seeds here in UK last summer, but in vain. So, when my in-laws visited us from India last month they carried two stems of the plant and that has been planted in the [...]

After several years, I happened to watch our good, old Doordarshan few days back. Having pressed 832 on my Sky remote accidentally, I was quite surprised ending up at a channel in which a guy was was speaking something about ‘khiladiyon… bangladesh… bharath’ etc in Hindi in front of a DD logo. Though the language [...]

I happened to be in Central London recently for attending a conference that happened in the top floor of an old building which provided some nice view of the city’s impressive skyline. As a speaker was dishing out some blurb from the podium, one group was busy munching the snacks they provided while the other [...]