Ghosts vs. Tantrik – a life-time Experience

Have you heard of Ghosts?
Have you seen them? How do they look?
Do you know how to tame them? Excuse me! I don’t know how to tame ghosts? Even I don’t know whether ghosts are there or not? But, yes I definitely know how to tame the Owner of Ghosts – the Tantrik!
Confused!  Relax [...]

Beer bar, Liquor Shop and Aamjunta

Are yaar, chalo… yahan so jate hain,
Haan, achhi jagah hai… kyon hostel jayenge? yahan hi so jaate hain..
This was the post job treat conversation between two students. They fell from their cycle on their way to hostel from the main gate, after taking a heavy dinner and nice cock-tail in a reputed bear bar. [...]

Right People at Wrong Places?

It was quarter to midnight, had our dinner in Pizza Hut, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai.
I felt greedy when Ketan floated the idea about trying some new flavors at Naturals Ice Cream Parlor. And so, both of us decided to go for it, even though we had quite a lot of work in the lab. The parlour [...]

“Married and my Husband has no other wife living”: Bigamy in India!

While browsing through the Placement Blog, I came across Coal India Limited’s Management Trainee Joining Form. It is a 26-page document with so many blanks to fill in declarations, personal details and professional details, etc. But, what surprised me is the declaration that the new employee has to sign at the time of joining:

That I [...]

Sunset to Sunset – a Day in IIT

Have you stayed in the hostel any time during your graduation or post-graduation? Have you experienced the most relaxed life of the hostel?
Read this to refresh your memories, or to know some thing interesting, if you have not been to those places, or to know a different life style.
Thanks Anne de Plume for giving me [...]

Tooth-ache and the Village Vaidya

This evening I was waiting for the tum-tum to go to the hospital for an appointment with the doctor. The tum-tum was some 10 minutes late than usual in reaching H-12 — I lost patience, walked for some distance from hostel, stopped an auto-rickshaw and got into it. My irritation at the delay of [...]

From 11 to 12

Have you been to the dining area of any Boys’/Gals’ hostel?
Read this to refresh your memories, if you have been to those places; or to know some thing interesting, if you have not been to those places.
Thanks Anne de Plume for giving me the opportunity and space to write in your blog space “Iris: [...]

Want to charge your mobile phone?

Let me ask you a simple question.
“If you want to charge your mobile (mobile phone), what will you do?”
Think about it and write your answer in a piece of paper before reading further.
In fact, this was a question put to us by one of our friends during one of our time-pass sessions at [...]

Making of an Aamjunta

When I take a cursory glance over the last six years that I spent at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (MAP), it not only surprises me but also leaves me spell-bound. Ruminating at the breadth of my experiences and at the grinding process, I suddenly feel to have grown-up and learnt far more in [...]

Odisha Assam me Hai na!

Aap Kahan se ho? Bhubaneshwar se..
Bhubaneshwar kahan pe hai? Odisha me..
Oh! Odisha; Odisha Assam me hai na?
Sounds funny? It’s true. I’ve faced this at-least six times in the last six years of my stay in Mumbai. And to my surprise all of the six people who asked me this are from one particular place and [...]