Insomnia

Tue Nov 1, 2011 8:28 AM EDT

I am frequented by this overwhelming feeling which urges me to get up at once and do something about my life.

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entertainment, opinion

The tangerines' show of colours fades to black

Tue May 24, 2011 2:57 AM EDT

The fat lady has finished singing and I do not like the tune

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sports, football, soccer, english-premier-league, blackpool

(Fiction) The Wobble

Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:48 AM EST

I’m grateful from the bottom of my heart that my parents are not like Kaustab’s, in fact on the contrary, they’ve been right there, by my side whenever I’ve needed their support or guidance.

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entertainment, india, society, fiction, coming-of-age

Question marks on Wenger's policy again as 10 men Wigan steal a point at the DW stadium

Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:10 AM EST

As the commentator said, we were expecting a fresh element from Arsenal in this match, in the wake of the fixture congestion, but I’m not so sure about 8 fresh elements.

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sports, football, soccer, epl, wenger

Premier League - Judge backs RBS in Liverpool ownership battle

Seeded on Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:31 AM EDT (Yahoo!)

Liverpool inched closer to a sale when a High Court judge ruled against their unpopular American owners and backed the club's board and its right to negotiate a deal.

sports, football, soccer, premier-league, liverpool, liverpool-debt-crisis

A world of fools or just the two of us

Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:22 AM EDT

Friends have been rather worried of late about my incessant obsession with Sheikh Chilli. For those who don’t know about him, he was a sheikh of the mughal dynasty and lived in India. That’s not what he was famous for though.

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entertainment, opinion, day-dreaming, self-obsession, crooked-viewpoint

Doctor Swines

Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:30 PM EDT

The world is in dire need of doctors. Not the ones with MBBS degrees, neither those with PhDs. The world needs a different kind of doctors, for curing an illness unheard of by the conventional ones.

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education, opinion, nihilism, mockery, modern-world

bits and pieces

Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:14 AM EDT

An attempt, albeit ungainly, at gathering bits and pieces and trying to conjure up a poem that strikes a chord with the deluded youth.. desolate I stand on the shore, the quiet, the lull so full of sorrow darker it gets, the more lonely I feel,

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arts, depression, hope, poem, regret, remorse

(Poem) Flight

Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:36 AM EDT

The mighty have fallen from dizzy heights So cruel the fate, that destiny writes I had a dream that I could fly So I gave my raring wings a try Heights I did reach in the bliss of my flight But eventually crashed, and so began the plight

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entertainment, poetry

(Fiction) A class act

Sun Apr 4, 2010 6:26 PM EDT

As I peep into the past, a glance through the memory lane is enough to remind me about one of the most distinguishing phases of my life, and a deep-seated incident in particular. The incident, which I like to believe, was my class act. Well, here’s the elaboration.

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entertainment, comedy, fiction, humour, first-person

M F Husain, imo

Fri Mar 5, 2010 12:59 AM EST

Much has been made of Husain's decision to leave India, and take the citizenship of Qatar, with loads of people both common and famous, lambasting the VHP, apologizing, and pleading him to come back.

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The Backbencher..

Wed Jan 6, 2010 5:36 AM EST

Who or what is a backbencher? Is he fit enough to be grouped alongside humans, or, on the contrary, is he too smart for others to even notice. Here's a backbencher's inside take on what others perceive him to be.

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education, criticism, judgemental, stragglers, self-derogatory-humor

Wasted

Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:14 AM EST

For those who don't know what this is about, your guess is as good as mine, I don't know much about it either.

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entertainment, satire, gibberish, mild-humor

Home alone with a rat for company

Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:02 AM EDT

The following is based on a true story, and before you even think about laughing at the sorry state of mind of the person who has written it, which happens to be me, please think twice, cause what goes around comes around.

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entertainment, satire, spooky, home-alone

A fading light still glows within

Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:24 AM EDT

a poem for losers who like to dream big The walls are closing in Tides rising high and speeding at a rate of knots I can foresee that death is not far away Though I still refuse to just wither away

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entertainment, opinion, hope, frustration, dilemma, amateur-poetry

My tryst with recruitment at college

Fri Apr 3, 2009 2:11 PM EDT

Beit the ABBB cold shoulder rejection, my first at that; the Wipro shock; the Satyam triumph(not now really); the Godrej - I don't give a damn experience; the Isolux Corsan redemption or the Power Grid setback, my tryst with recruitment at the college has been full of twists an …

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entertainment, recession, recruitment, introspection

(Fiction) Misguided vengeance or a hero's tale

Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:25 AM EDT

Things were as tight as they could be, in Lucknow( a city in Northern India), with the elections around the corner. There was no scope of switching off for a while, no room for errors.

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entertainment, fiction, rebellion

(Fiction) The observer

Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:53 PM EDT

I've prided myself most of my life for being an observer, and quite a keen one at that. Whenever, I pictured myself in the mirror of life, I would only find comparisons relating to my friends and acquaintances, people I knew and had spent time with.

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entertainment, fiction, confusion, introspection

(Poem) A lucid dream

Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:12 AM EDT

I saw a lucid dream yes I did, improbable as it may seem the other side of the river, treasures hid I saw a lucid dream amidst the jungles of ire and hazards of fire cobwebs of a tangled past a wreck of a ship to sail with no mast

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entertainment, opinion, fiction, amateur-poetry

Is Slumdog millionaire worthy of the overwhelming response?

Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:13 PM EST

A director from the west comes for a jolly old trip to India and directs a movie which, as they say, would change how movies are made in bollywood.

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entertainment, movies, criticism, slumdog-millionaire

Premier League - Poll: Arshavin the best

Seeded on Sat Feb 7, 2009 7:38 AM EST (Yahoo!)

The diminutive Russian playmaker joined Arsenal in a deadline-busting £15 million move fro Zenit St Petersburg and, despite concerns over his physique and consistency, you think he will justify the hype with a whopping 42 per cent voting him the best deal of the window.

sports, football, soccer

Paint me the Autumn Colors (Poem)

Fri Feb 6, 2009 10:08 PM EST

Paint me the autumn colors I'm so in awe of them paint me, the golden streets bathed in the rainbow's blend Paint me flowers my friend on the turf, and on them trees breaking free from their strands and posing with the shredded leaves

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arts, opinion, nature, seasons

Birds (Poem)

Fri Feb 6, 2009 10:00 PM EST

Birds that fly past me sing the melodies of my fairytale dream it baffles me how they appease me each day Oh! how I cherish every moment they stay

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arts, opinion, nature, amateur-poetry

Arshavin transfer on the way, confirms agent

Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:53 AM EST (Google)

Highly-rated Russian forward Andrei Arshavin could finally be on his way to Europe after his agent said the Zenit St Petersburg player was almost certain to be sold in the transfer window.

sports, football, soccer, arsenal, football-transfers

ManU crowned world champions

Seeded on Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:26 PM EST (Yahoo!)

A clinical Wayne Rooney strike into the far corner on 73 minutes sealed the win over the Ecuadorean champions.

sports, football, soccer

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