Crazy Diaries

Short Story Since many of our friends felt sad and traumatized by the true, sad ragging event I have described in my short story, I have decided to share one of my sweet memories of that period. Yes, what you are envisaging is correct, sweet memories can’t be without a girl. I am sure guys, the incident would make you feel jealous of me. This happened when I was in GMKMC- year 1991. I was hardly a week old in that college. Had been undergoing many depressing ragging events at the Hostel. As it happens in a typical masala movie, those sad scenes followed by this romantic incident. Even after 23 years, while writing this, I could feel  butterflies in my stomach. Fortunately, in the college campus – Ponni supermarket campus- seniors had to maintain certain decorum, ragging cannot go beyond boundaries. The incident took place on a monsoon day. Weather was fantastic. Just stopped raining. Everything looked so fresh and clean. Gentle breeze was blowing across, soothing e...

                            "What we all want in life,  to travel,   fall in love and be happy"   Sorry for the long hiatus. I was busy for some days and lazy on the remaining. Idleness is an enjoyable disease to indulge in. Escaped from that beautiful beast just before addiction sets in. Bikomaniacs Goa Trip Part-3 October 31 st 2014, 9 am. Chennai- Bangalore: Heavenly Surreal Journey My trance like state at the Yelagiri foothills was brought down to reality by a loud honking passer-by truck. Kick started my stallion and I was trotting on the blissful empty six lane highway. Winter sun was still lazy, slowly jogging behind me. And we both were sluggish and chasing my shadow till noon. Post noon we became brisk and let the shadow behind – chasing us! When you are on a long drive, you tend to have more time for yourself which is so difficult to get, in the fast lane- cit...

New Year celebrations are growing bigger , wider and wilder - number of people revelling are going up- every year. Social media plays a significant role in it. Everyone is directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously pressurised to do something on a New Year eve. You are forced to celebrate and brag a few snaps on social media. Nowadays every hotel, resort, club and even residential apartments have New Year celebration parties. The mad rush is such that, your seat is not guaranteed unless otherwise you book it well in advance. Please don’t misunderstand my tone. I too like the concept of welcoming a new year – with red carpet- with so much of joy and energy- eagerly waiting for the clock to touch MN 12; bursting out wildly with loud and bright fire crackers ...of course life is a celebration! New Year carnival is a mark of first day in a year according to Gregorian or Christian calendar. And it is also celebrated as the feast of circumcision of Chris in accordan...

At Yelagiri Foothills Fast, on a rough road riding High, through the mountains climbing twisting, turning further from my home. Young, like a new moon rising Fierce, through the rain and lightning Wandering out into this great unknown. And I don't want no one to cry. But, tell 'em if I don't survive I was born free! I was born free I was born free, born free From Kid Rock "Born Free" album. Few important things I forgot to tell you in part -1. We had difficult time in finalizing the itinerary. There are three different routes to Goa from Tamilnadu. Route 1: Bangalore- Mangalore – Udupi- Karwar- Goa: West Coast Road 720 kms   (Bangalore to Mangalore~ 350km +Mangalore to Goa ~370 Kms) Many roadies dream about this scenic west coast Konkan drive. I too had. Tested that route last November by car. Disappointed – if I had to summarize it, in a single word. There was a bad patch of about 40 kms while crossing the western ghat near Manga...

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live” – Charles Bukowski. Normal, routine, monotonous – these words themselves sound and smell of boredom! Taking breaks, deviating from normal routines – rejuvenate. Pushing hard not only applies to professional hard work; it fits naturally into adventurous activities too; pushing hard to re-invent oneself. There is a different world waiting for you to explore. Sometimes these trips, breaks -change your perception about life. Would change the way you live, forever.                                                                            ...

 Surprisingly this is the first Hollywood movie I am reviewing. That too it came after a suggestion  from my friend Shankar.  Perhaps two reasons for this…     -As I expressed in one of my previous reviews, I don’t like big budget mindless action movies. Majority of Hollywood is filled with stuffs like: Sci-fi movies, big war movies, movies with beefed up insects, animals, and humans (e.g. Hulk), dinosaurs, anacondas (Ophidiophobic!), crocodiles and sharks. I develop severe anaphylactic reaction when I see movies like that!    -Nonetheless, let me confess, I do watch lots of Hollywood movies. My recent favorite list: Captain Phillips, Hurt locker, Zero dark thirty, Mud, Gravity and Argo. I don’t write about them because, these movies are popular and my idea is to introduce less known films to my friends. Dead Man Walking : This movie talks about the death sentence. All started with a heated discussion regarding death penalty i...

Diwali or Deepavali? This Diwali is a special one for me, not only because it is “thala” Diwali for my blog; some thought-provoking facts about Deepavali I came to know, only this year. Being born and grown up in a Farmers family, in which most of them are “periyar (EV Ramasamy- an atheist leader) followers”-I never had big Diwali bash during childhood days. Actually it was forbidden. Our only important festival was/is Pongal. There is a myth circulating in Tamilnadu, that Narakasuran was a Dravidian, so we should not celebrate his demise- Deepavali. I don’t have any intention to discuss about that big politically motivated Aryans- Dravidians divide, in this post. Getting married to a religious orthodox Maharashtrian changed the dynamics. I started understanding and enjoying the festival. Immediate post marriage we signed a bilateral treaty! Diwali celebration at Nagpur and Pongal festival in my village. It went on successfully for three years. Then transformati...