चलते पंखे की आवाज़ आपको बीतते हुए समय का एहसास कराती है । घड़ी की सुइयों को रेंगते देखकर मन में गिंडोले सरकने लगते हैं । बहता हुआ नल अगर मटके या बाल्टी को भर रहा है तो समृद्धि का , पर अगर फिजूल पानी खर्च हो रहा है तो बरबादी का भाव देता है…
Category: Anecdote
बंसल सर : जिस गणित के गुरु ने पढ़ाया हास्य-विनोद
मास्टर गणित के थे , पढ़ाई लेकिन ज़िंदगी । गणित , और कोई भी अन्य विषय, कितना विनोदपूर्ण हो सकता है, यह विनोद जी ही नहीं समझाते तो समझाता कौन ? लेखक, पत्रकार या कोमेडियन होते तो भी बम्पर हिट रहते, पर फिर कोटा नगरी का कायाकल्प नहीं हो पाता । सत्रह से उन्नीस साल…
लौहपथगामिनी में दिव्य निपटान
(अगर आपको गंदगी , पाखाने और सच से घिन आती है तो कृपया आगे न पढ़ें , क्यूंकी यह ब्लॉग इन्हीं सब के बारे में है, और इसे पढ़ना भयावह हो सकता है ) वास्तविक टाइटल – “ट्रेन में टट्टी” बत्तीस घंटे का लंबा सफर है देवास से कोलकाता का । इतनी देर में किसी…
चल बसा एक समाजोपयोगी
परसों तक उसके मदिरा व्यसन और निद्रा प्रेम के चर्चे थे । कल वह अकाल मृत्यु को प्राप्त हो गया । बहुत से शोकातुरों ने बंद मुट्ठियों – खुले अंगूठों को अपने मुखों की ओर खींचकर उसकी मृत्यु में मदिरा के योगदान के बारे में पड़ताल करनी चाही । कुछ ने सीधे यकृत पर आक्षेप…
In Search of Lost Life in the Middle of the LOCKDOWN
I woke up with a start. This is just a matter of habit. I had no idea how long had I slept. I did not even retain the awareness of the room I was sleeping inside. Space and time have lost if not their whole meaning, then at least all importance. No one can go…
Tommy,the Pitbull
Eleven misguided perverts left the world a better place last month by hanging themselves to death in pursuit of spiritual bliss. I welcomed their suicides considering that such people would only have polluted more minds had they lived longer. They would surely have corrupted the air,water and earth that came in contact with them. In…
A Vegetable Vendor & My Moral Ambivalence
A vegetable vendor was looking to sell-off his blighted cauliflowers on the pronto .He offered a price-cut and threatened to top-off the deal with his crooked smile. I was neither tempted, nor amused. I did feel a pang of vague sympathy for the poor,unlucky man, but it did not pinch me enough to offer him…
JUST ANOTHER TENNIS SESSION
Standing behind the baseline of Court Number 2 at the BTA, I was warming up for my tennis session.The morning sky was heavily overcast.Sensing that my coach was perhaps late, a casual court-side acquaintance offered to hit balls with me. I had known this man for the past six months and was aware of how…
Three Stumps and Two Bails
2024 PC could not wait for Sundays.The backyard throw-downs to Arjun helped to initiate his son into the world of cricket.It was too early, but the boy did show promise.The ‘forward press’ as he played every ball would have made Virat proud.And he kept the ball on the ground.On the ground,always,ball after ball after ball.He…
WHAT TO DO WHEN JIHADIS STRIKE-An Earnest Discussion Between Friends
The names of these friends do not matter.What matters is the helplessness that we feel all the time.But remember,freedom of action also accompanies this sense of helpnessness. Be brave. Live it up. Kulla (concerned over the URI attack)- what should a common man say or do when a terrorist comes face-to-face and confronts him…
Tinder-in three Acts
Prologue : Experimentation makes life more bearable. Adventures at the cost of friends makes life spicier, and throws up interesting anecdotes. ACT 1 “Why don’t you download Tinder and have fun ,man ?” I entreated Rotten. “What is there in it for me? I’ m married,and quite happily so, thank you very much. I…
