Suyash Sharma

In North India, Diwali time is the time for exchanging gifts of sweets with your neighbours, friends and relatives. It is  “Soan Papdi  time” for the annual passing the parcel festival gifting game.  We all have played this game as kids during birthday parties and even as adults in parties where participants were asked to […]

We all are  familiar with the term  “phobia” and its mere mention is adequate to create a phobia around some people. “Uxoro” in latin means wife and to be scared of one’s wife is nothing unusual. Most husbands would agree that she is the boss, although it may not be a public admission, but privately

I have had a unique relationship with plasters, you may call it an enduring affair, as in the last five decades I have religiously landed in one of them once in each of them, not a mean but quite an unenviable achievement. As a kid who had just about started to take his first few

 I can still recall our first encounter with any Jew, he was the Adjutant in NDA Khadakwasla Pune, Major Daniels, an impressive immaculate Gurkha officer whose persona was awe inspiring for all the Cadets. But that was not the reason to start reading up on history of Judaism and Israel, I chanced upon “Exodus” by

 ‘Blues’ normally implies the mood, rather melancholy, but in the Public schools parlance, Blues are sought after as they signify merit in a particular sporting activity, and are proudly worn by the recipients on their Blazers, embroidered under the crest of the institution. The tougher the sport, more coveted the award, Boxing, Cross Country, Swimming,

 Not again! Here we are, in the Military Hospital at Mhow, with my Achilles tendon probably torn and in pain trying to be brave about the injury, after all we are from the “mard ko dard nahi hota” generation.  The last about an year and a half we have been doing the rounds of hospitals

  Idiot box, that’s how Television has been described since the 50s, the exact coinage and its origin has not been ascertained, but it was an apt description of this device which used to be dumb and converted those watching into even dumber people. Since then TV has become smart but unfortunately our own intelligence

It is  Teacher’s day today 5th Sep being the birthday of Dr Sarvpalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second President and a well known scholar and philosopher. Traditionally Indians have always been reverential to their ‘gurus’, most of us would recall the couplet of Kabir, where he places the Guru even above the Gods, “गुरू गोविंद दोऊ खड़े काके लागू पाय,बलिहारी

No this is not a rip off of “Sharmaji Namkin”, the last hurrah of Rishi Kapoor, this Sharma ji is the best Kulfi-wala in Mhow. On his trademark Lambretta scooter with an earthen pitcher (matka) on the carrier full of kulfis, adorning a white helmet calling out the potential customers for their favourite post lunch

 Vikram had become a part of the lexicon after Chandrayan- ll, named after the father of Indian space programme,  appropriately christened, though odds were heavily stacked against it succeeding in the first go. But our scientists were not cowed down by the challenge and rose phoenix like in a stupendous achievement, who have proved it