Suyash Sharma

  Deep Faking has catapulted the subtle art of faking to new exalted levels from its humble con-acts origins. Faking is as old as mankind, we all have faked or feigned injuries, head aches, stomach aches and generally managed to get away easily. These were childish acts more for fun and to skip an ordeal more

Nails and hair spare no one, they grow and need to be cut to size, I am obviously referring to the male of the species. Females as we are aware, let these grow to the peril of others, although long tresses have been considered an object of beauty since ages. Many a poets especially Urdu

 Taking off from one of my previous blogs on NDA Satchel,(https://senseinthenonsense.blogspot.com/2024/01/man-bag-good-old-nda-satchel.html); the man bag of today, where I had promised to write another one on the graffiti on the satchel. We NDA cadets  did not have very many outlets to express our creativity, unlike our lucky(!) brethren who go to normal university and colleges. We

 Tickets are the life and soul of any politician now a days. No prizes for guessing, I am referring to the much coveted Party ticket for contesting the elections. Actually it should logically be a nomination of candidate from the party for a particular constituency, but it is normally referred to as securing a ticket.

  Democracies have a periodic exercise where the citizens exercise their franchise and elect a government which they expect will then run the country on their behalf. That is a different matter that more often than not, they end up being disappointed and the resultant anti-incumbency makes them opt for an alternative. The cycle gets

Academies are run in a simple manner where they follow the Newton’s Third Law in letter and spirit, i.e. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction; you commit a breach of laid down rules and regulations, you are immediately rewarded with due punishment. Punishments are scaled and are appropriate to the misdemeanour, so major

 “Shyam Sharma makra cadet!” That was the usual refrain from our Drill Instructor (Ustaad)  Subedar Ramgopal from the Rajput Regiment in NDA. Despite having told him umpteen number of times  that my name was Suyash, he continued addressing me as Shyam in the two and a half years that we spent in the Academy. The

 Bonds are in the news, James the most famous one is obviously not too happy with this notoriety bestowed on them. After all 007 was to carry out the task in style with subterfuge and shaken not stirred martini. Here these bonds which occupied pride of place in the treasury have now been reduced to

A cow has four stomachs, I am not sure how many of you actually know this fact. I am a hard core Maths stream variety since school days, so much so that we were taught Biology by our Physics teacher who had to stand in as our school did not have anyone to teach us

 I snore, yes I do and most men of my age would acknowledge that they too tend to snore in their sleep, the decibel level of the sound generated varies of course. The act of snoring is supposed to indicate that one has had a sound sleep, although in the bargain, the spouse or others