Suyash Sharma

Bailed out finally….obviously it is Aryan I am referring to. The world had suddenly come to a standstill since the day the ill fated cruise left the shores of Amchi Mumbai, at least the electronic media would have us believe that. Indian social media and TV channels have outdone each other yet again by setting

  The final citadel has been stormed, leaving in its trail bruised egos, unsure soldiers and all at sea veterans. The hierarchy simply caved in without even a semblance of a fight. Yes I am referring to the entry of girls in NDA, now that the judiciary has issued a diktat, like it or lump

 So the Yanks have turned their tail again, what’s new one may ask? The mighty US of A, the global hegemon, policeman, watchdog of democratic values, the saviour of the world from all kinds of catastrophes, be it the aliens, meteors or even invasion by the zombies….the Avengers!!  If wishes were horses.Hollywood stories would come

 “Let their flesh be renewed like a child’s; let them be restored as in the days of their youth“—JOB 33:25. Thus spake the Bible; closer home Jagjit Singh’s immortalised Gazal  “देने वाले मुझे मौजों की रवानी दे दे,फिर से एक बार मुझे मेरी जवानी दे दे अब्र हो, जाम हो, साक़ी हो मेरे पहलू में,कोई तो शाम

 Afghanistan is the elephant in the room, a topic for discussions on the idiot box, in the drawing rooms, in coffee houses, print media and of course our think tanks. Indians have a rather deep and historic as well as mythological connect with Afghanistan and Afghans. Kandahar in fact was a major princely state in

 Taking off from where I left off last time on Immersion rods, while primarily immersion rods were used for heating of water, but its miniature version was used for heating water in a small tumbler for shaving. NDA cadets by nature are expert in ‘jugaad‘, actually as a nation we resort to jugaad in every possible

 “Main aur mera phone aksar yeh baatein karte hain…“.I often talk to my mobile, in other words indulge in soliloquy; if it weren’t for you I would be sitting and having a drink with friends, guffawing away to glory reliving old times with them and not merely texting them. If it weren’t for you, I

  Millennials would possibly not be familiar with the once ubiquitous Immersion rods, which were found in all middle class households without exception. May be they should have called it an immersion “coil”, wonder why??A misnomer obviously, because while it was immersed alright but it was actually a coil with two identical symmetrical rods at

 “Chewing the honey’d cud”, that is how rumination was described by Keats, if I am not wrong, what a beautiful metaphor! I was wondering, how was I reminded of this, actually I was relishing some Jamun, which has now acquired a distinct exotic aura and aroma ever since it graduated to the neatly packed plastic

 That is me, many moons ago, actually 34 years to be precise, with a healthy growth on the head. Over these years while most of us have greyed, some like me have gone bald but that is not the sum total of these decades. It’s 34 years today since we took the proverbial “Last step”