“Cadet Ranpreet Singh has been assigned as your cadet guardian”, I was informed and introduced to a smart immaculately turned out Sikh boy slightly taller than I was. Guardianship is an onerous responsibility at any age imagine that for a 12 year old. Amazingly, he immediately took charge of things at hand; he was polite and super […]
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. Some of us old timers would recall “Betal Pachhisi”, the tale of King Vikramaditya and Betal the spirit. Most of us were
A Close Shave….. Today’s youngsters are all Virat Kohli look alikes….clones, same bearded chins with hardly any clean cut faces. I wonder why has this reverse evolution commenced in the men folk, where they have got so entangled in the facial hair that they have messed up Darwin’s treatise itself. At this rate, soon they
“Seven days carry on !” These words, no, it is actually a ‘sentence’ literally, and is awarded with all the fan fare you would associate a court, sentencing a criminal…or may be a lot more. The judges especially the lower courts’ ones rarely have such prim and proper marching in of the accused, or the
“We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control…. Teachers leave them kids alone!” That was the Pink Floyd anthem. At RIMC however the things were different, here
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CARRY ON DOCTORS “Carry on Doctor”, as the old timers would recall quite vividly, was one of the hilarious “Carry On” series of light-hearted comedy films of 60s and 70s. The bumbling doctors and the buxom nurses prancing about in their smart skirts and heels kept us in splits. Although medical profession is amongst the
“Don’t call me sir!” These words are like magic for an NDA cadet, which are uttered by a senior who is pleased to anoint his junior the coveted status of “pal”. Pal is actually a slang for a friend and is part of the lexicon these days, but in NDA, a pal is granted special
What’s in a Name “What’s in a name”, the Bard put it across so innocuously; a lot , I hope most would agree. It wasn’t always so, history is replete with examples where they took pride in simply anointing the names of their parents, ancestors on the new born. Wonder if they were
The honourable Apex court has been on an over drive for the last couple of months. One is always circumspect when it concerns the judiciary, after all who wants to be slapped with a ‘contempt of court’. The mere mention is enough to scare the s*** out of most of us who generally steer clear
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Perusing the lexicon I came across a very interesting word ‘Uxorious’, which literally means ‘one who is excessively fond of one’s wife or submissive to his wife’. Although not a very frequently used word, I presumed there has to be similar word which would describe a wife who is similarly excessively fond of her husband.
