Loose Change

Yesterday a friend’s husband passed away in a road accident. Just like that! I pick up the phone to hear that Arun is no more… Arun of the ArunKavya couple. Arun of the Crazy Coorgi Couple (that’s how I had christened them!). Childhood sweethearts, completely in love with each other… And suddenly one half is missing… So whom am I mourning for? Arun who is not around or Kavya who is? Or am I feeling guilty about the fact that I yet continue to enjoy the small pleasures in life, when my friend is not? Read an epitaph a while back. And I think this is how I could best describe Arun. 'While alive he lived'

Read an article in the morning that got me thinking…no I wish it was something as trivial as fairness creams, or perhaps the next best thing in cornflakes. It was all about living and dying. This article hits you hard, right from its headline which screams out 'I kept saying, "Help me, help me." But no one did’ A young woman, very much like you and me…caught in a violent situation not of her own choosing…decided to act a little differently than she would otherwise have done… And that is what got me thinking…I have faced umpteen accident victims, taken them quite a few times to the hospital and have had emergency care administered to them…received their gratitude as my token…and walked away with a mental pat on my shoulders for having emerged a better person from the whole scenario! This situation was however totally different! It was wrought with violence, with a knife wound, with a person bleeding to death… What would you do if you were faced with such a situation??? Wou...

Hey! Stray thoughts that come to mind...this is one post that I will keep updating...with my thoughts and your inputs..... …the more we are taking away from Mother Nature, the more she is striking back in areas where she yet has total, absolute control! - Happiness is infectious...just like life...try it sometime!

Driving to work (yes I know! Seems like that’s how I spend the major part of my day)…anyways…driving to work sometime last week…a hoarding caught my eye! That’s all this post is all about! Just that one hoarding…as hoardings go, it was the regular tin hoarding with the flex print ad put on it rather slickly…the ad you are asking…exactly my point! The ad was….well…how do I put it across??? A breakthrough ad, one that breaks all gender barriers and myths…equalises all gender inequalities in one fell swoop! To cut a long story short…it was a fairness cream ad, the cream being targeted very specifically at the male of the species! A few things that caught my eye…and made me go into paroxysms of laughter… The ad takes the onus of bringing all closet ‘dark horses’ out into the open. Does that mean we shall soon see a new fashion trend? Men will now sport the cream in their breast pockets rather than the traditional handkerchief? The model in the ad – rather dishy I would say! And a wheatish ...