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Dear Diary, Week started disastrously. Landed in Bangalore and, sticking to standard protocol, drove straight to MTR, hoping to feast on so...

Quite some time back, I had attempted to borrow the format of the golf stories of P.G.Wodehouse, that involved ‘the oldest member” and poste...

Dear diary, Had to accompany a friend to the Blue Cross today. His pet dog was not keeping well. The lone veterinary doctor on duty said he...

Dear Diary, I needed to go to the Bank today to deposit a cheque. I realized, to my dismay, that banking is an insignificant part of a ba...

I just got the complete details on what Anil Ambani gets to eat everyday. Apparently, he gets up at 5.00 am, jogs till 6.30 am, and begins h...

Dear Diary, My over-exuberant auditor called this morning to remind me that I had to file my Income Tax returns before July 31st. I comment...

Daughter came back from the bookshop yesterday at 6.45 am, triumphantly clutching her copy of the 7th book in the Harry Potter series. I hav...

So, 72-year old Pratibha Patil (or Pratibha Patti, as my daughter calls her) is the new President. I can imagine the standard routine that d...

Dear Diary, I am just back from the RTO, after renewing my driving licence. After I submitted my forms, along with my birth certificate that...

Dear Diary, I flew down to Mumbai today, as I had some urgent work there. Flight was extremely uncomfortable. Lot of turbulence. Thick cl...

In one of their editions last week, Deccan Chronicle carried a news story of an illiterate woman in Bihar, beating up her husband when he ca...

In the circles that I move in, I am known for my awesome skills in balancing my finances and in my amazing ability to get the best bang for ...

If and when I manage to put an end to the mosquito menace , I need to turn my attention to those pigeons that have dropped anchor just outsi...

In July last year, Prince, a 5-year old boy from Kurukshetra who was trapped in a well and was rescued after 48 hours of high drama, had th...

I summon the whole family for the daily emergency drill. “Operation Sleep” is about to be launched. With that tone of authority that I am re...

Soon after it became known that an Indian could have been involved in the Glasgow incident, Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, advised his B...

Me: At fifty, every man gets the face he deserves. Daughter's mother : So I have heard Me : I can’t believe I am 50 today. I don’t look...

Tonight, at the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, I will stay wide awake. Yes, I will turn forty and will need to do some serious i...

As if the fact of Pakistan having a better record against us in hockey and cricket wasn’t humiliating enough, there comes this shocking new...

This rant on how the salaried class is taxed at source and bled dry reminded me of the angry reaction of a tax payer in the famous short st...