Ever been to those water parks wherein sea lions and dolphins do those amazing feats? Jumping through hoops, dancing and the like – almost human like? While extremely entertaining, these shows also show the remarkable bonds that humans can build with animals. Humans over the past many centuries have trained…
Category: We Are Like That Only
Vicarious pleasures. Why do we laugh viciously when someone falls?
Heard this joke? Kid goes to his mom crying. Kid – “Papa was hanging a painting on the wall and hit his thumb with a hammer.” Mom – “That’s not something to cry about. I would have just laughed. Why didn’t you?” Kid – “I did.” The Youtube is full…
You know what all this ‘Wokeness’ is? Just a big drag
Remember our childhood days? Where each group of friends had one ‘fatty fatty boombalatty’? A ‘kanjoos’, a ‘stinky’, or a ‘takloo’? Remember how jokes about a friend’s prodigious girth or a problematic digestive system, were staple and would have us all rolling on the floor with mirth? No pretentions of…
Why do ‘Starred’ hotels ruin all the fun.
Ever tried a “delicately fried, exquisitely breaded bite sized sphere, filled with perfectly shaped chickpeas picked from the plains of Harit Pradesh and complemented with handpicked and diced Malda potatoes; served with an aromatic concoction of cilantro, effervescent mint reminiscent of sun kissed fields, and tangy tamarind that explodes into…
50s are the new 30s? Stuff and nonsense!
Had recently come across a Whatsapp forward posted by a very wise man. It said, “Beware! I am retired. I know everything and I have the all the time to tell you about it”. I too am retired and I too know everything. But no one listens to me. I…
Ah! The travails of the rich and the famous.
You know Ranveer Singh, right? The one whose personality matches his fluorescent sartorial sense (well let’s just say quirky)? For those who don’t, let me tell you that he is a very successful actor. I love his movies. He just seems to fill the screen with his effervescent presence. But…
Want to go one up on a monkey? Try this
“New appointment in Railway service: Langur seen working in a railway office” was the imaginatively titled article in a newspaper recently. You can read about it here. Apparently (and I am copy pasting here), “a video of a langur ‘working’ inside a railway office is now going viral. The video…