Fish-bone bamboozle

There has never been an occasion when the restaurant bill, which comes at the end of every hearty meal, has failed to surprise me. Almost always, it is significantly more than I expect. For an epicurean amchigaelo1 like me, plodding through all the pages of a menu is an ordeal. If anything, it only increases [...]

Blore bores

Bangalore. A city that is teeming with more software coolies than fleas on a scruffy dog skin; a city which has created a buzz in the IT world with cutting edge software – and Phaneesh Murthy; a city that is generating ever increasing opportunities for employment – and pollution; a city whose impact on the [...]

Clothesline clips and ‘20 rupees saar’

A cozy yet not-so-lazy Sat morning. My maid arrived at her usual 8 am time and asked me in her Hubli-accented Kannada if i have, for some reason, decided to keep the clothesline clips elsewhere instead of its regular place near the washing stone outside my room. On hearing my ‘No’ she retorted:
“It [...]