Javed Akhtar and Shabhana Azmi at at a reading of Javed's poems at the Kala Ghoda festival

Me and Asheeth at Marine Drive, Bombay

My sister and her daughters

This is my elder sister Babyammamma and her daughters Beena (in Maroon with her husband's nephew) and Binu (in sky blue with her son Kevin and daughter Diana). 

This is me karaokaying "Break Out to to the Other Side" at Turquose Cottage

This definitely proves I have a wild side to me. This is me singing at the Turquose Cottage karaoke night in Delhi

Another good online friend and now offline friend Rekha Nambiar is an interior designer. Some of the chairs in the picture are designed by her at her workshop in NOIDA.
 

Vijay Nair is a successful corporate lawyer and bears an uncanny resemblance to Malayalam matinee star Mammooty, my favorite actor.


















Another good friend Rekha Nambiar is an interior designer. The chairs seen in the picture are designed and manufactured by her in her own workshop in NOIDA. 

A smorgasbord of magazines on the Connaught Place pavement.

The Mac seems to be very popular. There wasn't any seating space for poor me!























The sun setting against a backdrop of parked cars.























This is a giant Swiss Knife, a favorite implement of mine.























"Just another wasted sunset" goes a song, don't remember the singer's name. 

The fog. The cubic structure behind the onlookers is the skylight of the Metro.


The Cafe Coffee Day outlet from where I blogged. You can see the screen of my computer.


This is a view of Cafe Coffee Day. It's all shiny with the reflections on glass.


 An array of beautiful shawls in a shop in Connaught Place. The owner was indignant, "Is it for a calendar, or, something?" I was asked. I said it was for my own satisfaction.

The Delhi fog is evident in this picture 

Garima and Bobbin James

 

 
This is Subbu the Karaoke Jockey with Sachin. Some of the wonderful friends I made in Delhi.


 
Shashi Kiran, Asheeth Manu and Garima Kaushik are all smiles.

 
Bobbin James, Shashi Kiran, Asheeth Manu and Garima posing for my camera.

  
Bobbin James, Rajaraman (of Outlook), Garima, Asheeth, Subbu, and Nitin (Bohemian Rhapsody) at a dhaba we went for parathas.

Karaoke at Turquoise Cottage

Smita (smilestop, land of the smiling sun) with a friend (sorry friend, forget your name, will get it next time).


Richa Dubey is camera shy! So only managed to capture a profile.



Sachin and Nitin belting it out.

 
Richa Dubey with a friend, at last!

Karaoke at Turquose Cottage, New Delhi

Smita, or one who smiles:)


Asheeth Manu, enjoying a coke!


Shalin Asher, in a serious mood!

 
I can't figure out who this is, though, I find the smile dazzling!

Christmas Carols, Dec 2006

This is our church in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai. The cross is behind a glass partition.
The Choir Singers.
 

My favorite subject

My favorite subject, Ronnie.

Ganga, Anita and Julie

Spent some time last sunday with Ganga, Anita and their bitch Julie. We were then joined by Sanjeevan on the way to Felix's house. Felix is having problems and so we friends decided to go and meet him. We were all students of Adarsha Vidyalaya in Chembur. Felix lives in Tilak Nagar where I used to stay. The place has been made over, made up, or whatever!

Congratulations and Celebrations! to me, me, me!

Today is a happy day. Yesterday at Fab India (where I buy my kurtas and ethnic clothes), I heard a girl say, "This is a happy, happy, happy, happy color, will suit you just fine." I liked that, huh, though, what she meant by "happy" raised to the power of four flummoxed me.

What do I see first thing when I open my blog? Google has upgraded my page rank of my main blog to 4 on 10 from 3 on 10 (zigzackly has 6 on 10!). Some promotion this. Yippeeee! Check it out. Out with the bubblies, no, an extra cup of coffee towards evening, perhaps, if wifey permits.

I have also staked my claim to be the most consistent solo blog and the longest running solo blog at the same URL at the Limca Book of (Blog) Records (the Indian equivalent of Guiness Book of World Records). Isn't that a reason to smile?

Thanks visitors! Do please, please visit me daily (;and give me those hits I deserve;) as I write in this space every day.
Tags: Limca Book of (Blog) Records, Most Consistent Solo Blog, Longest Running Solo Blog, Guiness Book of World Records

A great sunset on the Kerala backwaters

 

Me Reading at the Sept. Caferati meet

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Originally uploaded by soney.

This is me reading my story "To Rachna from Rajesh" at the September 2006 readmeet of Caferati.

My Poem on Beirut

Read my poem on Beirut here

Beirut was once known as the Paris of the East. No more. Now, militaries of Israel, Syria and Jordan enter and leave it at their whim. Its streets are full of bombed buildings and its citizens live in fear of being killed. This is a poem to its brave inhabitants. "Cedars of Lebanon" is a reference to a passage in the Bible.
Tags: Beirut, Paris of the East, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Bible