Posted by: inbavalli on: November 29, 2008
Daey Terrorist! No, no! Terrorist Saar, please leave us alone.
I am not angry, seething, outraged or any fancy English words that you possess great felicity with. I’m not shocked. I’m not frothing at the mouth in fury. I’m trembling like a leaf. Scared. Shit scared. Pissing in my pants.
You see, like you, I too want [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: November 20, 2008
I went to watch Vaarnam Aayiram with my friends, nattily dressed, finely accessorized. Before Simran and Surya could finish their duet, Paiyyan called up from school, saying he felt unwell. I rushed to his school and found him slumped in a corner at the lobby. Took my baby to the doc and gave him his [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: November 17, 2008
Please tell me if you people also find the tone of this food review highly patronizing and annoying or it’s just me being excessively grumpy.
Writer Memsahib gives us a list of tongue-twister items. And what do you find there but nandu kuzhumbu! My tongue is not just twisted pronouncing it – it’s tied. And whaja [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: November 10, 2008
What’s wrong with us? We go to great lengths to call a bus ‘perundhu’ and a computer, ‘kanini’. But we drop amma and appa for mummy and daddy.
This mummy-daddy thing has been going on for generations now, and though it pains to hear kids on 23C en route to Besant Nagar beach scream “Mummeee, Puspa [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: November 3, 2008
I love gymming. Not because I’m a fitness freak, but because it makes me feel less bad about being a good 10 kg overweight. I feel I’m doing something in the right direction, thought the something constitutes just a nano fraction of what I actually ought to do. Such as eating lesser and parking my [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: November 3, 2008
I have always been pro-reservation. Yes, it irks to see a ‘reservation candidate’ bag a plum seat in college with 55% marks while my niece languishes with 93%. But once I iron out that minor irritation I know that what we are doing is correct.
For centuries we have been denying a section of the people [...]
They say so...