Every morning I wake up and tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.
I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk-or why.
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to assure myself that I got through yesterday,
I'll get through tod...
10 January 2013
Gonzo Fist
The "Gonzo fist," characterized by two thumbs and four fingers holding a peyote button, was originally used in Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado.
It has become a symbol of Thompson and gonzo journalism as a who...
Rahmat And Chotu
This story has to be told aloud. As we alighted from the Madurai Chennai Mercedes bus at 6 AM yesterday morning at Kathipara, I left my camera on my seat only to realize it around 7 AM after reaching home at Velachery.
I called the office number who told me to try to reach Egmore about 15 Km away...
09 January 2013
Yet To Discover The Author
I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset.
I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis.
I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness.
I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen....
To Keep New Year's Resolutions
New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year.
It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.
Only 23 percent of the people who make new year's resolutions will see them through and I'm one of them (Not True)...