15 Nov 2024

2024, Driving 6 Comments
A Long & Winding Road This is slightly long, but bear with me... this process was tortuously long and I am only sharing the highlights. So stay with me till the end! It’s hot in September. 30th September to be precise. The last of the freak rains have wreaked havoc last week and have been with proportionate vengefulness replaced by reasonably hot temperatures. October hea...
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30 Oct 2024

2024 16 Comments
Title of blog against sky background with a bird flying
It's holiday season. And maybe this is the right time for it. SkytankingSkytanking. Sky tanking. Seriously? Skytanking?I didn’t know this term till I took a flight early this October, and looked out of the aircraft window.The plane was refuelling before we were to take off and as an early 'onboarder' I saw this process. Large letters on the fuelling tanker proclaimed it.Sky tanking. ...
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19 Sep 2024

2024, Film Review
Bhangaar film poster, film review,
Sentenced to live Bhangaar slowly draws you into the world of the Lavates and slowly and painfully, day by day, month after month, season by season and even ironically, festival after celebrated festival, pulls you into a world of ennui laced with despair but also paradoxically, with righteousness. A fan whirrs. Slowly and deliberately. Almost as if it doesn’t know what it is suppo...
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06 Jul 2024

2024, Book Review, WhatIReallyMeantToSay
Book Review and Picture of Book Cover
15 WORKPLACE LESSONS FROM THE BEES. BY JOHN BRITT AND JAN GREEN It's not every day that your co-author co-authors another book (even before you've stopped talking about the first one). But if anyone were to write a book about the busy-ness of bees and how to bee indispensable, it would have to be the prolific John Britt! Bee-Come Indispensable: 15 Workplace Lessons from the Bees...
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26 May 2024

2024, Book Review, LessThan500Words, ReadLikeAWriter
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The Lost Novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Book Review: Until August (The Lost Novel) Gabriel Garcia Marquez #BookReview #GabrielGarciaMarquez #TheLostNovel #UntilAugust #LessThan500Words #Hardcover Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has just been published. Thanks, NB, for letting me know. I had read about it. But didn’t know it was out. I ordered it immediately. It’s g...
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