yeh dilli hai mere yaar

long break from blogging....but if the fact that i was in delhi is considered....all will be forgiven....for delhi is the place to be....and i'm not talking about the swanky malls and stuff....you can find them in any of the metros....it's the spirit of delhi that i'm talking about...you have to come to this place to get the feel of it....it rocks!!!

Books...my best friends...now and always.

Books....can't get enough of them....thing is,they don't write as fast as i lap 'em up!!!although i like reading all sorts of stuff, a perennial favourite is Jeffery Archer....agreed, he's the stereotyped author...writes pacy fiction...but he's different with that as well.Be it his early works like Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less or his recent marvels like Prisoner Of Birth, this man rocks!!!although by his own standards ,his latest books are his weakest ones but for a new reader even those are mesmerising....
Kane And Abel, in my opinion ,is the best book written, ever...and yes, i say this after reading The Godfather, The Fountainhead, The Alchemist, and what you may...
Kane and Abel might have been panned by critics as regular fiction stuff, but the fact that it's sold over 2.5 million copies says it all!!!the way Archer writes is truly a work of art...he literally transforms you into the person you are reading about or even transfers you to the era you are reading about in the book, the case in point here being 1905-1980s....a full fledged review comes soon....

the unwanted vacation

vacations, they say, are needed to rejuvenate oneself....well, if u are an engineering grad...and that too if you have just completed your four years of stardom, the vacation that comes at the end of these four years is no less than a punishment.....because vacation is what we were having for the past four years...a time to discover and define oneself.Boys became men in this while....girls are a weird specie...more on them later.!!
yeah...so this is an unwanted vacation because now we are captives....captives of time, captives of parents, captives of circumstances and captives of unimaginative surroundings...all conspiring together to make a zombie of us...as now we have absolutely nothing to do which is of purpose....earlier there were long chats about nothing in particular and everything in general with friends, long sessions of tea at a road side dhaba, shared fags.....you know, the works...all of that had a purpose, a meaning...you got to know so many people, learnt how to analyze things, and human behaviour too....all adding up to enhance your personality....it's all gone now...leaving us to find whatever solace we can get in our computers, on the internet and in some cases in the idiot box (a BIG no-no for me) ....i need work...something, anything...am addicted to work, it acts as a stimulant for me...so this is an appeal to all my friends...gt something that needs to be done...tell me...i'll do it...with pleasure!!!

my first blog....ever!!

hmmm....so this is my first day of bloggin'....and the credit for this goes to avijan, the dreamer...my friend and partner in crime!!he's got enough misconceptions about me being a good writer...so here i'm to make him realize his folly!!!in any case, he's going to be the first person to read this blog...so i better get the medics on the go...he'll need them!!!