Random thoughts - by Lalit Subramanian

Have you ever watched those chef types demonstrate their modus operandi for culinary nostrums via instructional videos shot carefully in pho...

In the mid 90s, I would often walk past a dreary, white and yellow building.  Owing to its location, the grimy structure had become a big pa...

If you grew up in India, pleonasms are no doubt deeply ingrained in your DNA.  A pleonasm is the use of multiple words in a phrase where onl...

puNE (पुणे) .  The Oxford of the East.  When the little boy asked the gentleman why Poona Club wasn't called  puNE (पुणे)  Club, the gen...

  “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” - Bertrand Russell Nestled in north...