Only twice in my life has my heart stood still. Absolutely still. The first time was in 1956 when I saw this beautiful girl in a simple yellow dress dancing the tango to the music of Mickey Correia and his dance band.
I looked at her face and the movement of her elegant body and the dazzle of the yellow dress and it were, as if the Lord had said, “Let there be light and there was light” (more…)
At a recent paper-leaked-out SSC examination, the Geography section had an interesting question. “Where is Bandra located?”
All those who answered Chhatisgarh or Jharkhand were given full marks.
Now there is no need to get agitated because your child got it wrong. Obviously he doesn’t live in Bandra and hasn’t seen millions of adivasis from the above two States crawling all over Bandra in locust like formation (more…)
Whoever Godfrey Pereira is, we Goans need to either give him an award, or pin a medal on his Bleddy East Indian chest.
Godfrey Pereira, a journalist who once worked with Sunday magazine Kolkotta and India Today wrote a “no holds barred” piece on the Goanet chastising the laid-back Goans and literally tearing them to pieces in the same fashion as the mine owners are tearing up the rich Goan soil mindless of the destruction that is caused all around. (more…)
I suppose there must be hundreds of people like me who add 2 and 2 together and never get 4. Among the many things I do not have a head for, figures would top the list. I believe now that I am not on the job market,
I can publicly confess that I was not being sent up by my school for my matriculation examination because my marks in mathematics never reached two digit figures. (more…)
