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The Crazy Algorithm of Love - A Book Review

'The Crazy Algorithm of Love', published by Frog Books, is a debut novel by Rajrupa Gupta, who is a good blogger friend of mine. I am normally wary of debut novels for a few reasons. The first is that, in a romantic novel such as this, debut authors tend to focus mainly on the central characters and the other characters and relationships are very seldom fleshed out. The second is that the

Break

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 39; the thirty-ninth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The theme for the month is "Break"



I do not know if there are very many words in the English language that have evoked so many different emotions in me in

Lament of a Jester

P.G.Wodehouse took grave objection to being called a
'burbling pixie', ‘believing that as such he became a hissing and a by-word
among the eggheads. You can't go calling a man a burbling pixie without
lowering his morale. He frets. He refuses to eat his cereal. He goes about with
his hands in his pockets and his lower lip jutting out, kicking stones. The
next thing you know, he is writing

The ‘Ring the Bell’ Meet Again

Previous part here


In
the previous post, I had tried to discuss why a woman does not stop her husband
from physical abuse when he first attempts it. The tacit assumption, of course,
is that the first such attempt happens in the early days of marriage and that
assumption would probably be true for the most part.

Issues
of inter-personal relationships are normally complicated and, as humans, we

The ‘Ring the Bell’ Meet

I
must, at the outset, admit that I normally do not expect to find meets on
serious topics interesting. The focus\, normally, turns on one particular
viewpoint of some admittedly serious flaw in Society and the discussion ends up
in painting a very gloomy view of Society, which jars on a natural optimist
like me. The ‘Ring the Bell’ meet in Bangalore today was a very pleasant
surprise because

The importance of hypocrisy

It is customary, I know, to pick a dictionary and define the word before you go ahead giving out your unique ‘wisdom’ about it. Since, however, I have this irresistible urge to find out whether I have a common-sense, let me go ahead based on the common-sense definition of hypocrisy.



Hypocrisy is understood to mean behavior that is at variance with the stated moral position of a person. We

Coincidences

Life, they say, is full of coincidences. A truth that manages to catch my fuzzy attention all too frequently at various points in time.



Now, if you think I am about to start on how my boss used to pick THAT day when I wanted to go off and watch an IPL match to keep me in office with urgent work – think again! That sort of thing is too commonplace an occurrence – bosses exist for the purpose

Of Pride and Arrogance

“Don’t expect me to be rising up when the sun rises in the East”



“The sun does not rise in the East. It is the Earth that rotates”






From the tone of his voice, I felt for a moment that I had missed out on learning this valuable nugget of information at school. I delved into my mind and found, surprisingly, that this was one of those few bits of knowledge that was still clinging

F?@K Knows - A Book Review

I went through that phase of devouring self-improvement books by the dozen when I was in my teens and still under the illusion that personalities could be quick-fixed by reading a few books. By the time I had hit my fiftieth book in the genre I had come to realize that they said nothing that I did not know already. If my knowing had not changed me for the better it is only because I was

Words and Meanings

I must have a few wires crossed in my brain (What do you
mean – this is the first time you are hearing about my having a brain? I cannot
be responsible for your ignorance). These crossed wires seem to mess up the
meanings of quite a few words for me. They are especially active when it comes
to the new age words.



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There is this term ‘Go-getter’ used with great respect and
awe. For some