http://www.radhikanair.com thought helicopters never crash, they fly, making a lot of noise and attracting curiosity. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:19:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en the thief left behind the moon by the window. i used to collect zen koans during one of my many lifetimes. for no apparent reason today, while i was reading and thinking in a small corner of my mind, that i need to get back to this journal - like i have many ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080704/the-whirlpools-of-life/ dear son this holi your second i still don't have any colours to give you no sleepy faces at the door waiting to pull you out of bed no neighbours filling buckets of cold water to soak you to the skin awakening every pore of your spirit no laughter or loudspeakers at the chowks with the annual o rang barse song i have only stories memories of the colours that rained orange, red green and blue creaky golden pistons our weapons for a few hours puranpoli amti warm milk and ghee that melted on my tongue cacophony of ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080323/this-holi/ i'm just past 56-pages of shantaram, and my brain is bursting with memories of mumbai airport along with its smells, the views and first impressions of dharavi, colaba, the radio club, mondegar's and most of all, leopolds'. it's hard for me to classify leopolds' as a cafe, or a pub. it ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080215/the-unfolding-and-folding-of-memories-and-why-theyre-important/ how's that headline for a taste of their own medicine? either the bbc is turning very short-sighted about all matters related to india, or they are plain lazy and should simply pass the job to someone else. it's not been too long since i mentioned this before, and the bbc does it ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080214/bbc-looks-for-love-in-the-wrong-places/ something i witnessed during my recent mumbai-visit stayed in my memory, and haunted me for a long time. last month, when i watched taare zameen par (tzp), for no reason related to that movie, i remembered that scene again. i wrapped it in a fiction story and sent it, one by ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080213/a-story-unpublished/ bounce. bounce. bounce. swish. plop. for the second time on that wet morning, sree had to sink her feet in the mud. "hurry up! come on, we only have five minutes till the bell goes...silly girl!" sree heard them chuckling behind her, but she maintained a blank, not-affected look on her face, passed ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080130/jhattapatti/ ...not do what it says on the pack? http://www.radhikanair.com/20080128/ma-why-does-self-raising-flour/ my train/tube commutes have always been interesting. if i'm not mentally memory-surfing between mumbai and london, then i'm travelling across many minds and through many characters on paper, leafing through pages and pages of them till i reach my destination. and then the story continues on my way back home. sometimes, ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080118/house-47-acton-street/ nothing fancy. nothing extra. just a new location...less spam maybe. more convenience. hopefully more words. many, many more words. do keep coming back. and yes, before i leave the most important part out, please update your feeds. http://www.radhikanair.com/20080118/moving-on/ the world's cheapest car. surely that's front page news for every general/business-publication on the planet. but wait, the world's cheapest car from india? go on then, put down the usual, that'll will easily give you 25 to 40 words. and so the bbc must have gone on to present its front ... http://www.radhikanair.com/20080111/to-the-bbcan-irresistable-rant/