Posts Tagged ‘ Writing ’

How to Live in a Foreign Country: Six Easy Steps

  • March 3rd, 2011
  • Posted in Life

1. Clothes: As soon as you land you need to decide whether you want to fit in or stand out and LOOK like a foreigner. Sometimes the colour of your skin decides that for you. But all is not lost, a few casual adjustments to your wardrobe and you can fade into the crowd. The [ READ MORE ]

Jinnah as Voldemort

The Indian print media is at times nothing more than a collection of titillating and shallow reports of what they think readers want to read and too many advertisements. This took ridiculous proportions when the Times of India compared Jinnah to Voldemort. As a diehard Harry Potter fan I found this hilarious and mildly offensive. [ READ MORE ]

9 Advantages of Living in the “Third World”

1. You can never forget, even for a day, how privileged you really are. Just look outside your window. Note: You are privileged because a) You are not starving, and b) You have access to the internet. 2. You never know when your day may turn into a surprise holiday or adventure due to religious riots, terrorism, taxi strike, rickshaw strike, train strike, or [ READ MORE ]

My First Time

It’s actually a surprise to me that I’ve lived this long – a grand total of 24 years – without bribing anyone. My first time bribing someone all on my lonesome was a few days ago. It was an interesting experience, and I suddenly understand something fundamental about this system – it works. So what [ READ MORE ]

An absurd evening at The Office

* The sky was that dim dark blue that makes you realize its past seven and you’re going to be at work for another hour easy. I was, predictably, still following up on things that were probably not my job due to the fact that we were under-staffed. Making sure the damned Finance department would [ READ MORE ]

Diwali Day

You know Diwali is near when the smell of sulphur permeates everything, and the nights are filled with shouts and noisy firecrackers. On the day before Diwali everything had already gone into high gear, even in a small town like Pondicherry. The kids on my street started off the festivities the first thing in the [ READ MORE ]

about

This is my life blog. An account of my travels, my places, and my voice. It's weekly during my good times and monthly when I'm swamped with real life and work.

Subscribe via RSS (Yay!)

Subscribe in a reader

Site Meter

Creative Commons License
purple-er by Aditi Kulkarni is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at purpler.wordpress.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://purpler.wordpress.com/.
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.