August 11, Arsenal vs Leicester City, 19:45 Kick Off 18:45 Okay, I’m starting today. First day. Big game. Let’s hope I don’t take as long as Henry to get my first goal for Arsenal. Glad to have Ozil in the XI. His through balls are pinpoint accurate. It’ll help release some pressure if I get… Continue reading Arsenal vs Leicester City – From the eyes of Alexandre Lacazette
People say maids and drivers are the hardest to get right in India. Retaining them for long is another story entirely. Surprisingly, my mom never had a problem with the maid. We’ve had a total of two maids in the past 24 years. Solid, right? But the same can’t be said about our drivers. We… Continue reading The Curious Case Of The Driver Jinx
Sid was walking back from the store with his twelve-year-old daughter one evening. His wife had instructed him to buy some canned beans for dinner. That his daughter was glued to her mobile phone instead of talking to her father worried him. Sid thought about his childhood. The conversations he used to have with his… Continue reading Reasons To Smile
When people are generally asked what their favourite food item is, they don’t reply in an instant. That’s because it’s not easy to arrive at one particular cuisine, let alone one dish, to call your favourite. When I went around asking people about their favourite food, I got varied response: cheese pizza, fried rice, sushi,… Continue reading Dosa: The Craving Returns
As Karim was surveying the location to plant his bomb, he noticed quite a few things. The most striking of them all was hundreds of happy people of different ages and walks of life. There was a small girl carrying a Barbie, holding her mom’s pinkie as they made their way through the crowd to… Continue reading To Do Or Not To Do
As he sat by the beach, a rush of memories came back to him. The first time his dad took him to the shore, the time when he played frisbee with his cousins, the time when he built sand castles and the times when he used to paint pictures of the beach. He tried recalling… Continue reading And He Pondered
Five items I enjoyed this week: Pad Thai at Sichuan Little did I know that Pad Thai was an unfamiliar dish to most people, till I asked my friend to look for Asian dinner places that had Pad Thai on the menu one day and he didn’t know what it was. Pad Thai noodles, as… Continue reading Exciting food for the excited soul
