A colleague asked me to distribute some yummy organge barfi he had brought from Nagpur to everyone at work, and here's what the ever-sarcastic RP had to say about it ( Read more... )

So this dude from Aurangabad donated his blood about 90 times. Commendable effort, I readily admit. And he donated his blood platelets (which is quite different from blood) about 10 and half times. Very social-service oriented guy, this fellow.
And since I was doing a story on blood platelet donation, someone passed on his number to me. All I ( Read more... )

A scavenging bird that feeds on carcasses of the dead.
At least that’s what I felt like today. A combination of a hawk and a vulture.
Standing in the overcrowded lobby of one of the city’s biggest public hospitals, I watched patients being wheeled in on stretchers. Like a hawk.
On the last day of the year, a woman at the steering wheel of an out-of ( Read more... )