It grieves me to see full-page, front-page advertisements in the newspapers, boasting about the rankings of students in the IIT JEE, or NEET, if the particular coaching class course is paid for and taken. What has our education come to ( Read more... )

If you are over 60...do NOT travel abroad alone until this Covid nonsense is completely over. What's happened to me ( Read more... )

Every product ad wants to link itself to the present situation. I think my personal favourite is the "anti-viral, anti-bacterial" suiting material being advertised on TV right now!

Me: Americans celebrate 14 March as Pi day, as they write the date as 314 (in India the same date is written as 143).

TOP( The Other Person) : We could celebrate Pi Day on 31 April, then, that would be 314 for us.

Me:

As usual, I cannot log into my Vijaya Bank account. So I call up tech support (VNET Banking ( Read more... )

I have never been able to find any semblance of good logic or design in the Railways' booking procedures. There was a time, prior to the Internet, when one had to stand in different queues for even and odd dates. This meant that if you were going, say, to Chennai on the 2nd, and returning on the 3rd...you had to join two queues ( Read more... )

Why am I subjected to a daily barrage of forwards?

Especially, why do I get so many forwards (no one knows where they originate!) when there is

Snopes to check if something is true or false, before forwarding stuff? Why do we seem to thrive so much on forwards ( Read more... )

I often look at, and sometimes post photographs to, the

The Weekly Wildlife, Nature and Conservation Photography ContestBeing me, I commented on several of the lovely photographs for this week....and after typing in two-two nonsense words at a time, I was soon prevented from commenting at all, and was shown this message ( Read more... )

Why is no one giving me a grant for

studies like this I can do studies on ( Read more... )

Note to myself: When dealing with the Child persona in someone, it is important to take on the Adult persona oneself (cf. Eric Berne ) and not let one's patience or good humour lapse. To lose one's cool is stupid. If there are two children, what can be achieved? When one person is childish, the other person must take extra care ( Read more... )