…we choose! Mumbaikars please please please make sure you get to those polling booths, and vote — for change! Here’s your chance to give politicians the finger! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

One hears no end of talk about scams — from finance to fodder — and always presumes that its something that happens to other people and involves humongous sums of money. But of late I have become interested, as a consumer and concerned citizen, about a myriad of innocuous schemes that are probably not illegal, […]

The marketing director of Nescafe manages to arrange a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican. After receiving the papal blessing, the Nescafe official whispers,’ Your Eminence, I have some business to discuss. We at Nescafe have an offer for you. Nescafe is prepared to donate $100 million to the church if you change the […]

This was sent in by my super-cool niece Tarini from Singapore 🙂 It’s 3 o’clock on a hot summer afternoon…   A duck waddles into my neighbourhood convenience store. Looks around. The store clerk, a tough Iranian guy who insists on being called Tosh, does a double take and gapes speechless at the sight of […]

Statutory warning: Do not take this post seriously! Sheryl Crow has a cool song called My Favourite Mistake — believe it or not, its about her brief affair with Eric Clapton! Well, my ownfavourite mistake has always been procrastination — why do today what you can put off till tomorrow! Anyways, I sprang out of […]

Yep its today — Poila Boishakh or the first day of Vaishakh, so Shubho Nobo Borsho to you all! Warm regards, Tina and Vikram Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Hello everyone You might have noticed that the blog url has now changed to http://www.vikramhazra.com/ so please make the necessary changes in your favourites/blogrolls etc 🙂 Hopefully this will enable me to upload some nice music and videos for you 🙂 My Flickr photostream is also ready and just waiting for me to upload my […]

I have been getting a lot of requests to comment on the political scenario in India, but let me tell you from first-hand experience that most of the talk being thrown around these days has left me cold. For instance, the Congress govt is of course corrupt and incompetent, but are the BJP, SP or […]

It was with rather a jolt that I realised that for someone whose job is to make people relax, I have never really had a complete holiday for over twenty years! My justification for this has always been that my work is so deeply satisfying that I’m always on holiday, doing what I love. Meditating […]