Thoughts in Words

Football world cup in Russia is at its business end. It is said that Russia has become the graveyard of reputations, what with great teams gasping for breath. Everyone is busy sending clips, memes and trolls and what have you on whatsapp to everyone else. So it is natural that all of us who have played football in our time reflect and become nostalgic. I am no different. In an earlier blog, I had mentioned as to how I was denied football boots due to my poor performance in academics. That impeded me from trying to be in the school football team. However while in college, situation changed and I was able to get a pair, fundamentally because I had the reason to put forward that I was already selected for the college football team. How that selection happened is funny. I was walking towards the volleyball court for practice as a member of the college volleyball team. As I passed by the football field where they were practising, the ball got deflected towards me. I turned and took a...

Introduction I don’t know whether I should caption this blog as Evolution or Devolution. Over a period of time things evolve. No argument about that. But with the post-millennials ruling the roost I am no more sure that everything is actually evolving. Cases in Point a)        English b)       Dress codes Persona Grata a)        Adi b)       Appoos English and Adi Adi is the son of one of my cousins. He is presently doing his law after graduating in English Literature. The particular encounter with him happened almost a decade and half ago when he was still in school. Without going into how English came to be from the beginnings till the millennial and post-millennial kids came along, I was taught English in a certain way, which may be called conventional. Learning Shakespeare was imperative. You might think that is old English, meaning arc...