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The Rediff Diary
2001 • December 31, 2001 I hereby resolve Pick up your pen, says Meera Guthi, c'mon, jot down your resolutions! • December 24, 2001 How I wish Mansi Bhatia opens her heart to Santa. • December 22, 2001 Go, freshie, go! There were a group of 'seniors' waiting for Sukanya Bora... • December 20, 2001 Go change the world! Rishabh Bajpai would like nothing better. But... • December 19, 2001 Not cold anymore Wherein the kindness of a total stranger warms Sudesh Krishnamoorthy. • December 18, 2001 Mr Bachchan, please excuse Mrs Mother KBC or the baby? Purba Dutt had a hard time choosing. • December 17, 2001 Missing In Action Santhini Govindan on the night her friend's daughter disappeared. • December 12, 2001 My name is Herb Hardigree She was Veena N till the other day. Now she is Mr Hardigree. • December 10, 2001 Over to you, Broadway! Vivek Fernandes went on stage a while ago. He is yet to come off it. • December 8, 2001 Tastefully Indian It was 5pm and Raamu hadn't arrived! Lekshmi Nair was on the verge of panicking. • December 6, 2001 The Dancing Girl Rubertino Uttanwalla met her late one night, on a suburban train in Bombay. • December 5, 2001 The Fifth Season It is the most unbearable of all, feels Bhavna Giani. • December 4, 2001 In the Land of Dawn In the foothills of the Himalayas, there is a beautiful little town... Anil Menon tells us about it. • November 29, 2001 I live here. In this dump And Vivek Mukherjee likes it very much, thank you. • November 28, 2001 Saffronisation and Darwin's Theory Hemanth Kumar G lists a lesson he learnt a long, long time ago. • November 27, 2001 Shutdown! Siddhu Warrier's troubles began the day he lugged home his cousin's computer. • November 26, 2001 Inside Sin City Kavya S gambles a night away in Las Vegas. • November 22, 2001 'Black' Friday Shop till you freak the day after Thanksgiving! Listen to Lyndon Cerejo. • November 21, 2001 The Death of Optimism Sandhya Rao on her worst nightmare. • November 20, 2001 Look out! When in Bombay, BEWARE of Purba Dutt! • November 19, 2001 Long Live the Messenger! Lekshmi Nair cannot imagine life without online chat. • November 15, 2001 10 Easy Steps To Stay Married The long-suffering Anita Bora's advice to a bride-to-be. • November 13, 2001 May I know your b'day, please? Do folks born the same day share anything special? Shailesh Jain finds out. • November 12, 2001 Goodbye, Brother And then, before she knew it, it was time for Sukanya Bora to see him one last time. • November 6, 2001 Calm Down. Do a jigsaw puzzle There's something soothing about putting broken pieces together, writes Sonia Chopra. • November 5, 2001 My burqa, my armour Lebi Tom claims she wears a burqa whenever she goes near the post office. • November 1, 2001 So this is America! It took some doing, but Sangeetha Ramamoorthy is finally at home in the land of opportunities. • October 31, 2001 Pete, oh Peeete! Tanmaya Kumar Nanda on a desi, a tennis final, and how the desi enjoyed the tennis final. • October 30, 2001 A bigger terror than Osama Prakash Vaidyanathan's mind and body is filled with it. From left to right, top to bottom. • October 29, 2001 Diamonds, Bears & Flying Pigs There's a place in Delhi where you get all the above for just Rs 50! Kavita Jari will guide you. • October 24, 2001 The 'failed' artiste Have you heard of the musician Denis Taaffe? Raghuveer hadn't. • October 23, 2001 Thank you, Autumn It was everything Lekshmi Nair had imagined it to be -- and then some. • October 22, 2001 Straight from Down Under Now I have seen everything, thought Roshan Paul, as he watched four Vikings dressed only in headgear and boots riding a giant plastic penis. • October 18, 2001 Blind Date in Bombay Bijoy Venugopal and Kareena Kapoor... what a pair they make! • October 17, 2001 One night as a refugee 'It was a time when nothing mattered but evading death,' recollects Basharat Peer. • October 16, 2001 Path to Peace Lebi Tom changes her mind: War is okay if it can bring peace. • October 15, 2001 Curl Today, Gone Tomorrow Lekshmi Nair lets her hair down in a salon. • October 11, 2001 I'm alive! Arpita P discovers that she has a lot to be thankful for. • October 10, 2001 Behind the bindi Racism, bin Laden and your bindi... Hema Ravikumar explains the connection. • October 9, 2001 W-A-R and D-E-A-T-H There is nothing justifiable about war, about creating death, writes Lebi Tom. • October 8, 2001 Nobody really cares Meera Guthi loses her heart, temporarily, to a street child. • October 4, 2001 Chalta Hai Delhi & Chalega Bombay Confessions of Purba Dutt, a Delhiite till the other day. • October 3, 2001 If you are hijacked... The time, says Sujata Prakash, has come to shake our co-passenger's hand and ask, 'What can we do together if we are hijacked?' • September 18, 2001 The day life changed Ajay Kabra had been to the WTC observation deck so many times that he was bored with it. Now, he would give anything to see those familiar towers again. • September 10, 2001 Discovering happiness Bama Ranganathan did everything to achieve happiness, but found it when she did nothing. • September 8, 2001 Agelessly yours What happens when you fall for a lovely lady? Rama Varma finds out. • September 7, 2001 Cloning glory Manish Khandelwal says Indians are past masters at churning out human copies • September 6, 2001 A lesson learnt... fast Hemanth Kumar G loved zip zapping fellow drivers, till one day... • September 5, 2001 In search of the Chhatrapati Lindsay Pereira goes out in search of Shivaji, but decides that some secrets are better left alone. • September 4, 2001 Ode to a soldier Suraj Shankla recounts the last journey of a brave son. • August 23, 2001 Ice-cream, Pepsi and my grandma She was an amazing woman, was Aarthi Shivakumar's favourite person. • August 21, 2001 Life on the Li Vaihayasi P Daniel shares her uncanny experience of boating through a picture she once had on her wall! • August 20, 2001 Oh no! N Radhika Panikar gets caught in the rains of Bombay. • August 17, 2001 Lissen babe, r u creative? In the jungle called Delhi, Paromita Acharjee goes job-hunting. • August 16, 2001 Dreams of an Independent Indian Fifty-four years, feels Ramesh Menon, is long enough for some simple dreams to have come true. • August 15, 2001 I forgot August 15! Lebi Tom recalls her rebellious past. • August 14, 2001 All the CM's men M D Riti takes a look at the sons-in-laws of Karnataka. • August 13, 2001 English, anyone speaks English? Out here in Switzerland, Manish Khandelwal realises, he is a learned illiterate. • August 9, 2001 Get a life man! Onkar Joshi is reminded of his weak Jupiter when things begin to go wrong. • August 8, 2001 Mom, I need you now Sangeeta Chakraborty learns the joys of togetherness -- from her three-year-old son. • August 7, 2001 My Rakhi's Bigger Than Yours! A sis-on-rent is better than no sis and an unadorned wrist... Shailesh Jain's revelations after another Raksha Bandhan. • August 6, 2001 I know, blood's thicker than water Sudden cries return Tarangini Raman to reality. Her sister's hand had slipped. She had fallen... • August 4, 2001 The girl called Pinky Soma Chowdhury met her in a cold first-class railway waiting in Bombay over a decade ago... • August 2, 2001 Yeah, it's Dunlop speaking Battling your weight, M Pallavi writes, is no big deal. But battling the comments of your 'friends' is. • August 1, 2001 The Door to Nirvana "Why don't we lie down on the bed and talk?" Meera Guthi encounters a 'spiritual guide'. • July 31, 2001 Barber the Great Krishna Kumar gets a haircut -- and survives to tell the tale. • July 30, 2001 Heading West, young woman? By default, writes Vijaysree Venkatraman, every desi on campus is considered a member even if they come to dinners but refuse to pay their dues. • July 18, 2001 My friend from Islamabad Questions flew back and forth. This, after all, was the first time Vijaysree Venkatraman was meeting someone from across the border. • July 17, 2001 Blue cups and yellow saucers Wherein Kavita Jari describes her most prized possession. • July 16, 2001 Ram and Allah, be kind in Agra Sheela Bhatt prays that Vajpayee and Musharraf make some progress, any progress... • July 13, 2001 Where's your home, Kashmiri? How, asks Lebi Tom, do I console my friend whose eyes well up when he talks about the life he left behind? • July 12, 2001 You are unhuman and I love you Wow, Mr Rain, writes Bhavna Giani, you've had quite a night. • July 11, 2001 From Hell, On Bail Ramesh Menon has not seen Sadhna in ages. But he remembers her often. Fondly... • July 9, 2001 Cops, my shorts and a moonlit night Lindsay Pereira remembers the rather embarrassing occasion when he and his friends were caught by a police patrol... • July 6, 2001 Much ado about nothing What do you say to parents who see a love story where there is none, wonders Hemanth Kumar G. • July 5, 2001 I am happy please! For gawd's sake, Lebi Tom is not ready to marry yet! • July 4, 2001 Minister Irony Introducing Aniruddha. He is Shishir Bhate's good friend, a minister of education in real life, and "the ultimate irony". • July 3, 2001 East is East and West is West Vivek Ojha, a true-blue Indian, takes stock of the land of opportunities. • July 2, 2001 The Day After So what, asks Dileepan R, do you do when you are laid off? • June 28, 2001 Booked for life! Anita Nair has been hooked since she was five. On books. • June 27, 2001 My current affair Is with current affairs, confesses Priya Ganapati. • June 26, 2001 We geeks Life in a software industry is not all that bad, writes Jenny Jacob. • June 25, 2001 The Child in a Yellow Shirt It is, perhaps, the one good deed Shishir Bhate has done in ages: certainly, it is the only one he can remember offhand... • June 22, 2001 Inside Heaven On a hot, humid day, Benoy Jose stood at the Pearly Gates... • June 16, 2001 Dad Extraordinary Nirmala Iyer worships 'a very ordinary' person: her father. • June 15, 2001 Omar Mukhtar is dead Anthony Quinn's death transports Vijaysree Venkatraman to her childhood -- and to a certain theatre in Madurai. • June 14, 2001 Et tu, Katrina? It's a sad state of affairs when people think soft porn is needed to sell T-shirts and skirts, writes Sujata Prakash. • June 13, 2001 Somebody turn off the lights! Bhavna Giani needs no alarm clock. Her brother stays in the States. • June 12, 2001 When they took me for Tim McVeigh... Gita Aravamudan has her own little Oklahoma bombing story to tell. • June 11, 2001 Oh Lord, that was Francis! Wherein George Iype survives two accidents one right after the other -- and finds a long-lost friend. • June 8, 2001 The PM is ill. And I am sick! Good thing God gave humans only two legs, writes Jyoti Shukla. Imagine what it would have been if there were two more knees to be repaired! • June 7, 2001 Bleeding Paradise Jyoti Shukla wishes she could set the clock back in Nepal -- and hold it there. • June 6, 2001 We are a generation of idiots! How else, wonders Lindsay Pereira, can you account for millions wetting their pillows because a soap opera actor kicked the bucket? • June 4, 2001 One moment too soon Everything changed in a second. The camaraderie vanished... Venkatraman A tells us a tale of intimidation. • June 2, 2001 The sting is in the tale What greater harm, wonders Prem Panicker, could have come to King Birendra if he had ignored the astrologer's advise? • June 1, 2001 Smoke some money! What is the currency of Egypt? Susmita Bhattacharya claims it is Marlboro cigarettes. • May 31, 2001 Thou shalt not rule! Vijaysree Venkatraman launches her campaign to dethrone the Alphonso. • May 30, 2001 These lizards are yummy! Where Sujata Prakash lives, dried cockroaches are sold to put in your tea. Good for colds, you see. • May 29, 2001 The Big B's Scribble Samyukta Lakshman could hardly make out the autograph, but so what? This was no ordinary scribble... • May 28, 2001 Asha Parekh... in Mogadishu! And Rekha. And Hemamalini. Krishna Kumar can't figure out what Bollywood is coming to. • May 25, 2001 Now tell, can you beat me? Missing flights comes naturally to Sita Menon. • May 24, 2001 I can FLY! A stolen weekend, far from the madding crowd, revealed that, yes, indeed, Ruchi Sharma could fly! • May 23, 2001 Of monkeys and the monkey man Vijayshree Venkatraman has a special affinity for simians.... • May 22, 2001 God save the Tamils! Hemanth Kumar G finds it tough being a Non-Resident Tamilian. • May 21, 2001 Date with Bryan Going to a concert, writes Sukanya Verma, is like going to a war. You got to be thoroughly prepared if you are to come out tops... • May 18, 2001 Murder on my mind Of late, Prem Panicker finds his thoughts turning with increasing frequency to that vile deed. • May 17, 2001 The Mariner's Wife It didn't take Susmita Bhattacharya long to realise that there was another woman in her husband's life -- his ship. • May 16, 2001 Breakfast at McDonald's Sujata Prakash never thought that love would bloom amidst burgers. • May 11, 2001 'No! Samana, no!' Samana takes Aunty Mangala's help to document her life as a one year old. • May 8, 2001 'I will set myself ablaze' Pappamma thought one only needed to work hard to come up in life. But she had reckoned without the greed of the antisocial elements in her neighbourhood. • May 4, 2001 Long distance affection is a terrible thing Vijayasree Venkataraman on her parents and cyberspace! • May 2, 2001 I refuse to be a rat Sukanya Verma insists she will continue to chart her own course through Life. • April 30, 2001 Beware: Friendly auto driver ahead Hemanth Kumar has given up trying to best the autorickshaw drivers of Madras. • April 24, 2001 Till television do us part... The Anands have reached a compromise. She controls the television remote and he is allowed to hide the frying pan. • April 21, 2001 Where are the children? In our mad scramble to prepare our children for the future, we are robbing them of their childhood, says an angry Bhavna Giani. • April 20, 2001 The Rites of Spring 'Spring is not just a season. It is a state of mind, a promise of fresh beginnings and tentative hopes.' Shanthi Shankarkumar is evidently inflicted with a bad case of spring fever. • April 17, 2001 'I'm allergic to mornings and I intend to stay that way' 'Have you noticed what time Indians wake up? Every day? Even when they don't have to? Even on my birthday?' Reeta Sinha on the agony of being a night owl. April 9, 2001 Sad as a hatter! Maybe there is pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know... Shishir Bhate's recollections of two nice lunatics. • April 6, 2001 Bigger than Gavaskar, bigger than Kamal Haasan Shobha Warrier tells us about her ultimate hero -- a dark, short, average-looking Malayali by the name of M T Vasudevan Nair. • April 5, 2001 Je veux mon visa! Jasmeet Gandhi's take on the French... and their arrogance! • April 3, 2001 Ninety dollars, please... It was the kind of place that transforms you from an ordinary woman into a perfect Parisian model. And Neeta Patwardhan knew she couldn't leave... • April 2, 2001 Inside ISRO After the aborted launch of the GSLV-D1, M D Riti looks at another launch, another chairman, many years ago. •
March 30, 2001
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