• December 31, 2002
Touched by an angel
Click for why Saisuresh Sivaswamy travels by taxi in Mumbai.

• December 23, 2002
Sambhar, Rasam and hot-hot Pappadams
What Sreeram Srinivasan wouldn't give for a kalyana sappadu!

• December 20, 2002
She & I
Pal Dru wonders what his wife prays for they kneel down together.

• December 17, 2002
From the Elder One
Ashamary introduces her only sis, her version from hell.

• December 10, 2002
Maybe it is better bald
Hear Jamshed Sethna's hairy tales.

• December 4, 2002
Ms Independent
Priyanka Jain on the fine art of burning chapattis.

• December 3, 2002
My friend's spineless husband
Priyamvada Chandrasekharan wishes men would stand up and say, 'It is my responsibility to make my wife happy'.

• November 28, 2002
The tale of my tailor
A good tailor, says Shilpa Athalye, is rare. But one who stitches your necklines deep as you want is rarer.

• November 27, 2002
Oh, people!
Prashant Pimpalekar just loves people -- or rather, classifying them.

• November 26, 2002
Goodbyes hurt
Vaibhavi Gondil is terrified of farewells.

• November 25, 2002
What's oxymoron?
Look around, says Sebastian Mani, and you will see the answer.

• November 22, 2002
Sudama, a Gorkha and a one-ton truck
Colonel Neeraj Bali on an infantry officer's woes.

• November 20, 2002
Zip, Zap & Grounded
Ashu, on the pleasures of static driving.

• November 19, 2002
Crossing the same ocean
Lakshmy Parameswaran encounters an all-Indian American.

• November 18, 2002
The buck stops here
Nikita Agarwal doesn't like excuses -- either you were responsible, or you weren't.

• November 14, 2002
Every problem has an equal and neat solution
Raju Dantuluri on the secret of weighing machines.

• November 12, 2002
Heard the buzz?
Vira Thachar on the Mosquito Brigade.

• October 29, 2002
College Rag
With a shudder and a smile, Siddhu Warrier recalls his first days in college.

• October 21, 2002
An Atheist, by God!
Anil Kumar on the pros and cons of being non-believer.

• October 17, 2002
That Magical Medium
Sukanya Verma on why she prefers movies to real life.

• September 26, 2002
Mahadeva's Broom
Ratna Rajaiah learns a thing or two about human dignity--from an 'untouchable' scavenger

• September 17, 2002
Deserts and Daydreams
Dipika Kohli arrives in the city of lakes and sunsets. And Dreams.

• August 26, 2002
Ticket to Ride
Meera Guthi wants to ride. But finds there's too much mathematics involved.

• July 10, 2002
A Zen attitude
Sandrah R Pereira believes discrimination exists wherever close-minded people do.

• July 9, 2002
The baby counter
Inflation, population and many other factors have put paid to Anita Bora's parenting plans.

• July 5, 2002
Road Trip
Suba Vasudevan's passion for holidays led her to embark on this particular adventure.

• July 4, 2002
Hamari maange poori karo!
Siddhu Warrier has an early encounter with the institution of democracy.

• July 2, 2002
What's in a name?
Not much, says Raghavendra S Rao, unless it happens to be an extraordinarily long one.

• June 21, 2002
Another man's wife
For six years, they were a couple. Then, she decided to marry someone else. Nachiket J is still coping with his girlfriend's stunning volte-face.

• June 20, 2002
It happens only in India
It is one of the few places where you could be late and still not miss your flight, says Rishabh Bajpai.

• June 7, 2002
She's concerned, you see
Chindu Sreedharan encounters racism in New York.

• June 6, 2002
There's a baby on the loose
Harpreet Khurana's life was set. Then, a baby arrived on the scene.

• May 24, 2002
Somebody, please tell me his offence?
Anita Bora wonders what the problem with Mumbai policemen is.

• May 22, 2002
May 21, 1991
Shobha Warrier recalls the day Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.

• May 17, 2002
Just like that
All it took was a miraculous solution to a couple of niggling problem to make Ratna Rajaiah a believer in Life's little miracles.

• May 14, 2002
A hug and a kiss
Shernaz Vasunia's five-year-old makes every day Mother's Day.

• May 11, 2002
I missed you, Ma
Mansi Bhatia's tribute to her mother on the eve of Mother's Day.

• May 9, 2002
The evil side of friendship
Friendship is after all supposed to be the highest form of regard between humans. Why, then, do we cringe at the good fortune of someone we hold so dear, wonders Nikita Agarwal?

• May 3, 2002
When Reality takes a backseat
Even in crowded chatrooms, each person is lonely. Everyone wants someone to talk to. There is such a crazy need to be noticed, discovers Mansi Bhatia.

• May 2, 2002
Three fingers in an OT
Shailesh Jain writes about his maiden 'bloody' accident as soon as he can pound the keyboard with both hands.

• April 24, 2002
Unholy Smoke!
Anita Bora wistfully remembers the day her sweetheart was even willing to give up smoking, just for her!

• April 20, 2002
The norms of dating
John Page remembers the time he dozed off on a date.

• April 19, 2002
The manhunt
Shilpa Athalye recounts some of her experiences looking for the 'right' guy.

• April 18, 2002
In search of the quick fix
Whatever happened to hard work and patience, wonders Shernaz Vasunia.

• April 10, 2002
Young single female... on India-travel!
Dipika Kohli backpacks through the land of her parents' origin.

• April 4, 2002
What's with God's own country?
What Lekshmi Nair hates about Kerala.

• March 30, 2002
A ghost story
It was, Ramlal told Salil Kumar, a metal rod that saved Chandan.

• March 28, 2002
The Singles Club
G O Suresh on the perils of bachelorhood.

• March 20, 2002
Time was...
Today's Ayodhya sounds very different from the town of Bhavana Pankaj's infancy.

•March 19, 2002
Not for Indians
'No, seņor,' the embassy official told Roshan Paul, "it's impossible to give you a visa in less than 40 days.'

• March 18, 2002
'Scuse me, I got a class
It's challenging going back to college, writes Cleona Lira.

• March 16, 2002
Oh, it's that day!
Shuchi, on an all-Japanese celebration called White Day.

• March 12, 2002
Let's kill religion
Subramony Sesha wants to live in a world where there is no god. In peace.

• March 11, 2002
The happening kinda gal
Shilpa Athalye used to believe she was hip. Then her niece dropped in.

• March 8, 2002
Men? Sorry!
Ten years ago Shernaz Vasunia was a card-carrying feminist...

• March 7, 2002
Three friends and a bottle of rum
Tara Shankar Sahay doesn't think he will meet a person like Muthu ever again.

• March 6, 2002
Picasso comes to town
Shernaz Vasunia claims the great artist has arrived in Mumbai.

• March 5, 2002
The remedy for Gujarat
There is no use pleading with hooligans, writes Lebi Tom. Just use the law -- and hard.

• March 2, 2002
In the name of God
Mansi Bhatia wonders if the construction of a building, or the prevention of it, is worth killing for.
• February 19, 2002
Life after birth
What happens to privacy after delivery? Goes out of the window, says Deepika Ahuja.

• February 14, 2002
How deep is your love?
There's more to being someone's beau than gifting red roses, writes Mansi Bhatia.

• February 13, 2002
Inkpots! Sighhh
Ashu waits and waits for her telephone connection to be shifted to her new house.

• February 5, 2002
Them and us
Avinash Subramaniam wonders why human beings are never happy the way they are.

• January 31, 2002
Change, please?
Meera Guthi shuddered when she saw the conductor again...

• January 30, 2002
Flight into politics
The colonel popped the question at M D Riti in midair...

• January 29, 2002
My fight against terror
All Nisha Giri wants is a room... far from all the blare.

• January 28, 2002
The other side of the fence
And then, suddenly, it hit Ratna Rajaiah: The fellow has Crossed Over! He's become One of Them!

• January 24, 2002
Angel, you have flown so high
'I wish I had looked into her eyes,' writes Ashu, 'maybe there was a smile there for us.'

• January 22, 2002
It's cold atop the world
Rohini Kapur is not a big shot CEO or the PM. Just a student who always happens to top.

• January 19, 2002
Tall, dark and handsome
Uma Katipally was an addict of romance novels once.

• January 17, 2002
Want some Bruce Lee?
M D Riti didn't -- but she ended up with some, all the same!

• January 16, 2002
Adult stuff
"Inhale!" she commanded Satarupa Ghoshroy. "And don't cough for God's sake."

• January 15, 2002
The Desi Fight Club
Prakash Vaidyanathan on an association his friends haven't formed.

• January 14, 2002
Forget that young man of yours...
In death as in life, writes Gita Aravamudan, Professor Satish Dhawan had charm and dignity.

• January 10, 2002
Maid in India
No prizes for guessing whom Usha Kakarla misses the most in Britain.

• January 9, 2002
Water, water everywhere...
The heavens opened up when Gita Aravamudan arrived in Chennai.

• January 8, 2002
Because they drew an invisible line
Bhavana Pankaj on how a handful of unknown people separated a brother and sister yet again.

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