“To Tela, tej, and katikal… We are coming back home!”

The last time there was a revolution around here one reason was the hike of a few cents in petrol prices. The cabbies were up in arms. No wonder if some find... Read more »

“It’s alright!” Is it?

“Cool down; it’s alright!” a couple of people were trying to calm a lady probably in her late thirties. She was arguing with a fellow about a decade her senior. None of... Read more »

“Sayonara!” to a breed overstaying its welcome

There is a breed which, while it should have joined the dinosaurs, is still alive and kicking, and kicking hard too. That breed which enjoys belittling everything local, from good old injera... Read more »

“How I hate this job!”

God forbid; but say you are on the operating table. Just think of the surgeon whom is to cut and then stich you up hates his work. He had been going into... Read more »

Of mesmerizing smiles and jaw-breaker stake

Two occasions that found me in restaurants these past few days; both times for a bite or two with friends back home for a few weeks’ vacations from a country where the... Read more »

‘The Confused’

I read somewhere what an American satirist fade up with the Republican/ Democrat ‘clash of the titans’ sort of bickering proposed an alternative party… ‘The Party of the Confused!’ Confused, that’s what... Read more »

Noise pollution and a careless city

Time really flies, doesn’t it? Before you completely shake off last night’s vodka from your system it is drinking time again! There are easier ways of explaining things! And the vodka having... Read more »

The abuse of time

It is 10:00 A.M. Time for your major appointment which was postponed a couple of times because the GM was’ “Busy!” The secretary was, as they say, dressed to kill. Aren’t they... Read more »

Demonization…the name of the ‘new’ game

It has become a game; a favorite one, too. Sort of a spectator sport with no rules or responsibility except vile words meant to wound and hurt. Demonization! That’s the name of... Read more »

 ‘The demon’ is in the detail  One of those moments one seeks the advice of a best friend. It happened several months back. The gentleman was having some marital problems; or so... Read more »