Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

Air Deccan, now featuring seats that no longer recline. The buttons are gone and the mechanics inside do not yield to fingers.

I think I’m avoiding this airline for a while.

Last night, we travelled from Bahadurgarh to Rohtak packed into the back of a jeep meant to carry ten but carrying twenty one, three of them hanging out the windows.

The operator insisted there was space for more and kept attempting to pack people in, trying them on for size until one suitably skinny could be found. He blamed our excess baggage for his shortfall in revenues, and then succeeded in packing in those people anyway. We arrived safe, but our legs almost didn’t, twisted as they were underneath it all.

The manager of the marriage hall where we found a spare room apologised for the lack of a television set.

Why do North Indian dialects write with an R but pronounce with a hard D? Compare: Marwari/marwadi, Chandigarh/Chandigad, curry/kadi.

If Barcamp is an open brand for events wherein anyone can put together an event and call it Barcamp, ‘Sagar’ must be the same for restaurants. Even this road side stall.

When I was a print journalist, our lives revolved around the next month's issue. All the dates we dealt with had to do with some or the other deadline for the next month. It used to be so intense that we always got the current month wrong. Today was in November, not October, unless reminded that it was actually still October.

I can imagine it must be the same for print journalists with daily newspapers: they’re forever living in the tomorrow.