Humor

I write almost exclusively in what I think as my humorous style. Except for the posts under 'Philosophy' and specific sub-categories under 'Fiction' and 'Others' all other posts are unlikely to be bereft of humor. Posts under this category are specifically labeled 'Humor' only because they do not fit into any of the other categories.

Humor

Self-deprecatory

  1. The tip-of-the-tongue syndrome
  2. Cleanly Bachelors: Another Oxymoron?
  3. Eyes that do not read
  4. Sick of Motion
  5. Cricketing Exploits
  6. I am on Song
  7. My date with Facebook
  8. My Guest Post - How to stay a bachelor
  9. Thrill and Spills
 10. Cooking Woes
 11. Swimming like a stone
 12. A predictive letter? – Spicy Saturday pick by Blogadda
 13. Fun with books
 14. Idling excellence
 15. Buying vegetables – Yesterday
 16. Skating on (thin?) ice
 17. Celebrations
 18. Losing arguments
 19. Shopper! Stop!
 20. Fractured Days
 21. Guest Post for Akanksha Dureja
 22. Impressions
 23. Coincidences
 24. Lament of a Jester
 25. Break
 26. Shopping woes
 27. Melting Moments
 28. Indolent Pleasures
 29. I, the literary critic
 30. Weighty matters
 31. Guest Post for Purba Ray
 32. Vexing Colors
 33. Acquiring an Ambition
 34. Charisma
 35. Hitting a fifty
 36. Shakespearean Philosophy?
 37. Let down by feminism
 38. Praise Me
 39. Pity
 40. An envious 'Humorist'
 41. Success
 42. Success Again
 43. Handwriting
 44. Reunions
 45. Self Portrayal
 46. Being on the move
 47. I never had a Valentine
 48. All for me
 49. Small talk
 50. Acquiring Taste
 51. Me? Lazy?
 52. Bibliomania in action
 53. I, the orator
 54. A substantial iss1ue?
 55. Fifty-one and kicking (and screaming too!)
 56. Heighho to the Himalayas, again
 57. A barbaric bibliophile
 58. Games people play
 59. I am determined
 60. Do I like writing?
 61. Sabha Rage
 62. The year that was
 63. Irresolute Resolutions?
 69 . Advising - inadvisable?
 65. Body Modesty
 66. Mere 'achche din'
 67. Standing on tiptoe
 68. Mirror! Mirror! On the wall!
 69. Of a book and reviews
 70. My 400th post: Thank You
 71. Learning social media lingo
 72. Obsessive
 73. Resolved
 74. Eventually - I write
 75. Being Single
 76. Bemused
 77. Lost and floundering
 78. The Law of Equality?
 79. Pictures
 80. Early to rise?
 81. Analog man in a digital world
 82. Two lines
 83. Friendship (Ye Dosti)
 84. The right words
 85. A bachelor and a baby
 86. Master of Big Issues
 87. I, the orator
 88. Fishing for compliments
 89. I love tech

 90. A writerly rant

 91. Impressing people
 92. The ability to quote
 93. Phobias
 94. Justifications
 95. Choice confusion
 96. Outdated lessons
 97. Words maketh a man
 98. Another New Year
 99. English-Vinglish?
100. Nostalgia
101. Blank
102. Socially conscious
103. Random queries
104. Serve my neighbor
105. Enlightenment
106. Follow the Leader
107. How I stayed a bachelor
108. The humor writing business
109. Ladders everywhere
110. Flummoxed by reviews
111. e-Narcissism
112. Vicarious
113. Dogged by the discerning
114. Writer's block
115. Becoming modern
116. Timely Help
117. Empathy?
118. Confidence Lessons
119. Confidence Lessons-II
120. Confidence Lessons-III
121. Quantum Facts
122. Communication Lessons
123. Communication Lessons II
124. Communication Lessons III
125. Only what I owe
126. A license to be rude
127. Impressing people - the easy way
128. A reasonable contempt?
129. Unreasonably reasonable
130. I am illiberal?
131. Better to have loved and lost?
132. I do? I understand?

133. Here it comes again

134. Say Nothing - Student

135. Say Nothing - Manager

136. Say Nothing - Politician

137. Outrage

138. Important, at last

139. The Physics of Me

140. In the moment

141. False Friends?

142. Passing Time

143. Lacking SMQ

144. Cooking up philosophy?

145. Waiting

146. Sitting on the fence

147. Man of few words

Management
1.  The mysteries of Interviewing
2.  Espionage and Management
3.  On Busybodies - Part I
4.  On Busybodies - Part II
5.  Pre-placement Talks
6.  On Presentations
7.   Monkey see monkey do
8.   The BIG Picture
9.   Words of Importance - Scenario
10. Words of importance - Strategy
11. Words of Importance - Synergy
12. Panchatantra with a twist - The Blue Jackal
13. Words of Importance - Downsizing
14. Panchatantra with a twist : The Turtle and the swans
15. Words of Importance - Team-Player
16. Panchatantra with a twist: The Bird and the Monkey...
17. Words of Importance - Learning Curve
18. Manage-Men-T
19. Old Fables New Morals - The wind and the sun
20. Old Fables New Morals - Hercules and the Wagoner
21. Old Fables New Morals - The Goatherd and the Wild ...
22. A human resource

Advertisements/TV/Movies
1.  Ad Agonies
2.  More Ad Agonies
3.  Fun with ads
4.  Requiem for some cinematic formulae
5.  Beauty and Success
6.  Ads - The best of programs on TV?
7.  Ad Agonies, Again
8.  The Lament of a Woman
9.  The Revenge of Women
10. Cinema, Serials and the concept of Goodness
11. Even Angels will fall
12. Straighten up or die
13. Back to Ad Agonies
14. The Metamorphosis of the Indian Hero
15. The Metamorphosis of the Indian Heroine
16. Uncommon Needs - Satisfied
17. Guest Post for Janaki Nagaraj
18. Intolerance?
19. What have they done to you, Bond?
20. All about Arnab
21. The importance of Bollywood songs

22. Of heroes and villains
23. Romancing Bollywood style

Fiction

1. Romance on a diet
2. Desi Wild Hogs
3. ONCE AGAIN
4. A Bungled Romance
5. An untold story
6. The Woman who loved her dog
7. Heaven in Hell - Part I
8. Heaven in Hell - Part II
9. Heaven In Hell - Part III
10. Heaven in Hell - Part IV
11. Heaven in Hell - Part V
12. A Season of Hope! A Season of Despair! – Consolation Prize Lakme Contest
13. Yet another hair-raising tale
14. Eviction
15. A 9 year old’s unfair life
16. Make a wish
17. Sweet and Sour
18. A Christmas whimsy

19. A modern Utopia?

Others

1.    Of journalistic 'perfection'
2.    Cricketing Gentlemen
3.    College Vignettes
4.    Just love the way business works
5.    Apt Quotations
6.    Two minutes
7.    Oh! How we use our brains! – Spicy Saturday pick by Blogadda
8.    Sophisticated Behavior
9.    Office Busyness
10.  This ‘Green’ thing
11.  Truth is stranger than Fiction
12.  Riding Hobbyhorses
13.  A typical(?) Group Discussion
14.  Words and Meanings
15.  Words and Meanings Again
16.  Phrases and Meanings
17.  Phrases and Meanings - I
18.  Phrases and Meanings - II
19.  Phrases and Meanings-III : Drop in any time
20.  Phrases and Meaning IV - Good One?
21.  P&M V - Guess who I am
22.  P&M VI - I don't care
23.  P&M VII - Let us agree to disagree
24.  P&M VIII - Nobody understands me
25.  P&M IX - I may be wrong
26.  P&M X - All Right
27.  A seven day week?
28.  The sevens of marriage
29.  P&M XI - No offense meant
30.  Relearning English
31.  Beware those titles
32.  Karma and do-nothingism
33.  Markownikoff's Rule for human behavior
34.  Deadlines
35.   I am impolite?
36.  Eco-Diwali
37.  A Martian Rage
38.  An Arrogant AAP?
39.  Influential people
40.  Bird-brain among Birders
41.  Birders again - Chilika Lake
42.  Labels
43.  Easy to please
44.  Hard to get
45.  Child-like
46.  Mobile woes
47.  A sense of belonging
48.  Nobody likes compliments
49.  Guest post for Dagny Sol
50.  Problems and Solutions
51.  Procrastination?
52.  Out of the box
53.  Less than three
54.  Much Ado about 'Nothing'
55.  Proverbial Lessons?
56.  Contradictory proverbs
57.  Discarded proverbs
58.  Contradictory Proverbs - Again?
59.  More contradictory proverbs?
60.  Proverbs of convenience
61.  Proverbs requiring interpretation
62.  Truncated Proverbs?
63.  Proverbial cliches?
64.  Scratch my back, please
65.  Confused
66.  Winning
67.  Boys will be boys?
68.  Dressing decently
69.  Meet and Greet?
70.  Positively Rich?
71.  The entertaining Einstein
72.  Keynes - Interesting?
73.  Bertrand Russell and dogma
74.  Bertrand Russell and Politics
75.  Bertrand Russell and Happiness
76.  Bertrand Russell and idleness
77.  What makes me tick
78.  Gaucherie
79.  Guide to becoming an effective Talk-show guest?
80.  Of stubbornness and persistence
81.  Singular Lessons: Guest post for Sumeetha Manikand...
82.  Yet another problem?
83.  Sorry apologies
84.  Chalta hai

85.  Greet back, our way
86.  Black and White
87.  Strange encounters of the pleasant kind
88.  Monkey on my back
89.  Guidelines, please
90.  God save me
91.  Generation Gap?
92.  Helpless Lines
93.  Empowerment
94.  Honestly Rude?
95.  The need to lie
96.  Maundering about Laundering
97.  Approval
98.  Panchatantra with a twist - Netted Pigeons
99.  Culture - Fragile, handle with care
100. Panchatantra with a twist : The bug and the flea
101. Have Opinion, Will Speak
102. The numbers game
103. Self Image
104. Beliefs
105. Old words; New meanings
106. Work Hard, Play Hard
107. Agree to disagree
108. Homo Motoris
109. The perils of a modern writer
110. Fantasy
111. The inimitable Oscar Wilde
112. Much ado about intolerance
113. Flooded out
114. Posts galore
115. An offer you cannot refuse?
116. Satire in India
117. What if...
118. Sweet-talking?
119. Directions
120. Nutrition
121. Decoding likes
122. Luck
123. Controversy
124. Letting go
125. Nothing succeeds like Success
126. A bad workman blames his tools
127. Familiarity breeds contempt
128. This day and that day
129. Do it well?
130. What's in a name?
131. No means NO
132. Free!
133. A Christmas rant
134. The hard way
135. Halos
136. Learning from History?
137. False Equivalence
138. Mobile mania
139. Miracles
140. Straw Men
141. Non Sequitur
142. Post Hoc
143. Nirvana
144. The bad old days - Child
145. The bad old days - T(w)eens
146. The bad old days - Adult
147. Vendetta
148. If Then Else
149. Catharsis
150. Unsung geniuses
151. Tu quoque
152. Argumentum ad baculum
153. Survivorship bias
154. Argumentum ad populum
155. Freedom of Speech
156. Acronyms
157. This game called Bridge
158. Low hanging fruit
159. Parsimony
160. Aadhaared
161. Change
162. Opinions
163. Homo Contradictus
164. Discussions
165. How you ought to live
166. How you ought to live - II
167. How you ought to live - III
168. How you ought to live - IV
169. Bilbliophilic elitism
170. Moral of the story
171. The Comparison game
172. From rockets to drones
173. Ideals and Idols
174. The bitter truth
175. Buy the Ferrari first
176. The Art of Generalizing-I
177. The Art of Generalizing-II
178. The Art of Generalizing-III
179. Numbers don't lie?
180. The problem with democracy?
181. Mirages
182. Love only supports virtue?
183. Ideal forgetfulness?
184. Destructive speech?
185. Friendship defined?
186. Holiness?
187. The Blame Game
188. Sweet speech?
189. The unhealing hurt
190. Open minded
191. Turn the other cheek?
192. Look before you leap
193. To do or not to do?
194. Educated idiots?
195. The seeds of happiness?
196. Balanced?
197. Steadfast?
198. The Listicle menace
199. The value of scarcity
200. Neo-Scientific thinking
201. The biggest sin?
202. Thrashed?
203. Convincing Insults?
204. Selfish altruism?
205. Do thine duty
206. Confusing proverbs
207. Self-satisfying philosophy
208. Fruity Friends?
209. Advice
210. I told you so
211. Dealing in absolutes
212. Education?
213. Too content?
214. Lost and floundering
215. Judgmental
216. The power of headlines
217. Progress
218. Money and Happiness
219. Work-Life balance?
220. Winners don't lose?

221. Misused sayings

222. Loopholes

223. Preemptive illogic?

224. To preen or not to preen?

225. How not to preen?

226. Say Nothing - Politician

227. The law is an ass?

228. Morality and legality

229. Of bootleggers and the law

230. Examples

231. Frivolous?

232. The illusion of control

233. Priorities

234. The head and the heart

235. Lockdown musings

236. Covid Lessons?

237. Authors, Ho!

238. Ascribing motives

239. Handling advice

240. The law of unreasonableness

241. Evident truths

242. Journeys and Destinations

243. Paired opposites?

244. The need for ladders

245. The Art of Trivializing

246. Then and Now

247. Judging by the cover

248. Great Expectations

249. Comparisons

250. Of Ambition and Purpose

251. Milestones

252. Multi-purpose tasking?

253. Conditional Happiness

254. Arguing and Convincing