Raghu

The feel of claiming a victim with a small gesture you make is awesome. I do not go around killing people but just last week while walking in the mall I made a fellow shopper completely freeze in his tracks and look at me in disbelief. I didn’t do anything fanatical. I just smiled at him. An early morning shopper, in his pajamas and holding energy drink his hand, with a disgusted look on his face. We meet face to face and I Just give him a smile, he must have concluded I was an ET with extra face muscles enabling me to exert a smile. What followed was more intriguing to me, the moment I smiled and he gave those strange look, the man immediately looked down. Now do not ask where but I was Laughing Out Loud (in silent mode). May be I should have told him, Sir there is some more shopping left for you this morning. Surely a smile can bring the best and worst out of a person. Some will be dead shocked and some give quizzed looks and few do smile back. It is more like we approach one an...

Bike ride on a weekend made me realize that, when driving a car, the shouting and cursing I do on bike riders are very much applicable to me also. Came to realize that the speed at which I travel, has got nothing to do with the rules I follow (Speed in my case because after two near fatal accidents, I have slowed down a lot). I know this is not a new discovery to most of us but what amazes me is we still have a dynamic approach to traffic. This must partly explain the traffic conditions around you. We keep making new rules as we go along and dynamically develop a new approach to traffic. I will be a true believer if you happen to say that there will be people who will break rules even if they are in place for their own good. Now I will give a modest try to do a little reverse engineering gimmick and put forward few rules for the “drivers” in general. 1 . First of all, please undermine the white lines on the road those are Just meant to be Modern Art. 2 . If you happen to see “ STO...