Buddies - On Making Friends

 This Bud's For You was the tagline of Budweiser.. now that I am wiser, I see some sense in that, though I never liked the beer, after being bred on the King of Good Times, or Kingfisher. The Mexican ones were more up my street..but I am digressing. This is about bud-dies..making buddies.

Two new, and two old buddies- made through a Play directed by Shweta Kushal at IIM Indore first. And then, through an impromptu invite for a pizza. Prachi Jain, Pratishtha Batra, Neeti Ingole (she turned out to be an alum of IIMK too) and Aakansh with me at a year end meetup. 

So I have these major kinds-

School buddies

College buddies

MBA class buddies

Ex-student buddies

Office buddies

Single Malt Buddies

Golf Buddies

Niece/nephew buddies

Chaddi buddies from home

Facebook buddies too, who I may not even have met.. though I try.

Book Review- Love, Lies and Layoffs

I read mostly non-fiction, unless a Murakami strikes. Or a Wodehouse. But every once in a while (Old Jungle Saying, like in Phantom Comics), I read something that I picked up impulsively at the airport..just because it looks interesting.

This one is a well-written story of an office romance- utterly predictable, between a guy and a girl at a media house. Office politics is the villain, rather than any one person, that hangs like a cloud over the love-birds. The supporting cast is impressive, from bimbettes to well-meaning alcoholics. Sort of 'Na tum jaano na hum' in prose.

The corporate shenanigans instantly brought in thoughts of the ongoing Tata-Mistry saga that's playing out as we speak. This one's smaller in scale, but interesting nevertheless. One identifies with Frieda, the narrator, which is half the battle won for the author in any story.

Nice read, for its style, realism and wit. My first with Usha Narayanan, the author.

My home office

These are the mondha-chairs I spoke of in an earlier post. They brought back childhood memories, and are presently serving as my home office chairs at Indore.  Pretty comfy.