Manas Garg Speaks

I came back late from office today – after 11 pm – had an unusually busy day. I reached home and turned on my computer. I launched Internet Explorer and prayed – Oh God! I don’t want my internet connection to work tonight. It was working. And here I am, at 1 a.m., dead tired, [...]

Remember the time when coins were such a hard thing to find? No shopkeeper seemed to have coins, and everyone resorted to shelling out those toffees for 50p or 1 Re. (I bet the smart ones still do) I’ve been facing the opposite problem for the last few months. I don’t carry coins in with [...]

Let me share another childhood memory with you – a funny one this time. — When I was a kid, before my voice cracked, I had a very thin voice. In simpler terms, I had a voice that sounded very much like a girl’s. I was teased a lot, and I used to wait for [...]

I saw Enchanted today. The new movie by Disney studios. It begins as a classic Disney fairy tale animation, where a pretty girl meets the prince, and they decide to marry. The evil queen however, is afraid of losing her throne to this girl, and sends her to – guess where – New York! From the [...]

If you are/were fond of eating at the gate of NIT Trichy, at Rajni Anna’s or Raju Anna’s or at Motel Bamboos, you must have eaten the world’s best egg dish – kalakki. After passing out, I missed it so much, that one day I decided to make it on my own. Smart as I am, [...]

Presenting Vimal Kumar – the man who has made searching for trains so much easier for everyone with his brilliant website eRail.in. I contacted him through email and he was kind enough to let me ask him a few questions. Here we go! Hi Vimal! I know you as the creator of eRail.in. Please tell [...]

What do you think of when you think about an auto-rickshaw driver? Tampered meters, wicked ways and bad sense of driving? Let me share one trip with you. I had to take an auto from Hyderabad airport to office – a long distance. I asked an auto wallah, and he quoted me the expected 250. [...]

So many of us looking to make a quick buck by starting websites :) See this. Thanks Murali for sharing the link :)

I feel at home at only two places in the world – one is Ghaziabad, where I have spent my formative years of my life and one in the campus of NIT Trichy – my alma mater. I don’t feel at home in Hyderabad where I stay currently or in Ahmedabad, where my parents stay. [...]

A thousand splendid Suns is the second book by Khaled Hosseini, the amazing author of The Kite Runner. I read this book recently, and can’t help but write about it. The style of writing is again, amazingly descriptive. You can actually see the streets of Kabul, the house where Laila lives, the time when the [...]