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The World of Jigneshbhai & Swami is a series of light-hearted stories about the familiar chaos of everyday life. Through conversations over coffee and everyday adventures, Jigneshbhai’s quiet wisdom and Swami’s restless curiosity explore family, work, society and modern living with humour and insight.
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‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone’ – said Blaise Pascal. On those lines, there might be some truth in extending it a bit – ‘All of a nation’s problems perhaps stem from their parliamentarians’ inability to sit quietly and agree in a room together.’ If only … Read more
My friend Swami had a new reason to complain since this morning – the rains. “I really got caught in the rains today – it was really bad, the weather, roads and traffic”, he told me as I met him today. Monsoon in Bangalore is, at best, mild, so a steady bout of rain in … Read more
I often wonder what a worse condition is to suffer from – diabetes or heart disease. And what is easier to live or die with. Like the wife says it is easy to fix heart disease if it is only that. You may be able to detect it before you get a heart attack and … Read more
“Who is this S&P?” asked my friend Swami to my broker over a cup of coffee. Swami, who generally spends time with his family over weekends, suddenly called me on Sunday afternoon, and said he wanted to meet my broker friend Jignesh who knew a thing or two about investing. I was not quite sure … Read more
“Are you a vegetarian or non-vegetarian?” asked the waiter at the hotel to my colleague Swami. This question always confuses him. “I am a vegetarian mostly, but I can eat chicken, except on Tuesday and Friday. So, it depends on what everyone else is ordering”, he replied. Such responses always confuse waiters in hotels, who … Read more