Tomato Blog

Though I am a Christian, I hate to attend church. For me church is a very boring place. However, this year’s Easter day (April 8 – last month), my wife cajoled me into attending church. But I told her I would rather stand outside the compound than go in and listen to all the ‘gyan’ [...]

In Bangalore, the weather has become so unpredictable this summer. One moment the sun looks like it will make a Joshi Fry or Barbecued Joshi out of me if I venture out, and the next moment the clouds gather and threaten to lash the city.  Most of the time it turns out to be all bark and [...]

Note: This is a guest post written by Bhavia, my good blogosphere friend. Here’s her link: http://heyithinkthisway.wordpress.com/ ***** Why your blog is called ‘Tomato Blog’? Are you a tomato dweller? I wonder (blink) Most of the acquaintances in blogosphere happen as accidents. For the first time I

Whenever I visit my home town, my father-in-law insists on me visiting our small rubber plantation located at the top of a hill which is a few miles from our house. And every time I arrive at the foot of the hill, the tiny bit of pleasure I have in visiting my own land vanishes [...]

Reblogged from TOMATO BLOG: I was brought up in a village which insanely believed in ghosts until recently. There are many stories about spectral encounters, demonic possession and paranormal haunting. This particular story was one of the strangest sagas of possession. This ghost was first spotted o

“I don’t like your brother“, announced my wife after a weekend visit to my brother’s house, “See, he spends all his time in the kitchen with his wife“. This has come from a woman who more than often complains, “Why don’t you learn from your brother, how much he helps his wife“. After the latest [...