Aananda

Doctor’s with a shitty personality can be more annoying than other people with a shitty personality. He who is put on a pedestal next to God does not get a pass at being shitty, and yet there are so many of them. And with this pandemic, doctors have penetrated our homes through  panel discussions and debates on TV.  And the shitty ones get a bullhorn stuck right in front of them.    ‘Should people hoard the new covid-19 drug?’ the reporter asked. 'Rising tensions with regard to possible supply shortage has left people alarmed, and they believe hoarding as the only way they can protect themselves. What do you suggest?' Honestly, this felt like a fairy reasonable conclusion that most of us would come to. Although deep down we all know hoarding isn’t an ideal response to the pandemic, we aren’t above that compulsion. The doctor who was on the show that day responded with a mocking chuckle , followed by a definite no. ‘No we shouldn’t hoard the new drug’ he said. A...

Nobody has been paying rents and dues since 2 months. And being someone who depends on rental income, it’s a huge pain in the ass to talk to tenants and hear their financial constraints for the 100 th time, although deep down you know that they’re pretty well off enough to pay. But my mom, being the kind woman she is, decided to meet our tenants to discuss partial rent waiving. And so we went to see him. But honestly, all tenants would comfortably wish their owners disappear so that they don’t have to talk about rent at all. When we sat down with him, he spoke in the audible frequency of a snake. And not even a “healthy, mildly enthusiastic about life, harry potter kind of snake”. This was a snake too haughty to care about being audible. We couldn’t hear a single thing he said without leaning in. God knows we tried to maintain a 6 feet distance. But on a safer note, we wore our green home-stitched masks that wrinkled like raisins because it has been washed too many times, and he had h...