Introducing

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's common man rang the chants on a quiet morning in an Engineering college in Mysore Road, Bangalore. The world had witnessed the birth of it's latest superhero. And this superhero would not be a radioactive spider, nor a mutant, nor a half-alien, half-pigeon, half-Inca, half-meteorite monster. In fact, there was nothing special at all about this superhero. He was scrawny, short, bespectacled and was as noticeable as just another peanut in a bowl of peanuts *.

Little wonder then that he was called "Common man". The nomenclature was given by a certain friend of the author (let's call him, for want of a better name, Co-dee). So what unusual ability did he possess that earned him the "common man" appellation in the first place. Well, it was his uncanny ability to turn up exactly at the scene when something big was about to happen. Whether the class babble mouth was about to announce some juicy bit of gossip to his/her best friend, whether some random riots were about to break out, or if anything newsworthy was about to happen, somehow he was there. It was in this uncanny ability that he stood out like a diamond in a bowl of peanuts *. The similarities he shares with the eponymous RK Laxman comic character played no small part in being given the appellation.

So given his tendency to (unknowingly) prognosticate interesting or cool events, it was somewhat inevitable that he would have a lot to raconteur about. At least a lot to blog about. And that is what promises to follow in (a lot of) blog posts.

With that we conclude the pilot episode, and move on to the real stuff.

Post Script: One of my friends was in a Hari to comment that a lot (actually he said 'all') of my blog posts have largely been rants of various sorts, which is a very accurate observation. I don't see what the problem with that is. Scott Adams made his living from the same. Marvin the Paranoid Android would not be the most lovable character from H2G2 if he ranted any less. Ditto for Bender, Futurama. But point taken. Common man's adventures, at least the early ones, promise to be a lot less 'rant'y. Which doesn't mean we're talking 'Happy Days' but more like 'Family Guy'

* Credit to the same Co-dee for the very unusual similes