DesiPundit

Mridula got a call from the BBC to participate on their show about the Olympics.  It took forty emails, one new table lamp, a geriatric laptop, a somewhat out-of-focus webcam and Murphy’s Law operating in full force, but she made it!  Read her post for the whole nail-biting experience of preparing for the show.

The D Day- I wake up late (around 11.00 am India time) on Saturday and after a cup of tea, switch on the laptop. The keyboard is working but the mouse pad is not! Whatever tricks my nephew and I try, the laptop would not budge. Sesha is away at his music school. I of course panic. My nephew says let us try using the laptop via the keyboard but I find it too cumbersome. I go back to the PC and ask my nephew to go and get that table lamp. The sound at PC won’t work! The keyboard at the laptop won’t work and the friend’s table lamp has the shades that will cast the light downward only.