Live - From the Calcutta Book Fair

So, I managed to resurrect my attendance at the Calcutta Book Fair after a three-year hiatus. And quite appropriately, this year was the fir...

My Favourites from Indo-Anglian Fiction

For a very long time, the only English fiction I read was by Indian authors. It started with Midnight's Children and I ran through the e...

Cow Belt Curiosities

One of the (debatable) perks of my current job is the travel required in the most interesting area of the country – The Cow Belt. It has cha...

Pilgrim's Progress: Calcutta Book Fair 2007

The second most popular tourism city in France is not Nice, Cannes or Bordeaux. It is Lourdes - where an estimated five million Christians g...

Slurp, Slurp: Our Favourite Restaurants

So, almost five years after the first edition, the second one is out. The list of our favourite restaurants. And we did it exactly the same ...

Play It Again, Sam!

Everyone should have a theme song. Apart from providing a standard entertainment option at picnics, the greater utility is, of course, when ...

Do You Know a Nobel Laureate?

Well, neither do I. But there is this guy I know. He never came first in school. Actually, he spent a whole lot of time standing outside the...

The God of Bollywood Trivia

This blog comes up with a whole lot of Bollywood trivia every now and then. So, no surprises as a few more of them come up. Except this time...

Master of the Game: The Novels of Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon passed away on 31st Jan. For me and countless millions of my generation, he was the original Pied Piper, exposing us to an un...