No More Beating Around the Bush

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, on 24th January 2009) Among the several memories that tarnish my recollection of my childho...

Yet Another Slumdog Post

There are two people who deserve all the awards in the world for their contribution to Slumdog. One of them - Rahman - will probably get the...

The Auto-biography: In Which a Linguistically-Challenged Woman Falls Prey to Avaricious Autos and Chivalrous Cops, and Readers Forgive Bad Puns etc

My misadventures in Delhi, as I persist in my stubborn resistance to a language I consider distinctly illogical, non-musical and devoid of l...

A Colony Where Every Band is Banned

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated January 10, 2009) A friend of mine who lives in Chittaranjan Park in Delhi – also kno...

QS Cutie: Aamir Khan's pre-1995 Films

Aamir Khan debuted in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak , as a fresh-faced collegiate and quickly caught the imagination of the teenaged girls of the c...

And, finally...

Now that Rehman has won a major international award (and an internationally acclaimed director has named a major Indian star in his acceptan...

Remembering some numbers...

Around 1992, two singers made their debuts in the Bengali music scene - Suman Chatterjee and Anjan Dutta. Their repertoire was a significant...

The Desert Island 26: Films

Came across a really cool tag. Naming a favourite film for every letter of the alphabet. This is a totally to-die-for post to do because it ...

Teen Deviyaan... Part II

Due to overwhelming public demand (11 comments on the previous  post  on the same topic, of which GG 's was a rather esoteric wishlist),...

From the mouth of babes...

We took our son, Joy, to the zoo yesterday. My parents, who are here right now, were also forced to tag along. But they would go anywhere to...