A Vindication of Limited Freedom of Speech

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 19th September 2009) There are some people who want the country to consider an amendm...

Culture Shock!

This is what Blogger's login page looks like, when you try from Oman! If that was not enough to scare away a duo-cultural dehaati like ...

Face Off: Legendary Confrontations in Hindi Cinema

One beautiful thing I miss from the good ol' days of Hindi cinema is the Battle of the Middle Reels. In movies starring two leading char...

Random Movies I Like: 100 Days

I just love when Hindi films give 'scientific' gyan! For example, in Mr India , when Ashok Kumar is explaining the 'Theory of In...

Shakespeare Gets it Wrong Now and Then

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 5th September, 2009) “I don’t even know these people!!! I mean, what the hell? Rosche...

Monkey in the Backyard

Waking me up - when I was a kid - was quite a task! Because (like my son now), I used to take a long time to fall asleep but when I did, a h...

On a Platter

A platter is defined as a full meal served at the table consisting of the best that the restaurant has to offer. Visual aesthetics prefera...

A Life of Serendipity with Interference from a Walking Sponge

It could be that I have been watching too many sitcoms for my own good. Perhaps it's that at some level, I am grateful to be here. Thank...

Midnight to Middle Age

I'm not quite a Doris Lessing fan, but she does write some exquisite passages. Here's something from her series Children of Violence...