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If Varun Gandhi had said that he would slaughter a chicken instead of Muslims, his mother would have put him behind bars herself, pronto!  I...

The Hangal Game

Hollywood star Kevin Bacon has claimed that he has worked with every major star in Hollywood. Now, some philanthropic souls have made a g...

Conversations with my son

My wife wants to give up our son for adoption.  In the last 48 hours, he has beaten up Chitrangada Singh's son, poured water on his slee...

Of Reflections and Shadow Play

If someone had told me on my first trip to Delhi in May 2007, for a conference on music, that I would spend more than a month there, I would...

Oddballs

The realisation of age first hits you when you sight your first grey hair.  It happened to me in February 2001. A colleague pointed it out a...

Baikuntha Mallick: Poetry in Obscurity

Non-Bengali readers should please excuse this nostalgic outpourings of a bunch of non-resident Bengalis about their favourite fictional thri...

The Ninjas of the Vegetable Market

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, on 14th March 2009) Living alone makes one evolve time-saving and effort-saving mechanisms ...

Badiya Pakshi: 8 Favourite Jatayu Scenes

Bowing to overwhelming popular demand (2 comments on the previous post! ), a piece on the greatest thriller writer in Bengali is now mandate...

Anurag Kashyap's 'Dev D': Where 'Maar Dala' Sums up the Entire Movie

You know it's disaster when the movie opens with a kid sitting by a waterfall...you know he's going to come back to that same waterf...

Setting a Tune to the Wrong Meter

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 28th February 2009) Sometimes, you know you have the kind of face that begs to be tak...

'Amma, the Guy I Want to Marry...Uh...Has A...'

(Published in Zeitgesit, The New Indian Express, dated 14 February, 2009) While media, activists and citizens of the world have gone up in a...

There's a Market for Everything

(Published in Zeitgesit, The New Indian Express, dated 31st January, 2009) "It's a fifty lakh deal, yaar, I can't sign it just ...

Langda Taggee: A Lame Post, Long Overdue

This is the most difficult tag I have ever done. 25 things to 'help me know better'? Questions like who would be interested in know...