In the Name of the Father

June 1, 2006 DISCLAIMER: Like all controversial productions, it is important to know that all characters and events in the Cravings part are...

Seven Years Back...

Taunton – May 26, 1999 Ramesh b Vaas 5 (4) SC Ganguly c sub b Wickramasinghe 183 (158) R Dravid run out (Muralitharan) 145 (129) SR Tendulka...

A Hitch-hiker's Guide to Bengali

A quirky short-list of Bengali words – which are generally heard all over offices, colleges, hostels, visa queues, airport lounges, film stu...

UP Newswatch

Three interesting news items: June se kaun padayega ENT mein? In Meerut Medical College, the ENT department has only one professor. And he i...

Sholay: A History in Letters

Dariya Mahal, Colaba 18th August, 1975 Dear Geeta – Sanjeev-bhaiyya and I went to see a cinema yesterday at Minerva theatre in Tardeo. The n...

Ab Hindi mein...

So, which are the best of Hindi-dubbed Hollywood titles? Before we go any further, let me inform all Townies and South Delhi-ites that Juras...

Mixed Metaphors... aur Gulzar

All the lyrics are from memory. Hence, pardon the errors! And that also explains why all the lines are in isolation. Why do I so like Gulzar...

24 Frames Per Second

Written for a blog compeition, c. March 2005. It all started with Kishori Paswan. He was the manservant at my grandfather’s house in Assam a...

Dear Farhan,

I am a big fan of your dad's - and yours too! I am sure you have heard this a million times but I have to tell you all the jokes of Dil ...

Where Are They Now?

Not a very long time ago, there used to be one channel on television. In fact, it has been that way for the major part of my life... if that...

Meerut Musings

Culture shock for a city slicker… small towns are small, but not too far behind! For all those of you who thought that tank tops and Nokia N...

A Bengali in Bahraich

Okay, first things first... let me confess that I have not yet gone to Bahraich and I just put that in the subject line for the sake of alli...