Best of 2007: My Opinionated Takes

Blogging Rule #32: You have to give away Best of the Year awards on your blog. Blogging Rule #32(a): The awards have to be opinionated. I th...

Phenomenon

In a major road of South Calcutta - Rashbehari Avenue - there is a very famous shop for Punjabis. Before any wrong ideas set in, let me hast...

Baby Products I Endorse: Diligent Candy's Tag

This is a belated post on a tag given by Diligent Candy on the baby products I endorse. Gah! Since She-Who-Cannot-Be-Named-On-This-Blog is...

MoFO Land!

If you've been to any bar, you know what I'm talking about. There you are, enjoying a drink with someone - friend or partner - when ...

Author Count: 2

I am slowly but surely edging into into the Celebrity Circuit. About a month or two back, a friend published her first book of poems and th...

Where Else In the World...

… do they name lodges and eateries after famous novels and poems? (Saw Aranyak Bar & Restaurant and Hotel Ruposhi Bangla on VIP Road) ...

Bollywood Ka Boss: Coming Soon!

Bollywood Ka Boss promos are on air right now - and the show starts on 6 Jan (every Sunday). Apparently, Boman Irani is a Bollywood trivia ...

Seek and Ye Shall Find...

The technologically-challenged-me (apart from being terribly busy) is terribly kicked with a 'search keyword' functionality added to...

Remember The Titans

WARNING: Self-indulgent, pointlessly nostalgic post coming up. Too many of my posts start with this caveat. I think I will stop saying this ...

Hum Toh Aise Hain: From the Ghats of Benares

Raand, saand, seendi, sanyasi In se bache to sevey Kashi... Every city has something famous. For Benares, I would avoid the traditional thi...

Aur Thoda: UP Gastronomy

I just completed almost a cross-state run across Uttar Pradesh. Landed in the morning at Lucknow. Drove down to Kanpur. Then onto Varanasi ...

Lyrical Thoughts

Javed Akhtar - who refuses to write obscene lyrics at all costs - recently professed being jealous of Gulzar for writing Beedi. He wished th...

Yes, DEAR!

My wife's school has a lovely programme called DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) - in which one period of the day, all the children have t...

Om is where the Heart Is

If you want to know the secret of how Govind Ahuja became Govinda and the secret formula behind Maine Pyar Kiya 's dialogues, then you w...

Unlimited Buffet

The Great Kabab Factory has an interesting format - they have combined the good ol' buffet concept with the South Indian meal. So, they ...

Pujabarshiki 1414

Despite being in centre of Bong civilisation in last year's Pujo as well, I did not get around to buying my quota of the Pujo annual iss...

Where Are You From?

I recently installed a snazzy device in my sidebar, which tells me the locations of people who drop by at my blog and the pages they read. T...

Claps & Whistles: Dialogues from the latest Bengali Potboilers

Reading the annual Puja issues of a few Bengali magazines and came across this absolute gem of an article (in Anandalok ) on the dialogues f...

Saaransh: The Life and Times of Mahesh Bhatt

It has been such a long time since I did one of those 3000-word jaw-dropping, migraine-inducing compendium posts on Bollywood. So, while wat...

Char Ka Chamatkar

Hey - I have not done a tag for a very long time! So, I will take one from my favourite fat blogger and do this tag. (Just in case you are ...

Durga Pujo for Dummies

There is a general feeling of envy-tinged awe among non-Bengalis about the spectacle that goes by the name of Durga Pujo. I mean, four days ...