Lemon and Chillies: Bollywood's Obsession with Superstition

By and large, Karan Johar has been forced to bear the cross of having introduced the K-Name syndrome in Hindi cinema though it is only becau...

Apu and Gogol

I think the biggest compliment I can pay Jhumpa Lahiri and Mira Nair - after seeing The Namesake - is that it reminded me of Aparajito an...

Guys, we still love you...

Dear Men in Blue - We have rubbed out the sleep and blinked back the tears from last night. Also, the terrible vodka hangover is now gone. S...

Music & Lyrics: PJ goes to Bollywood

How many song jokes can you think of? In between a mail used to do the rounds, which had an absolute gem… Tum aa gaye ho, Noor aa gaya hain ...

Big Brother: The Doyens of Bengali Fiction

I have always believed that children's fiction in Bengali is one of the best in the world - English included. However, since I have no k...

Seven Deadly Sins

On the express request of Orange Jammies, here are some more 55-ers. Aarrgghh! Nooo! Nahin! Took some time because I tried to make stories a...

An Attempt at Fiction

A couple of months back, a media group organised a short story contest in which the first paragraph was given and 600 more words had to be w...

100*

This is my 100th post. Don't clap yet. Mad Momma did 100 posts in the first 56 days of 2007! It took me more than 2 years of official a...

Thinking Blogger - Who, Me?

So, I am a Thinking Blogger, thus spake Orange Jammies . Obviously, this is meant to be a compliment though I am really amazed that people ...

55-Word Heroines

I read two blogs yesterday. One was a collection of 55-word stories. For a verbose me, telling a story that short seemed impossible. The se...

Theory of Relativity: Star Children who Flopped

The Kapoors. The Deols. The Bachchans. The Roshans. The Khans. The Bollywood firmament is crowded with stars with the same surname. Apart fr...

Thrilled? Excited? - Mad Momma's Tag

Oh-kay, so I am nominated for the Mad Momma Award for the Best Blogger Dads in the World. And I am expected to give an acceptance speech fo...