5 Films That Changed My Life

Reviewing May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss now is like reviewing a Karan Johar film on Saturday. Half the world and their barbers have alre...

For Citizenship in an Obsolete Monarchy

(Published on 20th March, 2010, in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express) Having spent five years begging anyone who visits London to bring him ...

Bollywood in polite company

I spent a very nice evening today at something called Penguin Spring Fever (sounds like flu!), which had a Bollywood Quiz. Now, I am very sc...

Of Love, Sin, Innocence and Memories

PART ONE: THE MUSEUM One could gather up anything and everything, with wit and acumen, out of a positive need to collect all objects connect...

My Favourite Music Videos

My sister and I spent many Thursday mornings (when our schools had the weekly off) recording movie trailers off All India Radio. " Oh K...

Zeus and Hera to Real People

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, on 13th March, 2010) “This was my sweet, inconsolable, grief-stricken, beautiful sister! Fo...

Not Quite Cricket

(Published in Zeitgeist, The New Indian Express, dated 6th March, 2010) “So, you very nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory…,” Rav...

Random Thoughts of a Fermented Mind

Just came back from the book launch of May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss . Buy it NOW ! I was reading it at the traffic lights on the drive ba...