Jokes from Across the Vindhyas

My dear friend - Mr Arunkumar Balasubramaniam (boy, in Calcutta, they have addresses shorter than that!) - has requested me for a Tamil joke...

Dawaa Ya Dua? - Diseases in Bollywood

Taking a cue from this post , which lamented the lack of diseases in Bollywood, I was tempted to think of the various ailments produced by t...

Been There, Done That: A Sales Adventure

In the recent past, we have seen Indian versions of chick-lit and lad-lit coming of age, as a large number of IIT graduates, IIM graduates a...

21 Years Ago

Sharjah, as an international venue, may have been a novelty, but it had one huge negative as far as Indian schoolboys were concerned. All th...

Abbas Mustan: Bollywood's Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was initially considered to be a lesser director – a maker of thrillers and potboilers with only murder, espionage and such...

Shubho Nabobarsho

How does one celebrate the Bengali New Year's day? Unlike English, a Bengali day 'astronomically' starts with sunrise so there i...

Take 5: Five Bits of Random Trivia

I read this really cool piece of trivia in the papers about how Brett Lee's nickname came to be Oswald. Apparently, Steve Waugh is the m...