Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Brake Fail

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What’s with the song-remixes these days, I cannot quite understand. Not very long ago, remixes were basically fast-paced versions of old hit...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

Ramayana

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(Image Courtesy: www.bl.uk) I am definitely not making a revelation when I say that Ramayana is a timeless epic, such which is penned only...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Billboards

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Remember the outdoor advertising a few years back? For the sarkari or sarkari type ads designed for plebian tastes, you had a wall painted w...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Taxi Wallah

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At the end of yet another outstation tour last week, I plonked myself in the back seat of the taxi I had hired for the day. A whole 200 kms ...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

Veebhatsa-Rasa

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Somebody please wake me up!! Seemingly, I am in a time warp, some 2 thousand years ago, with my old-world sense of aesthetics still intact (...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

Feluda

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Let me confess it – till a month back, I had never read any of Satyajit Ray’s books or watched his movies. From whatever little I knew, he w...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Times of India

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There is an interesting quote in the The Speaking Tree column in Sunday Times of India (March 24'06), which set me thinking and I though...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Wardi

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A few weeks back, as I was walking at a very busy cross-road in Delhi during the morning rush-hour, I saw two rowdies on a motorcycle jumpin...
Sunday, November 13, 2005

Laugh, we?

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I generally am not very much enthusiastic about watching TV. When I am back from work, I just catch whatever is on at dinner-time The surfei...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Festivals - Diwali

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A very Happy " Diwali " to all of you! Last 3 days have been really hectic - crackers, eating, lights - lots of them, shopping, vi...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Raag Darbari

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I have just finished reading "Raag Darbaari" by Shrilal Shukla. Third time, that is. With my limited reading, I have yet to come a...
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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Graffiti

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Hi all! I am back after a brief, inadvertent gap. This is a season of weddings and vacations and I was a bit tied up. One of these days, I w...
Monday, May 02, 2005

Horny Indians

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I have just returned home after an excruciating drive through the notorious city traffic and have realized yet again how horny we Indians ar...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Reserved for Ladies

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On account of this outburst, I could well be termed a certified MCP but here goes. It seems to me that the ladies (notice how I have not use...
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Sunday, April 03, 2005

History

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Last Sunday, at an old friend’s house, I picked up a book by the celebrated writer-activist-politician Arun Shourie – “Worshipping False God...
Sunday, March 13, 2005

Delhi

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In spite of living near & working in Delhi for quite some time now, Delhi never ceases to find newer means and ways to amaze me. Today, ...
Sunday, March 06, 2005

Towns

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I am today back from Meerut, which is a bustling town around 60 kms from Delhi on the Dehradun Highway. It is an important town of the Weste...
Thursday, March 03, 2005

Tolerance

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For quite some time now, the sociological landscape of India has been streaked with an intolerant red. All of us have been hearing about the...

3rd March 2005

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hi everybody after much trepidation, i am finally on to this band-wagon called blogging. still am not sure how it works but then, i have mad...