Monthly Archives: December 2008

Look around, there’s a lot happening around your locality these days, makes you want to bury your head and say, “Oh God! We were never this way!” Petty crimes, breaking up families, increasing rapes, atrocities against minorities, etc. You have … Continue reading →

Christmas is over! I can’t believe it came and went. The day I was looking forward to, the day I cherished, the day I wanted to be happy more than ever. But this Christmas was sad one, indeed a very … Continue reading →

Wishing all readers of this blog a Merry Christmas. May the season ofpeace and hope be a time to look ahead and decide to make differencein our own and others' lives. This is no damn platitude, it's beingsaid with a … Continue reading →

Meena Alexander Reading at the Theosophy Hall, Bombay. She was in conversation with poet Arundhati Subramaniam Meena Alexander read her poems at the Theosophy Hall, Bombay, yesterday. The reading had a better than average attendance for a normal, poets-hearing-other-poets-read reading. … Continue reading →

Call it a city hostile to lovers, or a city that frowns on public display of affection, I found it odd that the boy in the picture (on the bike) was holding the girl’s finger (in the taxi) for as … Continue reading →

A bit strident and voluble, but I approve of her stridency and feel it ineluctable under the present circumstances. Here’s fellow blogger, writer and columnist Sarah Islam on the hero-worship we are foisting post-November 26 on Adolf Hitler and his … Continue reading →

I guess I have been through this before, meaning I have mentioned this on my blog before. I am a big sucker for awards functions. I like to see the stars all dolled up, all dressed up and somehwere to … Continue reading →

Knowing as to how much Mr. Kishore Biyani is respected in industry circles for putting India on the retailing map of the world, I couldn’t but admire this man’s ingenuity. Today Food Bazaars and Big Bazaars are everywhere and have … Continue reading →

It’s weird and its upsetting. Yeah, it is. These days people jump to conclusions about a book or novel before they read it. I participated in a discussion on an online forum and most of the participants hadn’t read the … Continue reading →