Monthly Archives: December 2011
Happy New Year
May 2012 have us all jumping for joy. If not anything else, may we all have this elephant’s stamina and its ability to land on its feet every time. **** Image found via FFFFound.
Anna-tics II
Anna Hazare called off his fast and his “Jail Bharo Andolan” (an act of protest that calls for mass voluntary arrest). Instead of three days, Anna fasted for barely a day and a half. His medical team announced that he could suffer kidney failure if he continued. His strategy team probably pointed out to him [...]
Anna-tics
To say 2011 has been a crap year would be putting it mildly. I don’t mean for myself but for Mumbai at large. We bemoaned the city’s apathetic response to terrorist attacks. We were aghast when two boys were killed because they tried to stand up to a group of thugs who were harassing girls. [...]
Men at Work
Indian men, every single one of you should be gathering forces and putting out a petition to lynch Anil Kapoor. Because Kapoor has, with just about 5 minutes of screen time, decisively scotched your chances of ever seeming cool. Thanks to Anil Kapoor and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol“, the Indian man has been established as [...]
Dam(n) Right
Eavesdropping in a Bandra Coffee Shop, Or, Why I’ve Less Drunk and More Choked on the Cup of Coffee I Got this Evening. “What the hell? Have you heard of this film? Dam 999. Random Tamil or Mallu film. Came out of bloody nowhere and now it’s gone and got shortlisted for best song and [...]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
I’m a wimp when it comes to violence and horror in films (and in life, I think. Fortunately, there have been very few occasions when my nerves have been tested for fear). I skipped “Drive” only because I’d been told about some gory, skull smash. I’ve been haunted by the sound of the arm bone [...]
RIP Mario Miranda
If you have the time on your hands and money in your purse, there is nothing like a Friday fling at the Frankfurt Flea Market. … from busts of Beethoven and Chinese porcelain to pretty petticoats and cuckoo clocks. You name it, they have it. Mario Miranda (1926-11.12.11). Years before I’d visited either Mumbai or [...]
Deborah Baker in Mumbai
I’ve lost a notebook (again). It was a Moleskine (weep). This has goaded me into opening up a notebook that I haven’t lost (yet) and transferring its scribbles to the blog. It turns out I’ve done a lot of scribbling in there, so there’s something of a backlog to get through. These notes are from [...]
iDistracted
The session titled “Literature from the Newsroom” (about journalists writing non-fiction books) at the Times Literary Carnival* last weekend wasn’t half bad. The panel was made up of journalists Geeta Anand (“The Cure”), Rahul Pandita (“Hello Bastar”) and Samanth Subramanian (“Following Fish”). Jonathan Shainin was the moderator. I’ve read and enjoyed the panellists’ books and [...]
Spam, A Tragedy
It’s so sad that this lovely comment praising my “fantastic writing style”, that too on a ‘Books’ post, had to come from a spammer. Especially a spammer with that address. Please click and read the full comment in the magnified version. I’m ruing the times that I’ve rued that I have verbal diarrhoea.
World Domination
