I Am 20

Let’s imagine you’re a government. As a government, you have many divisions that do different things. Say you had one Continue reading →

Jobs

THE POLITE REACTION, ABOUT 25 MINUTES INTO JOBS, STARRING ASHTON KUTCHER THE LESS POLITE REACTION TO JOBS HOW I FELT BY Continue reading →

Not Rowing My Boat

There’s a general consensus in India that an intellectual Bengali is perhaps the most insufferable, pretentious creature you’ll ever encounter. Continue reading →

RIP Rituparno Ghosh

This is how fast news travels these days. The filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh died of a massive heart attack yesterday at Continue reading →

Epiphany at 11pm

The things you discover when you’re with Switzerland’s leading Bollywood expert: Actor Salman Khan = A blow-up doll. It’s like they Continue reading →

Pie in the Face

Of course it couldn’t last. Just when I’d got used to the hours and work, aided greatly by the realisation Continue reading →

Not-so-nasty Hobbitses

A smouldering dwarf. Who the hell thought a dwarf could smoulder? But in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Thorin Oakenshield does, and how! Continue reading →

Spot the Poser

I’m not sure where I saw Vikram Kushwah’s photographs, but I do remember which one I’d seen. This one: It Continue reading →