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Tell me what a good movie means, to you, and I'll tell you where a good movie's playing. That, in essence, is the magic of cinema. O...

For the last couple of years, I've stopping doing something that I once thought I could spend a lifetime doing: reviews. I had set out ...

There's a blogger's meet happening in Delhi. 2nd January, 6:30 pm, Barista, Connaught Place. Apparently, Amit Varma , from Bombay, ...

Shit happens. It happens, because we let it happen. We don't lift a finger to stop it happening. What is really infuriating, to me, is n...

Once upon a time, people sold ' chaai-chaichaigaramchaaaai ', on railway platforms and in train corridors. Now, they sell ' dip ...

Prejudice or values, I'm learning, are a function of perspective, and directly proportional to one's range of experience. Take, for...

This time is a friend of my brother's, Jay (as in, Jai). Jay is the first Jai I knew. Now I know of two other Jai s, both well-known b...

A while ago, I attended a press conference that didn't result in a story. To tell the truth, I did not even stay until the end of the co...

Last week, a senior journalist asked me to fill up a questionnaire about women in media, gender parity and suchlike issues. She warned that ...

This is something I've been wanting to say for a long time. To quote Sad Old Bong, I too " take issue with the general trashing of...

I'm not a musuem buff. There was a time when, whenever I had time to spare in a city, I'd hit the forts, the museums, the significa...

Outside the government hospital in Morena, the city's journalists were sitting on dharna. One of the journalists from one of the Hindi d...

One gets used to anything. One even begins to find - and seek! - amusement through one's own inconvenience. Like when you are in a third...

I must say I'm rather amused by the last blogosphere controversy which I awoke to rather late. I saw the TOI report about the Delhi blo...

Family... and the day turns into a caravan of chai-breaks, inching forward along the beaten track of warm conversations. Kashmiri chai - no...

Train journeys have a special significance for me. When they aren't teaching me about society and humanity, they're telling me t...

I'd been reading; I'd been listening - with my usual mixture of reactions ranging from 'but how?' and 'don't tell me...

A few days ago, I came across this report in the Asian Age (no link available, though I know it appeared in the Delhi edition, on 20th or 21...

ok, blog plugging time. This is my unabashedly Opinionated brother.

This is absurd. Whether the news is true or not, whether the alleged fatwa is justified or not, is secondary. What intrigues me is the bit...