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It has become a bit of a ritual for me. At least once a year, I like going to film festivals and gorging on art until it leaves you feeling ...

What can I say? When the fourth estate, the sturdiest pillar of democracy cuts away not just at its own roots but also hacks at the constitu...

This is out. It was first published in Italian, and titled 'India'. Now it has been untranslated and published as 'India Shin...

Wrote this poem a couple of years ago, in response to a photo and a brief news item about the police opening fire upon a group of protesting...

And here's a touching (not to mention, informative) photo essay on the pedals that really do run our cities . And, thanks to Hari Batti...

Found a fun link on Nanopolitan . About West German spies collecting East German jokes. The jokes are funny, of course, though the whole bus...

So here's the promised post about my ultimate film watching experience. While I was in college, for a set of very complicated reasons, w...

Wrote this short piece for Tehelka , recently: When I was five, we moved to an industrial township in Rajasthan. It was a very dusty place, ...

Yesterday, I finally got around to watching Ikiru . The DVD had been lying around the house, but the blurb suggested that it might be a depr...

Last year, I'd watched a performance of Sakharam Binder , in Hindi. I think this was a little after the play's author Vijay Tendulk...

Recently, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the question of quality and context in matters of art. Since I spend much of my time r...

"Four hours and 29 minutes is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest speech in front of the General Assembly, given in S...

Took an auto to come home last ight, like every other night. The auto driver started driving, then pulled over to the side and cursed beneat...

People forget. Easily. Newspapers, magazines, television crews forgot, until we have a dry news day and we begin to think of what was left u...

International literacy day came and went. And somebody out there did this. Don't know who holds copyright etc, but since it says 'ja...

And godowns on the moon . Great new blog. Go see . Go argue. Go smile.

Dear Reliance Our telephonic association goes back a long way. I don't even remember how long. You do have a reputation for not listenin...

Very often, there is a hollow inside you. Inside your head. Inside your day as it steadily chews its way from breakfast to lunch, when there...

A few days ago, I had complained about the telephone and internet services at Chicago airport. The telephone-walas at Pacific seem imperviou...

I am usually reluctant to mix my worlds, and have taken a few pains to keep my blogging world and my poetry worlds a little bit apart. But t...