My recent holiday took me into the heartland of apna Bharat. Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh… the works…. Travelling by train and road, I was appalled at the state of (non-existent) roads there…. One understands perfectly why Digvijay had to go (I am no BJP sympathiser, but ten years of Diggy has left MP ravaged). A… Continue reading Country roads……
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Kingsley misses me…..
That was just to make sure you start reading my blog again, folks….. Anyways, thanks K 🙂 🙂 I am back….. I’d stepped off for a while. In other words, I took a holiday in regions where there were no computers, leave alone internet… Our mobile phones didn’t work either…. And believe me, I didn’t… Continue reading Kingsley misses me…..
Walk the Talk With ShahRukh
On Saturday evening on NDTV 24*7. Amidst many platitudes about religion and secularism (there is that damned word again), ShahRukh said something very perceptive : Movies are selling everything but the movies. That is so true….. From one film in Hindi and one in the regional language per week, television is now entirely cinema-centric. Apart… Continue reading Walk the Talk With ShahRukh
On Michael Jackson
Watching him(??) on TV, I remembered what I read long ago : Michael Jackson has come full circle, from poor black male to rich white female. Pretty neat, eh ?
Why blame the babus ?
Just the kind of question that makes my blood boil….. Mr.R.K.Raghavan, ex Director of the CBI asks this question in today’s Indian Express(with or without the The, I am not sure, if you know what I mean). He argues in defence of Indian Bureaucrats saying that they grovel in front of politicans out of lack… Continue reading Why blame the babus ?
Breaks in my blog
Blogging is soooooo addictive….. Have not been able to blog regularly for a while now with all this travel. And it’s going to be this way till I return to Bangalore (though I have given up hopes of seeing Bangalore in the near future). Am at my husband’s place in Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh). Don’t blame… Continue reading Breaks in my blog
Travel Time
I keep reading about people (especially about authors) – she lives in Bombay and London. Or he spends his time between Paris and California. Or some such exotic thingy. You get the drift. I wonder how they do it….. Here I have been shuttling between Madras and Bangalore. And I go, enough is enough. I… Continue reading Travel Time
Swadeshi Bahu versus Videshi Bahu
The BJP has gone nuts….. or is the word desperate….. the latest to jump on the BJP bandwagon is Smriti Malhotra, the tear-jerky daughter-in-law of KKSKBT (too long, man)….. I remember the lady who played Sita in Ramayana (Dipika something) had also campaigned for the BJP, as did Krishna of Mahabharata, Nitish Bharadwaj…. Sita nahi… Continue reading Swadeshi Bahu versus Videshi Bahu
Whither good cinema ?
Watched again His Highness Abdullah, a Malayalam movie…. Fantastic movie… No other description….. As someone said, music has the charms to soothe the nerves of a wild beast…. and the movie is based on this simple theme. A hired assassin, Mohanlal, whom the world knows as a ghazal singer, comes down from Bombay to kill… Continue reading Whither good cinema ?
Taj Heritage Corridor or Shame ?
The world is divided between those who have seen the Taj and those who have not. Very soon, I hope to be on the side that has seen the Taj William Jefferson Clinton, President, United States of America, while addressing the Indian Parliament on 22.03.2000 before he joined the “halves” I read this recently, I… Continue reading Taj Heritage Corridor or Shame ?