So it’s been over a month now since I returned from Sri Lanka and I have not blogged about it. Have you been wondering? (and if not, why not?). The truth is, the entire holiday was slightly underwhelming and I…
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
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It’s a Woe-man’s world
Recently Mail Today asked me to write an anecdotal article for them. It got published on 31st Jan’10 (best viewed in IE). Here’s the unedited version of the article (which has one anecdote extra). Awaiting bouquets/brickbats in comments.
It’s a Woe-Man’s…
February 8th, 2010
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Of Dan Brown,Gilbert and Shoddy Writing
The precursor : A lot of people find Dan Brown and Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing to be shoddy. I am guilty of committing the same crime. However, if a contradictory and sometimes obscure thought is ‘out there’, such overwhelming success is…
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A day in the life of an I.T. Bachelor, chapter 2: Check up
Here is part 1. As I was transcribing part 2, I realized that the ponderious dadabudality of Ashok from 7 years ago was getting rather tiresome. So I decided to brutally hack long sentences and banish every GRE word to…
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The Hurt Locker: A Review
The Hurt Locker is the tale of a trio of soldiers that makes up the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), a bomb disposal squad, attached to an army regiment on rotation in Iraq. Of the three, Staff Sgt. William James (played…
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The Indian Spy in Kashgar – Part 1/3
Around the 1860s, when Thomas Montgomerie of the Royal Engineers noticed that Indians traveled freely from Ladakh to Yarkand in Chinese Turkestan (modern Xinjiang), he came up with the idea of sending some of them with concealed surveying equipment. He…
February 7th, 2010
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Danger! More on Indian Muslims and the Possibility of an “International Communalism”
If what mine eyes read in the Wall Street Journal is indicative of things to come, then we’re in trouble. A report that should have been innocuous on the Jaipur Literature Festival by journalist and author Sadanand Dhume on Ayaan…
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India Pakistan Talks – Outcomes please enough with Intentions
It is with a weary sense of Deja vu that we must greet this umpteenth attempt at getting across the table with Pakistan.
Perhaps even Deja vu quite doesnt describe this weariness in greeting what has become a recurring theme in…
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Jhing Chik Jhing – Nominated in 7 Categories @ Zee Gaurav
Saturday was a strange sort of a day. i was shooting from dawn, outdoors around Mumbai. By dusk, i was knackered. 15 years earlier, i would have gone to edit – but on Saturday, all i wanted was to get…
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Tiger love
Alarmed by the rapid decline in the Tiger population in our country, the Indian government decides to send a Minister to China, the largest consumer of Tiger meat. According to reports, not a single part of the Tiger is wasted…
