About Indrajit Hazra
Indrajit Hazra tasted rock stardom for two months in the latter half of a four-year period in the early 90s. This ex-vocalist of the now defunct Great Elastic Rubber Band is now a journalist leading readers up the garden path. When he’s not trying to finish (or is it start?) his fourth novel, he performs as Editor, Comment Page and writer of the Sunday HT column Red Herring.
The Issue: Waking up
The Soundtrack: All I have to do is dream
I’ve been having mystical experiences. Not only do I hear voices once I’m awake, but I hear voices that tell me, ‘Get up you #*@!er or I’ll be late!’ These, to be honest, were words I would wake up to in that half-drugged, half-very drugged state that I used to experience while, waking up somewhere between 8.30 and 8.55 am every weekday. [Read more]

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Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Filed under IndiGestion · Tagged Beatles, Everly Brothers, hear voices, Khan Market, Led Zeppelin, Metro, Mozart, mystical experiences, paranoid schizophrenia, song, wake up
The issue: The fall of the Berlin Wall
The soundtrack: Holidays in the sun
Twenty years ago is a long time in human life. It’s even longer in an ant’s life (most of the 20 years being spent in the form of an ant ghost). But it would be safe to say that things in the world have moved even faster than runs accumulated by Sachin Tendulkar over the last two decades of his cricketing career. [Read more]

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Posted by HT Editorials on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Afghanistan, Anatoly Demyenenko, Berlin Wal, Bernstein, Czech Republic, Dostoyevsky, Drago over Rock, East Germany, Floyd, Humpty Dumpty Wal, ideological global blocs, Poland, Red Army, Sachin Tendulkar, Shostokovich, Soviet Army
The Issue: Not Going To Work
The Soundtrack: Santa Monica
I did a strange thing on Monday. I didn’t go to work. It wasn’t as if I had planned a picnic or a Dilli darshan or a long lunch with friends (most of whom had a chhutti thanks to Guru Govind Singh). [Read more]

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The issue: Nehru-Edwina
The soundtrack: Tainted love
So the proposed Hollywood movie on the love affair between Chacha Nehru and Edwina Madam will never be out in a cinema near you. [Read more]

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The Issue: Climate change
The Soundtrack: It’s too darn hot
It was nuclear disarmament when I used to wear shorts. Now that I wear boxers (as overwear only!), it’s climate change. Every generation gets its heave-ho with some global danger topic or the other. [Read more]

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