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.
Sountrack: Love for sale by Billie Holiday
Jamshi Narimanpointwalla usually got up late on Wednesday mornings. That’s because she usually got up late every morning. But because of a bad reaction to one of the three large drinks that she had consumed at Agni, the bar-cum-club at the Park, she had woken up very early today. [Read more]
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Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Filed under Adventures of Inderjeet · Tagged Agni, Billie Holiday, brain-freeze, communal peace, drinks, fiancée, Hindus and Muslims, Jamshi Narimanpointwalla, Love for sale, Maharashtra Navnirman Sen, Sheikh Sarai, Shiv Sena
Soundtrack: Eye in the Sky by Alan Parsons Project
For those familiar with the Lodhi Gardens in winter, it’s a large, undulating space of green, brown that’s full of people milling about in various thicknesses of wool and polyster. [Read more]
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Bada Gumbad, jail -- Indian jail, Lodhi Gardens, Mohammed Shah, Rick Frangine
Soundtrack: Voodoo People by Prodigy
“Rakhi’s decided,” Amar Singh, looking up from his second cup of KFC coleslaw told Inder without missing a chew.
Inder, who had followed the trajectory of Rakhi Sawant’s journey as India’s most unpretentious It-Girl knew what that meant. [Read more]
(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Filed under Adventures of Inderjeet · Tagged Add new tag, Delhi government, Election Commissio, item girl, Jamshi Narimanpointwalla, KFC, Mika, Nation Integral Party, National Integral Party, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Rakhi Sawant
Soundtrack: Bird of Prey by Fatboy Slim
Vultures aren’t a common sight in Delhi, let alone near the centre of the known universe called Connaught Place. [Read more]
(6 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Amar Singh, book, Bosudi maga, Connaught Place, delhi, Delhi Auto Expo 2009, H.D. Deve Gowda, Lt Governor Tejender Khanna, maximum city, maximum CP, the Samajwadi Party leader, vultures
Soundtrack: Common People by Pulp
“What a bunch of idiots,” he shouted out in his head as he heaved his body through other bodies.
Once you enter into the belly of the beast, there’s no way you can get out of it in time. [Read more]
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged akhada, brad pitt, chetan bhagat, commom people by pulp, dubai, idiots, salman khan, troy, veer
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