Soundtrack: Who Can It Be Now? by Men At Work

The potato grafting could be done and so it was — under such secrecy that even the rotweillers from the Hindi television channels usually busy carrying sting operations on homosexual college teachers or college girl doubling as call girls didn’t hear a word of it. Read more

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

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

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

The issue: Pecha Kucha
The soundtrack: Song 2

Tomorrow evening, I’ll be participating in the second pecha kucha in my life. I know some of you are too proud to ask what pecha kucha means. Read more

The Issue: Getting lost

The Soundtrack: A forest

Do you get lost often? Not the kind of getting lost when you’re told to ‘get lost’ and you disappear from the person’s view but lost as those guys before Columbus were while trying to find their ways across to us in the ‘Indies’. Read more

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

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

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

The Issue: The sainthood of Obama

The Soundtrack: Spirit in the sky

The Mayurvihar Bengali Post-Puja Cultural Association (MBPPCA) was toying with the idea of awarding Barack Obama a lifetime achievement award. Now it seems that the Nobel Academy has pipped it to the post. Which is a pity because the MBPPCA, after portraying the asura being impaled by Durga during the Pujas two years ago, had run out of ideas by which its members could show the ‘war-mongering, hegemonistic, so-what-if-he’s-a-friend-of-India?’ George W. Bush as the embodiment of pure evil — and thereby showcase their own sense of goodness. Read more