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
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