Hindustan Times
The Issue: Expletives in Aussieland
The Soundtrack: Down Under
I’m thinking of going to Australia, settling down, growing old and dying there. I always had that country pretty high up on my list of charming places to live in, as opposed to a place to regularly visit (Paris, for joyous reasons, Calcutta, for nostalgic ones). Its people seem to have the right attitude to life, its cities were correctly cosmopolitan and its culture was futuristic rather than based on the past. (Read: it’s got great beer, beaches and books in English.) Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Aussieland, Aussies, Australia, Calcutta, Down under, Labour Party colleagues
The Issue: Getting inebriated and obnoxious on a plane
The Soundtrack: Cigarettes and Alcohol
Being drunk is to be in a tight situation anyway. To be drunk inside an airborne plane is a high of a different calibre altogether. I was thinking of this while on the flight to Calcutta earlier today. Well, of course, the Spicejet 607 flight I was on didn’t serve anything stronger than Coca-Cola. But that’s not the point. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Indrajit Hazra on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Filed under Music · Tagged Alcohol, Calcutta, Cigarettes, flight, plane, Spicejet 607
