Benazir Bhutto - RIP

Came across this photograph minutes before reports came out that she had died. This caught my eye as it came across as a really powerful photograph…I don’t personally care for her policies or the things she did during the time she ruled. Nothing takes away that she was a brave woman..and she did not deserve [...]

Taare Zameen Par

I’m not too much of a movie buff…very few movies can make me get my nose out of my book to get out an watch a movie..most Aamir Khan movies can do that to me. Of the bunch of movies I have watched, some have been truly original, a complete delight to watch, some entertaining..that you’d [...]

Cue to go awww, aww, ouch!

Margazhi, Mylapore and memories

Having in the heart of Mylapore as a child, all the hullabaloo in the papers about the “magic of mylapore”, the music festival attempting to create a hype and recreate that magic catapulted me into that time when there was no hype, no need for all the publications to draw the attention to the so [...]

Baby muddles in my head

My uncle S and his wife P are having trouble conceiving…not too uncommon?
Well S is 37 and P is 35..S is handicapped, he is hearing impaired and P is from a very poor family, had a very troubled childhood and all the works. They married a couple of years back and they both want a [...]

Broadband blues

Dear Mr Airtel Man
 Thank you for installing the broadband connection in my house. I also really appreciate the fact that you think my house is so lovely that you found it fit to give me that drishti pariharam in the form of placing the phone on the staircase. Yes I agree I was negligent in [...]

Of all the wonderful things

to get
Wouldnt hindsight
rank near the best?

Same difference

I really thought the days of coming back to an empty house were over..seems I was mistaken.
Now I have a bigger empty house, bigger TV, bigger kitchen, faster internet (wait I didnt have the internet in Bombay!).
My cooking hasnt improved much…yeah its worse for lack of practice..
And dear neighbour…next time could you please ask before [...]

Grrrrr

Everytime I want to get into MM’s blog….I type in “thema” and I get automatically prompted with her address.
Now I enter the same thing and get prompted for that maanga’s page
I don’t want to clear my history…there are a lot of urls I need and don’t have a record. Is there a way of [...]

In our very own backyard

News about school shootings in the US have been doing the rounds for sometime now..how have we reacted? Shock no doubt, dismay..also that sense of smugness..that all this is happening very far away…in the USA Land…we’d think a thought or too about the gun culture in the US, about how the children there are not disciplined [...]