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- The Writer In The Artist Spectrum
I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever...
- Concert Review: Dischordian + Gillian Grassi - Cafe Goa
I was at Café Goa this Wednesday (20th January) for the...
- IdeaArt: Rose Garden
This is part of my series on fabric painting (after Peacock and Kathakali). But this was actually...
- Fiction: Rockstar
I’ve just discovered a kink in my sexual make-up. I have a thing for gender role switching. That’s not men...
- Book Review: What Men Think About Sex - Guilt-Reading
I've just finished reading my first novel of the genre called DickLit (as opposed to ChickLit).The...
- Stupid Stupid Stupid - Album Launch Gig
It feels like in this time-starved city, it's hard enough to fit in one interest (I have two) along with...
- Movie Review: Paa - The Self-Absorbedness Of Bachchanalia
HT Cafe's summary of Paa goes as follows:Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely...
- Should The Girl Ask The Guy Out?
It’s a question I posed to a mixed group of friends. The women were all united in their belief that...
- My Looks Are Not Your Excuse
I wasn’t a pretty child. Oily skin, stringy hair, gangly long limbs. Then puberty came along, and like a fairy...
- Movie-Making & Story-Telling: Jail - Epic Fail!
I saw Jail last night. This is the latest offering from the Madhur Bhandarkar stable and is about (yes...
- The Wall Project: Boycott Aladin, Canvas, Gair & London Dreams For Boorish Publicity
About two months back, I wrote about the exciting experience of being part of The Wall Project in Mumbai....
- Ideart: Kathakali
I'm fascinated by Indian designs, motifs and art forms. Such vibrant colour! Such dazzling variety! I did a set of...
- A Moral Dilemma: Being Politically Correct & Not A Tease
Some moths ago, I received an email from one of my readers. She was a lesbian who had come across...
- Motherhood - The Great Indian Relationship
I was watching Wake Up Sid yesterday (ah, the joys of being master of your own time - a...
- The "It's Complicated" Relationship
Facebook brought it into popular parlance. The first time I saw it on someone’s profile, I thought,That’s such...
- NovelRace Week 10: Everything But The Novel
I’m going to touch upon a number of things in this post, none about the novel itself, but all of...
- NovelRace Week 9: Taking A Stand
This week’s NovelRace update appears early because the lesson came like a revelation and it is a big one...
- NovelRace Week 8: So Much In A Name!
My NovelRace update this week is going to be a short one. Due to a family crisis, there was almost...
- The Wall Project: BMC Plays Tom Sawyer, Everyone Wins!
It has been nearly a week now since The Wall Project and I’m so happy to say that it...
- NovelRace Week 7: The View From The Shoulders' Of Giants
So here’s the next update of NovelRace. Things went a little awry last week since the last update got...
- The Wall Project in Mumbai
Pop culture meets city pride. What better way to get citizens invested in beautification than to get them involved in...
- The Man-Child: Tribulations Of A Twenty-Five-Old
I am really liking this. There is a new kind of man up and about and he makes me re-think...
- NovelRace Week 6: My Characters Are For Real!
A quick update on NovelRace. I know this is mid-week so a little late for this but...
- NovelRace Week 5: The Lone Runner
Okay, weekly NovelRace update time. First of all, congratulations to
- Fiction: A Room Of One's Own
A creative writing experiment. This story has been written in the third person and then in the first person. Which...
- NovelRace Week 4: If You Fall, Get Up & Run Again!
Here's my NovelRace update, not one but two weeks later. After a 'I do me proud' start in...
- NovelRace Week 2: Adventures Galore!
NovelRace, I'm very happy to note, is up and running well. It has been exactly a fortnight since I...
- Katy And I
My school had an interesting way of encouraging children to read. A book-fair was held every year in a couple...
- The Bandra-Worli Sealink Opening
The much awaited Bandra-Worli sealink opened yesterday. In the unlikely case that you don’t know what I’m talking about (in...
- Movie Review: Bolt - Animals Are People Too
I’m not a dog-lover. In fact I am not even an animal-lover, though I could fairly tolerate a cat’s company....
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