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- The Great Indian Drive
Last weekend we embarked on a journey to a village in the middle of forests that were in turn surrounded...
- Movie Review: My Name is Khan
Autism reminds me of Mark Haddon’s masterpiece fiction The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, where the protagonist...
- The New Year Post
This is the customary cliché – The New Year post. The time of the year when newspapers would carry a...
- Ruchika - Indian Law Allows Child Molester to be Let Off
These are historical times we live in. These are times when a high ranking police officer is allowed to molest...
- To Travel or Not To Travel
Four large suitcases, two carry-ons, two laptops and a near-empty house. There were just these minimal things left with us...
- Attending Symphony Concert - Gil Shaham and Carmina Burana
September 19. My Birthday eve. A black limousine in all its shining luxury halted just ahead of us. Two people...
- Memories of 9/11
"Imagine how different the skyline would’ve been with the twin towers?" V said walking across the top deck aboard a...
- Fiction: When the Clock Struck 12:60
Wednesday, September 14, 1988 I pulled over my ’76 Plymouth next to his house. His was a huge bungalow, beautiful creepers...
- Visiting Ramoji Film City
I’ve always wanted to live in the 1950s – the long Plymouth cars, traffic-free roads that you could cross eyes...
- Poetry: Lost
I set out to write a story That spoke of a loser And how he lost. What is losing, after all But the temporary...
- A Journey That Continues
He was a nice looking gentleman wearing an oversize coat and thick mufflers around his neck, who acceded to taking...
- A Letter to My Father
Dear Father, How I wish to start with a "How are you doing?". Everybody who leads a normal life does so....
- An Undeserving Booker for The White Tiger
I would have called The White Tiger a reasonable potboiler, probably given it a few points too...
- When the Writer's Block Hits Hard
"And so saying he chopped off his head with a giant axe and then they lived happily ever after."
- Deccan Chronicle And The Naked Art of Selling News
In the age where our most inner and intimate matters have been commoditized by corporations, it’s no surprise that sex...
- Five Years at Work
The year was 2002. The day was November 18. And I had just woken up into a warm Monday morning...
- On a Fine Morning After a Prolonged Sickness
Not many things keep me away from writing, except when I'm down with a prolonged sickness and start seeing the...
- Infosys Acquires Philips' BPO Arm
India's IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Limited has just announced its acquisition of Philips NV BPO. Infosys has bought the...
- Bangalore Bloggers Meet And the 'Blogaloreans'
"We take your fun seriously". The caption of BrewHaha was apt to describe the meeting of Bangalore Bloggers. Over forty...
- Bangalore BarCamp and Bloggers Meet Unplanned
From the days of just owning a tiny personal space on the vast Internet where one searches for a trivial...
- Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books have a metaphorical life of their own. They speak of another time and another space, forming such mental imageries...
- Indian Authors and Books
The Book Tag – Indian Books / Authors you've read or want to read – went around in the blogosphere...
- Google Claims Microsoft is Stifling Google Desktop Search
I've often accused Microsoft of having run out of innovative ideas and resorting to a catch-up game with competitors like...
- Life, Fiction and the Monsoon
The monsoon rain is dashing outside in this late night hour, as I sit beside a thick volume of
- Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
How would you feel if all the natural sights and sounds of your external world become mysterious and overloaded for...
- Blogging: Mainstream Media Develops Cold Feet
"The show tries to see the other India – the corporate circle, and what it thinks of politics and the...
- Visiting Trichy and Srirangam
I reached Trichy city after the eventful trip in the dinky buses. There was a time I used to...
- Bomb Blast in Hyderabad Mosque
After the Mumbai serial blasts last year, the bomb culture is back to haunt the country again. This time a...
- Traveling Through Semi-Urban India
When you board a dinky crowded bus that wouldn't go faster than a forty, shakes the life out of you...
- Book Review: Next by Michael Crichton
When you realize that a Chimpanzee differs from the humans by only around 500 genes and is not very different...
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