After watching Slumdog Millionaire two weeks back, I couldn’t decide if it was Oscar material. If this is Oscar material, hundreads of Bollywood masala films made in past five decades deserve multiple Oscar nominations too.  It is a fast-paced, entertaining affair that constantly makes you want to ask how does it end? Everyone knows that [...]

Well, I need not write another post about how dearest my phone number was, because it has come into present tense again. Thanks to my determined mother, my one and only number in India is back! (Shivli actually thinks my mom went to the Vodafone guyz with a gun, ‘meri beti ka phone number mujhe [...]

Third post in a day, well I had to write this one. Just to cheer for Rahman. Not just one… three Oscar nominations for him…  First is Achievement in music written for motion pictures – Original Score and the other two…  Achievement in music written for motion pictures – Original Song  Jai Ho and Achievement in [...]

Seth Godin has talked about the End of Newspaper Era in one of his blogs. How would a world without newspapers be?  Though it doesn’t seem improbable enough as in spite of having worked closely with the print media for a long time, I’m living in a virtual newspaper world since past two years. But [...]

I’ve never been good at making lists. I end up rambling on everytime. While I was writing today, a crazy idea visited my mind. I thought of making a list of movies I’ve seen so far. I’m sure there are better things to do with my time but I somehow wish that I had known [...]

I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. It was a different experience, specially because I read it differently. My usual reading pattern includes sleepless nights or workless days when I do nothing else but read, once the book is over, I get back to normal life. But this time, I went about doing [...]

I saw The Bucket List yesterday. I’m too young to make one, or so do I think. The first thing on Morgan Freeman’s list is ‘Witness something really majestic’. Well, that is possible in lives of a lot of people if they really can understand or know and value the majestic. I haven’t sat and [...]

When things are not in your hands, you crib, get angry and go through that depression cycles… Denial, Bargain, Anger and Acceptance. I hope I got the order right. I recived this preaching at a funny phase in my life. But it has been applicable to a lot of diversity every since. Who knew that [...]

Okie. Happy New Year. The new year doesn’t wait for anyone, least of all some blog posts. But I’m in a very serious mood this year. Perhaps, I’m watching too much of Grey’s Anatomy and just watched Ghajini last night. I thought I wouldn’t do the nitpicking of the year gone by but the movie [...]