The year end is crawling closer, or are we closing in on it? Some fond of round figures are calling it an end of a decade as well. It is all of it and it pushes anyone with a mind and a bit of extra time to be reflective. Now one thing I’ve learnt in [...]

Well, Bollywood has never been kind to writers, not even the popular ones. And finally Chetan Bhagat gets a taste of it. I had my doubts from the day I had seen the Preface of 3 Mistakes of my Life where Bhagat very generously thanked the whole film industry involved in adapting his books. Sometimes, [...]

Every fantasy walks on the moral lines, perhaps because it can not walk on the lines of reality. Avatar takes humanity in an alien race to a sublime level in form of the Na’vis and then there is this human protagonist who transcends into another being. From Clarke’s Odyssey series to Star Wars to Narnia [...]

Just when Going… going… gone…was out of sight, it is time to go again… This time it is Munich. Standing still in constant movement is a ‘character building’ exercise. Well, that seems to be my favourite phrase in the whole humdrum of things. Everything is character building these days. Especially in Pune. While still in [...]

See that black slab standing in the distance amidst the otherwise low-rise area? Doesn’t it remind you of the monolith, the black alien slab present in Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 Space Odyssey? And it would look alien to the Parisians who so fervently express their dislike for Eiffel Tower, I wonder how do they look [...]

Sitting near Monastiraki at a side walk cafe at 12 in the night, I somehow managed to include a good part of the city. This is my favourite picture of Athens, the lite up Acropolis Hill in the distance, the moonlit ruins, the aptly named beer Mythos and the lantern lighting up the past one [...]