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I always wonder why writers write. Is it a calling? A compulsive need? An ego driven exercise to say, ``I want you to see what I see?'' I always wonder if writing is a conscious choice. A technique that you ...Read More

singh

If you  believe that  eyes  say it all , then do  look   closely at  Khushwant  Singh's  and  you will  know what  I’m  trying to put  across. Even  at  97, his eyes are  that of a school boy's.That’s  because  there seem to be no contradictions between what  he  says and what  he  thinks. Or  to put  it  more aptly, there ...Read More

home

The kitchen. Pretty much where she spent a greater part of her time. Randomly throwing spices, cleaning up and spraying repellent on little red ants that crawled their way up to some new tidbit they had stumbled upon. The bedroom. Clothes ...Read More

silence

When they fought, he would make up. And eventually, in a few minutes, she would relent, and the world would be perfect again. So when he left home to buy a strip of medicines that she needed, locking her inside the ...Read More

wild flower

“What we really heal when we are intimate with someone is our relationship with our own self.” – Deepak Chopra. Actually speaking the truth about my self is the most difficult thing to do since there is so much self righteousness ...Read More

upma

Now this is how a Punjabi describes a non-Punjabi wedding, ‘Hmm…It was quite simple… They had only upma for breakfast…’ and so on. You cannot miss the disappointing tone  – a typical Punjabi, expecting a totally different scenario at a ...Read More

Filmfare-Awards-2012

Though it was a night of glitz, glamor, and chutzpah crowded by the who’s who of  filmdom,  the underdogs clambered up the throne of entertainment at the recently concluded Filmfare Awards. And the biggies humbly accepted their defeat and made ...Read More

ancestralgoa04

When you think of Goa, you immediately think of the sun, sand, parties, beaches, foreigners and food. But there’s a side to Goa that you won’t see in brochures and travel magazines – an old, almost ancient Goa – a ...Read More

Bering Sea Weather

It is very easy to get swept up in a current. It's wild, it's random and you exert hardly any effort at all, getting tossed in the waters. Feeling absolutely free. Really? Or is every limb constricted, balled up, drawn in, in fear ...Read More

drum

A friend watching a film at home with me said something pertinent the other day. There was a time when actors just acted. They were expected to be just actors. They did not hawk their films by dancing at reality ...Read More

doll

  A few  Japanese events held in February and March, symbolize our  anticipation of Spring.  We have two major events, Setsubun and Girl’s Festival.  Setsubun is usually held at the beginning of February, either on the 3rd or 4th, at shrines ...Read More

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Last weekend I travelled to Lucknow….a city famous for its extravagant Nawabs, its cultured populace and its old world charm. Now, contrary to what you may expect, this was not an ordinary vacation with sight seeing as the primary objective. ...Read More