No Love Apptually

No Love Apptually

  Whatever they told you about love and romance is getting a complete make-over in today’s age of plug-ins and widgets. Love in the air has been replaced by love in the digital maze of dating apps that claim to help you find your ideal soul mate!  Forget the fabled heart-in-the-mouth or butterflies-in-the-belly moments; it is […]

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Review: Piya Behrupiya

Review: Piya Behrupiya

  Based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,  Piya Behrupiya is a Hindi musical drama by The Company Theatre and directed by theatre doyen Atul Kumar. It played to a packed house at London’s Globe theatre and was recently staged at Pune’s Nehru Hall. The play unfurls with a huge portrait of Shakespeare to whom the arriving stage actors pay […]

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Celebrating The Brave

Celebrating The Brave

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 way for the path-breakers. Vidya Balan, who played a sex-bomb in a no-holds-barred performance in the Dirty […]

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In The Heart Of Bangkok

In The Heart Of Bangkok

They say that the streets in every Asian city have the same things to offer. You would always find China towns selling fake Rolex watches or corners where shiny knick-knacks are spread out neatly to demand a second gaze. However, walking down the streets of Bangkok is a different experience altogether. Amidst the jamboree of […]

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Bold And Brazen

Bold And Brazen

I remember coming across a billboard during one of my road trips which had “Sex,” in big bold letters, written all over it. However, the sentence that followed read, “Now, that we have your attention, let us remind you about the polio drive!” Clearly, the advertiser knew that the S word would guarantee a lot […]

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Dancing Dolphins

Dancing Dolphins

There are beaches known for their revelry and then, there are the tranquil ones that mesmerize your senses. Murud-Harnai beach belongs to the latter category. Tucked away snugly in the rugged coastline of Konkan, it is known for its shimmering sands, clear blue waters, and palm-fringed landscapes. The journey to Murud-Harnai is a tad difficult […]

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Luscious Luxembourg

Luscious Luxembourg

Don’t allow your first impression of Luxembourg (a European country and city of the same name) to be the last one! For, this is a place that sneaks up on you. My first tryst with the country started with a schlep down the Luxembourg  airport – one of the tiniest in the whole of Europe. […]

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The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

With tender fondness, I reminisce about the good old DD (yes, our own Doordarshan) days that formed an intrinsic part of my childhood.  As I stroll down the memory lane, an era flashes by, of the 80s, untouched by the concept of channel flicking or the sway of  TRPs. This was the time when television […]

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