Dasvidaniya
November 13, 2008
Do you make lists? A daily To-Do list? Maybe even an hourly list of things to be accomplished? Do you find these lists helpful or do you find them tyrannical? Lists bind me down. Worse still, I make lists and then forget where I have kept them. So making those lists doesn’t work for me. Yet there are scores of people who find lists a great help. They find it a source of joy when they keep ticking off the items one by one on that list. For someone like Amar Kaul (played by Vinay Pathak) in the film Dasvidaniya, (means goodbye in Russian) he lives for the to-do lists. That gives him a meaning in his life. He looks forward to the next to-do so that he can complete all those things marked in his list. For all his obsession with accomplishing tasks on his To-Do list, Amar Kaul is not successful in any sense of the term unlike his friend Rajiv Julka played by Rajat Kapoor. Read more
A Wednesday
October 31, 2008
Jan 1st 2008: Bomb blasts in Rampur
May 13th, 2008: Bomb blasts in Jaipur
July 25th 2008: Bomb blasts in Bangalore
July 26th 2008: Bomb blasts in Ahmedabad
Sep 13th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 27th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 29th 2008: Bomb blasts in Malegaon
October 30th 2008: Bomb blasts in Guwahati
Someplace Else
October 5, 2008
Kolkata in the Eastern part of India is home to Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, Satyajit Ray and old school romance. Nostalgia is the best sauce to feed your imagination. Ask anyone who has seen Park Street in its heydays in the late ’60s and ’70s. Christmas and New Years eve meant dancing on Park Street, I am told. The greats of Rock, Jazz and Blues all performed live in the various restaurants and nightclubs of Park Street during those golden years. The Victoria Memorial, Soccer fever and Utpal Dutt’s theatre all happened here. The long adda sessions at Coffee House is a thing of the past.
Rock On Farhan
September 13, 2008
Maybe the reason why people look back so nostalgically at their days in college is that for most people those days represent what dreams are made of. Hanging around with friends, being crazy, being ruled by the head than the heart. Why did you give up those shreds of youth just because you became an employee or a spouse. So dream on and keep chasing your dreams. If you stopped singing, dancing, painting, writing, trekking or whatever gave you a high when you were growing up, just go back and discover it. Rediscover your passion.
Mumbai Meri Jaan
August 27, 2008
I have been lucky enough to live in several different cities of India. Having grown up in New Delhi, India my view of Mumbai (actually it was called Bombay then) was colored by a collage Bollywood cinema scenes from various movies from the black and white era to the times when color films were the norm. They would always show the millions of daily commuters who would cramp themselves in local suburban trains and spill out at Churchgate Railway Station or Victoria Terminus Railway station to get to their office in the commercial hub of India. Read more
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