September 20, 2012
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Barfi

I had first heard of someone named Barfi in Satyajit Ray’s immortal classic called Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. Barfi was the evil magician who was concocting some evil potion or the other to help the villainous king. Played by Sarojini Naidu’s brother Harindranath Chattopadhyay. This review is about another Barfi.The […]
July 7, 2012
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Groundswell

Groundswell means a broad deep undulation of the ocean, often caused by a distant storm or an earthquake. It could also mean a sudden gathering of force, as of public opinion. In this book, the emergence of social media is probably the equivalent of an earthquake that is shaking up […]
June 13, 2012
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Shanghai

The most widely accepted definition of the word “Shanghai” is that it comes from the Chinese city of Shanghai, a common destination of the ships with abducted crews. The crew was often taken by trickery, fraud and by threatening them. The term has since expanded to mean “kidnapped” or “induced […]
April 22, 2012
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The Charm of Raga Jaunpuri

Jaunpur was an independent Sultanat in the 15th century which had a reputation of being a city dedicated to learning (ilm ka shahar). It was considered second only to Varanasi as a hub of music and musicians. Jaunpur’s sultans used to be ‘wazirs’ to the Tughlaq dynasty, but then they broke away and created their own. The late morning raga, Jaunpuri traces its origin to Jaunpur.