It was a daily ritual. I would walk over to Karan’s house and sneak in through the back door so as not to disturb his parent’s afternoon siesta. And we would tiptoe into the carpeted ‘computer room’. One of us would switch on the UAE imported a/c and wait for the hum to settle. Then… [Read more…]
November 6, 2008
Everytime I hear him speak about America and its people I choke up. He invokes History and creates enduring myths with every speech with a passion, ease and resonance I have never heard before. Many Indians find it strange that some of us were more involved with the Obama-McCain campaign than any of the most… [Read more…]
October 11, 2008
“What we have here is…failure to communicate.” “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” “Well I’ll be! That is specific.” Cool Hand Luke. Unforgiven. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Ever since I could remember Hollywood has shaped my imagination with its images, characters and words. But after MICA and its professors… [Read more…]
September 22, 2008
Or, ‘Snaps I Would Take While Travelling Inside A Taxi (Or Auto)’. Its not that I miss a camera all the time. But sometimes, there is nothing more you wish to hold in your hand. For there are millions of moments in this cauldron of a city, which are sometimes quirky, sometimes strange, sometimes beautiful,… [Read more…]
December 15, 2007
Marshall McLuhan: “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
June 6, 2006
It speaks of the power of packaging that in all these years of browsing through bookshelves, I have come across, more than once, a copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous book, but was never as drawn to it as I was yesterday, when I picked one up for the first time: A Vintage Publishing version, celebrating… [Read more…]
February 22, 2009
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