September 3, 2007 – 11:14 pm
Random chat published without permission:
Aditya: hey
Nikhil: yo. ’sup?
Aditya: suggest a name for a blog. serious stuff
Nikhil: for you?
Aditya: yeah
Nikhil: twinkle toes
Aditya: keep in mind most of the good names are taken
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Nikhil: twinkle toes is not
Aditya: and just what makes twinkle toes a good name?
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August 23, 2007 – 10:18 pm
Just got back from a full-filling meal at Parsi Anjuman, a parsi guest house on Bahadurshah Zafar Marg. Had dhansak, excellent apricot chicken and something that was similar to biryani. I’ve forgotten what the sweet dish is called, but that and the apricot chicken were brilliant. I’d write more about the food, but I’d rather […]
August 15, 2007 – 12:12 pm
I believe that the recent development regarding Hema Malini requesting excise cuts for water purification equipment must be seen in the same light as the “Cash for questions” expose, wherein parliamentarians were paid to ask questions in the house.
While Malini is being singled out for this, every parliamentarian should be under scrutiny for the questions […]
August 11, 2007 – 7:27 pm
The season got underway today with a fascinating game between Spurs and Sunderland - wasn’t really a high quality game, and both teams looked rusty. What stood out for me was Sunderland’s determination to not make it easy for Spurs. McShane in particular was brilliant in defence, and there was only one major weak moment […]
The Beeb is opening its archives on India and Pakistan on the occasion of 60 years of India and Pakistan’s independence. Among the archives, I’m told, is rare radio footage. It’s a closed archive trial, and being a history buff, I thought I’d sign up for it. Then came the shocker: Access to the archives […]
WTF were they thinking? This is entirely a media created mistake: they hyped up the fact that the Gandhi letter was going to be auctioned at Christies to such an extent, that the purchase of Gandhi’s last letter became almost a face-saving exercise for the government. Of course, the ministers who make these decisions don’t […]
is the word that came to mind when I read a post about the Sanjay Dutt verdict at Mutiny.in - do read it here. Of course, one doesn’t know the extent of Dutt’s involvement, and the focus has always been on playing that down, and showcasing Dutt as naive (update: a naive 35yr old who […]
I wasn’t planning to write a review of I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone since I was so tired I slept through a significant part of it, but the 60 percent of the film I saw still haunts me. I missed all the connections, didn’t get the storyline, but the cinematography and the treatment of […]
Note: The film is being screened again on the 29th at 10am at Siri Fort (I intend to watch it again) so spoilers after “More”(below).
She & He is a film about limits which frequently makes that leap into the surreal with the incorporation of absurdist elements. It’s clearly a writers films with short, sharp and […]
Attended a discussion on Devdas at Cinefan (hadn’t intended to, but I was given the wrong ticket), where Meghnad Desai compared the three versions of Devdas that he has seen (the sign at the ticket counter said “Devdas is not a film, it’s a discussion). Among other things, he mentioned that Dilip Kumar was under […]
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