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It could well have been India's answer to The Aviator starring Leonardo Di Caprio. But Howard Hughes was a man who was a different clou...

The contrast is unbelievable. It makes me gasp. A stone of such beauty, sharpness and elegance. Yet the hardest stone on the planet goes thr...

"Jab miyaan biwi ho raaji Toh kya karega paaji..." Lines like these and more. Nikhil Advani's Salaam-e-Ishq faces the same pr...

Long time since my last post. Here's a hilarious article from NYT which got me rolling over the floor, giggling. Enjoy! Get Your Resolut...

"So, how was it?" I asked, my mom. She'd just been pampered to an exclusive LAN downloaded screening of Vivah on my PC. Courte...

Milky moonlight The crunch of leaves Noisy crickets Not a soul in sight A howl surrounds A noise rebounds I skip a heartbeat Clutching in fr...

A turbulent year of ups and downs is coming to an end. A new year is about to begin. Some unfinished business remains, though. This post is ...

The world is divided into two types of people. One – the hardworking. Two – the hardly working. There is a third category too - people who h...

Prannoy Roy, Sameer Nair, Gautam Adhikari, Vinod Mehta, Chandan Mitra, Vir Sanghvi...Rajdeep Sardesai - the ivy league of ivory towers in th...

'Rudraksh' is the worst film I've ever seen. It had Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty and (oh-why-oh-why) Isha Koppikar. Sanjay Gadhvi...

Somewhere down the line, I got a feeling that the distributors went overboard hyping up the 'Behind The Scenes' of the film. And the...

I often marvel at the Aaj Tak reporters. They amaze me with their capabilities to stretch a non-news item into a full-length 30 minute khaas...

Two minutes into Farhan Akhtar's Don and Shah Rukh strikes a pose in a room of ballroom dancers. And I knew he wouldn't mess up the ...

Is Orkut creating a world of online socialites? Just the other day I read a piece on 'air-kissing' in a Mumbai tabloid. Orkut may no...

A dear friend celebrated his birthday recently. Mom calls him Horee, with her typical Bengali touch. He has bowled her over with his voice. ...

You’re not alone when you’re walking in the rains, sheltered under an umbrella. There is the constant chatter of the raindrops falling on th...

...and there I was, hanging on to his collar, my other arm flailing wildly in thin air as the raindrops battered my skin as if sanctifying h...

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect - the release of his book ‘A Nature’s Call to Honour’ (Wasn’t it ‘A Call to Honour’?) which supp...

Mumbai is not the repository of polished culture, courtesy and soft spoken denizens. Such culture and polite manners are expected when you...

"You have to work within the system, to change the system." - Atul Kulkarni in the film, Page 3 The common man stands testimony si...