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Saturday, February 13, 2010

The perfectly outrageous motion picture

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I've had the most fantastic past two hours watching Sidney Lumet 's 1976 film Network . I don't intend to write a review of the ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Notes from the Strand Book Festival

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I’m absolutely delighted with the collection of books I picked up at the Strand Book Festival. I went there on the Festival's second day...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Of Chetan Bhagat and unlimited parking in our brain

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There’s a scene in Wake Up Sid where the editor of a magazine (Rahul Khanna) smiles mockingly, almost in disbelief when his colleague (Ko...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

An interview with Allah

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With Eid festivities reaching their peak, I made my first visit to Mohammad Ali Road – the melting pot for majority of Mumbai’s ‘minority’. ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

We're two-timing all the time

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Have you ever caught your partner two-timing? By the time you finish reading this, you'd be pretty certain you have. For the record, t...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

My best friend's girlfriend is no film critic

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She believes film reviews must be "short and to-the-point", because a reader "does not have so much time to read, ya!". ...
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Sunday, July 05, 2009

How WB made a whore out of Harry Potter

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I miss Harry Potter. Not that I was dating him or something, but there was a time not many moons ago - when the I'd been reading the thi...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Macau’s sinfully naughty delights

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It’s not everyday that leggy, drop-dead gorgeous beauties dressed in Miss Universe costumes stand in a row, clap, sing, cheer and pose with ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

The frustration of a salesman in a local train

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So many people have suggested that I shift closer to office. That I must stay in Mumbai, and not some remote corner of the far flung suburbs...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Just shoe it: A journalist's revolution

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"Shoe kar, mere mann ko, kiya tu ne kya ishaara..." - P Chidambaram's humming this during potty hour The journalistic tribe ha...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Happy realization

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This darned chicken pox has made me realize a lot of stuff, which along the way I never ended up noticing. Blame it on my routine job where ...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Why water cooler conversations are on the rise at the DNA office

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In the last couple of days, consumption of coffee, tea and water in DNA's Mumbai office has shot up. At the drop of a hat, one could see...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Why 13B is an uncomfortable watch

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With a subtitle that says 'Fear has a new address', a viewer expected 13B to scare him to death. But then 13B is not your usual hor...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Why you must never date a business journalist

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A friend recently pointed out that now-a-days having a conversation with me is becoming virtually impossible, because I keep asking most of ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

All that is fit to print

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"On most occasions, what differentiates a good journalist from a bad one is news sense. What is breaking news for one may not even be n...
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Arcopol Chaudhuri
New Delhi, India
I'm 25, without HIV, and I read books for a living. When I'm bored, I grab a meal or two. Or maybe a cup of tea.
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