Posts under ‘Culture’

Last evening, SR and I trudged down to Crosswords – Juhu where Sonali Kulkarni’s book “So Kul” was being launched. “So Kul” – an abbreviation of her name is collection of essays from her weekly column in Loksatta.
Sonali in addition to being writer, actor etal is also presenting our show “Art Beat” on popular [...]

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The Mylapore (Mayil – peacock; ooru – city) is possibly, my favourite temple. When I am in Chennai i visit Mylapore everyday, sometimes twice a day – much to my family’s amusement. When in Mumbai, visiting temples is not a part of my daily or even weekly routine. I manage a little roadside temple every [...]

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Tarun

Saturday was a strange sort of a day. i was shooting from dawn, outdoors around Mumbai. By dusk, i was knackered. 15 years earlier, i would have gone to edit – but on Saturday, all i wanted was to get home. My mind had packed up.
SK called – Bharat, Madhavi, Chinmay, Raju, Story, Direction and [...]

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Confession Time. I don’t like buying food – especially vegetables – in malls. Never have. I find their sanitized organization scary.
Even when I stayed in London, I would trudge down to the local market and pick up fresh veggies from the guy with a barrow than go to a Sainsbury’s and pick out the pretty [...]

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What did he expect ?
Abhinav Bhatt, a law student based in Pune, filed a complaint with the magistrate’s court in June 2000, saying that Rediff has committed offence under section 292 of IPC (selling, distributing obscene material).
His contention was that if one was to type words such as “sexual intercourse” in the search window on [...]

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“Hi, would you like to come and see our flick”
An innocuous line, you would think, but one which got K fuming I could see the fumes coming out of her ear.
“That stupid child doesn’t know how to handle the client.” Said K, “ I should sack him and get a secretary’ she added.
“Kya Hua ?” [...]

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Rains have been delayed terribly this year. Intermittent, sparse and playing hide & seek with all of us. It has been terribly depressing – without the rains. The body and the mind have both been feeling extremely tired and as thought there is no hope of renewal.
Yesterday, it finally rained. the proper monsoon downpour. the [...]

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After a few weeks of being immersed in Disaster Risk Reduction – thanks to the documentary, Farmer Suicides and the way out – thanks to our Marathi feature film “Jhing Chik Jhing”, and politics & elections – thanks to the elections; I am back to my normal reading. (disclaimer: my normal and other people’s normal [...]

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Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi, Raga Desh (i think. if it isn’t please post and i shall make the change )

the you tube generation is going to enjoy the classics !
And, here is one of my favorites – Bhaja Govindam – written by Adi Shankaracharya – the verses sung in Ragamalika – by M.S.Subhalakshmi

i have been [...]

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…. i realised when i was looking through my Flickr Stream, that i have more than a fair share of photographs of places of worship, of emblems of faith. Here are some of my favorites :

The Brahma temple at Pushkar is a rarity – legend claims that it is the only Brahma temple in Hindudom [...]

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