A Point of View
A frame filled with History
On the right is the “Gateway of India” – built to welcome King George the V – at the height of power of the British Raj. It also marked the point from which the last British troops left India – marking the decline of the British Raj.
On the [...]
I spent 90 odd minutes today debating – “challenging Left Liberalism” on the offstumped community portal
I am pretty much a Liberal centrist moderate who has a 10 degree oscillation on issues to the left and right. There are policy issues on which I may agree with either, neither or sometimes both. For example [...]
March 12th 1993. A time when Mumbai was still Bombay. Lokhandwalla was a set of buildings in progress, where gangs regularly went to war. Where In Orbit & Hypercity Malad were rubbish dumps, when the expressway didn’t exist, when Asiatic and Akbarally’s were great malls and when Phoenix was a shut down mill !
March 12th [...]
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 [...]
Madh Island, Mumbai, is dotted with bungalows that are often used for shoots. They are called shoot bungalows – as compared to the private or company bungalows that dot the landscape.
We were shooting for a show called Golden Age, hosted by Kitu Gidwani – that goes on Samay Mumbai from next week. The show [...]
Jhing Chik Jhing – the Marathi film that my company Cogito Entertainment produced – is ready.
It was part of the panorama at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) on Wednesday – and ran houseful to an appreciative audience.
The last year has been a roller coaster. Producing a film, especially one that is made out of [...]
From the ToI – sometime last year
When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer, the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of 1991, few would have imagined she would one day become one of the most [...]
November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are supposed to remember. The most noise however, was for Nehru’s & then Indra Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the Babri Masjid Demolition – thanks to the tabling of the Liberhan committee report and now [...]
Over the last year, I met many people who wanted to enter politics. Students, CEO’s, Social Activists and the rest. I have been giving some sort of general gyaan on the how’s and the what’s of politics – especially building core support groups and carrying them along.
But, over the same period I began realizing that what I am asking [...]
It’s been three Diwalis since Vikaram Buddhi has been locked up in jail in the USA, without a trial after a trial lasting 3 days (thank you Rahul). He was accused of posting on-line threats against George & Laura Bush. He maintained that he didn’t do it.
A PHD Student, he was an alumnus [...]
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