Passion Flower
October 29, 2009hidden under a clump of bougainvillea – was this little thing peeking out at me. at first i thought it was an insect – then on zooming in figured it was not. Cute, quaint and kind of odd looking – with a…
Month: October 2009
Shooting Stars
October 25, 2009At one time Mumbai had a plethora of shooting floors – at Natraj, Navrang, R.K, Kamalistan, Mehboob, Mohan – floors that were linked to banners & great film makers. But over a period of time it became more commercially viable to construct…
Happy Diwali Vikram Buddhi !
October 17, 2009It’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…
Happy Diwali
October 16, 2009Word/Phrase Association Diwali : Lights, Sound, Sharing, Family, Hope, Goodness, Triumph of Good over Evil, Joy, Homecoming, Lamps, Rangoli, Festivities, Giving, Loving, Anticipation, Dawn, New Beginnings, Gifts, Sweets, Savories, Community, …what words do you associate with it.
An Appeal for Protecting Children
October 12, 2009Remember the time you heard about the Nithari killings and  almost threw up – the kids went through stuff that we, thankfully, cannot even imagine.  Remember the Mira Road case – where a man raped his daughters on the advice of  a…
Obama’s Nobel ..
October 10, 2009….cute, but slightly premature. Â After all, he was only in office for 11 odd days when the nominations closed ! Great intentions, great promise of a better tomorrow …. but delivery would be nice ! It was fun being on twitter yesterday…
Kobad Ghandy, Roman Polanski ..
October 7, 2009…if people like ‘us’ Â (as in the elite – definitely not me ) commit a crime – even a heinous one, is it not a crime? Does coming from a certain ‘background’ absolve you of guilt ? So why this outpouring of…
Review – Flow for the Love of Water
October 4, 2009Irena Salina’s film “Flow – For the Love of Water ” aka “Flow – How did a handful of corporations steal our water” is a well made documentary that looks at the issues regarding clean portable (drinkable) water to the world’s population…
Origin(ship) of Language !
October 3, 2009Where there is friendship, can originship be far away ? This from the DNA : Am not sure if this is the DNA or PTI – but it seems as if all newspapers and news agencies have laid off the copy team….
MKG – 140
October 2, 2009On his 140th Anniversary, one of my favorite quotes from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : The roots of violence . Somehow we have moved so far away from those ideals Wealth without work. – i wonder if the global economic meltdown would have…