Month: September 2011
Parijaat
September 27, 2011In my garden, Lonavala, the Parijaata tree blooms. The tree with a story. Krishna and Satyabhama are in Indralok, helping the Devas fight Narakasura. When Krishna is injured in battle, Satyabhama picks up arms and slays Narakasura. Indralok is ecstatic. Song, dance,…
27 to Die
September 26, 2011SR, my business partner, moved last year to Gurgaon. He has been regaling us with stories ever since, during his visits to Mumbai. Gurgaon sounds like the wild west, meets hilly billy country in sparkling new steel and chrome mall-dom. I have…
Divergent views on the Anna Protest
September 23, 2011The extended drama that took place at the Ram Lila grounds is over. The main protagonists – the Government & Team Anna, have both gone home to regroup and renew. Team Anna is using its newly gained status as media darling…
DNA Column : To defeat terror, legalise drugs
September 20, 2011My column in today’s DNA It has been a decade since al-Qaeda took the war in the Middle East to the doorsteps of the Americans. 9/11 became a watershed moment for the ‘War on Terror’, with the US and its allies recognising…
Happy Birthday Uncle Pai
September 17, 2011image – google doodle on the 17th of September 2011 The man who triggered my love for History, Mythology, Religion and Comics – the birth anniversary of Uncle Pai. Amar Chitra Katha – that was a concept 😀
The New 52 – Reinventing a Brand ….
September 16, 2011…. for new audiences and a strong base for extending copyright for the next 100 or so years. Fantastically brilliant. What do you do, as a company and a product category – monthly comics – , when you have characters older…
A tale of Two Posters
September 14, 2011So Pakistan Published an Ad on 9/11. In the WSJ. The trouble with laughing so much that your stomach hurts, is that there is no time to feel outrage 😀 And, then given that it is the net and there is a…