Blind Faith
August 21, 2006Hot on the heels of people turning up in thousands to drink the sea water (turned sweet) at Mahim creek, comes the story of a whole bunch of temples in MP having idols that turned into milk guzzlers. What was a fairly…
Break Time
August 17, 2006One of the great features about the [tag]Sony DSC H2[/tag] is the menu option to shoot in sepia or in black and white. It actually makes a huge difference shooting in that option, and shooting in colour and processing it later with…
The Sanitization of Rahul Mahajan
August 13, 2006There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of [tag]Rahul Mahajan[/tag]. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in…
Rules of Work Life
August 9, 2006One of the key rules of working life is that you better mark your attendance. If you don’t regularyturn up for work, a) your don’t get paid, and if your absence is chronic, b) you get sacked It is some thing that…
Cabbage Quotes
August 6, 2006An idealist : An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." – H.L. Mencken This reminds me so much of the left front in India. Brevity The…
Rural Scenes
August 6, 2006Bovine Bliss – getting scrubbed down at the village pond I asked my students once, where would you find a village? The answer was – away from the city. And then came qualifiers – mud huts, no vehicles, farms, animals etal. Well,…
Death Penalty any one?
August 4, 2006I am ambivalent about the death penalty. I belive that it should exist on the statute books but used very sparingly, by the book, following the rule of law etal. But this is the rational me. When i read articles like this,…
Pesticola …
August 4, 2006In another world, another time, this could be a name for a cola variant in MAD magazine. Unfortunately, in our world it is a term that is used to describe colas with large doses of pesticide. Naturally the reaction to it is…
Positive Development
July 31, 2006I think that the Government has hit the nail on the head in asking religious leaders to intercede in stemming [tag]female foeticide[/tag]. The union ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has written to Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandmayi, Dinkar, Asaram Bapu…
Monsoon Light
July 28, 2006I love the rains. Always have. And one of the things that i enjoy the most about the monsoons is the kind of light that filters over [tag]Mumbai[/tag]. This is stuff that i have shot over the last few weeks – experimenting…