Summer in Mumbai….
April 10, 2005… this year seems to be hotter than normal. It must be the extensive roadworks that are happening across the board that is causing all of us in the city to wilt under the heat. It feels like 40 degrees (celcius) and…
Big B at the Big Apple
April 8, 2005An entire festival dedicated to the Big B – in New York this month. The 11 film retrospective inlcudes some of my favourites – Anand, Deewar (the old one, not the ghastly new one thank god), Abhimaan, Amar Akbar Anthony. They have…
The Caravan of Peace …
April 7, 2005… leaves today from Srinagar in India to Muzzafarbad in Pakistan. A simple bus journey tries to bring together people separated by barbed wire. The bus service has been named Kaarwan-e-Aaman or Caravan of Peace. A bomb went off yesterday to prevent…
He’s Back….
April 4, 2005…One of my favourite blogs was missing for sometime. He is now back at a new address. Check out Route 79 at a whole new site.
I Need a Break and go
April 2, 2005… to a place where there is no mobile network, no land line connection, no post office, no courier service and no television! Any recommendations!
sans PC
March 30, 2005The last two weeks have been sans PC. The poor thing – overworked and always on – blew its own condensor. and went off to get repaired. Before the prognosis, diagnosis and cure, I was tinkering around with it trying to get…
The Empire Strikes Back
March 27, 2005About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule – a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in. In the last two years one of…
Innuendo as News
March 26, 2005Today’s coloumn by Sucheta Dalal, The Indian Express carries just enough innuendo’s for those inside the media to guess the company. This is rather like the ToI’s breaking story on the Ambani feud. No names. But enough insinuations for people in the…
Rani Hound ….
March 26, 2005…. she has grown. She’s now a young lady going through her troublesome teens.