A very Happy Diwali ….
November 13, 2004…. and a peaceful and prosperous new year to all the readers of this blog.
The festival of light….
November 13, 2004…. turns into an orgy of noise. Maybe it is just me, when I was younger – the lights and the sound were definitely a part of Diwali. But, in recent years – it has been less light and more sound. Our…
Little Nuggets
November 11, 2004The trouble with trying to run 3 lives without letting any of them collide with the other is that something has got to give. and that something is personal space. I have had absolutely no time or energy left for myself –…
The End of An Era
November 11, 2004Yasser Arafat died today. I hope that he finds the peace that so eluded him in life. He, more than anyone else, ensured that the Palestinians were not forgotten. They didn’t become another statistic in a desire by the West to assuage…
Fear is the Key
November 11, 2004I was shooting for Power Trip. Our guests that day were Kumara Mangalam Birla and Praful Patel. IT was the 4th of November. and the US election results were out. Bush won, as expected. There is nothing quite like using “fear as…
An interesting Fortnight
November 9, 2004My life continues to move with all the twists and turns of a bad soap. A week ago I was contemplating taking it easy for a few days. It seemed very likely that we would only shoot at the end of the…
Power Trip with Shobhaa De
October 24, 2004The very first episode of the show went on air today – the curtain raiser. Cogito’s first show on Hindi Entertainment television. I directed. Shishir was Technical Director and Shirish the Financial Controller. The first episode with Adi Godrej was supposed to…
Kush or Berry
October 24, 2004A couple of weeks ago I read an article, think that it was by Swaminathan Anklasaria Aiyer, called Kush and Berry, and looked at what little difference there was between the two. Today, while reading the Guardian online, the headline “Kush and…
The Tiger W(h)impers …..
October 19, 2004…. in light of his parties recent losses in the Maharashtra State elections. In fact, he has been whimpering since the end of the Lok Sabha elections. The petulant cry is “hey. It is not me. It is them.” So according to…
Babies with 3 Biological Parents
October 17, 2004Today’s Guardian ran a very good piece on a moral quandry. Doctors in Britain have applied for permission to carry out experiments, that will produce babies with 3 biological parents. The first is the father/sperm. The second and third are mothers/eggs. The…