Blog on a Holiday

I go in for some minor eye surgery this week, so see you all this weekend. I hope. Gulp. Needles. In eyes. Do Not Want. Here’re some things I found interesting over the past week for you to read while I’m away. Now don’t say I never gave you anything.
Ellen deGeneres is sort [...]

The Saawariya Reaction

Love, in the movies of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is an emotion that needs to battle its way out - always past silence, sometimes the uncaring world.
In his debut feature, Khamoshi – the Musical, Manisha Koirala is a singer whose voice touches the world but not her deaf and mute parents (digression: Nana Patekar + Seema [...]

Minority Thoughts

I’ve been in a chaotic state of mind for the past week or two, primarily because of two books that on the surface have barely anything to do with each other but in which I found certain themes that intersected. They are, bizarrely enough, Yasmin Khan’s The Great Partition of India and Anupama Chopra’s King [...]

Communist Loves Lenin, Despises George Bush

This is a dog bites man sort of story, but it ties in to a couple of things that really irritate me so here goes…
Prakash Karat, a prominent Communist whose party is currently propping up the Congress-led government at the Centre, was apparently overcome with emotion when unveiling a Vladimir Lenin bust in the Indian [...]

Michael Jackson is Black

Or at least, Ebony. Sometimes a picture truly is worth a thousand words so I’m not even gonna try here. I mean, I do have a high opinion of myself but I’m not delusional - y’all are probably not even reading this because you’re trying to see if that’s actually Michael Jackson or some white [...]

WTF: Spice Girls’ Headlines

Did you always want to see five thirty-something women armed with bra tops and evening gowns show off their toned bodies while seductively draped over various bits of dusty furniture in a bid to recall their twenty-something hey-day? Do you like your music to hug the lower curve of bland pop? Is Wanna Be the [...]

Pakistan: Between Crisis & Coup

There is a tendency amongst some Indians to view the increasing amount of chaos in Pakistan with directly proportional cheer. After all, this is the kind of internal mayhem that hardliners in Pakistan, especially its armed forces/secret service, have often promised India, particularly during the 1980s and 90s. To see their instruments of guerrilla warfare [...]

Wonder if You’re Gay

Did you ever have a moment in your life when you questioned your sexual identity? A moment where you thought to yourself: I wonder if…?
I remember having this conversation with a friend of mine a long time ago and he was adamant that he’d never questioned his sexuality ever. He was straight and had never [...]

Don’t Buy Friends, Robbie Williams

 
Can you technically be classified as somebody’s “fan” if you’ve only ever bought one album of theirs and never actually think about them unless they’re brought to your attention? If yes, then I’m a Robbie Williams fan.
I bought Swing and I think it was great. And you know that’s true because I spent money on [...]

22 Things Guys Always Wanted to Know

…about women but were afraid to ask, according to the Edgy English Teacher. I’d mention him by his actual name but I think that says it all and more.
Being of kind disposition and brimming with the desire to do good to my fellow man, I thought I’d reproduce the list here and answer them. Okay, [...]