For films that should never have been made, there’s the Raspberry awards. For inventions that should never ever be attempted, there’s the Ig Nobel awards. To outsmart the ‘videsis’, our ‘desi’ bhai log at Filmfare decided to hand out awards to real life heroes and … Continue readingDubious distinctions of 2007
At a time when the issue should be larger than the subject questioning it, TV9 does the most ignoble of things. By projecting reporters larger than life. Just the other day, I saw a live voice broadcast of a reporter, giving his take on the … Continue readingLarger-than-life TV anchors
If you’ve read Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series of books, you will know where I am coming from. Her works are a series of diary jottings maintained by a boy who is aged 13 3/4th years… her later books talk about his notings in his … Continue readingStrange ways of Bollywood!
For years, I used to pity people who were into self-help books (which meant most of America). Until Betty Shine happened. There I was browsing for more than an hour at Sankars Book Stall when my eye picked out her book, Mind Magic. Maybe it … Continue readingDiscovering serendipity
While every secular-sounding newspaper and TV channel is crying itself hoarse on how Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is the Hitler of India post the government-sponsored Gujarat riots of 2002, I have a simple question: who made him that? Is it LK Advani who rode … Continue readingTehelka’s expose on Gujarat riots