You say anything about Blank Noise Project, and you instantly get hit with a deluge of abuse. Not the fault of those behind it, definitely. It is an either-you-are-with- us, or you-are-with- the-terrorists mentality. Of some of their readers. Goes to show that small-mindedness is not the exclusive preserve of men, so maybe I should [...]
What will SRK and Shankar do to science fiction?
I m no lover of Bollywood movies. Or Tollywood movies, for that matter. Sure I can sit through most of them, but that is because I do not expect to see logical stuff. I enjoy them the way I can enjoy a good farce.
But science fiction is [...]
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What the.. ?!
You know, I never wanted to write this post. Those “xyz sucks” posts were beneath me, I had thought.
Well, I was wrong and Paypal can [...]
I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows a couple of days back. In my view, the book is much more tightly written than the last two books. And that itself is a relief. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are much better etched out in Deathly Hallows, and there are quite a [...]
I have been in New Delhi only for around 8 months. But you don’t need to be a Delhi resident to know about the Blueline menace. Years before I even considered moving to Delhi, I had heard about the Redline buses - accident prone and aggressive, flouting every rule of the road. They were later [...]
I have been ambivalent about the role of sex education in schools; and so far I have not seen convincing arguments from either side of the divide. Generally, the Indian English media is biased in favour of sex education in schools, I think. There is really no overt support to it; but just that the [...]
A lot many people are obsessed about how much leg is seen when Sania Mirza plays. No matter a decade or more back, the famous Debonair magazine used to carry double page spreads of female tennis stars bottoms with their skirts flying high, and challenged India’s readers to identify with posterior to which sexy star.The [...]
The first thing to strike me was - J K Rowling has learnt to write!
Frankly, don’t care if many of you think this is blasphemy. I sort of liked her initial two books in the Potter series. Then they started to drag. Tedious reading ensued. And of course it was not helped by Harry turning [...]
