I met Lionnel at Not Just Jazz by the Bay, Mumbai last month. He was performing there that night. It was like, what, some two or three years after going to any kind of rock show? Maybe more.
Watching Lionnel perform – just how do they get on stage and do all that? Somehow I have [...]
You know, her fall from grace and general carelessness with underwear is kind of sad. But when performance on-stage suffers, it is no good reacting by trying to go on binge-drinking. Hope poor Britney Spears does not get any worse. After all, people my age grew up with her, though we found the songs definitely [...]
All that in the morning papers.
In the case of the unfortunate eve teaser who had the bad luck to try and grope a 24-year old Karate coach in a Blueline bus, I can’t help feeling thrilled. Tough babes are da sexy!
The jerks tried their stuff in the bus, and the young Karate coach caught [...]
Yes, really. The comments on news websites (even after moderation) are so ridiculous sometimes. Especially when the topic is even slightly sensitive.
Rediff message boards are a perfect example of this. Take any story that has some religious angle, and you will find a great brawl. The horrible English is OK, we weren’t born into English-speaking [...]
I was in Mumbai recently, during the hard rainy season. Met Bijoy of BSMotoring (he’s a classmate from Kerala) and while we were discussing Formula One racing, he explained that he likes Fernando Alonso, the reigning world champion. Seems the hot-headed spaniard has a way of attacking corners that shows he is not afraid to [...]
Been a resident of Mumbai for 12 years, and almost one year in Delhi now. All metros have a problem of drinking and driving, and accidents caused by it. You hear a lot less about it in Mumbai generally, but when you do, it is on the lines of half a dozen people sleeping on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
