When I came to know of a new search engine called Yahoo in the inchoate days of the dot com revolution, I thought it had something to do with Shammi Kapoor for the expression was best associated with him. In fact his iconoclastic Yahoo formed my earliest memory of the actor and it remained the... Continue Reading →
Messages will fly off the phones, facebook updates will be full-on, FM radio will be abuzz with dedications and malls will be abundant with them. Friendship Day is back. I don’t remember exactly when I began observing this day. For sure it’s not been more than 5-6 years. But perhaps it stuck the metros first... Continue Reading →
In 1953, when a delegation of the Indian film industry visited the former Soviet Union, they were swept off their feet. People went crazy upon seeing Raj Kapoor and Nargis as they had just come out of theatres after watching Brodigaya, the dubbed version of Awara in Russian and were at splits about the new... Continue Reading →
I’m writing this just minutes after India has won the 2011 ICC World cup. I’m not a cricket crazy Indian in the typical sense. There are times when I don’t even remember that there is a match for India against some team and there are times when I don’t bother about the final status of... Continue Reading →
Madraswallah 