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Reuters: Bollywood News

Movie Review: Batti Gul Meter Chalu - One of the first few scenes in Shree Narayan Singh’s “Batti Gul Meter Chalu” (Lights off Meter On) shows a town which is pitch dark due to a power outage. ...
1 day ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

The Good Girl - I picked up this book because I remembered it being compared with Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train at the time the book came out. I was on the lookout...
3 days ago
The Compulsive Confessor

Today in Photo - Good morning, and goodbye workday. I gave a little shriek when I opened this. (thanks for the book mail @hachette_india!) #158in2018 #bookstagram #nowread...
3 days ago
Just a little Something!

Reaching the half-way mark: It’s the journey, not the destination! - It’s rather crazy how time flies. I was just looking back to a few weeks ago (8 now!) when I started off on my challenge. A few days ago, I hit my 50 day g...
5 days ago
Modern Gypsy

#MondayMusings: Emerging from the hermit cave - As an introvert, my default state is to hide away in my hermit cave. I truly enjoy pottering about the house – the husband and I doing our own creative t...
5 days ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

How to have a “Happy Long Life” - Ever noticed how in most organizations the leaders rarely join workshops and training events. They will sit at the back, doing their email. That signals ...
1 week ago
My Travelogue

Heritage in Goa - When you think of Goa, what comes to your mind - beaches? booze? Yeah, its the Las Vegas of India. What happens in Goa, stays in Goa. But then did you know...
1 week ago
Anindita Sengupta

Orphan Black (S5): Cosima and Rachel - I was late in the game with Orphan Black but I’m finally on the last few episodes and the last season’s focus on Cosima and Rachel is fascinating. Ok, fai...
1 week ago
Soulful

Dhaniya - the herb that seldom lets ego bloat! - I am the youngest of three siblings. The baby of my parent's family. The pampered one, the lazy one, the dreamy and the most excused one. And I am also the...
1 week ago
Scrambled Egg

Amore - Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ... Special invite to read Gyanban's latest.
1 week ago
Life in Technicolor

Tricks - *Stormy grey skies,* *Ink black waves,* *Hugging me, * *Choking me,* *Mouthful of briny water,* *Arms lashing about,* *Trying to keep myself afloat,* *While ...
2 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Why did Prof. George Sudarshan say, “I am quite good at deceiving myself”? - Prof. George Sudarshan was an eminent scientist known for his contributions in theoretical physics. He passed away a few months ago. He was 86. Sudarshan ...
2 weeks ago
This Is My Truth

1984 Sikh Genocide – Why Media Won’t Stop Hounding Rahul Gandhi? - 1984 Sikh genocide was consequence of individual crime, not party ideology. Individuals will be, should be punished, justice should be done to everybody. T...
3 weeks ago
Aalayam Kanden

Our lady of Glory Pulicat - the first Parish of Tamil Nadu - The new church of Our Lady of Glory in PulicatLast year, during Madras week, I had been on a heritage trip to Pulicat, organised by Aarde Foundation, led ...
3 weeks ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Khara bath recipe - Khara bath recipe, an authentic, tasty Karnataka style rava masala upma. Preparation with vegetables,semolina & ghee like mtr restaurant popular in Bangalo...
2 months ago
Fit As Fiddle

Indian Travel Blog - Kyoto, Japan - Indian Travel Blog - Kyoto, Japan From Tokyo, we shifted our base to Kyoto. Read on my experience and the things to do here. Kyoto, Japan was historically ...
2 months ago
Wilderness

7 days in Malta - When Kunal and I promised ourselves to each other – we always knew we are going to keep up with our love for travelling - baby on board or not ! So the fi...
2 months ago
~A Moment Please~

FIFA Football World Cup Knockouts 2018 - It has been a fortnight since the Football World Cup 2018 commenced in Russia. 32 teams from across the world played some scintillating football in the gro...
2 months ago
Life Unlimited

Of Life & Wake Up Calls - “Writers are pretentious fucks!” He spat this at me. Right in the middle of an outrageous fight. And I laughed. “Just because you’re insecure doesn’t ma...
4 months ago
Alka Dwivedi

क्या आप एक उदारवादी हिन्दू हैं ? - पता नहीं कितने साल पहले एक उदारवादी हिन्दू को नापने का पैमाना इज़ाद किया गया था, लेकिन आज हमारे पास आप के उदारवादी होने के मापदंड बहुत स्पष्ट है. हम एक एक...
5 months ago
Miss_teerious

Book Review: The Immortality Trigger by Douglas Misquita - The Immortality Trigger Author: Douglas Misquita ISBN: 978-1973285373 Buy from: Flipkart Amazon.in Amazon.com The Immortality Trigger, by Douglas Misquita,...
5 months ago
theindiaphile

How to Start an Essay Options - How to Start an Essay Options In case you’ve basically ready an article, in addition to a fantastic deal of ladies and guys have, you know just how hard ...
6 months ago
Priyashmita's Blog ...

3 sides to a story- A short story - Today’s story: Karan was unwell for quite some time. His ailing health was a matter of extreme worry for both his wife Rani and his daughter Radhika. He h...
11 months ago
Piccolo Posts

Madhya Pradesh: A Hearty Affair - This post might be the happiest thing in the world today because this post was in draft mode for more than an year now. But I didn’t give up on it because ...
1 year ago
Akshiva's Blog

CT2017 - Ind v/s Pak - Pak wins match, loses respect - A snapshot from my Facebook post :Last night the hype got better of me & I ended up paying a very large amount (by my standards) for a ticket to watch toda...
1 year ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

The Political Is Personal - *First on the Wire.* In *Between the World and Me*, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, 'All our phrasing – race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profil...
1 year ago
Silverine - poomanam

The evolution of the political vermin - The political worm or more popularly known as the political vermin (PV) is an interesting parasite. Among all the parasites out there, this is the only cre...
1 year ago
The Yogi Zone

Water, water, everywhere... - *…. and I don’t know how to fucking swim!* I am sure it’s quite normal to have nightmares of dying a gruesome death. I am not sure, though, if such nightm...
1 year ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

The Mall - The dog is looking at me. His eyes, they seem to see right into my soul. I am not great at prolonged eye contact even with humans. So a dog, a menacing loo...
1 year ago
John P Matthew on Writing and Life!

Book Review: I Dreamt a Horse Fell Through the Sky by Adil Jussawala - When I was in college (oh! Those mis-spent days!) I had a free supply of magazines through a friend’s dad who worked in G. Claridge & Co., the press that...
1 year ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

A house in Gola - The wall art - fabulous to me, mundane, routine at Gola. Don't miss the happy (drunk I think) elephant!
1 year ago
I Like कला

Christmas Ornament Cards - [image: Handmade, Christmas Cards, Holiday Cards, Greeting cards, Blank Christmas Cards set, Christmas Ornament Cards, with Envelopes - SET OF 4] On my Ets...
1 year ago
Amreekandesi.com

Open Letter to PM Modi - Dear Modiji, Back in 2014 when India overwhelmingly voted for you, we voted in the belief that the aspirations of modern India would now be met. That we wo...
2 years ago
C'est La Vie

From The Heart - हमारा व्यवहार गणित के 'शून्य' की तरह होना चाहिये जो स्वयं कोई कीमत नहीं रखता लेकिन दूसरों के साथ जुड़नें पर, उसकी 'कीमत' बढ़ा देता है!:) सच्चाई वो दीया है...
2 years ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Sri Rama Samaj - What was once an everyday affair has now become a rare occasion. Well, not exactly everyday, but, certainly it was close to every other. With changes in li...
2 years ago
The New Age Bard

Czy ekologicznesztachety Winylowe na ogrodzenie i furtkę ze sztachetek są wspaniale - Czy ekoplot PVC na plot i furtę ze sztachetek są doskonale Obecnie na czasie jest trend bycia eko, ale czy ten trend racjonalne wytłumaczenie w każdej dom...
2 years ago
cribb.in : for a social cause | India

Vodafone 4G speed test - 4G in general is supposed to give more than 10 times the 3G speeds. Essentially in India, we should be getting anywhere from 20-40mbps of download speed on...
2 years ago
Weakest Link

A Weakest opinion for a strongest debate - Video: https://youtu.be/YEgN8piTg8A I started this post to socially share my opinion around the video but after seeing its sheer size I thought to blog i...
2 years ago
Death Ends Fun

The watch and the film star - The question I have is, should I blame the film star? I played tennis with him this evening. Good session, apart from two things. One, I can't get my mind ...
2 years ago
Sentimientos

The End - Ah. I was 20 when I started this blog. 4 years. It's hard to believe it's been that long because I feel the same old struggle when I come up here to expre...
2 years ago
Otiose Opinions

Marry me! - I have been hearing too many stories about bad marriages lately that relationships and marriages have began to scare me. I don't dream about a prince charm...
2 years ago
Monologue

5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Traveling - If Travel Was free, You'd Never See Me Again! - Anonymous, but could easily have been me. I did not travel much as a kid, but I loved the idea of going to ...
2 years ago
S&T in Developing Economies

ALL CLEAR: FeedMedic Alert for blogspot/BjjF - Your Source Feed, http://shurjo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss, is now working fine. Carry on! We will let you know if anything bad happens in ...
2 years ago
Roads

The one that stayed - The one that stayed! We lived in parallel worlds, on paths that seldom collide, It took us apart, in the orbits afar, for years we lived, with goodwill we ...
3 years ago
Confessions Of The Chocolate Obsessed

verylaterealization - I guess I should probably have left a note over here as well. CoCO has moved, lovelies.
3 years ago
Blah..blah..blah...

He said yes. - It’s been a while since I wrote about the developments in my family, hasn't it? Well, here’s the gist. Cousin B got hitched a while back and it’s now Cousi...
3 years ago
Brown Penny

Zero Gravity - Standing at the same intersection of life, yet again, I see.. Hurtful memories come gushing back, weakening me in the knee. I am 7, I wake up with the soun...
3 years ago
Akshayapaatram

My DIY Spice Blend - Dear Foodies, Yet again its been a silent few months here though I most certainly promised myself it wouldn't be that way. I've still been cooking a lot fo...
3 years ago
2point6billion.com - Investment in Asia

Xiaomi Shipped 60 Million Smartphones in 2014 - Xiaomi’s rapid rise has recently been confirmed by the figures released by the company itself: it sold more than three times as many smartphones in 2014 as...
3 years ago
Newsmericks

My Tryst with the Ice Bucket Challenge - "I've tagged you to pour on your head A bucket of ice," my pal said. I thought she was teasing, But --SPLASH-- I was freezing, And now I am laid up in bed!...
4 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
4 years ago
Epicgrammatic

I Am Not Pregnant - An Open Letter - Dear Concerned Friends, (Does not concern family) It's been less than two years since the white dress, tiered cake and the rest of the typical Goan Catho...
4 years ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia: Conference Highlights - South Asia by the Bay: Graduate Conference 2014, UC Santa Cruz, May 2-3, 2014 Image by Sheba Chhachhi. A full program awaited attendees of this year’s ...
4 years ago
Chhaya Path

Gender Migration and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation - I find the commonly used term ‘migration’ highly political in nature. In humanitarian crisis parlance it refers to “the movements of refugees and internall...
4 years ago
Shwetal's Space

Standing the test of time - Colours of Love Pic Courtesy: Google Images He cradled me in his arms. I cooed. He threw me up in the air. I laughed. I knew he would catch me; never l...
4 years ago
Verbosity

Changes - One Mr. Narayan Shankar in a Bollywood blockbuster ‘Mohabattein’ emphatically declares – “I don’t like Changes” in 2001, I was a young 20-year-old guy then...
4 years ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

Why, amma, why ?! - My day began like any other day. After a good breakfast and a short nap, I dressed in new clothes and got ready for my daily walk. The weather was sunny an...
4 years ago
Within / Without

Thanks Madhu Menon! - A bad case of spam injection, and me unleashed on the ftp meant that pretty much everything in the blog was lost for a little bit. I struggled, read up thi...
6 years ago
Unruled Notebook

Madras Music Season Essay in The Hindu - The 2011 Madras Music Season throats; so does the reviews from critics. A breather on the light side of Carnatic music Of concert lists and rasikas’ quirks...
6 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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