Focus is a four letter word.

Here's what happens when the entire nation goes ga-ga over a movie that portrays us as exactly what we are, shows what we do, amplifies the petty and throws in ...read more

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Of books and muses, and some advice too.

Quote # 5.1 - 'I took a speed reading course. Read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia' - Woody Allen I have been reading for as long as I can...read more

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On a hot tin roof

The whole thing about food being associated with memory is true. It has to be. For one, I have met a significant number of people who know exactly what they con...read more

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There's a kind of rush

This review is way overdue. My review for their debut album appeared on mouthshut almost two years back (before I took my sabbatical). In fact most of my music ...read more

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Oh! For a summer in Corfu...

Picked it up from a friend's house. Didn't return it. It's been 11 years now. This book isn't too musty. It smells of my house and of a small island in Greece, ...read more

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Love and Longing in Calcutta

Park Street, Calcutta. The only comparisons that I can think of is the Champs Elysess in Paris and maybe Park Avenue in New York. Not in size but in soul. The o...read more

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My point

Huxley is someone that people love to read. Huxley is also someone people love to hate. Huxley is someone important. What might appear to be a clever dig or wor...read more

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Litters to the editor

An open piece of communication that is directed at the people who took the brave decision to publish the now famous ''The Inscrutable Americans'' by Mr. Anurag ...read more

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Sour, it is not.

I pick up my books from all sorts of places. Book stores (obviously), bazaars, exhibitions, second hand shops, pavements, friends houses :), everywhere. My favo...read more

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The bricks are laid

Finally. Nagesh Kukunoor has been a great disappointment to me personally. Can I post that on a community web site? Of course, I can. That's the whole idea of a...read more

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Rock Solid

Living in Poona now for more than two years one can't help but be constantly reminded of the whole priority of enjoying yourself, academics be damned. One such ...read more

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Open up.

Alan McGee (former Creation Records and Oasis star maker) has lambasted Coldplay several times – in the pages of NME, by referring to the band as ‘b...read more

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So Sgt Pepper Took You By Surprise...

“Sgt Peppers” was perhaps the most experimental album by The Beatles ever. Fans have called the album an Avant-Garde trip; some even call it the fir...read more

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The Debut Of The Solo Artiste

From just one spin of Sting’s “The Dream of the Blue Turtles”, Sting’s first solo release; it was evident that there was life beyond The...read more

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Almost Poetry

Almost poetry, is how I would like to describe Casablanca. Set against the backdrop of espionage in wartime French Morocco, the story of American Café owne...read more

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The Gurus Are Back

Depeche Mode have been known as experimental, musical innovators right from the start of their synth-based conception. Over the last twenty years they have matu...read more

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The Mature Phase...

George Michael we are familiar with thanks to the phenomenal success of Wham! in the mid 80's. Armed with their boyish good-looks and foot stomping music, Georg...read more

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Gr8 Music...Gr8 Ambience

Truly a Pub! Albeit when this place opened up it was something of a hotch-potch. The set is more on the lines of a small pub but was originally a disco where th...read more

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Yuppie World @Rs 5!

Business World is probably the only magazine I would pick up and read. There are umpteen reasons for it. Firstly, the price, for a student who barely lives on o...read more

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Significant Shadow

All of us certified geeks, (and those who had just hopped into the not-so-elite bandwagon) eagerly awaited the Chip Magazine every month. It brought with it hop...read more

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