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When Freud Ruined The Match
Sweets, five varieties, each the size of two ping-pong balls, alive with crunchy dry-fruit toppings, about 100 in number, arranged in neat circles on 10 porcelain plates. Mangoes, diced and lush,...
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Why Love Aaj Kal made me feel good about myself
I watched Love Aaj Kal with two deeply lovestruck souls today, and if that left any feeling of incompleteness in the experience, the Friendship Day SMS from one of those unknown numbers during the...
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Overheard in Delhi
A 20-something at Archies, Kamla Nagar: “Bhaiyya, yeh watch bisexual hai naa?“ In other news, I am feeling rather welcome, being back that is.
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Please, Is There a Nurse on Board?!
The thing that primarily kept me away from the blog for a couple of months is my job as the editor of a world cinema magazine. Here’s whatever I can share with you from my work in that pompous role....
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Memory Game
Tanmoy Goswami presents a primer on the relationship between culture and memory. “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Thus spake Milan Kundera in The Book...
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Also Ran
Lola reminds Tanmoy Goswami of another common-man runner, who scampered through the business of life as if it were a box of chocolates. The first time I sat down to watch Run Lola Run, I kept expecting...
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Wasteland
Tanmoy Goswami loses his way in no man’s land. “When the sniper reached the laneway on the street level, he felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper whom he had killed….He...
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Cry Baby and Resul Pookutty
Am I losing it? Why are films making me cry so much? It was sporadic at first. A scene here, a dialogue there. Now, it’s like I cannot watch any kind of film without breaking out into loud sobs at the...
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Birth Buddies
Those who don’t know me, behold, and draw a mental picture of me. Those who do know me, behold, and understand how much of me you never knew. This is what has made me what I am. As I count down to my...
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A Good Samaratan
Samara white wine 180 bucks in a green bottle, take a bow. Don’t hog the whole stage though, leave some room for this blog, since it is this blog that I have returned to under your influence, fighting...
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