A handful of thoughts

West Bengal is going through the birth pangs of a great political change. A change that is expected to alter much of what we now associate with the state. The messiah of this great change is Ms Mamata Banerjee, and besides the public support, she has somehow managed to get another set of people on […]

The Americans are perhaps, the most xenophobic race in the whole wide world. Their latest display of xenophobia is the movie 2012.  Asteroids falling from the sky, cities being ravaged by storms, asphalt cracking up to reveal the vicious tentacles of aliens- all this so trademark American and so trademark Hollywood that it has begun […]

Well, I have been busy lately. Busy enough not to have time for my blog. Thanks to facebook, I am now a don and a farmer. Much of my time is taken up by farming and killing and looting people, looting banks and robbing pimps. I have several Italian restaurants, rented houses and a gang […]

Unlike the western world who have four seasons (not to be mistaken with the hotel), we Indians along with some of our neighbors, have six seasons a year. And the one that comes before winter, right after autumn is Hemanta kal; and its here. The festivals over, crops harvested, days shortened; this season makes me […]