Resolutions 2008

I’ve come to be wary of New Year Eve. Last year a bomb blast left some eight New Year revellers in Bangkok dead. Some years ago a bride brought a New Year in, as she sat stunned, besides her dead groom, with a bullet marking his heart in an airplane on Khandahar airport. In 2004 a powerful car bomb killed a group of [...]

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Yuletide in Chennai

Greetings.
Everyone’s whining that  Chennai’s grandness is lost in the density of urban sprawl. But to seek vestiges of her past beauty you need the keen eye of a traveller and the heart of a loyal patron. And it’s Christmas, the right time to do it.
Churches are Chennai’s best kept secret. The churches of Chennai bursting with song, hope, [...]

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Amma’s Boyz

Cousin R stopped for a sleep-over from California enroute to meet his mother in Chennai. He  brought his American wife along. This was their first-ever visit to our home.
I fixed her a cappucino and did the done thing. Brought out the old family album and perched it on my knees. We went through black and white photographs of us as children holidaying [...]

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Chinna Veedu, the French Connection

The latest piece of news that has floated in from Paris informs us that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was seen having a romantic walk with his girlfriend Carla Bruni at the Champ Elysee a few days ago.  The supermodel has a past that would make saints wilt with longing. She has supped and slept with famous men including Mick [...]

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