The Wife as Biographer

Actor Om Puri is an unlikely hero writes his spouse.
And no man is hero to his wife.
That explains this sad, vulgar, tell- all biography  Om Puri-An Unlikely Hero, authored by his wife Nandita. The actor’s glory days included Akrosh, Ardh Satya, Droh Kal, Dharavi, Mirch Masala, East is East and My Son the Fanatic  and many memorable [...]

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Julie and Julia and Food of the Blog World

 “Tsk. I’m hurting”.
 “I’m sorry, a thousand times over”.
“How could you?”
“Boo hoo.”
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“I’ve got a movie for you to watch”.
“What’s it on?”
“Cooking”.
“Should I watch to show how sorry I am?”
“Aw, Shona, it’s about a woman who cooked her way through her blog to become a celebrity in America. I thought you might be interested since you [...]

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Vainglorious Bashtards

                  
There is no profession that makes sexism more apparent in all its crudity than Indian film industry. I can speak with better familiarity about Tamil filmdom where the heroes and aligned menfolk are vainglorious, and the heroines are but women treated as puppets in their fiefdom.
In the pre internet/MMS days, we had a talkative man who [...]

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The Man at the Airport…

…is an ominous figure.
Anyone who has travelled abroad knows that the wait in the queue, the inching closer to offer your passport and self for scrutiny is an uneasy one. It’s disquieting to be sized by a stony faced bureaucrat in white. He will judge your looks, the country of your origin, scrutinise the [...]

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