Rosy is the name of a stray puppy who chose to make Vera’s society compound as her place of residence. We all took a liking to her and despite protests from an agony aunt living in the same society Vera continued to feed her religiously. One day Sharayu and I took the puppy to a [...]
I have picked up R. K. Laxman’s autobiography “The Tunnel of Time”…. Vera got the book from her library long ago…. it was great to learn that Laxman has been with TOI as staff cartoonist for over 50 years. The narrative is simple, flow is goood….
“To be young is very heaven, my boy, very heaven….”
3/5/08
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What a timing…. When exodus from Maharashtra has already begun for many of the migrants, i ended my own. My interest in this small country namely Israel has been growing and this beautiful novel proved to be of great help. And i read in the papers y’day how Tatas are joining hands with some Govt. [...]
Last weekend I watched ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’
Sudhir Mishra and Vidhu Vinod Chopra were assissting the Direction and Production work in this movie… both of them went on to become well known names in Hindi cinema….
Anybody who is interested in parallel cinema should watch it…. the movie very well depicts the rampant corruption in those [...]
Vera finally managed to persuade me to read Agatha Christie’s ”Cards on the table”….. She, it appears, has read all of Agatha Christie and even used to dream of working with this short, Belgian detective….
I liked Poirot… he is not eccentric, not frantic…. he thinks…. he is logical, unorthodox and too methodical….. he has an [...]
