It’s been 50 years since the ‘Himalayan Blunder’ of 1962 when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unexpectedly rampaged into Indian territory and reached the outskirts of Tezpur in Assam before…Continue Reading →
64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as…
(Dil Chahta Hai was released on August 10, 2001. This post was first published in 2011) Summer of 2001. Bhopal.…
It was an altogether different age, when having a telephone at home was a status symbol. And the waiting list for a new phone connection was sometimes years long. It…Continue Reading →
The first Bengali, as recorded, who came to Shillong was the successful trader Golam Haider, who was the supplier to…
Today is Mahalaya, the day of invocation of goddess Durga in her Mahisasurmardini form (the slayer of the demon Mahisasur).…
This advertisement for Grasim's Graviera Suitings is one of the rare occasions when Salman and Sangeeta appeared together professionally.Continue Reading →
…or at least some people at The Indian Express think so. I wouldn’t have otherwise posted about this ‘oversight’, but…
Three women, three kisses, three heartbreaks, a couple of apologies that’s Bachna Ae Haseeno (BAH). But this post isn’t about…
Tintin and his loveable whisky-loving and faithful fox terrier friend Snowy kept me in adventurous company during many a rainy afternoon. I owned very few of Tintin comics, the price…Continue Reading →
The sun plays hide and seek with the nimbus clouds, the moss between the toes is cold, damp. The acidic…
Every locality has its character actors. The types who happen to be present on every occasion. They might not be…
