It’s that time of the year again! Get­ting med­ical bills organ­ised, leave travel sorted out, other allowances tal­lied, sub­mit­ting proof of invest­ment (excuse me, but I spent it all!!). I am absolutely averse to this tax stuff. Who­ever invented this messy com­pli­cated stuff. As usual, I kept it pend­ing till the last minute. So I […]

The des­ti­na­tion: Auli in Uttaran­chal.
Spent 7 days learn­ing how to ski (out of which we spent most of the first 2 days falling all over the begin­ners slopes). On the jour­ney to and fro, man­aged to pack in some time at Dehdradun, Joshi­math, Rishikesh, Harid­war and Delhi.
We were lucky, they said, as Auli recorded […]

JALS will take a mini-break for 10 days as I make my way from Delhi to Uttaran­chal, on my first visit to that part of the coun­try. Of course, I might make a mini-appearance if I find a cyber­café in the icy regions up North. Though my cold fin­gers might not work on the keyboard! […]

There was just one word when I walked out of the hall after watch­ing Black: WOW!
This is exactly the feel­ing you’d like to be left with at the end of a movie and San­jay Leela Bhansali does an absolutely fab­u­lous job of ensur­ing that he achieves this objec­tive. Not only does he extract great performances […]

Date: Jan 31, 2005
Venue: Barista, St Marks Road
And so finally, we decided to have a Ban­ga­lore blog­gers meet. It’s been pend­ing for a while. The idea had come up when we met Suman at Madman’s restau­rant last month. What about a few more of us meet­ing, we had asked each other then.
It was pos­si­bly a pretty […]