I was reading an article about James Agee in The New Yorker . It quoted something that he had written as a film critic, about Bathing Beaut...

Chennai has just joined the cities which particpate in Metroblogging : With almost 40 active sites, Metroblogging is the largest and fastes...

Like many, many households in the south, we have coconut trees in our garden. When I look out the window I can see our three, and four more...

I've been posting photographs and things he has written to r's website . R enjoyed doing his own advertising for the company he fou...

I had another go at some ancient rock shrines in Mahabalipuram (my first try was here ): This one looks sort of brutal and cartoonish,...

Sharad Haksar - Chennai-based photographer. His portfolio is stunning - mostly advertising photos, some more personal. Many will be famil...

This is a half-bottle of wine from Sula, an Indian winery. The label says that it is Satori (a zen term for enlightenment) Merlot; and ...

Thanks to yesterday's rant I received more visitors than ever before on a single day (309). Today I resume regular programming, with a ...

Thanks to Murugan , who gave me the link to The Advertising Standards Council of India . I made a complaint there about the advertisement I...

I saw a TV commercial that enraged me. The first time I didn't pay a great deal of attention: A man, an impoverished laborer, performs ...

One of my favourite Indian English words is timepass (I just googled and found 185,000 references to it). "What are you doing?" ...

And a little more rain, in the afternoon. I was sitting alone at the dining table, eating some soup, when the sky darkened several shades, ...

Here's the link to Greg Chappell's March 1 interview in the Guardian, in which he spoke (too much) about former cricket captain Sour...

It rained last night – the first rain we've had in 2006. It was about 10:30 p.m. I walked out of the drawing room into the atrium, and...

A pleasant lady we know dropped by yesterday to give us this object, which was filled with sweets, and to which was attached an invitation c...

R said, "Well, that’s all bhootkaal for me." I got a start – “What? Ghost-time? What do you mean?” I thought he meant that al...

I’ve been listening to this song a lot lately: Mathura Nagarpati, from the film Raincoat . It’s sung by Shubha Mudgal, a classically-train...

One crow head cocked carbon-steel beak agape is raffish half-comical Look again at sleekness at talons Many crows a raucous convocation squ...

A magazine ad from 1979. The gent on the left is the Tamil brahmin stereotype, with his forehead covered by a big caste mark (denoting, in...