Wood for the trees

Monday 13 October '08

Hollywood has given rise to the term Bollywood, since the Hindi film industry is Bombay based.

When she was here

Saturday 27 September '08

Gita would bring some utility items for our Bangalore home whenever she visited her old hometown Bombay...

Indipens

Friday 15 August '08

During the Quit India Movement in 1942, as a primary school boy, I joined my Marine Drive neighbourhood kids.

Mellifluous murderer

Monday 7 July '08

On the leafy branches of the African tulip tree in front of my house in Koramangala, Bangalore, I hear the koel, beginning...

Duel in the dark

Monday 30 June '08

I was present at the Bangalore launch of his autobiography by Dev Anand recently. Among other things he has said in the...

Idli medleys

Thursday 13 March '08

The world is divided into two kinds of people — those who eat idlis and those who don’t.

Healing guggul

Tuesday 18 December '07

It has been over three years, but my honeymoon with those bombastic names still continues.

Motabhai’s lake of cash

Thursday 22 November '07

His name was Chhaganlal, but being the eldest of an Ahmedabad family, he was addressed as Motabhai (big brother) by all of us.

Coconut kerfuffle

Friday 2 November '07

Driving down from Mumbai, we finally reached Rajasthan, the maru kantar (region of death) alluded to in the Mahabharata.

Chips off the old bowl

Monday 24 September '07

Now they are high-flying professionals in multinationals and so on. One is even a music director.

Oota goes haute

Monday 28 May '07

In my two decades in the south, much has changed. This includes the evolution of Bangalore from being the proverbial Pensioners Paradise...