Bombay, Mumbai, MNS and a Cigarette

Confession time, fellas. I failed miserably in my attempt to quit smoking. Went without cigarettes one day for six hours and then gave in to the urge. Yet, I intend to quit. So I have reduced smoking drastically, from 30 cigarettes a day to 10 or thereabout. Don’t give up on me just yet, and [...]

Standing Up for Slumdog Millionaire

Before I was even born Nargis Dutt had made a very vitriolic attack on Satyajit Ray’s films for “exporting images of India’s poverty” while she was an MP. The attack made in the Parliament probably spoke about how Ray projected India’s dirty underbelly to the western audience with no reference to the progress made by [...]

Defending the Police

Been watching these films recently that undermine the role of the police and the system in fighting crime. Both “C Company” and “A Wednesday” drilled home this message that in a crisis the police sits sucking its thumb and the public goes out to save the world. I mean seriously, even with all the usual [...]