Alive and kicking the bucket!

The internet is full of websites catering to every taste. There are some utility sites, corporate sites, portals, financial sites, educational sites, fora and m...read more

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Sensuous and provocative

Sorry to appear misleading, but I’m not talking about the latest talk-of-the-town, Neha Dhupia’s Julie, but its more illustrious namesake predecesso...read more

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Unfair Comparisons?

Dear Farhan, I hope you are okay. I was a bit disturbed seeing you sporting magenta-coloured little-girl hairbands to hold back your tresses. I wonder if they h...read more

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Repentant Rajshri goes drab

“Chitchor”, “Geet Gaata Chal”, “Tapasya”, “Akhiyon ke Jharokhon Se” – the film company which made some sim...read more

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The Best of the Rest

The history of female playback singing in Bollywood can be roughly divided into three major eras: a) the Pre-1950s: Playback singing was not very well developed...read more

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Chicken Soup for the “Sole”

I was first introduced to Knorr soups by a friends mom when we had been to her house for lunch. We were a group of 6 and two packets of Knorr Chicken Soup had b...read more

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Jarring notes

Sa re ga ma- HMV music company has joined the bandwagon of meditation chants, sensing the growing popularity of spiritualism (pop spiritualism?) and meditation ...read more

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Rajesh Roshan gets Lucky!

With the shelf life of music nowadays getting reduced to around 2 months, its too much to expect people to remember or relish songs which are 4 years old! It wa...read more

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Sheer Bliss

Music has a strange power to transform one’s atmosphere, influence moods and create scenes. In fact it can be used as a therapy in itself. A loud foot-tapping m...read more

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“MD” for Mesmerising Damsel

''Ae Bhairon, himmat hai to aage aa'' threatens the nubile village belle with a huge sickle in hand, her eyes flashing with rage. This was Madhuri Dixit at her ...read more

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Key Ingredient Missing

My aunt Amala is a fantabulous cook. She can cook and she can cook. South Indian, Punjabi, Gujarathi, Chinese, Continental, Thai, Spanish, you name it. The woma...read more

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Chuggin’ along the Konkan

16th June 2004: As I woke up in the morning and tuned in to the news, I was horrified to hear the shocking news. The Matsyagandha Express had derailed along the...read more

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Delighting Appa Patwardhan

In my building lives a retired Govt official Mr. Madhavrao Patwardhan better known as Appa Patwardhan among friends. A social worker at heart, he is also a man ...read more

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A baby… for life!!!

One of my earliest memories is as a toddler splashing around in a plastic red baby bath-tub, in the huge combined bathroom of grandpa’s railway quarters. ...read more

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Retro-ing to the 80s

We kids had been pestering Dad to get us the latest craze, the album “Disco Deewane” by London based Indian composer Biddu which had taken the entir...read more

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Emraan's the guy to watch out for!

I had heard about his being on the ?Footpath? earlier, but never thought things would come to the point of ?Murder?. Yes, guys, I?m talking about a certain new ...read more

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Roll in the aisles

Leave your thinking caps home and come enjoy this madcap movie. With Bollywood film-makers finding success through the comedy formula, more and more films are b...read more

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Do you read Mills & Boon?

If you have been a Times of India reader or an avid watcher of ?Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin?, you couldn?t have missed all the hype involving a cartoon strip and stra...read more

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Reassurances.....

?I?m there no!? that was my colleague and close friend Venkat with that distinct tang typical of his South Indian accent. He was trying to assuage my fears abou...read more

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SNUFF STUFF

What’s snuff, you may ask? Well, for one, it is the stuff that you insert into your nostril to enable you to generate a volley of sneezes. But the more si...read more

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