10 "Over The Top" 1970's Bollywood Songs

The 1970's were a unique era in Bollywood, one that saw the first SuperStar, as well as the first dethroning of the reigning SuperStar with a "angry young man"....read more

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A Women's Stormy Coming of Age Tale

Growing up with a grandmother who lets you in on her female anatomy maintenance secrets, at most is eyebrow raising material. Add to that a home in an exclusive...read more

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My Crazy Merry Parsi Upbringing

"Sir I don't know the Marathi word for subtlety", epitomizes the subtle humor abundant in Little Zizou, a film about two feuding Bombay Parsi men and their fami...read more

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Explanation/Prediction of the Financial Crisis

Amitabh (Vijay Gupta) in his first meeting with Sanjeev Kumar says "Main Paanch Lakh Ka Sauda Karne Aaya Hoon Aur Meri Jeb Mein Paanch Phooti Kaudi Nahin Hain"....read more

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India's Unknown Birth Control Pioneer

Margaret Sanger, an American birth control pioneer, founded her first clinic in 1916 at Brooklyn New York. A few days later, she was arrested on obscenity charg...read more

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Woody Allen's Enchanting Spanish Caper

The movie starts with two American friends Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) going to Barcelona for the summer. They stay at Vicky's friend...read more

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Food + Wine: Music, An Amateur's Epiphany

Not being able to analyze wines like an expert, you know the type that spouts "exhibits gorgeous floral, cherry, tobacco, spice, and roasted Provencal herb-like...read more

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A Tale of Two Reviews

For the most part, this review addresses Continental's NonStop service in economy a) Newark(EWR) - Delhi(DEL); traveled in 2006. b) EWR - Mumbai(BOM) round trip...read more

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Measure Time in Seasons Not Days

Do you like to buy your fruits and vegetables from a farmer's market instead of a supermarket ? How about your olive oil in liters from a mill and liberally usi...read more

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Still Romancing with Life

The first Hindi movie I saw outside India was Jewel Thief, year 1971, place Tehran Iran; dubbed in Persian. Iranian's in those days had un-fettered access to We...read more

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There Will Be Blood - In Acquiring Oil

On the surface, one may depict this movie as a proxy for the US involvement in Iraq. It is about a ruthless, cheating, win-at-any-cost oilman's relentless drive...read more

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Maine Kasam Li/Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

A bicycle as an instrument of romance? An exercise machine - certainly, good for the environment - pretty obvious, cheap reliable transportation - cannot be den...read more

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Beyond Obelix & Anatole - French Cuisine Today

You do not have to hunt wild boar like Obelix, the fictional world's most prolific consumer of French cuisine. Neither do you have to afford the services of Ana...read more

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Stereotypes R' Us

Stereotyping is bad for promoting multiculturalism, so says the manual on political correctness. Fortunately director Cedric Klapisch bends this sensible rule; ...read more

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20/20/20

20 Music Directors 20 Heroines and 20 Heroes gave us these romantic duets from 20 different films. Why this insistence upon 20 separate. a) Left to myself, I wo...read more

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Musings on Pairing Indian Food with Wine

Golconda wine & Batatawada was my first attempt, as breakfast before writing the IIT entrance exam in 1979. That I got in was due to a lot of hard work & Agarwa...read more

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Precursor to "World is Flat"

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded to the sub-prime crisis in the US with a 50 basis point reduction in the Fed Funds rate. This controversial move...read more

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Kishore's Heroes

Kishore Kumar has several "best" songs, and to make this a bit more challenging and interesting; I shall unilaterally add two constraints:- 1) Solo Songs & 2) O...read more

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Mild Sign of an Emerging India

It sounds a trifle elitist, using a high-end European-Indian Fusion Restaurant as a sign of India's possible emergence. Some may rightly ask, what about the IT ...read more

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GUIDE --- Undercurrents of Feminism

Feminist is a word rarely used to portray Guide; most descriptions include multi-layered, ahead of its time, a story of redemption, based on adultery, inspiring...read more

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