Posts Tagged ‘books’
Philips Top 10
Just the other day, when I was headed towards Koramangala on the bike after office, I had the FM radio plugged into my ears via my mobile handsfree and was listening to Radio Indigo. Rohit Barker's Cruise Control was on air, and he was playing some decent songs such as 'We didn't start the fire' and some other songs that I liked that he [...]
Fatwa Time!!
Who says only Islamic Scholars can issue Fatwas? There is enough going on out there in my world that would prompt me to issue death sentences to people based on their transgressions that they might consider as peccadilos, but in my rule book are heinous crimes committed against my sensibilities.I am the law, and in my own little head, when I ride [...]
Booked
My collection of books has grown steadily over the past three months, possibly due to continuous weekly visits on sunday afternoons to Landmarks, where I end up reading parts of any book I like before I finally take the plunge and indulge myself in procuring a new book or two. The addiction is something that I haven't overcome, and the [...]
Midweek Trip to Chennai
A mid-week trip to Chennai, on 24th October 2007, wednesday was warranted in order to attend surprise birthday party for a friend, Kodhi. More on the surprise birthday party in due time, for it needs a proper build up along with some heavy duty background details, in order to do justice to the efforts put in by Kodhi's Mum in organizing the whole [...]
Into Unchartered Territory
He stood on the edge of the cliff, hands folded in prayer, watching the sun rising on the horizon with unblinking eyes. The wind whispered his own name in his ears, as it passed him by, and he was as oblivious to the sound of the waves crashing against the rocky cliff a few hundred metres below him, as he was to the tickling sensations caused by [...]
Television Woes
When I was in school, The Times of India's sales were on the rise, as the newspaper had reinvented itself, complete with colour photos and relevant local content. A whole bunch of people had switched loyalties to move to the TOI, and I remember my folks also choosing to move to it, discarding the good old Indian Express, quite unceremoniously. [...]
Death to the people who leaked the Deathly Hallows
One of my previous posts had something about a well-written (but definitely not in the style of JKR) piece of fan-fiction by someone who goes by the handle Melindaleo, on the Phoenix Song site. The small amount of hype that was generated when this book was floated as being 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' was soon quelled once some [...]
