Doubts persist over the Indian football team’s goalkeeper

19Nov09

This year at the intra-organization football tournament, we are having a guest. People say he’s the Indian football team’s goalkeeper. It seems he followed one of our football team’s regulars to practice and was interested in joining the team for a game. Felix d’ Souza his name is, some players say. Google throws up two [...]

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Tags: Felix D' Souza, Feliz Edward, Football, Goa, Goalkeepers, Indian Bank, Indian team, Shame, Sports

South of the Border, West of the Sun

18Nov09

Murakami’s puffed up cheeks and overall rotundity don’t make him look like a runner. His manner of writing doesn’t make him impressive.
Yet, there’s a faraway look in his eyes and utter simplicity in his work. I’m not a fan yet, might even go the other way. But who knows?

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Tags: Authors, Haruki Murakami, Novels, West of the Border South of the Sun, Writings

The tastey food house

10Nov09

As we were leaving, The Dude said, ‘Tonight I’ll take you to a new place; where everybody speaks Tamil. It’s like a mini Tamil Nadu.’
We took right from Kondapur Junction and turned into the police battalion street. The first right on that road and we were at Tastey Food House. ‘They emphasize their taste. Hence, [...]

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Tags: Eateries, Eating joints, Food, Garden restaurants, Hyderabad, Restaurants, Tamil cuisine, Tastey Food House, The Dude

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

09Nov09

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones needs to be remade. The story needs to be told to a larger audience and since it’d generally be acceptable to the more open society now, it’d probably be a hit at the box office. While there may not be much problem hunting for people to play other [...]

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Tags: Arundhati Roy, Cinema, Harsh Chhaya, Hindi movies, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Manoj Bajpai, Movies, Raghuveer Yadav, Shahrukh Khan

Amruta Patil’s upcoming Parva

04Nov09

Ms. Patil, it seems, spends most of her time working on Parva, the upcoming graphic novel on the epic The Mahabharata. It explains why her posts are becoming shorter, though frequent (to balance it out maybe). We think she’s playing it safe, taking care not to divulge more of her professional work before time. Also, [...]

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Tags: Amruta Patil, Graphic Novels, Parva, The Mahabharata

The movies

02Nov09

I’d promised Slimy Snake that I’d give him a hug each day for the rest of my life if he got me the two movies. He’s kept his part of the deal and it’s time for me to honour mine. Being the yellow chicken (I can’t call myself a chick now, can I?) that I [...]

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Tags: Movies, Lessons, Promises, Chicken-hearted