Blog Title: A Fine Imbalance

The Excess of Error

For almost a week now, I’ve been enduring (along with all of you) the absolutely sensationalist coverage of the Mumbai terror strikes, in Indian television media. As if that’s not enough, I keep on finding American takes on it. It’s amazing, how single minded the US perception of the problem is. First of all, the only read more..

More drivel

When you start looking, you find gems everywhere: Internationally, this event will further aggravate Indian-Pakistani relations, making it harder for the incoming Obama Administration to effect a rapprochement between the two countries, necessary for progress in Afghanistan, where the two subcontinental states are engaged in a proxy struggle that goes on behind the immediate conflict between read more..

Engaging with Pakistan

For a while (especially since Clinton-Obama battle reached epic proportions) I’ve been following the Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan. It’s still sitting in my reader, the feed, and I do see interesting posts every once in a while. The Dish, as he calls it, is a sane opinion, almost all the time. However, enter India-Pakistan, and read more..

A Wednesday

Did they have a — what could only be described as cruel — sense of irony, those terrorists who attacked India’s financial capital on a Wednesday? Mumbai — the most multicultural, most vibrant, most crowded, most forgiving, most abused, most accommodating, most burdened, most resilient city in India. The one for whom, as expected, change of read more..

Quarter of thousand, and soulless…

A ticket at Metro Adlabs: Rs 250 Number of people killed on screen: At least 250 Boredom: Priceless There are some things money can’t buy. They come as a free gift. The new bond flick is probably my second fastest viewing (in terms of watching a movie after it was released in India) of any film in recent history. read more..

Tale of a proposition

It’s kind of late in the day, but then what the hell. I was reading the other day about the voting demographics for “Prop 8“, and curiously, the Obama phenomenon, looks like, turned decisive there too: 1. The Obama candidacy meant much more African American turnout than usual 2. The African Americans voted 2:1 in favor of (invalidating read more..

The Writing On the Wall?

A Free Country

00:20 AM A row of thousand or so firecracker goes off a hundred feet or so away from my house. A lone firecracker here and there will go off till 1 AM, or so. My wife has to go off to office tomorrow. She’s trying to sleep. I’m trying to watch a fucking movie, in the read more..

In Search of Relics

I try to recall what it felt like when words fell into place like a complex Jigsaw puzzle solved sleepwalking Memories are always tinted – sepia or monochrome. colors of failure, and shades of blemishes, do not survive, mercifully, beyond a point The long, slow seductions the anxieties, the heartbreaks the dread, the shame all lay buried, and forgotten covered in slimy moss in closed, dark attics Yet the absence hurts read more..

A Ward For A Change

They say that those at the asylum don’t give a flying duck about the wards. Any ward or no ward is fine with the inmates. They don’t like to wear the ward badges on their sleeves. Well you can’t blame them. That’s the only way to stay insane, in this boringly sane world. For if read more..