Being an Indian voter, my voting choice ends up based, not on the best of the options but,  on the least worst of them. And in one more year, I'm going to be in front of an electronic v… Read More

If you are one of the wannabe Dudes, try three or more of the following steps. 1. Follow club footballImmediately declare your allegiance to a good performing club such as ManU, Man Cit… Read More

I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the only reason being it had a tag "winner of Pulitzer Prize for fiction". It turned out to be a book that made me oblivious of everything that… Read More

People behave strangely when it comes to Lifts (nope, I'm not going to use the word "elevators". I'm more British than being American). As much as I'm fascinated by the engineering genius be… Read More

When I first landed in a job 7 years ago, I vowed to myself that I'll never encourage piracy. True to my word, I bought loads of original DVDs, music and game CDs. I did that for 4 years. I… Read More

The fact that I'm a fan of Hayao Miyazaki is well established in my earlier post where I reviewed some of his recent works - Sprited Away, Princess Mononoke and Ponyo. Last month, I saw some… Read More

I don't understand women's obsession with hand bags, especially those that cost a fortune.I'm not a big fan of "luxury" brands. I'll pay more for something only if the value proposition is j… Read More

My first flight journey was a disaster. I fell ill in Hyderabad and my roomies booked me a flight ticket in Indian Airlines. Leaving aside the patriotic feeling of flying in the 'national' c… Read More

We - men - the descendants of the Adam's family, are generally homophobic. We do not openly acknowledge that some other man is good looking and sexy. We believe, that if we do, we might end… Read More

Last weekend, I watched The Exorcist. Twice. On TV with ads. The movie is just brilliant (watched it at least 10 times). With no cheap gimmicks and scares, or a some mythical logic that usua… Read More

I love books and by logical deduction, one can safely infer that I love Libraries. That unique smell of old, deprecating and deteriorating books in a library is so addictive and refreshing… Read More

Unless the entire movie watching community of India has bladder control issues, I dare to bring about a motion to do away with Intermissions (a.k.a Intervals) in movies.I believe that there… Read More

It is that season of the year when you'll see a deluge of press releases from IIMs announcing their summer placement results with pride (click here and here). Here is a peanut to crunch on… Read More

After watching some ordinary 3D movies this summer in the so-called multiplexes, I swore to myself that all my future 3D movie viewing would be only at IMAX. Staying true to my word, I IMAXe… Read More

I guess I'm caught in the vicious crisis of existentialism. I think I'm at one of those stages in life where one keeps mulling over small little things in your life. Not sure what drives thi… Read More

When I first looked at A Waiting Wave, I got the impression that this might be one of those tourist guides to Andaman, thanks to the real life pictures of some glorious beaches on the cover… Read More

The Tech World War has begun and the weapons being used are Patents. The war was declared open when a secret alliance of Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Sony, Oracle & Co bid successfully for the… Read More

A Moment to Remember (Korean) A cute couple gets married after which the wife is recognized with Alzheimer’s disease (memory fades). The first half deals with how they fall in love a… Read More

Well, the world cup is upon us. Though I remember the 1992 world cup very vaguely, my real affair with the world cup started with the 1996 edition. My brother and I used to cut the schedule… Read More

Facebook recently spawned off the messenger functionality from their native app into a standalone app. Facebook says that this will improve the user experience. Well, that sounds about alrig… Read More

So, a new website for IIM & IIT folks to find life partners from the same species. I don’t think there is a better testimonial to the way how arranged marriage system works in our… Read More

The train stopped at Matunga. A few people squeezed in to measly inches of space available in that compartment. As the train started to move out of the platform, our protagonist manages to g… Read More

I never had great opinion about Kannada film industry. It's probably the least creative amongst the South Indian film industries. I had watched only one Kannada movie in my entire life - Mun… Read More

Amongst my countless new year resolutions, the seemingly easier one to achieve is “to watch only movies that are worth my money and more importantly my time". So, the first movie of th… Read More

In 2013, I was glad I spent my time on the following shows. I thoroughly enjoyed them and I consider them time well spent. A couple of these shows are from the past and I only got around to… Read More