Remember George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, the delectable duo of the popular group, Wham!While George Michael spares no opportunity to stay in the limelight, his partner, Andrew, just disappeared from the scene after Wham! split, leaving his share of female fans, me included, wondering where he must be and how he must look now.If the…
Just read!
Intriguing. Interesting. Enlightening. 509 Pages. Hardback.My Rating : **** # Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object – gruesomely encoded with five symbols – is discovered at the epicenter of the Rotunda. It is,…
Sigh!
One of the perks of seeing my party come back into power is watching the absolutely delectable Congress Spokesman, Manish Tiwari ,animatedly debate on every TV chanel AND at delightfully regular intervals. Wonder what his starsign is…
Rakhi ka Swayamvar – The Aftermath
Dressed in more jewelry than clothes, Rakhi invoked ‘God Jeejus’ with a tuneless song sung on stage, pretended to bashfully shiver (me thinks it was more the lack of clothes, than shyness, that may have caused the shivering) joked there could be a Swayamvar Part 2, and finally got ENGAGED to the businessman from Toronto,…
Book Review: The Diary of a Social Butterfly by Moni Mohsin
In her own words, Butterfly is ‘sophisty, smart and socialist.’ Her friends, Mulloo, Flopsy, Furry and Twinkle are ‘always doing competition’ with her. According to Butterfly, those who’ve studied at Oxford come back ‘three years later an Oxen.’ She laughs till she becomes ‘historical’ says ‘Thanks God’ to not have been ‘knocked up by a…
Movie Review: Love Aaj Kal
Confused Boy (resembling an old vulture) meets Practical Girl (did anyone notice the size of her feet!??)Boy keeps meeting Girl.Career-driven Boy and Girl decide to break-up instead of being in a tedious long-distance relationship (Audience wonders if the Girl’s foot-size was the deal breaker)Boy and Girl decide to have a ‘break-up party’ for friends in…
Book Review: My Friend Sancho
Dear Jasmine Shah Varma, I just finished reading, correction smiling, through Amit Varma’s debut book, ‘My Friend Sancho’ In his acknowledgments Amit Varma credits you for the existence of this book, and adds that if the reader doesn’t like it, it’s your fault. So I guess if the reader (me) did like the book, it’s…
Tagging along, yet again…
A Tag is a savior which resurrects a blog its owner doesn’t update as regularly as she should! Thanks to a visit to Shalini’s blog, I have a new post on mine:) 1. What is your current obsession? Doing my bit towards saving the world from Global Warming, one little thing at a time. 2….
Rakhi ka Swayamwar
On first spotting the promo I checked the calendar to see if it was April, all fools day and all that. It wasn’t. Halloween too was still a while away. So ‘Rakhi ka Swayamwar’ was for real, I accepted reluctantly. After baring every legally acceptable body part and then some more, Rakhi Sawant was now…
Guess who’s back? ;-D
Your friendly neighborhood Paanwala/Pehelwan! That’s who! 😉