I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I don’t think anyone was prepared for the flood of emotions we all felt when Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Paavo Siljamäki finally took the stage at the Jayamahal Palace last year and it was that same rush that us ‘Originals’ felt when Paavo and Tony came on at EZone in ... Read More »
Rohan Das & I had been waiting for November 2013 eagerly, ever since the British EDM giants Above & Beyond announced their Group Therapy India Tour earlier this year. Above & Beyond’s love affair with India goes back a long long way in time. That the trio love our country and it’s bizarre electronic scene, is significantly emphasized by their ... Read More »
Happiness is quite a relative term isn’t it? For example, ice cream on Sunday makes me super happy, and some people on the other hand might detest it altogether. Well, I attended the NH7 music festival in Pune recently, and left with a bunch of happy memories. They call it the happy festival; I definitely found my moments of happiness. ... Read More »
I’ve grown up a romanticist; much to the dismay of liberal, yet conventional parents and the ridicule of a boisterous bunch of friends. But fascination with expression of thought, art and nature came to me from a very young age. Like most people my generation, I watched the classic love story of Jack Dawson & Rose DeWitt Bukater (yes, that ... Read More »
Hindi Cinema (Bollywood) is going to declare 2013 as a record breaking year with phenomenal box office collections. But I don’t need to tell you that. You can make that inference from the front page of Bombay Times, every time a movie has released and grossed 100 crores or more and hijacked the advertorial paper or even the primary news ... Read More »
History is written by the winners and seldom by the truth. In fact, most of history is simple conjecture and assumption. But what happens when an Academy Award winning director and an American History Professor come together to debunk popular myths and even illuminate on lesser known facts and stories? We get an epiphany of the bubble that limited ... Read More »
I’ve seen a lot of documentaries. And Fire In The Blood, the aptly-titled latest from filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, is probably one of the finest I’ve ever seen. In a nutshell, Fire In The Blood is a film about patent laws, the lobby fighting to protect them and the resulting (terrifying) impact on global healthcare and human lives. It is ... Read More »
This weekend, I had the privilege & opportunity to watch the much acclaimed sports drama film based on one of, if not the biggest Formula One rivalry, between celebrated drivers James Hunt & Niki Lauda . My intimacy to Formula One is restricted to championing the talented Finnish driver – Kimi Raikkonen , fondly known as the Iceman. Much of ... Read More »
Music, comedy, dance and everything in between – YouTube, over the last few years, has been the best possible way to get noticed. Talent, if you have it, can be viewed by millions of people. And hence, with great pleasure, I present my list of the top 5 YouTube music cover artists. A lot is made out of being original. You ... Read More »
In the middle of your daily, mundane routine, someone plops a lunchbox down on your table. But you realize that something is wrong. It isn’t yours. But the moment you open it, you realize that something is so, so very right. The fragrance that emanates from it takes you back to a simpler, happier time. That’s the story of The ... Read More »
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