HT Cafe’s summary of Paa goes as follows: Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated ageing. Mentally he is 13, but physically he looks five times older. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist….
(Click to see the full idea-toon) Based on a true story! Okay, only a part of it…my words, that is. Mercifully the guy (unlike the cartoon dude) is smart enough to get the point and wise enough to guffaw. But for those specimens that are not and who guile you…
I learnt something about closure
I was featured on UTV Bloomberg defending ‘real books’ in the advent of Amazon Kindle and eBooks. My opponent was Shakti Salagaonkar.
Being the woman taking charge means one is playing an unusual role and there’s ample scope to be misunderstood. So should a girl ask the guy out?
I’m sitting in a stranger’s house, on someone’s white sofa, in a room filled with quirky, colourful touches of some unknown mind’s whims. I’m listening to a band jammig. The bass guitarist is a friend. I don’t know the other three boys though I’ve met the singer once. The band…
I wasn’t a pretty child. Oily skin, stringy hair, gangly long limbs. Then puberty came along, and like a fairy godmother, bestowed me with a complete makeover. Suddenly I had the passport into BabeLand. That was an eon ago, long enough anyway to make me wonder whether the fairy godmother…
Sex and romance and all of that may be purely chemical but well, life is a chemistry lab.
I had Judo lessons where they taught us to fall correctly & not hurt ourselves. How come no one ever told us about falling in love safely?
A friend asked me yesterday how I would feel if my boyfriend took off on a trip with my best friend. I thought for a bit and said, I trust my best friend implicitly so I think I’d feel a lot safer if my boyfriend went with her rather than…