Get rid of your old television sets, the Internet is where it's at. The P-Man Show, produced by Babble Fish Productions, is one of India's first made-for-Internet reality shows. Now in its second season, the show has gathered a considerable online following over the past year
Saraswati Park is author Anjali Joseph's debut novel. Shortlisted for the Amazon Rising Stars 2010 Award, the book, which is about "love and loss and the noise in our heads", is widely being hailed as one of the best debut novels by an Indian author. We
It has been pouring for hours and I've just come home after a long day of work. I'm drenched from head to toe. Needless to say, I am really not in the best of moods. I am hungry. What I want is something simple (but filling)
Alastair Jamieson reports in The Telegraph--- "Sales of the third edition of the vast tome have fallen due to the increasing popularity of online alternatives, according to its publisher. "A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition of the OED – known as OED3 – for
The aftermath of the Sohra episode was hilarious disaster. All involved parties were doing the duck-walk for three days, and grumbling at the slightest prospect of movement. But let’s start at the beginning. Completely unaware of what was in store for us, our arrival at the (once) rainiest place
Whoever put down David Fincher’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club as an expression of masculinity in its rawest form clearly missed the entire point. Palahniuk believes that a fight is where you’re truly alive. A fight is what shakes you out of wanting the prettiest furniture
The winners of the M.I.A. contest held last month are Shane Dias (Mumbai), Prachi Gupta (Bangalore), Ritu Mohanty (Bangalore), Satish Menon (Pune), and Rohan Dasgupta (Mumbai). Hearty congratulations to all of you! The correct answer to the question ('In 2007, M.I.A. released her version of
Dear He-Who-Resides-Above, Please forgive this mere mortal for indulging in such blasphemy. Forgive my sins, for it is us who have been born to sin, and I have. I saw the movie before my eyes raped the 300 loincloth-clad hot Spartans running amok on the pages of the book. Shamelessly,
Let me give you an itsy bitsy piece of information right away---before we begin to dwell on the antihero that is Sandman, before we talk about why The Sandman is Literature and not literature, before we talk about our various love affairs with Him, I would like to inform you
Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up? The New York Times's Robin Marantz Henig tries to uncover possible answers to the question--- "The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people