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Buy it, bag it, use it, trash it 21 Nov 2011 | 07:53 am
Most places in India now have an outright ban on very thin plastic bags and require stores to charge for any plastic carry bags they hand out to customers. I think this is a good move for the environm...
The Bell Curve of Apathy 14 Nov 2011 | 07:24 am
An interesting sidelight to my previous post on poor customer service in India. Among places where service is key, restaurants rank quite high up (next only to airlines and hotels), and this problem ...
Customer Disservice 13 Nov 2011 | 09:37 am
The one thing that any returnee expat will invariably encounter is the abysmal quality of customer service on offer in India. I’m not what you’d call an unreasonable customer. My expectations are si....
The secret life of the clergy 1 Nov 2011 | 06:04 am
Re-posting an earlier review of this film with edits as a submission for the Reel-life Bloggers contest run by the fine folks at wogma and reviewgang. Ed Norton, as always, a prime pick. I tend to ch...
On Rocky and the Underdog 1 Nov 2011 | 05:17 am
Re-posting an earlier review of this film with edits as a submission for the Reel-life Bloggers contest run by the fine folks at wogma and reviewgang. Spoiler alert: For someone who's not seen the mo...
Celluloid City 27 Oct 2011 | 07:24 am
Bollywood films typically exist in some sort of never-land. This has been true from way back when. Even when Raj Kapoor’s films wanted to portray the struggles of the Everyman struggling to retain his...
Random Music Musings–The Return of the Blog 2 Sep 2011 | 11:38 pm
In fits and starts, I try. The drafts folder on my PC is testament to these efforts, but heck, this seemed like an easy way to get something up here after one previous attempt to restart this blog. So...
Pass Me By 21 Mar 2011 | 10:56 pm
Wadi. Guntakal. Bhusawal. Mhow. All of these are places I’ve passed, either on road or by rail on my way to bigger destinations like New Delhi and Bangalore. These names evoke images of a slower, mor...
Branded 10 Mar 2011 | 07:32 pm
World Cup 2011, ad-fest. Like clockwork, at the end of the over, transmission shifts to an advertisement. Shah Rukh Khan is on a living room couch with a girl half his age. Just as things are about to...
Lost in Translation 2 Mar 2011 | 06:04 am
While they say great films can truly transcend language, how do films cross this barrier when language is part of the deal? I’m thinking of this as I scan reviews for The Fighter released in India...
