Archive for May 2008
Starting a Mexican Wave
Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: May 20, 2008
I went to watch the Bangalore Royal Challengers play the Delhi Dare Devils in an IPL 20-20 cricket match yesterday. It was fun because I had never witnessed, in person, the off-field entertainment aspect of the sport. Shaan (a super-hit singer from the Hindi filmdom) performed live on the far end of the [...]
Vote Not?
Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: May 10, 2008
The first phase of elections in Karnataka is today and Bangalore is one area that goes to poll. Looking (and driving) around it is impossible to tell today apart from any other given Saturday (of course the booze joints, euphemistically called “Wine Shops” in Bangalore are shut). Some reports say the polling is 12%, which [...]
The Indian Premier League
Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: May 8, 2008
The IPL is at its halfway stage. For the duration that it has been on air, the tournament has re-written television habits of Indians besides altering the cricketing habits of a few T20-migrant cricketers. It is impossible to pick up any form of media – print or electronic – that doesn’t dwell on IPL. Even [...]
Many Faces of a Genius
Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: May 2, 2008
He wrote, he made films, he composed music, he painted. He was arguably only second to Rabindranath Tagore to leave an indelible impression of Bengali art on the rest of the modern world.
Much before I was introduced to the films of Satyajit Ray, I was an avid fan of his fictional detective “Feluda”. It was [...]
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