This is what I found while listening to Radio Netscape the other day - a great contemporary band called Ojos de Brujo. Their homepage doesn’t seem to work, but you can find a nice interview of theirs here. The music is really mixed, but mainly as they say,…
Although the controversy regarding the “making compulsory of helmets” seems to have died down, it’s but a matter of time before it rears its ugly head again. (Baba, te tumhi helmets compulsory karnaar hota, tyacha kaay jhala? Majhi factory ashich padleli aahe.) Before it does so,…
Ah well, Panchgani is over till October. As the sun starts to make its way back to the Northern Hemisphere, the winds on the steadily warming Deccan Plateau make paragliding here impossible, and this is when the small community of pilots that live in the village start making their way…
One of the wonderful things about the internet is the availibility of all kinds of nuggets of priceless information. Here’s one that might save you some time: How to renew a passport (in Pune) N.B: This is only for renewing a passport. For fresh passport, ECNR, etc.…
Just finished reading Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta and it is a wonderful book. The jacket says that this is about 13 people stranded at an airport on the way to Tokyo who start telling each other stories to pass the time. What the jacket omits to tell you is…