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Love Affair

She looked at him skeptically. “You fell in love with the ‘real’ me? My inner beauty bedazzled you?” He was shaking with suppressed laughter. “No, I fell for your adorable little ass...'

Now Showing on a DVD Near You

If Bollywood were to take a leaf out of a Hollywood director’s simultaneous release idea, it is hard to see how it will adversely affect its fortunes at the box office. India is already no stranger to the piracy market

Book: Gone to New York

Essays on the city

Blood and Virtue

He’d missed the death rattle, that last tortured breath squeezed from straining lungs as they gave in despairingly to the inevitable, lost as he’d been in his own thoughts

Gay Men and Mischievous Boys

“Yaargh!” said Cleopatra as she walked off stage. “She kissed me!”

Maelstrom

One didn’t hate a slug, after all, for being a slug. One hates a slug only when it touches upon something hidden deep within ourselves.

Shrinking Violets in the Global Village

They come on TV shows and accuse each other of chicanery; they create issues where none exist; they worry audibly about our morals while possessing none themselves; they embezzle our money and wail about the disastrous state of our economy; they nearly di

Daughtering

I am afraid I will say things like I hate you and you killed my father to my mother if I see her again…

Catfood and Little Women

Life, then, comes down to a debate as to which is worse: death by dreariness or death as catfood.

Doping and Conspiring in a NYC Apartment

A Statement, according to Mandy, was a verbal showstopper. Once a week she tried to liven things up by introducing a Statement where it did the most good. Like a yell in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art or whispering at a crowded Wendy&

Strangers in California

It’s one thing to come out to your wife and another to come out to your entire family

Aftermath

Home for the holidays, the last thing I expected was to be greeted by an earthquake that hit 9 on the Richter scale.

Bubbles

She was brought up to be respectful, obedient, well behaved and the perfect wife. It didn’t matter that she was headstrong, rebellious, artistic and just enough aware of the world in her time to be dissatisfied with the scope of life offered to her.

Engaging India

If Nawaz Sharif is portrayed as...a mugger “who was holding a pistol to his head and threatening to blow his brains out if you didn’t hand over your wallet”, LK Advani is an ominous figure dwelling fondly on a South Asia under Indian heg

Machiavelli’s Amma

Chances are you’ve recently heard of that very tepid storm in a coffee mug – the arrest of the Kanchi Seer. The woman behind it all, “The Enlightened Leader” of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, is one of those rare specimens - an interest

The Feathered Twin

Spot the difference...

Democracy!

Another victorious candidate from the state of Bihar was unavailable for comment on his win, even though he’d just won the right to sit in India’s Parliament. Why? Well, the prison rules didn’t allow for media visits.

On-Air Exclusive!

Ted Turner’s Cable News Network, once disparagingly called the Chicken Noodle Network, now “the most trusted name in news” or CNN, changed everything...

Amrita Rajan

• Articles on Chowk: 18
• First article: Sep 2, 2004
• Latest article: Feb 27, 2006
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