Cast: Mohawk Mata as herself / Hero-none-the-wiser as himself / Joy Dehradun as himself and introducing Henry the Rottweiler as his dog self. This is a short one-act, off-key musical play about a feisty parliamentarian, her ex-boyfriend Joy Dehradun, a Rottweiler named Henry and Hero-none-the-wiser, a wealthy, off-shore industrialist (at least, he seems to spend …
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Wild goose chase in Kuala Lumpur
My younger brother and I were kiddies between the ages of 5 and 9 when we spent a few years in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in Malaya, as it then was. The reason being that my father, who worked in a private commercial bank (later nationalised), was posted in that part of the world for …
Music is what music does. Online or offline.
Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna has recently held forth on the perils, as he sees it, of music lovers inexorably leaning towards consuming the art form through a plethora of streaming OTT channels and eschewing live performances. Sitting comfortably at home, one can order entertainment, à la carte, often through state-of-the-art sound systems. Not to mention …
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A bit of a chat
‘What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.’ Cool Hand Luke. (This story is being narrated by a retired government servant). I am experiencing a few issues conversing with people below the age of 40 these days. Which is a dead giveaway that I am above 40 years old. As to how many years above …
Who is this Russell Brand?
I don’t mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have. Russell Brand. During my slaving days in an advertising agency in the 70s in Calcutta, we were required to work closely with market research organisations. Some of these research companies were spawned by …
Down among the wines and spirits
I was fiddling with my mobile phone a couple of days ago, since most of us have nothing better to do these days, when I came across one of those short videos that had gone viral, as the expression is, rather like dengue or the Zika virus. The Instagram or Tik-Tok reel was about a …
What’s in a name?
One of the most exciting tasks that a married couple anticipates is the arrival of the proverbial stork with their first born, or for that matter, second or even third born. Rarely in our straitened times do couples go for more than two kids, three being a bit of a stretch, probably accidental. Unless, of …
Bharat, Sanatana Dharma, ONOE et al
India is a fascinating country. Dear me, did I just unknowingly drop an inadvertent brick? Should I have said Bharat is a fascinating country? Or, to hedge my bets and err or the side of caution, should I have said India, that is Bharat, is a fascinating country? Keep both sides happy? Damned if I …
And good luck with the spring cleaning
I have come to grips with one of the great verities of life. It is that your desire to get rid of detritus collected over the years at home, deliberately or inadvertently, grows in inverse proportion to the intention of doing away with it. Like Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I think it just ‘grow’d.’ …
Chandrayaan-3 and Praggnanandha over the moon
Two events occurred, serendipitously, over the past week, gazillion miles apart, that had pretty much the whole of India’s 1.4 billion people on the edge of their seats. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) pride and joy, Chandrayaan-3, was hurtling towards the south pole or the dark side of the moon, orbiting closer and closer …
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Suresh's Corner 