ESB honors India

Here’s the Empire State Building dressed up Saturday night in India’s colors, in anticipation of the India Day Parade which was to take place on Sunday, August 20, with Rani Mukherjee as the grand marshal: and here’s Madison Avenue on Sunday morning, with the barricades up and the NYPD on the scene, prior to the […]

Code of conduct at the cinema

After gathering inputs from listeners far and wide, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode of BBC Radio have compiled this bang-on code of conduct for cinema-goers.   Hearing some of the experiences people shared over the past few weeks have been enlightening:   one man’s child was thrown up on by the woman in the row […]

When the Denver Nuggets met B’wood

On November 24th, at the Denver Nuggets – NJ Nets game halftime, Denver dance doyenne (and instructor) Renu Kansal took to the floor of the Pepsi Center with her Bollywood West troupe to perform. I had been anticipating this event almost as much as they all had, since Renu had entrusted Top Secret discussions of […]