You’ve heard the phrase “gateway drug”?   Usually it refers marijuana, with some  folks asserting that smoking pot is not as harmless as most people think, rather, it’s the start of a slippery slope, serving as a gateway to harder drugs. For me, the 1998 release Dil Se was a gateway film, in so many […]

December 2007. Gateway, taken from outside the Taj:   Christmas tree on the move:   Dad and daughter on the way to school:   A little bit of morning traffic:

  “That’s why I like Tamil movies.   It’s not about looks in those movies.” Russell Peters on NDTV’s India Questions. Russell has obviously not seen Surya’s latest, Vaaranam Aayiram (review coming later today).  

Whether you call it Diwali or Deepavali, I hope you enjoy yours. Here’s a cute Cadburys  holiday advert with Amitabh Bachchan. Here’s a piece I did a few years back about celebrating the holiday in Amrika.

  Get ready, folks.    In the vein of Frank Sinatra has a Cold, any minute now someone will be publishing Amitabh Bachchan Can’t Move His Bowels.   Oh wait, the  Times of India has already jumped that shark in this  speculation today about Mr. Amitabh Bachchan’s internal workings: In an attempt of keeping the […]

  Update:   If you’d like to listen to the webcast described below, in which I participated earlier today,  you can find a full recording  here:   http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/09/webcast-the-sou.html     Click on the blue player, and you can listen to it right away.   If you would like to download an MP3, go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja […]