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Akhiyonse goli mare… sang Vividh Bharati just some time ago. It is Actor Govinda’s Birthday, they reminded me. The song also reminded me of the time we used to live in Goregaon, Mumbai and there were two little kids – big fans of Govinda. The younger girl, Dolly, would most ...

Today is the death anniversary of the evergreen Dev Anand. Though I was not born during his arm-jerking style days, I have been a big fan of late Dev Anand, like my Mom, having been brought up on old movies on TV and their songs on Vividh Bharati. My Mom ...

Today, I am going to talk about a boy, whose name is Only (K**** in Hindi), who lives in our building. By the way, we do not know most of the people in our building, since they keep changing homes often and most of the families are turned against us ...

Yesterday was the birthday of Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Most people know late Harivansh Rai Bachchan as being a rebellious poet and for his Madhushala. I for one remember him from my school days more for his poem Dhoolimay nabh kya isise bandhdoon mein naav tat par… (There is a cloud ...

When I was in the 10th std., my English teacher marked one of my answers wrong when I used the pronoun He with a capital ‘H’ for God. I knew that it was her mistake but did not say anything since I was in awe of her and was too ...

Like SRK, Aamir Khan has attracted flak for his statements on intolerance. But I had the shock of my life at the anti- reactions to that part of the statement which is really true. What hurts me is that the Actor no 1, who had once been my favourite (I ...

You might be wondering why I have posted this article a few days after the controversy began and not immediately. I have been ruminating over SRK’s statement and the reactions he has been getting. One thing people have not realised. SRK’s statement was not specific to his community or India. ...

Today, we had been to a nearby hospital for Mom’s dental treatment follow up. While we were returning an incident happened that shook us to the core. We were in an auto rickshaw, which was on a main road and to avoid a medium sized car the driver swung left. ...

Yesterday I was taking my Mom to the dentist, when we encountered a mother with her 2 kids – a 10 year old girl and a 4 year old boy, while going down our building staircase. The woman was loudly scolding her daughter for not performing well in her exams. ...

I was going through the comments that I had got through last night and found this something about the beach. The woman had gone to the beach with her kids and had given her daughter a sea shell to listen to the waves from it. This only left the child ...