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I recall this incident from high school, when a fellow classmate had scored really low in physics and the teacher had refused to give him grace marks. Well, to be true, even grace marks couldn’t help him pass the paper so the teacher didn’t bother. In the Parent Teacher meet, his father accused the Principle of not hiring good enough teachers. He wasn’t ready to accept that his kid didn’t bother to concentrate in the class and went on with the following lines : “What do you do with all the fees paid? Your teachers are sub-standard so the kids spend so much on tuition. Why can’t you hire good teachers? “ The Principle was a wise man. He very calmly asked, “Sir, you will make your child a doctor, engineer, lawyer and manager, but never a teacher. Nobody aspires to be a teacher in today’s date. Then how do you say we don’t hire good teachers? Will you make your child a teacher?” The question had quite an effect on the angry parent. He left the room without another word with...

Was the fault so big That you decided we couldn’t continue All the memories of time spent together When I look back, my heart seems to gather Moments of love, the laughter and joy And the mistakes made, between me and you Couldn’t you forgive me? For everything I did For every moment when I thought That I had plenty of time to love, To care and to share But not until it slipped Like sand between my fingers I realized what I did, I knew what I lost. For all the times when I Forgot to take you in arms For every second when I Turned a blind eye to your tears Don’t know if I could be forgiven For my feelings were always there Intact, intense, forever true It’s just that darling I forgot to say I love you.

Vada Pav is the quintessential snack of a local Mumbai person (Mumbaikar). The cheapest and most easily available snack – all railway stations and every ‘galli‘ or street would have at least a couple of vadapav stalls – it’s imbibed in the food culture of the city!

Genre : Crime/Mystery/Action   Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Melanie Laurent, Michael Caine Magic is the art of manipulation of sight and nothing else. It is due to this very art of manipulation, 4 magicians are brought together to become the ultimate magic troupe in history. J. Daniel Atlas aka The Lovers (Eisenberg), Merritt McKinley aka The Hermit (Harrelson), Henley Reeves aka The High Priestess (Fisher) and Jack Wilder aka Death (Fisher) come together to form the Four Horsemen. The four travel throughout the country, thrilling audiences when suddenly during a show in Las Vegas they announce that they are going to rob a bank standing right there on stage. The troupe's antics and success in pulling off the stunt shakes the police force but are unable to pin anything against the Four Horseman on the basis of lack of logical proof. Dylan Rhodes (Ruffalo) is assigned the task to crack the case and assisted by Al...

It was through a dear friend that I got introduced to Shyam Selvadurai’s works. We were younger than and wanted to read everything queer and take it all in. At such a time, I was introduced to “Funny Boy” by my friend, written by Shyam Selvadurai. The book was about a boy’s coming to terms with his sexual orientation and that too in an almost conservative Sri Lankan society. I fell in love with Selvadurai’s writing. There was no looking back since. I have read almost every single book of his (well including the latest one, there have been only four books to say the least) and loved them all, some a little less than the others and some a little more. “The Hungry Ghosts” falls in the latter category. The title comes from Buddhist mythology, where the dead may be reborn as “hungry ghosts” – as spirits with stomachs so large that they can never be full. It is but left to the living relatives of the ghosts to free them of this desire by doing good deeds and creating good karma. Why am I tel...