‘Phone booths serve as convenient storefronts for city prostitutes’. This was one of my best stories in the year 2000. Here is an extract from it… THE STORY WENT SOMETHING LIKE THIS… It has come to light that several phone booths including ones in City Market, JP Nagar, MG Road, NR Road and Vyalikaval are …
What you study to be and what you eventually become sometimes has no connection. Take a look at microbiologist-turned-photographer Sudhir Ramchandran’s life. Ramachandran (50) grew up in the United Republic of Tanzania. Later he came to Kerala to get a degree in Microbiology. He returned to East Africa to teach the subject and got back …
Located on the third floor of the State Youth Centre (Yavanika) on Nrupatunga Road, the Chess International Club of Bangalore was set up in 1983 for Bangalore’s chess buffs. The club, based in the ‘Hobby Hall’, today has over 2000 members. Parviz Abdulla, a city-based realtor, has been running the club for over two decades. …
Here is a full course aphrodisiac meal to rekindle the flames… So what are you waiting for? Put that apron on. And start cooking. We got here a list of aphrodisiac recipes compiled by the best in Bangalore, a full course meal of love. We’ve got everything from a Whitehouse Recipe (no poached interns here …
SUSHMA SWARAJ, the 56-year-old charismatic Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader known for her gift of the gab, is the machine gun-mouth of the political outfit. She was earlier a lawyer in the Supreme Court and later went on to become the youngest cabinet minister of the country at the age of 25 years. When Swaraj …
When I was in college, my lecturer used to say, “The king and the queen died is a story. The king died but the queen died of grief is a plot.” Apply it to Jeffrey Archer, the master storyteller, and you will agree that the story should read: ‘The king died and the queen died. …
The infamous ‘casting couch’ is alive and well in the Indian film industry. This extract from my report way back in 1999 gives you a macro picture of the sordid state of affairs that have been around even before we were born! In 1999, actress Ruchita Prasad figured prominently in the movie directors’ Most Unwanted …
Genetic engineering has entered Bangalore’s marriage market. No longer will prospective marriage partners seek knowledge from the stars… horoscopes, gotharams, panchaangams and so on… to determine if the baby will be bouncy and healthy. Instead couples will have to get ready to reveal the secrets of their genes. “In future, prospective couples need to be …
According to Dr. Satwant K. Pasricha of NIMHANS in Bangalore, “Yes, there is life after death.” A professor of Clinical Psychology at NIMHANS, she has worked with A.N. Stevenson, a world authority on reincarnation. According to her, a human being is made up of physical (body) and non-physical (mind) components. Once a person is dead, …
