Yup. My dear friends Tarun and Celia have stumbled upon a shamanistic practice that is truly unique. The way to have a great glowing aura is to simply go naked and get someone to cover you with mud. If that is a bit difficult to execute, an oil bath could do, too, but not with …
Yep folks, another one of those ghost photographs, this one taken near the Inveraray Jail in Argyll, Scotland. The jail has been described as “one of the spookiest places in Scotland.” Ooooouuuu. As usual, it’s unclear, ambiguous and splendidly questionable. Don’t expect any award at the World Press Photo 2009 here. This blurred thing could …
Good news: the Iranians can now surf on Facebook. Iran restored access to Facebook Tuesday after blocking the popular website for four days. As it’s often the case with the Iranian government, nothing is clear with this story. The government didn’t say why it blocked access to Facebook last Saturday. It didn’t say why it …
Wanna go for a ride with Koena Mitra? You better be quick. Cuz the girl just bought a Trek Madone 6.9 PR – a crazy all-carbon bicycle that flies at the speed of light. “I love bikes. People were skeptical when I bought it but I’ve always been into swimming and bike riding,” says Koena. …
Yup. Anushka Sharma is yet another Bangalore girl who has made it big on the India map, after Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, Vaishali Desai, Rani Jeyraj (Miss World) and Nafisa Joseph (late MTV veejay) among many others. When she came to me many moons ago, she hadn’t even got a proper portfolio done of hers. She had …
Deepika Padukone who serenaded Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om and later Ranbir Kapoor in Bachna Ae Haseeno (both onscreen and offscreen) is someone I knew more than six years ago. She was at the time inching her way to stardom on and off the ramp. She was also figuring in TV commercials at …
I know her. Vaishali Desai. Ever since she took those baby steps to modelling and later acting. On one of those photo shoots for the publication I was working for at the time, she said that she was famous director Manmohan Desai’s grand niece. I was even more taken aback because Manmohan Desai is the …
The massive victory of the Congress in the last Indian elections took everyone by surprise on May 16th. So much that we totally forgot to compare the predictions of astrologers to actual results. Doing so is plain hilarious. Because our occult friends got it completely wrong. Famous astrologer Premij had predicted that BJP would emerge …
So Shilpa Shetty was “not prepared enough” to perform at the IPL closing night. She “didn’t get time to rehearse”. These are the pathetic excuses she gave for not showing up on this important night. Come on Shilpa! Are you a star or not? If you cannot cope with the pressure of performing on an …
“Nobody has the right to tinker with anthem”. That’s what the Supreme Court of India said Monday in a sad, dangerous comment that should prompt every single artist of this country to protest vigorously. Let’s recall the facts. In his movie “Jana Gana Mana Rann”, director Ram Gopal Varma borrowed lines from the Indian national …
The TV serial Shree is all about love and the paranormal. Not something too uncomfortable for the main actress of the show, Wasna Ahmad, who says she believes in paranormal powers. “I believe in such powers, more so, because I hail from the land of Kalima, supernaturalism and black magic,” says Wasna in a newspaper …
Not that I ever dreamt about becoming one: I’m a stupid white man from Canada who can’t even speak Hindi. But I almost got my chance yesterday… and I missed it. Here is my story. I visited Mumbai this weekend for the first time of my life. The energy, the architecture, the people, the action: …
