Born Spectator

07:00 The boats have returned to the shores of the Arabian Sea and are pulled up far back on the beach, far enough to keep them dry even whe...

The forecast on the phone says, “rain throughout the day”. It’s perhaps ten in the morning, maybe eleven; I am happy about not being on a ...

I do not know when it happened, or, at least, happened for the rest of the world that is always out there judging me as a person, and unso...

[Part 7 of 7 writings on  Kashmir ] It was the day of  jumme-ki-namaaz  yesterday – a big day, considering it was the last  jumma  in t...

Cluck-squeesh-cluck-squeesh-cluck-squeesh The wipers are desperately fighting the incessant droplets banging on my windshield. The exciteme...

Better late than never. Finally had a chance to go through The Fountainhead, the masterpiece from probably one of the most analysed authors...

A piece which played multiple times tonight, or should I say, morning: फिर कुछ इस दिल को बेक़रारी है सीना जोया-ए-ज़ख्म-ए-कारी है ( जोया : to...

Happened to get a chance to attend a screening of the 1999 flick "Tuesdays with Morrie", an adaptation of the Mitch Albom novel of...

You probably wouldn't get the feeling behind this post unless you have a firsthand experience.  Last week, I happened to visit the NIT C...

"From the time you wear your costume till you take it off, its one single shot." >> You know what makes an actor?   > Wha...

I love train travels. Flimsy excuses like paucity of time don't let me enjoy a lot of them these days, but a few interspersed ones are ...

I don’t think I would be surprised if someone comes up to me and throws a statistic which says that 74% of the productive time of a current ...

"You are generally sadder by what you couldn't do, than happier by what you could. That's the cause of most of the troubles in...

"Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love...

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” - Elbert Hubbard; The Note Book, 1927 The ...

Just happened to browse through some old music collection. Was left mesmerized with Hemant Kumar's voice to Gulzar's creativity in ...

The marvellous Bon Jovi... "He said I'm just one man, that's all I'll ever be I never can be everything you wanted from me ...

The other day, was watching Raincoat for the n th time. Just happened to note a small sequence when Anu Kapoor (the house-owner) has finis...

Ever thought of flying like a bird and get lost far far away? The pic is copied from a newspaper article. Its poignancy left me immersed in ...

It says - A Generation Awakens ... And it tries the best shot. In this contemporary rendering of the legendary story of Bhagat Singh, direct...