I've been a Zeenat Aman well-wisher since I first saw her face on the Yaadon Ki Baaraat LP I had received as a gift on my fourth birthday - when Zeenat was 24 and two years after the film had been released.
Indrajit Hazra writes.
I trolleyed my way out of the Kolkata airport on Wednesday, I heard a series of uninterrupted dog-like snarls mixed with sounds of human quarreling and a high-pitched moan.
Indrajit Hazra writes.
Even as most displays of public rage end up as heavy fumes easily dispelled by opening the windows or letting new fumes take over, it is important to show anger. For that is how people may be able to take you seriously. Indrajit Hazra writes.
Am I the only one here who finds it exceedingly odd that so few of us men have raped women? How on earth, you may say, can I believe that so few of us have engaged in sexual violence against women?
Indrajit Hazra asks.
Paintball is serious business. But wearing camouflaged overalls, a Darth Vader mask and a pretend-kevlar body armour, I found it very, very easy to forget the ‘simulated’ bit, writes
Indrajit Hazra.
The horror that one human can unleash on another is sometimes impossible to gauge. The usual tools of measurement - descriptions, statistics, comparisons, reactions - fail.
Indrajit Hazra writes.
It’s a bummer when you make an effort in the name of professionalism and write something that no one will read. But being a pessimist has its advantages. If the world hasn’t ended by the time you read this, I’ll be prepared for the disappointment,
Indrajit Hazra writes.
In sports, you don’t quit when you’re down. You wait for the game to be over and then take it on your chin.
Indrajit Hazra writes.
Apple's rupee-price iTunes store opened shop earlier this month. It's more than just music to the ears. Indrajit Hazra writes.
There’s no little irony in the fact that for many youngsters in India since the 1960s, any introduction to Ravi Shankar has been through western pop-rock music.
Will urban Indians from all sections of society visit these supermarkets to shop for the different items on their different shopping lists that should all be on the shelves of these big stores? writes
Indrajit Hazra.
Killing a ‘bad’ man for the ‘right’ reason can never be a tasteful affair. But it can be conducted and savoured without perverse pleasure, writes
Indrajit Hazra.
Just because India’s rickety democracy hasn’t got things right doesn’t mean that China’s Gangnam-Style Communism is laudable, writes
Indrajit Hazra.
There were times - good times, actually - when I would get to bond with Vijay Mallya quite often. Even as he was trapped within the confines of the in-flight entertainment screen, he would play the perfect host, writes
Indrajit Hazra.
With an institutional body to look into public impropriety in the cold storage, did we really expect everyone to keep quiet, asks
Indrajit Hazra.