The Great Ganesha

Sometimes, when it’s really, really late at night here, it’s day time in India. And that’s when I don my costume, zip across the Pacific, then South East Asia, and finally get to India, where I kill vicious crime lords in my spare time. But not to worry, I’m back before the night has ended, [...]

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Its nothing new that the majority of movies coming out of Bollywood are mostly junk. In fact, I may even have said a thing or two about it. But when the indomitable Naseeruddin Shah speaks, people listen. An article a few days ago on the BBC, has him ranting hard about pretty much everything [...]

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Just caught this off Sepia Mutiny. Mid Day photographer Shadab Khan happened to be at the Gateway of India on New Year’s Eve. Read what he witnessed:
On New Year?s Eve, I was supposed to click pictures of revellers at the Gateway of India, but what I witnessed instead has left me shaken.
A young woman was [...]

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The Dictionary Wiktionary of Bombay (and Urban Indian) Slang or Bambaiyya, which was a wiki-blog I started some months ago, is no more. But no need to grieve - it has been upgraded to a wiki.
The way the original wiki-blog worked was that you submit a comment with a word or several words and I [...]

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Notwithstanding my opinion on using ‘Mumbai’, this is serious.
A friend forwarded me an email the other day and it has to with the bomb blasts that affected Bombay on July 11th of this year. So many people have complained about the vaccum of governmental support that existed both, in the events leading up to the [...]

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Arzan at news views and analysis writes about an India Today article on blogging in Bombay. Featured are Amit Varma, Peter Griffin, Bombay Addict [who stopped by here, not too long ago], Arzan Sam Wadia and Govindraj Ethiraj. Says Arzan,
The author, Riddhi Shah, gives a good overview about the whole phenomenom of blogging about [...]

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[Cross-posted on Desicritics] 
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.”
- William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet
“What’s in a name? That which we called Bombay
By any other name smells just as bad.”
- The Great Ganesha
Hey, don’t get me wrong. I love Bombay. Stinky as it is, for [...]

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Folks, Bambaiyya was featured on Metroblogging Mumbai yesterday (well, yesterday in India, today in the US). Thanks to the folks at MM, and also to Gaurav for posting it there as well as on his blog.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Bambaiyya is a user-contributed dictionary of Bombay slang, along the lines of [...]

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Nothing says Happy Independence Day better than an auto-rickshaw on a handcart. Note that the driver of the rickshaw is still in it. What can you say? That’s India in a nutshell, 59 years on… Here’s looking at you, kid!
I wish I could take credit for the picture, but it’s from this blog called the [...]

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In an attempt to record the colorful verbiage that is emitted from the average Bombayite’s mouth, I have created a blog which is somewhat like the Urban Dictionary - a user-contributed dictionary of slang.
Feel free to go there (even if you’re not from Bombay) and contribute by clicking here. Or click on the ‘Bambaiyya‘ page [...]

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