Musings – Page 15

The “Revenge of the Mamis”!!!

anandkumarrs / August 2, 2015 / 33 Comments

Ever since I wrote a piece on the Mamas – “My close encounters with Mamas” (read here) – their counterpart, […]

anandkumarrs / July 23, 2015 / 6 Comments

In the innocuous lexicon of innocent children in Hindi, Katti means “We are not friends” and Batti means the opposite.

anandkumarrs / May 31, 2015 / 25 Comments

No other phrase has caught the imagination of the public – intelligentsia and others as this “Acche Din” (Good Days)

anandkumarrs / May 18, 2015 / 10 Comments

It was about 3 years ago that I made my 1st visit to China – Shanghai and wrote the 1st

anandkumarrs / May 3, 2015 / 16 Comments

My first reaction after watching Maniratnam’s latest outing OK Kanmani was “Man, Mani should now call it a day”!!! After

anandkumarrs / April 12, 2015 / Leave a Comment

It is that time of the season in Mumbai typically the onset of summer (Apr-Jun or the AMJ Qtr for

anandkumarrs / March 30, 2015 / 19 Comments

One of the supposedly grand event of Cricket – the ICC One Day World Cup ended today in a whimper.

anandkumarrs / March 1, 2015 / 28 Comments

In India, come Feb, it’s time for the release of the mother of all blockbusters – “The Union Budget”. While

anandkumarrs / February 15, 2015 / 14 Comments

“Modi loses capital” screamed the headline in The Economic Times the day after the historic victory of Aam Admi Party

anandkumarrs / February 2, 2015 / 26 Comments

“I have read in history and folklore that kings in those days used to take rounds of the countryside in

anandkumarrs / January 18, 2015 / 4 Comments

“All the forces in the world are not as powerful as an Idea whose time has come” – thus said

anandkumarrs / January 4, 2015 / 16 Comments

For long as I remember Chennai or for the romantics – Madras had 2 seasons – Summer (for almost 340