Hi! In your wanderings on the net you must have met me several times, I am a low profile writer of short stories, poems, blogsposts, and a novel. What the heck, be a fan even if you don't like my oeuvres, offer to correct my vagabond literary ways:)
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Tea Centre, Resham Bhavan, Near Ind...
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Tea Centre, Resham Bhavan, Near Ind...
Saturday, October 24 at 6:00pm - Crossword Awards
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In this blog I had decried the vested interests that manage the media these days. According to commonly available information, editorial freedom and integrity that are vital to the survival and credibility of newspapers seem to have been compromised and quite irretrievably lost. In my profession,...
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Writing a novel is a tough, difficult job. Apart from plotting there are the characterizations, the settings, the subject, the voice, the tone, the foreshadowing, the explication of ordinary things you understand but others do not, the picking up of the tempo, the organizing of the work, everythi...
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While on the subject of New York Times (NYT) I am amazed to see that the articles centre around people's experiences in online forums like Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, Twitter and such like. Is NYT following a future trend before it has arrived? Will newspapers in future follow blogs for opinion...
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Over at the white House, as New York Times reports in a front page article, the major crib is that Obama is surrounded by men, and not pretty female interns. A picture shows Obama trying to basket a ball, watched by awed cohorts. Obviously when you are president nobody dares block you, or even c...
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This is in reply to a poem by Alankrita on Shakespeare and Company and sort of sums up my experience on social media and the entire wired world.Like it or not, social media or networks, call it what you will, are here to stay. Why else should all celebrities insist on writing their own blogs, ev...
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Saw this interesting documentary on National Geographic on the Madia tribe’s Gotul custom. Gotul, as apparent from the documentary is a place where young people older than ten years go and spend the whole night together, drinking palm toddy, smoking tobacco and even having sex – promiscuously or ...
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I will be frank about this one: I don’t whom to be more afraid of: the terrorists from within the borders or the “inner terrorists” or the fundamentalists from across the borders the “outer terrorists”. It confuses me. I could swear on that. Both have motives that match their sinister design of u...
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Read about Google Waves after requesting Amit Varma of India Uncut for an invite to use it. I read it up on Wikipedia in this article, and feel it is the next big step in online connectivity. Excerpt:“Waves, described by Google as "equal parts conversation and document", are hosted XML document...
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Saw the latest edition of Bar News, and it sounded like a bar brawl to me. The news was about a prominent film director’s son caught in a muddle with extremists, hence the treatment is also a bit like Bollywood, but I am exaggerating, or am I?It’s a different take on this post by Paul Nixon, whic...
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To die or not to die. That’s the dilemma facing most people these days. Even young people die these days. There are some who die every week, some who die every month, some who die every few months. It comes in an array of colours: blonde, brown, dark brown, black, jet black, burgundy, even flamin...
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Guess one has to live the life of an over-protected, under-privileged human being from now on. So shout it from the rooftops: “you will never be free to walk into a library, a railway station, a government office without being frisked, stared, x-rayed, in short, humiliated by musclemen who look l...
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It feels nice to be interviewed for a change, though it took a long time coming. For most of my life I was at the wrong end of the mike or recorder, I now feel. Ah! But that’s just hubris, nah, it’s a well-deserved hubris, me thinks. After all, amn’t I one of those silent and unappreciated blogge...
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I like to make these comparisons, now that my writing work can resume. The laptop has come back after repairs with a new keyboard, there’s a nip in the air, the dam where I go for a walk-cum-trot is chilly early in the morning, and I relish what little winter we get in Bombay.This was then; when ...
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The Official John P Matthew Page Laptop back in working order, now to concentrate on writing my novel and the travelogue on Kerala (for which I have gathered a lot of material in the recent visit).
Here I am shouting myself hoarse during the auction in the church's Harvest Festival.
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It’s a shame that the Gormint discriminates when giving what it calls “relief” to flood-hit people of Northern Karnataka in the districts of Dharwad, Haveri, Gadag, Bijapur, Bagalkot and Belgaum. These districts have been badly affected by the recent floods and the press coverage shows a grim pic...
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Friend, my only regret isOur coffee, which I will missChatter and shared muffinsWhat’s this talk about coffins?Till we meet again, Manoj RaneOn the shores of a city where there’s no pain.Till we meet again, Manoj Rane.I might’ve forgotten your birthdaysOr, failed to connect more on FacebookA book...
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The Official John P Matthew Page Troubles, one after the other, a meteor shower of them :-{|
Bloggers, Facebookers, Tweeters rejoice, the future of the internet is user generated content – that too real time user generated - according to this article quoting Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Excerpt:“It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will liste...
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He is a sad old man selling boiling gram on Azad Maidan. He does a day job somewhere and sqats opposite the Bombay Gymkhana facing the Municipal Corporation building across from the cricket pitches of Bombay’s landmark green area. He has eyes that weep, clothes that have not been washed for, mayb...
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This is hilarious, really is. We all know how Indian television reporting goes in a circle, circumambulates, and returns to the very point it started from. While on the screen plays repeated clippings of the same video over and over, ad nauseum. You sit on the edge to catch every word (of some ea...
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Dear Kapil Sibal-ji,This missive is my humble appreciation of the efforts you are taking to improve the education system (which has been pulverised and prostituted by the education mafia) in this country. I also speak as a harried and harassed parent who has spent his entire savings (and that of ...
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Chandelier! This beautiful chandelier in the office lobby was lit for the festival of lights - Deepavali - meaning a row of lights. Deepavali signifies the victory of good over evil and the celebratory procession of lights that welcomed the return of Rama after vanquishing his rival Ravana.
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Just back from Kerala, beautiful Kerala, the state of my birth, mother country, the state that confounds me still with its vivid contrasts and inexplicable charm. I was born there, but somehow I can’t understand it well enough that too after all these years of visiting it, at least, once a year. ...
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The Official John P Matthew Page Back from a trip to Kerala with a lot of material.
The Economist published this review about Arundhati Roy’s Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy which wasn’t very laudatory. I guess, in my humblest of opinions, the Economist reviewer wasn’t much aware of Roy’s work for the destitute and dispossessed victims of India’s grand dam p...
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How Climate Change Affects Civilisation; What Are the Effects of Global Warming? Will We Become Exti
Ah the October heat is almost upon me. The mind goes dithery, the body sweats a lot of fluids, a vague disorientation, the mouth dries, the fingers don’t move on the keyboard, mistakes are made and...more
Says this article in business.in.com:“In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behaviour it fuelled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and political outrage.”Whi...
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This photo is for making a statement, sent to me by a friend, whom I trust. So, it’s for a fair use, I guess. The highway functionary in charge of painting this road erred, err, sorry, the tree erred in that it fell on the road and, the functionary just went around it, instead of through it. It i...
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This is about penetration of digital media and its impact on advertising, which is what media companies survive on. The other day a Google representative contacted me for our online advertising account and how they could optimise it. The attitude was rather patronising, which was okay with me, kn...
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The Official John P Matthew Page
Shakespeareans are members of the online forum Shakespeare & Co. The Bombay-based members of this forum meet once in a while at the centrally located Tea Centre (a must visit for connoisseurs of tea), Resham Bhavan, near Churchgate railway station. Tea Centre is next to Indian Merchant Chamber building and is situated ...on the ground floor and features an old-world charm of its own. The meetings are usually freewheeling discussion on literary subjects, though we veer sometimes to other important concerns, so anyone with a literary bent of mind can attend. Also, we listen and comment on written works read by those present, so bring along what you have written recently. Read More
Not only Shakespeare lovers, any lover of literature is welcome!
Time:6:00PM Saturday, October 24th
Location:Tea Centre, Resham Bhavan, Near Indian Merchant's Chamber, Churchgate
