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...
Saturday, October 24 at 6:00pm - Shakespeareans are meeting at ...
Tea Centre, Resham Bhavan, Near Ind...
Saturday, October 24 at 6:00pm - Crossword Awards
Nehru Centre
Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm - Shakespeare & Co
Tea Centre, Resham Bhavan, Near Ind...
Saturday, July 11 at 7:00pm
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
We have heard of chastity belts Arab men fastened on to their women when they went into the desert, we have also heard of abstinence, but the headline Los Angeles Times headlined “ Gadget to help women feign virginity angers many in Egypt” boggles, nay, flabbergasts!“The kit allows a bride who is...
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friend and fellow writer Tuhin Sinha (author of That Thing Called Love, which, I am told, has been translated into several Indian languages and has sold a record number of copies, into five figures, which, incidentally, can be stamped “best seller” by Indian standards) has written this piece a...
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A picture I shot of Cafe Leopold which was attacked by terrorists on 26 November 2009. Leopold is situated on Colaba Causeway, a glam shopping and entertainment area (Times Square, well, sort of) and you can shop for shawls, antiques, clothes (both designer and local "darzi-made") and enjoy the n...
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The Official John P Matthew Page Setback: left laptop near open window, the stormy rain burst in, damaged it, don't know yet if my files are safe :(
This post is about nostalgia. Guess it’s good to look back when you are past fifty on my life, my times, how things were then and now. How time creeps up on you, unknowingly. For those of you who think you are going to be young for ever, fact is, you aren't. You lose hair, your body grows sluggis...
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A man in a shocking red shirt stares at me when am having my post-lunch banana. I don’t know why. I have never seen him. I look up from my banana and he is staring at me. I nibble at my banana and still he is staring at me. So I search the net and find this painting by Eddie Cunningham (used und...
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William Safire, of the Nixon Administration, not the “howling pack of conservative pundits: Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter and Malkin” according to Maureen Dowd, is no more. I liked to read his rather simplistic style and threadbare analysis. Here’s a tribute she wrote to the multi-faceted etymologist,...
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This is rather late, but what the heck, better late than not at all. Slumdog won a lot of appreciation for its provocative content, which were trumped up by a director who didn’t understand his... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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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... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Time issue dated September 14, 2009 has an interesting article “Managing your online afterlife”. So what happens after one kicks the bucket, er, well, sort of? We think about these things, don’t we?... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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