September 2008 - Posts - Still single in the city

September 2008 - Posts

Sushmita Sen and feeling a wee bit homesick

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
So Pawandeep wants to know why I've gotten so "serious" about life, and feels I have changed greatly since I left Delhi. Ummmm... Let me think. Have I changed? Well, er, no. But I'm in transition, having to find the ground beneath my feet all over again and, at times, feeling utterly sorry for myself. Being in a new city does that...

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What's common between Commonwealth Games and CR Park?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I don't know how the pre-Puja weather is in Delhi -- but in Calcutta, in the good old days, much before the epidemic of global warming had been foisted on to the emergency list of concerns, there used to be that touch of chill that gently nudged you to a state of wakefulness if you happened to be an early riser. At heart, I resolutely wasn't...

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Ties that bind...

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
It's been a strange turnaround for Bollywood. In the 1980s, when I was growing up and beginning to form my own opinions, it was hopelessly déclassé to watch Hindi films; if you even had a bone of pedigree in your skeletal system, you wouldn't be caught dead looking at Sridevi in a frilly dress and Jeetendra in his trademark white shoes singing...

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Delhi 2 Dubai: Postcards from the edge

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Returning to Delhi after a 4-day trip to Lansdowne - where I mustered up the courage to stand at the edge of what looked like a cliff, and got an unabashed view of mountain peaks and cleavages -- I logged in to my gmail account on a Thursday evening. Let me check the date: it would have been the 28 th of August. I wrote my last Single in the City for...

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