May 2009 - Posts - Still single in the city

May 2009 - Posts

The Mutton Curry from Lahore

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
In Calcutta, in the good old days, eating chicken was distinctly déclassé. Your ‘class' was determined by whether you served - among other fishy courses -- good-quality mutton (there were ‘select shops' catering to the ‘good-quality' demand) on occasions ranging from family dinners to weddings. This was much before the health lobbyists had...

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DPS MMS Redux and Subcontinental Morality

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
In last week's blog post, I did not mention that I watched Dev D with this Pakistani friend of mine. She had been very keyed up about ‘ Emosional Atyachar' and had made me promise I would bring back the movie DVD -- one reason why I didn't watch Dev D in the theatres in Delhi. Halfway into watching the film at my apartment in Dubai, when...

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Dev D for the Oscars?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I admit I am incredibly un-cool and unfit: I've not watched Black Friday . In fact, I didn't have a run-in with Anurag Kashyap till very recently -- when I watched Dev D -- but there's nothing personal about that, just blame it on bad planning. Dev D , as far as I know (I may be wrong), did not release in Dubai, and I'd have probably...

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The Brain and his Delhi Diary

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
BRIAN'S DELHI DIARY Are we at the airport yet? The taxi driver smiles, pointing out to Sushmita that we're still in Dubai. We won't be in Sharjah for a little while... and you'll know when we are. He's right. Within minutes, as we cross the unmarked border into the second largest of the Emirates, the traffic snarls to the proverbial...

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