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Oh Calcutta and Dilli Meri Jaan

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
It felt funny to be out of the blogging loop for three weeks. But despite my best efforts, I couldn't find time to go about it. I was in India for almost the entire time; I spent a lot of time in Calcutta (my parents don't possess the gadget known as the PC), and a fair bit in Delhi. My brother, who was in Calcutta too (on vacation) with his...

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The Shah Rukh Khan affair at Newark

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I have mixed feelings about Shah Rukh Khan being ‘grilled' by immigration officials at Newark airport. We all know Americans are a paranoid lot, and don't have the chalta hain attitude we do. It's probably more a good thing than bad -- from their point of view. Post 9/11, terrorism has not raised its ugly head again in the US: the chief...

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Friends and family

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
On Friday evening, I went out for dinner with a friend who I met after exactly 10 years. I'd worked with him at my first workplace, in Calcutta. He moved to the Gulf in 1999; the next year, I moved to Delhi. That was that, I'd thought. (We hadn't even exchanged email IDS -- back then, emails used to be a tenuous connection and we totally...

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Whatever happened to Savita Bhabhi?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am proud to say that we ‘outed' Savita Bhabhi -- from her portal on to the Sunday newspaper. More than a year ago, when I was working for Hindustan Times , one of my team members -- who used to cover crime, intelligence and terror networks -- walked into my cabin looking a tad sheepish. "Er," he fumbled with a notebook (not the laptop...

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The House-Husband

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
In the mid-Eighties, when my television viewing was a highly monitored (and usually censored) affair ( Chitrahaar , for instance, was plain EVIL: hero and heroine singing love songs while lunging into each other ever so often was a toxic influence), I have hazy recollections of being allowed to watch a serial that aired every Sunday morning. It was...

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Is Mrs Shiney Ahuja a good Indian wife?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Two days ago, I got an email from a follower of this blog -- Atish Saha -- saying he's looking forward to a post on consensual sex vs rape -- and he's quoted the Shiney Ahuja case as a reference point. And a couple of weeks ago, I got an email from a friend in the US who is a fan of Shiney's (yes, he has fans!). She first asked me if I'd...

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The Decriminalisation of IPC 377

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am too excited about the Delhi High Court order scrapping Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, so I couldn't wait till Sunday to post. I heard about the ‘landmark judgement' at 4 pm on Thursday, when one of my colleagues, a young Indian girl, informed me in a baffled tone: "Did you hear about the Delhi High Court order? They have revoked...

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Girls Evening Out at the T20 Finals

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I have a simple theory about supporting a team when a football or a cricket match is going on: I always root for the best-looking side in the tournament. If it's the full line-up in cricket, then I invariably veer towards New Zealand (Daniel Vettori takes the cherry on the cake), and I am deeply saddened if they happen to make an early exit. This...

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Postcard from Pakistan

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Maria Waqar, my fussy Pakistani friend is leaving for grad school: she'll either go to the London School of Economics or National University of Singapore -- depending on which place gives her better financial aid. It's a strange feeling when your best friend in a place from home is about to leave... but she's left me with a piece that she...

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How About Going Dutch?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I've always been confused -- and rather intrigued -- about the issue of settling the bill after a meal or a drink. Unlike Westerners -- who go Dutch, right down to the service charge -- we Indians usually have this thing about letting one person pay. "Let me take this": that's the sentence everyone longs to hear at the end of the eating...

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Ghost Stories

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Like all ‘sensible' people, my views on ghosts and spirits are very, very ambivalent. I've never personally had a spectral encounter, so I cannot, with great conviction, proclaim there is a domain inhabited by spirits and spooky creatures. But then, I know of a great many friends/relative/acquaintances who swear there is a world of the ‘living...

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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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