I had posted a matrimonial for gabbar. I went to an astrologer today to draw up his horoscope ( Read more... )

Aur woh bhi zinda. And blogging karte hue. We are forming a Ramgarh Alumni Association at aaj_sholay.

Please help me locate all these folks. Thankfully swargiy_jai, gabbar, handsfreethakur, tangewaali and soormabhopali have already started blogging on lj, but the rest have not started. If you know them, could you please ask them to start blogging ( Read more... )

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Here is how the concept of Sholay moved from original to copy in the filmspace. Look up the movies at http://www.imdb.com to see for yourself.

Seven Samurai ( Read more... )

Got an sms from Airtel about downloading Zeenat Aman's best songs. They misspelt Aman as "Amman". I called their misspelling and raised by misparsing it as Amma. There is competition for Jayalalitha. Oh damn, am I going to be arrested for conspiracy to murder now?

This is a story I wrote for my college creative writing competition. I am posting it in two instalments. The first one follows.The Birmingham University for Research into Psychiatric Phenomena! God, how I had wanted to be here. Only two months ago, I had joined as a lecturer at the Plazvestsia Institute of Telepsychological Studies ( Read more... )

As it grew toward dusk, the question of who would sleep in which room came up. The Thakur came to me and said that as the protector of the village, he felt entitled to the master bedroom. I was formulating my response to this argument as a punch on the nose, but Thakur put his studded boots out and started glaring at me while muttering "ye pair bhi ( Read more... )

Thakur arrived on his horse today morning. We heard the neighing of his horse at 5am and Mausiji was loudly chanting her prayers in the jeans she borrowed from Basanti. He was carrying a cargo of 4 fighting roosters in a sack. He had tried to take them on a train and a bus but apparently the other people had objected to all the chicken-poop, so he ( Read more... )

Mausiji arrived on Friday on the Bhopal Express. The train does not stop at Ramgarh, but she got them to stop the train in the traditional Ramgarh way by blocking the rail track with a pile of lumber. If Jai, me and Thakur had been on the train, we would just have accelerated through and blasted the pile, but thankfully, the driver was a saner man ( Read more... )