“Ei dikey line lagiye chutchhey, kintu ekta make-up kinbena, chirunio kinbena…”
It was said so casually, by a pimp about a whore. When you think about it, it makes sense, fits in with the mileu. But it just totally held me by my shoulders and rattled me. For the first time I realised that “chut” is [...]

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I had been up since 1 a. m. (don’t ask…I’m an ‘insomaniac‘…yeah, I know that the politically correct term is ‘insomniac‘…but doesn’t ‘insomaniac‘ make more sense? I mean it is a mania after all…a disorder, an illness, to not be able to sleep). I was fiddling around on my phone, reading SKC’s old messages, thanking [...]

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I am enjoying the monsoons. Got drenched twice today :D Watched a movie at Urbashee, a hall on Station Feeder Road (Siliguri). Sarkar Raj, the movie, failed to stir me at all. I was bored as usual. Frankly speaking, I fail to appreciate Bolly movies may be ’cause I am not used to this crap. [...]

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After “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” and a patient 3 year wait, “Prince Caspian” was quite a disappointment. Of course the cinematography is just as beautiful as in the prequel, but it is the breath-taking locales where the movie has been shot that deserve praise, and not the director, Andrew Adams. The surety [...]

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