Being a judge in India's Got Talent was a real emotional experience for me not only because I discovered my roots that I had left behind, but the sheer odds that many of the participants overcame with just passion was incredibly moving. What caught me by surprise often though was the often derogatory reportage and [...]
another view
new york’s churning
my view of new york at night from deepak chopra's apartment no, I am not on drugs but new york's soul exists in it's churning
If you want peace, take a pill
And the Sage said to me : The search for the self is not a search for peace for if you want peace take a pill listen to great music meditate or breath deeply have sex or make compromises stillness and peace are not the same thing peace is the opposite of turmoil and in [...]
Indian Government censors Google news on riots over water tanker in Mumbai that leave 5 dead
24th August 2010 The following item appeared on Google news and was immedietly suppressed : " A water tanker carrying water to a building in the posh Malabar Hill in the centre of Mumbai was gheraoed (surrounded) by a mob of about 200 slum dwellers that demanded that the tanker fill their buckets before it [...]
A proud Mom on India’s Got Talent: Richard and Sneha’s brilliant Salsa act
Dear Mr. Kapur, I am Richard's mother and have followed Ms. Bendre's, Ms. Kher's and your comments on every act. I believe every performer worked hard to achieve a dream - a goal .. be it the prize or just being part of a national platform. I do believe that the Prince group were greatly [...]
Prince Dance Group wins India’s Got Talent !
Congratulations to them for their incredible act, commitment, choreography, versatility and sheer will to fight all odds and come out on top. I can now admit without prejudice that they were, from the time that I first saw them on the first phase of shooting in Kolkatta, my favourite act. Many other acts came over [...]
Message from the Webmaster
Many of you might have faced the problem of logging to the blog in the past two days. It so happened that a malicious code was injected into a few pages of the blog and Google bots marked this site on their watch list. Readers who have been using Firefox or Chrome would have received [...]
Google removes korean malware alert from popular Blogs in India
Thankfully Google has removed the red alert from some of India's popular blogsites including our own. I do not totally understand it, but apparently there was an attempt through a Korean website to attack some popular Blogs in India. What they gained from this I am not sure, but if you tried to access shekharkapur.com [...]
Kaminey catapults Indian Cinema in modernity beyond Tarantino
The greatest thing about Vishal Bharadwaj's kaminey is that you cannot work out why it is working. You cannot work out why you are laughing amidst the ugliness of violence in perhaps India's first real dark comedy. And why in the final moments of the film with the brilliant background song by Vishaal himself, you [...]