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 [...]
Swine Flu pandemic over in Mumbai
Or so the State Government would have us believe. And the fickle Indian print and TV news media circus. Where the headlines three days ago were about how we are plunging headlong into the greatest pandemic of all times. And three days later ? The Malls and the Cinema halls are open again. The week [...]
Presiden Obama to invite Shah Rukh Khan to a beer
Having heard of many friend's experiences, I completely empathize with Shah Rukh Khan's experience at Newark Airport in the US. It is somewhat disturbing to suddenly be interrogated and made to feel like a potential terrorist. However lets get a perspective on this. The US has a much more compassionate President in Obama, who is [...]
Independence day for whom ?
Happy Independence day everyone ! And while we celebrate, lets give a thought to the idea of 'equality of Independence'. Independence was the both the end and the beginning. The end of the rule of the foreign Colonial Masters, and the dawn of the responsibilities brought with Freedom. Each Independence day should we not evaluate [...]