1. ये जीना भी कोई जीना है लल्लू…
3. Does shedding tears shed pain??
5. Aah! hum hai wahi kal the jahan..
6. I Failed
7. Maine zindagi jeena chaha tha
10.दो लवज़
R Raj Rao
March 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm (authors, books, General)
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R Raj Rao was born in Bombay, India. He studied in India (PhD in English from the University of Bombay, 1986) and received the Nehru Centenary British Fellowship for his post-doctoral research at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, UK. In 1996, he attended the International Writing Program, Iowa. He is the author of Slide Show (poems), One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City (short stories), The Wisest Fool on Earth and Other Plays and Nissim Ezekiel: The Authorized Biography. He has also edited Ten Indian Writers in Interview and co-edited Image of India in the Indian Novel in English (1960–1980). A professor of English at the University of Pune, Rao is also one of India’s leading gay-rights activists. He has traveled extensively, to read from his work and conduct writing workshops, in several cities in different parts of the world.
Chetan Bhagat
March 20, 2009 at 10:36 am (General)
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Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian English language author. He is the author of three bestsellers: Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT, One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life. He is also the scriptwriter for ‘Hello’, the Bollywood movie based on One Night @ the Call Center.
After eleven years in Hong Kong, the author relocated to Mumbai in 2008, where he works as an investment banker.
Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT (May 2004) is a novel about three boys who join IIT Delhi and try to cope with the notoriously heavy workload of the institute. This book has continued to stay on the India Today bestseller list ever since its publication (190 weeks in January 2008). It won him the Society Young Achiever’s award in 2004 and the Publisher’s Recognition award in 2005. Rajkumar Hirani has based his upcoming film ’3 Idiots’ on the script of Five Point Someone; the film has Aamir Khan in one of the key roles.
His second book, One Night @ the Call Center, was released in India in October 2005 and continues to be a bestseller as of January 2008. The book is about six people who work at a Call Center and one night which changes it all for them. The book was made into a big budget Bollywood film called Hello starring Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sharman Joshi, Gul Panag among others.
Chetan Bhagat’s third book, The Three Mistakes of My Life was released in May 2008.About the Book – “In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind Patel dreamt of having a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi’s passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind’s wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabiltiies and just wants to be with his friends. However, nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realize their goals, they will have to face it all – religious politics, earthquakes, riots, unacceptable love and above all, their own mistakes.”
Khushwant singh
March 20, 2009 at 10:28 am (General)
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Khushwant Singh, born 2 February 1915 in Hadali, Punjab, which now lies in Pakistan) is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.
An important Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well-known literary and news magazines, as well as two major broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.
In August 1947, days before the partition of India and Pakistan, Singh, then a lawyer practicing in the High Court in Lahore, drove to his family’s summer cottage at Kasauli in the foothills of the Himalayas. Continuing on to Delhi along 200 miles (320 km) of strangely vacant road, he came upon a Jeep full of armed Sikhs who boasted that they had just massacred a village of Muslims. Such experiences were to be powerfully distilled in Singh’s 1956 novel Train to Pakistan.
From 1980 through 1986, Singh was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 for service to his country. In 1984 he returned the award in protest against the siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army.Undeterred, in 2007 the Indian government awarded Singh an even more prestigious honor, the Padma Vibhushan.
A self-proclaimed agnostic, lover of fine scotch whiskey and admirer of female beauty, he nonetheless leads a very disciplined life, waking up at 4 am each day and continuing to write his columns by hand. His works range from political commentary and contemporary satire to outstanding translations of Sikh religious texts and Urdu poetry. Despite the name, his column “With Malice Towards One and All” regularly contains secular exhortations and messages of peace, brotherhood and tolerance. In addition, he is one of the last remaining writers to have personally known most of the stalwart writers and poets of Urdu and Punjabi languages, and profiles his recently deceased contemporaries in his column. One of the most striking aspects of his weekly writings is his outright honesty; he will openly admit to his weaknesses and mistakes, along with an acceptance of his declining health and physical abilities in more recent times.
The Boyfriend
March 19, 2009 at 11:30 am (General)
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When Yudi, a Nalla Supara living freelance journalist and out gay man finds himself in his 40’s, sex with strangers just doesn’t cut it for him anymore. Cruising through the first few chapters is an orgiastic overdose from Cuffe Parade to Kandvili that will leave you unable to see the lavatories of Churchgate station in the same way ever again. Certain parts of certain toilets, certain bogeys of certain trains, certain areas of certain parks stop being mere public facilities and come into view for what they are: forums for fevered homosexual activity, where all kinds of men – rich, poor, beggars and thieves – come to hustle other men. Some are seasoned old fags, some bright-eyed boywonders, and many, many others are married men taking a quick detour on their way home to their wives, their other lives.
The company of Women
March 19, 2009 at 11:03 am (General)
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As a student in the U.S., Mohan has “lost his virginity” at Princeton University to Jessica Brown, a beautiful black lady. Their relationship looked like a honeymoon without wedding. While, still in the USA, Ms. Yasmeen, a Pakistani revealed to Mohan Kumar the heady passion of a woman, older than her male counterpart.
After Mohan gets back to India and settles in married life, his passion for women continues undiminished. He feels highly relieved after being divorced by his “nagging and ill-tempered” wife. But, Mohan Kumar had never remained a faithful husband. His sex escapades, before the divorce and post divorce were unusual and varied, including his repeated relations with his ever-obliging maid, Dhanno, with her practiced charm on the bed.
Another woman in Kumar’s life was Tamilian Marry Joseph, described by the author as “a dark, plump woman in her thirties.” She worked as a nurse to Kumar’s son. She has been described almost inviting Mohan Kumar tacitly with these words, “Saar, one life to live, not to waste it on a drunkard husband. You agree?” Kumar has agreed.
The book describes Kumar’s rendezvous with madam Sarojini Bhardwaj, a Professor of English. And, when it came to sex, the lady professor proved that she was stronger than many men. Another lady appearing in the sex life of Kumar was Molly Gomes, who was “not only as an incarnation of sensual impulse, but also as a mistress of sexuality.” Likewise, Susanthika, “the small wonderful bird”, from Sri Lanka was really active on bed.
Anything for you Ma’aM
March 19, 2009 at 10:45 am (General)
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…Tejas can’t help falling madly in love with his sister’s beautiful best friend Shreya even though she lives at the other end of the nation, in Chennai….and he would do anything for her….even jeopardize his career to travel the length of the country just to meet her.
Thus begins Tejas’s extremely eventful and humorous journey where Mr. Fate pits him, as only he can, against Professor Sidhu who would do anything to stop him; and conjures a host of interesting characters who travel some part of his journey with him weaving together extremely witty plots….and well, Mr. Fate, it seems, has more roles in his ingenious mind for “Biobull” than just remain a rocking bus…
