Every destination in Delhi not only used to be very ‘duur’, it used to be one big ‘durd’ to reach destinations. The world has not turned upside down, but things look much brighter and safer now with the arrival of Delhi Metro. 2010 is the year for Delhi to host Commonwealth Games. And apart from facilities like athletes’ village and stadium infrastructure,...
Author Archives: Anshuman Rawat
The other day, all the noise created by Big Brother and its smaller Boss finally got the kitlis talking about the format of TV shows. “What’s the point of calling it a reality show when the cameras are switched off in sandaas-jhajhroo (loo). Indians ni aakhkhi reality tyanj dekhai jaai chhe. (The real Indian-ness is generally seen in the loos only) As they...
First things first: League magazine, on behalf of the whole of Ahmedabad, congratulates The Gujarat Institute of Housing & Estate Developers (GIHED) on embarking on a project as inspiring as ‘Brand Ahmedabad: Target 2020’. All the personalities, from varied faculties, associated with the project give hope to the initiative being a sustained movement, and not...
The ‘she’ here is both your daughter and the box-office! Unlike the era of black and white films, when the composition of the cinema audience was loaded overwhelmingly in favour of men, these days the box-office does not smile if women don’t shriek in ecstasy! One may moan the complete absence of ‘substance’ in today’s films, but the fact of the matter is...
The following is an extract from I Am Ahmedabad, a collection of short stories ### Sabarmati flowing bank to bank; if only it could happen a couple of years earlier! You know, this is almost a symbol of things. Here even the river with seven bridges is dry. Dry, that’s the word for Ahmedabad. Yeah right, so why don’t you go back to your goddamn south Mumbai?...
