And while we’re on the subject of books I’ve been wanting to tell you about this awesome new bookstore in Delhi called CMYK (yay finally something for my Delhi peeps!) Its a Roli Books initiative located behind the India Habitat Centre on Lodhi Road, New Delhi. You see, one of my favorite things about traveling [...]

Suchitra Pillai read passages from the novel “Back Seat” by Aditya Kripalani at an event hosted by Shamita Singha over the weekend at Crossword Bookstore in Bandra, Mumbai. Shamita says that what she likes best about the book, “is the fact that it’s characters,  situations and backdrop feel so real and well described that at [...]

Its nice to know not much has changed :) we appear to be kicking off 2010 with some classic controversy “Bollywood style” again (it’s just that this year you’ve got easy access to the whole circus on Twitter!) You’ve heard the latest right? Chetan Bhagat (mostly on behalf of his fans & followers) blogged yesterday [...]

Celebrity Spotting: Neha Dhupia at Bonobo, Bandra hanging with Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor & Saurabh Shukla from the cast of Raat Gayi Baat Gayi.

Did I tell ya that I’m going to write a weekly blog for Desi Hits as well? yeah I did, she here it is! Love that I live in a land where people who write books like Chetan Bhagat have dramatic outburst on Twitter (#chetanblocks) and dramatic actors like Amitabh Bachchan frequently launch books! In [...]

Check it out Vinod Vinod Chopra’s ‘Gandhigiri’ is now available in print, all the unforgettable characters and the witty dialogue of Lage Raho Munnabhai somehow made the unlikely journey from picture to prose. Apart from host and publisher of Om Books International Ajay Mago, actors Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, producer Vidhu [...]

Last week at the Intercontinental – The Grand (Lower Parel, Mumbai) I witnessed another spectacular book launch by Roli Books which had Amitabh Bachchan, Prem Chopra, Tom Alter and more glitterati of another era in attendance (luckily my mom was with me and was randomly recognizing faces I’d never seen.) “Unlikely Hero” is actor Om [...]

Right! I’m finally posting my super duper eye-candy blog featuring Bollywood heavyweights (no reference to actual size) like Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Karan Johar in high definition video (after a minor set back due to the whole process unfortunately colliding with YouTube’s housekeeping time-line doh!) But we’re here now and that’s what matters. OMG, [...]

I’m super excited about this, I get to focus my flip on the one and only Aamir Khan today at the Taj Lands End. (Ok ok Katrina Kaif will be there too but priorities people!) Looks like Mr. Mallya’s really going all out this time eh? Watch this space for my exclusive footage!

Looks like its going to be a good week for variety on the social circuit eh? The British Council & Penguin Books India are launching William Dalrymple’s “Nine Lives – In Search of the Sacred in Modern India” tomorrow at the Seaside Lawns, Taj Lands End, Bandra, Mumbai. William Dalrymple will read excerpts and Susheela [...]