IN WHICH I WRITE A POST

This sure was a long break in between posts, but if someone is expecting an explanation, well, I do not have any. I have been really busy, but not busy enough to prevent me from jotting a few lines on this blog. To tell you the truth, things have changed a lot in the past couple of months. Change of priorities as they say. Though it does not definitely mean that I haven't been following some of your posts. Keep walking...as one of my blogger friends would say.
These really are interesting times friends. When the opposition party in the world's largest democracy expels one of its senior-most members for an academic work (which arguably scratches some old wounds), you cannot help but lament at the parochial attitude of the people involved. The entire episode just demonstrates the insecurity of a political party which once prided itself on being the face of new India. What they fail to realise is that the new India they speak of has learnt to distance itself from the burden of its factious past and has well and truly moved on.
Also following with avid interest the curious case of Caster Semenya, the South African middle distance runner. Read it up if you haven't yet....this raises some difficult questions which we Indians, at least, are a somewhat accustomed to.
Been watching some movies too, notably Inglourious Basterds and Kaminey. The former signals a return to form for Quentin Tarantino, though by no stretch of imagination can it be compared to some of his earlier works. As for Kaminey, well, Vishal Bhardwaj's versatility doesn't cease to amaze me.... a Guy Ritchie-style movie from someone who made Makdee, Maqbool and Omkara.
Books, as always, are constant companions. If you have the time and the opportunity do read Etger Keret's really short short-stories... he is a genius. There have been some criticisms of his style, but he seems quite okay to me.
So long then.... have a nice time and do excuse my frequent absences.