It came up surreptitiously under the headlines of Bajaj releasing the 220, but the Pulsar 200 is now here – and available at a Bajaj ProBiking outlet* near you. So after getting a brief test ride from Khivraj’s Indirangar outlet in Bangalore, here are my first impressions. It is a big step up from the [...]

A war – 300 men versus a million. No hoper, right? But then, that would be under normal circumstances, in a normal movie. And in this movie isn’t by any stretch of imagination, normal. Cliched at times, maybe. Biased, yes. Political, yes. But in the end, good entertainment. This is a movie where the Victor [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we welcome you on board Air Dhakkan, er, Air Deccan. Air Dhakkan Deccan is India’s 2nd largest carrier – and we follow a thousand ways in which to cut corners costs so that you get to fly cheap. We mean really really cheap. We’ve cut costs so much that our fare for [...]

Yahoo India has an awesome new feature. It has a city specific portal that aggregates from the best of yahoo and affiliates into one single page. I have come to know of it today and am impressed. Like a lot of things these days, this also works based on tags. And there are some interesting [...]

Movies these days don’t want to let you get settled into the Cinema hall before they start on you, apparently. Casino royale starts with a brilliant action sequence – a snake fighting orgy that quickly goes onto be a cat n mouse chase, with Bond ending up more than ruffling diplomatic feathers(no, not of birds). [...]

There’s a Raghu Rai photo expo on at Tasveer gallery(Bangalore) that got extended till the 26th. Tasveer’s off British Library on Kasturba Cross Road. Raghu Rai is, according to grapevine, India’s ace photographer, who is part of Magnum photos – apparently* the most prestigious snapper clique. He is a PadmaShree awardee. Magnum photos bio on [...]

Riding the new Pulsar, is an interesting experience after having ridden the older model just before that. There are some important and interesting cosmetic changes which I’ll come to later. But right now, lets talk about the more important bits which will surely add to the riding experience a lot more. The gearbox – silken [...]

“Little vice, even less spice.” That should be the tag-line for the movie. Colin Farell and Jamie Foxx are the lead stars. and Gong li is the female lead. The story is apparently based on a 1980′s TV series, of the same name. With farell and foxx playing two cops who go undercover. The plot [...]

I had written about the Don being remade by Farhan Akhtar nearly a year back and then said that it wouldn’t work because The biggest reason for these two remakes(ed: Sholay, Don) not going to work is that unlike Sanjay L Bhansali, or Vidhu Chopra(or whoever directed Parineeta), these folks have chosen stuff that is [...]

Nothing pisses one off more than products claiming to deliver the moon. Heck, even space agencies dont make that claim! So in comes Hero Honda Motors with a new product that it advertises as the CBZ Xtreme. Taglines like “Blink, and you will miss it!“, or “Once you see it, impossible to forget!” hyped the [...]