Let’s not ping each other, let us not whatsapp. Let us hangout together. Let us remember a time when friendships were earned and not requested. Let us remember how we earned this friendship. It was not the amount of ‘likes’,…
Author: Shakti
Vancouver: Indulgence of a different kind
Last year, I travelled to the picturesque British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. Since it is a beautiful summer destination, I’ll post a few pages from my travel diary here… British Columbia is super, natural they told me. And it…
Take me home
A Mumbai-based daily recently reported a sale of a Bandra apartment. Rs.97,000 per square foot is what the new owner paid to acquire the said flat. Realty has nothing to do with reality, is what I thought. And yet the…
Marathi film Duniyadari is worth a watch
Disclaimer: I haven’t read the novel by Suhas Shirwalkar – the inspiration behind the film. However, unfair as it might be to be reviewing a screen adaptation of a novel without reading the original work, it doesn’t take away from my…
Review: Anumati
“A patient surviving an illness and a patient recovering from an illness are two very different things,” says the doctor to a pained Ratnakar Pathare (Vikram Gokhale) whose wife is on life support following a brain haemorrhage. The retired teacher struggles to resist…
Review Zapatlela 2: Om Phatt Ha Ha
It is the first Marathi film to be shot in 3D, but let’s be honest, that’s not why I was eager to catch Zapatlela 2 in 3D (way too many numbers, I say!). Two decades ago, watching an innocent looking…
Got to Mamagoto!
Delhi vs Mumbai debates are incomplete without the ‘hamare paas behtar khana hai’ line being dropped. Sure, we don’t have the paranthas, nor do we have Jama Masjid ke kebab. But what we do have now is a Mumbai outpost…
Getting Kinky With Spanish Food
During the days leading up to the wedding, a lot of my friends asked me what our favourite activity as a couple was. The weighing scale, the credit card bill and an entire hard disk full of pictures would prove…
My big fat Parsi-Marathi wedding
Last month was special… I managed to become a missus to the most amazing guy I’ve ever met… Yes, yes if you follow me on twitter you already know this, but this happens to be my first post as Mrs…
#55wordstory Blind
Her drink was finished. Every time the door opened, she looked up, restless and hopeful, at its latest offering. And every time a man walked in, she hoped he wouldn’t notice her or the shiny earrings she was wearing. She…