There are so many pieces of political satire I could talk about, a painting, a piece of music but I would like to choose a film: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, made by a close friend, Kundan Shah. It was a kind of a theatre of the absurd set in a city like Mumbai. But it…
When I first spotted them apparently snuggled together on the wall, romantically I thought, making no attempt to scuttle away as cockroaches are wont to, I was surprised. Like a time-honoured voyeur I moved in for a closer look and immediately wished I hadn’t. The larger partner, was eating the smaller one alive! As if…
‘The tiger is a big-hearted gentleman,’ Jim Corbett once famously wrote. And we all know that tigers are solitary animals that carve out their territories, patrolling them assiduously and taking on would be usurpers. Yes the territories of tigresses may overlap, but usually they simply avoid each other and will only come out claws extended,…
