It’s always interesting to know about the history behind places you see everyday. ‘Multiple City’ helped me understand some such things about Bangalore/Bengaluru. I’d prefer to call that – ‘common man’s history’. I don’t want to bother myself about the societal impact such studies have, though. I just enjoy reading and understanding the past and [...]

I was reading this chapter – ‘Revolution wrought by Lankadahan’ from Phalke’s biography by Watve (Translated by S.A.Virkar). Thought the article had some interesting things to share and hence this post. Firstly, ‘Lankadahan’ is a movie made by Phalke in 1917, when he was in a deep financial crisis, majorly because of the World War-1. [...]

I was at Landmark, Forum Mall (Koramangala, Bangalore) today, for the first time and was browsing through the collection there, when I came across this book – ‘Multiple City – writings in Bangalore‘, a Penguin publication edited by Aditi De. I keep imagining about having a job in Penguin office frequently that imagination came back [...]

Thanks to my friend Uma, I finally got hold of Phalke’s biography by Bapu Watve (Translated by S.A.Virkar). I was longing to read it ever since I read about it in an interview with Paresh Mokashi, in Rashmi Bansal’s ‘Connect the dots’. Later, I got ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’ thanks to Vijayavardhan and Satish – and loved [...]

During school days, I was an avid admirer of social studies classes, specifically history. Quite predictably, I used to score better in social studies papers, than math or science – sometimes . The dreams about future used to revolve around studying history, writing civils – oh, what not. Summarizing everything as a wannabe comp [...]