Rahul Desai's Blog

Tragic Story Of Partition

Dr Bharat Desai

June 21, 2012

7 mins read

The only reason for India-Pakistan partition was Congress - few Congress leaders who were old, tired, not ready to fight anymore and having a deep political desire of getting power at the earliest. All this made them accept partition without...

Delhi 6

Rahul Desai

October 26, 2010

3 mins read

I finally started living in my new (rented) apartment in Bangalore, with no great movie to look for on TV (not sure if I should blame TataSky for that). The only option was to re-explore my old DVD collection. No rewards for guessing, I picked...

The One Minute Apology

Dr Bharat Desai

September 27, 2010

About a min read

Dr Bharat Desai's review of "The One Minute Apology" by Ken Blanchard and Margret McBride: A powerful way to make things better. A manipulative technique for getting what you want. A power of forgiveness to improve or repair relationships, your...

Train To Pakistan

Arthi Audiseshan

August 08, 2010

2 mins read

Author: Khushwant Singh/ Publisher: Grove Press/ ISBN: 9780802132215 Arthi is back to pen her thoughts down and so is Train to Pakistan - one of my long-loved books. Here's a guest post, the book review of Train to Pakistan. Although I have...

2 States (The Story Of My Marriage)

Shefali Gadroo

June 30, 2010

2 mins read

Author: Chetan Bhagat/ Publisher: Rupa & Co/ ISBN: 9788129115300 Just finished reading Two States and thought of sharing its review. Two States is fourth in line from Chetan Bhagat after blockbusters Five point someone, One night at call centre...

Slumdog Millionaire

Rahul Desai

February 01, 2009

About a min read

Director(s): Danny Boyle/ Acto(s): Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". He is arrested under...

Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

Rahul Desai

July 07, 2008

About a min read

Director(s): Abbas Tyrewala/ Acto(s): Imran Khan, Genelia D'Souza, Prateik Babbar A good movie... 6 on the scale of 7: C-SAT! The right weightage to every character and a good balance of the flow. Especially, if you're into theatre abd plays,...

India Unbound - Gurcharan Das

Rahul Desai

April 05, 2006

About a min read

Author: Gurcharan Das/ Publisher: Penguin Books India/ ISBN: 9780143063018This being the first review on this blog, I wanted to write something really interesting (and inviting enough that a reader feels like revisiting). Before I can write a...

Rang De Basanti

Vaibhav Goswami

February 14, 2006

2 mins read

Director(s): Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra/ Acto(s): Aamir Khan, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Soha Ali Khan, Waheeda Rehman, R. Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten Rang De Basanti!!LOSE CONTROL!!!Watching the 3rd consecutive...