Odds and Ends

Attempts at Poetry

• I Want No Pledges of Undying Love
• Those Who Do Not Remember History

My Family and Other Animals (With due apologies to Gerald Durrell)

• Ganapathiyum Kuttichathanum
• The Kuttichathan Wins, But I Have The Last Laugh
• Memories Are Made Of These
• My Father's Daughter
• One Last Farewell
• The Mischievous Sprite
• The Referee Is An Idiot and Other Travails of Being A Footer Mom
• Variations On A Similar Theme

Tributes

• Amjad Khan
• Asha Bhosle
• Basu Chatterjee
• Dev Anand
• Dharmendra
• Dilip Kumar
• Irrfan Khan
• Joy Mukherjee
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Mehdi Hassan
• MT Vasudevan Nair
• Rajesh Khanna
• Ravi Shankar
• Rishi Kapoor
• Sadhana
• Sean Connery
• Shammi Kapoor
• Shashikala
• Shashi Kapoor
• SP Balasubrahmanyam
• Soumitra Chatterjee
• Sridevi
• Tabassum
• Varsha Bhosle
• Vinod Khanna
• K Vishwanath

All Things Filmy

• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan
• Baap re Baap
• Dead As A Dodo
• Double Trouble — Twins in Hindi Films
• Favourite Heroes (40s–70s)
• Favourite Heroines (40s–70s)
• Favourite Films (Because They Ended)
• Five Classics I Would Like to Rewrite
• Five More Films — Five More Revisions
• Holding Our Films Accountable
• Iconic Characters in Hindi Films
• Kahan Gaye Woh Log
• Laughter for All Seasons
• Life Lessons From Hindi Films
• Memorable Scenes
• Scenes from Amitabh Bachchan Films
• Raj Kapoor — Quiz
• RK Quiz — Answers
• Salil-da's Malayalam Songs
• Still Remembering You (Rishi and Irrfan)
• The Nav Ketan Ladies
• There's No Place For Maa
• The Rain In Ten Moods
• Ten New Films

People

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Balraj Sahni
• Basu Chatterjee
• Bharat Gopy
• Dev Anand
• Dilip Kumar
• Geeta Bali
• Hema Malini
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Johnny Walker
• Madhubala
• Meena Kumari
• Murthy VK
• Nargis
• Nimmi
• Nutan
• Pran
• Rajesh Khanna
• Raj Kapoor
• Rekha
• Rishi Kapoor
• Sadhana
• Sanjana Kapoor
• Shammi Kapoor
• Shamshad Begum
• Shantaram V
• Sharmila Tagore
• Shashikala
• Shashi Kapoor
• Sohrab Modi
• Sridevi
• Van Shipley
• Vasudevan Nair MT
• Vishwanath K
• Waheeda Rehman
• Zeenat Aman

Reflections

• A Tale For Modern Times
• Happy New Year
• More Adventures, and Some Misadventures
• My Indian Adventures — Bombay
• My Indian Adventures — Kerala
• Silent Night
• Time Does Not Bring Relief
• Transitions

Sadu's Laments

• Another Lament... and a Response
• In Pursuit of Mediocrity
• The Brolly Story
• The Complete Lack of Yaadon ki Baraat
• The Dog That Never Was
• The Lady of the Lift
• The Lament of the Gelf Returnee
• Traafic Jaam

Short Stories

• The Crutch

Travel

• Boston
• Paris

Everything Else

• A Diwali I Do Not Want To Remember; One That I Can Never Forget
• A Recommendation — Gaata Rahe Mera Dil
• A Winter Wonderland
• How Do You Stop Wholesale Copying?
• Shairi — Translation of Mirza Ghalib's Baageecha-e-atfal mere aage
• The Spirit of Mumbai
• Veggie Lover's Delight