Via Darjeeling and Aarushi

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Recently read about a new movie Via Darjeeling. The story is about a honeymooner Ankur who disappears in Darjeeling. A couple of years later, the investigating officer discusses the case at a booze party with his friends. Each one of them plays arm chair sleuth and comes up with a new reason as to why and where Ankur must have disappeared. The plot reminded me of the much hyped Aarushi murder case because over the last one month or so, that's what most of India has been talking about. Everywhere you go, someone brings up the topic and gives his/her own version of what happened that fateful night. And neither the police nor the CBI officers have been any different. Each of the departments are floating theories to prove the other wrong. For most people, the way this case unfolded was something straight out of magazines like 'Manohar Kahaaniyan'....

Rain, rain go away!

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"Rain, rain go away, Come again another day, Little Johnnie wants to play, Rain, rain go away." This was a rhyme I had never understood as a child. Who the deuce would want rains to go away? Having been brought up in the arid Saurashtra region of Gujarat, most of us used to replace little Johnnie's whining song with a Gujarati rhyme 'Aav re varsaad' (meaning rains please do come). Rains were always welcome where I came from. The exuberance shown in the Lagaan song couldn't even begin to match the exuberance of people in my sleepy little home town when the first drops touched the earth. After that everywhere you would find people quoting poems, teenagers gazing out their windows; mooning over their latest crush or writing some silly poems, moms busy preparing pakodas and chai, papas having their fill of the delicacies and kids splashing about. It....