Yes, God of Small things is for serious readers. I am serious about readings 😛 🙂

Absolutely PEEUSH, it is very hard to point out single song. I wrote that in the very first comment. DDLG song is very popular.

“Main Dunia Bhula dunga ” is a nice song. There is a Bengali connection in Hindi songs from long back. You may like songs from music director Salil Chowdhury or singers starting from Hemant, Manna to todys Shreya Ghosha…[Read more]

@ilovelife913 I am not sure whether we are from same age bracket but I like old English songs more than the recent ones from metal bands. For Bengali I listen to the new songs mostly at the same time I like the old songs from golden era or Rabindra Sangeet.

Would you please share your favourite song?

@slayer08 Dylan denied that the song is about drug dealers. This is what wiki says about the song interpretation: –

There has been speculation that the song is about drugs such as LSD or marijuana, particularly with lines such as “take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship” and “the smoke rings of my mind”, Dylan has always denied the song…[Read more]

My all time favorites :

“Tujhe Dekha to ye jaana sanam” – DDLJ : Bollywood : 1995-96

“Golden Eye Title track” – Golden Eye : 1995

Kishore Kumar Songs

Songs of movies of early 1990s like “Main Duniya Bhoola doonga” by Kumar Sanu(and he has a Bengal connect 🙂  )
and Lata Mangeshkar songs.

Well, it will be very difficult for me to pinpoint one…[Read more]

Yes “The WHite Tiger” bought many laurels and fame to Arvind Adiga!

@IchchheMrityu
Yes, that was the name of Arundhati Roy’s book. It is not a book which everyone will like, but for those who do like serious and off the routine literary works, this is a good book(and award winning too).

I also think a lot like you.
We ought to waste less, and not throw garbage, except in the garnage bins.
Segregation, Sorting and proper utilization of different types of waste- biodegradable, fruit/veggie waste etc could be turned into big business if we all think seriously and collaborate.
Government should give tax concessions to corporations-…[Read more]

Guessing from your favorite songs, we, more or less, are of the same age bracket.

This was the song we strum when we started learning how to play the guitar for its chord is the basic chords that you can play in some other songs, like Dreamin’ by the Cascades. I forgot the other songs.

Most Beatles songs also are the songs we love to listen…[Read more]