Shail's Nest

Now who would have thought being late and last would win me a trophy?? That’s just what happened. I won the  Super Fun Scrambler Golden Trophy that you see above, for being the second last person to come up with the answer to the jumbled word/sentence that Pal had posted here.  Winning the trophy comes [...]

I happened to listen to one of those programs aired on the radio where people call in with questions to their favorite celebrity of the day or some such thing. This particular caller had one to ask of Prithviraj, the talented young actor of the South, who was the star of the day. Prithviraj was [...]

An elephant does it. So does a goat, orangutan, polar bear, tiger, puma… Yeah they all do, give birth I mean just like countless other mammals on earth including humans. There is a difference though. While after giving birth, the rest of them go about their business of being a mother quietly, humans (the one [...]

Tonight when the clock strikes the midnight hour and the seconds needle sails past in too much of a hurry if you ask me, to usher in the new day, moi steps delicately and one hopes with the right foot forward to the wrong side of half a century. Egad! Did I just say, half [...]

Our movies (Indian) are chock full of hard hitting dialogues that have the front benchers and the balcony-sitters alike whistling, clapping or sometimes sagely nodding in agreement. That spells success for the story writer/ dialogue writer and the makers of the movie in general. Some of the oft repeated ones ever so popular with the [...]