Samit Basu

Planet X

Randomly felt like blogging something – since I cant think of anything, ill just post the first chunk of this weeks telegraph column, which im writing now. Gentlemen, rewrite your textbooks – there’s a new planet in town, and you can call it 2003 UB313. What’s most fascinating about this new planet so far is … Continue reading →

Holy Powertool!

The fabulous Jay watches The Fantastic Four(some) and comes up with the perfect Gay Man’s Justice League

Desktop

Have been meaning to put up my desktop background on this blog for a while now. This is from Beatiful Stuff

Giants collide

Must-read for fantasy/kid-lit fans: from the BBC Author Terry Pratchett has complained that the status of Harry Potter author JK Rowling is being elevated “at the expense of other writers”. In a recent interview with Time magazine, Rowling said she was “not a huge fan of fantasy” and was trying to “subvert” the genre. The … Continue reading →

Swedish cover

In memory of all those rigged quizzes…

Great Bong has a fabulous post on the Great Parnab Mukherjee, which rekindled fond memories of very entertaining chats in the Don Bosco auditorium, and not-so-fond memories of those made-up questions. Parnab’s doing very well now, quizzes, theatre, and has even written a book. But I guess you can’t fool all of the people all … Continue reading →

DD, DD, DD

Just got back from the DD News studio, where I was part of a panel discussion (heh) called Chandamama se Hairy Potar. Other panelist: Samrat Chowdhury of HT, resplendent in bright orange kurta. First of all, the DD people refused to believe I was a writer – they actually went around the lobby asking people … Continue reading →

Manticore update

The proofs are here; will be working on those for the next three weeks.

Pics as promised

Here are some of Sarnath’s pictures. There are more, but I got tired of uploading…:)

Congratulations

of the highest order to Trina, old friend and sparring partner, whos won Best Actress in the Indian category at Cinefan.