The five-day Jaipur Literature Festival closed on a sad, angry and distressing note on Tuesday when even the image of Salman Rushdie, the author of the Booker of Bookers Midnight’s Children, The Satan

Sunday was Sant Kabir’s lucky day.

Given the intellectual razzmatazz at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the candid banter and informal vibe, it’s very easy to get smitten.

Hai! The shadyantras of demons, devars and devranis just don’t end.

After the sugar rush of shows like Koffee With Karan & Friends and Simpering Simi, the idea of Love2HateU (Star World) seemed interesting. Pick a celebrity, find that celebrity’s hater and put the two in a room for a chintan baithak.

Maine pucha chand se ki dekha hai kahin,
Mere yaar sa hasin,
Chand ne kaha,
Abe! Itni upar se kuch dikhta hi nahi.

Yeh tha is week ka mera cheap and ghatiya joke.Why? You mean, kyun?

Bigg Boss 5 (Colors) inmates, who have been torturing and putting off viewers with their boring dishum-dishum and tuchchi bak-bak over the most inane and nonsensical issues, must have put the fear of TRPs in channel heads. Those must have been hard days, searching for BB5 in the top 10 list and not finding it anywhere. But hard times call for hard measures, and sometimes these include stars of hardcore pornographic films.

Desi Boyz has two brawny boys, one with a reputation for insulting and tossing women around till they beg for a horizontal encore, and one with dimpled cheeks, both sides. The film’s “A” certification and promos have been promising a giggly, naughty male striptease.

Kalyug main Bhagwanji ka prakop hamare paapi sansaar pe full force mein hai. Bad-bad people and their bad-bad kartootein din-ba-din increase hoti jaa rahi hain. Jahan dekho wahan khoon, Rakhi Sawant ke TV shows, Amitabh Bachchan ka hamse bar-bar bichadna (KBC 5), aur Ichcha-Tapasya ka ladna-jhagarna.

Shubh Mukherjee, I gather from news reports, once narrated an incident to producer Hrishita Bhatt who thought it so charming that she felt a burning urge to share it with the world by putting it on the silver screen.
Howsoever that story went, Shakal Pe Mat Ja goes like this: In Delhi, four losers — all boys, obviously — want to do something that will put ants up everybody’s pants.