Farrukh Dhondy

Mar 31, 2010
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Farrukh Dhondy

Sex, football and 140 characters

“Trillions of species
An Ark as big as the earth...”
From Biblebaazi
by Bachchoo

This August, try a new London

“Be not blinded by the light
It’s the fount of generation
Be not afraid of the dark
It is your destination…”
From Kya Bhole, Bhej Dey Soney Aur
Chandi Key Goley
(Senior Editor Bachchoo)

Hackers unlimitedy

“This night’s motorway cars
Have brought the stars
Down to earth.
White constellations approach
Red dwarfs recede...
A blue police light
— must watch my speed.”
From Modern Worses by Bachchoo

Father of the bride

“Gratitude is for tail-wagging dogs Humans know nothing of it Lending a hand or money, Never results in profit.”
From Cynics Hymnal Ed. by Bachchoo

When fat cats play tax dodgeball

“That rose you plucked?
It withered.
That girl you (made love to)
She imitated the rose
Don’t blame the
pluckers
Or the (lovers)
Peace be upon them
Roses wither even on the stem.”

Mystery on the barge

Forgive me for writing to you, but your recent exploits put me in the sort of state that a female teenager from Mumbai contemplating some new feat of Sachin Tendulkar’s would succumb to. (I speak metaphorically. I don’t in any sense want to bear you children.)

On Her Majesty’s demotic jubilee

“Everybody’s got a body,
The difference is in the soul
So if your face is ugly
Make personality your goal...”
From Amriki Advice by Bachchoo (Jr.)

London
Diamond Jubilee

Mr Blair and the ghost of Iraq War

“The world performs
And we are entitled to wonder.”

From The Proverbs
of Bachchoo

Scientific tantrums

“You’ve loved
You’ve lost —
And say you have no regret
Then why are you so desperate,
So desperate to forget”
From Yaadein
by Bachchoo

Sleepless in London

“Eat what you can afford
The thin and fat are both God’s creatures
Thus saith the Lord!”
From Bachchoo’s Diets
(Fatbottom Books Cal.)

London
May 2012

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.

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