“This film has been edited and modified for family viewing.” This message comes up on Zee Studio and Sony Pix at the start of every movie, and this has bothered me for a long time. The futility of the entire exercise was really highlighted when one of these bright-spark channels showed The English Patient suitably […]
Author: Payal
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Saintly patience…
If you have a toothache, you can take a painkiller. But if you have a bad book, you’re done for. It gnaws you from inside till you want to scream. And no matter what you do, you cannot get rid of it. Unless you read a worse book, of course! Well, the source of my […]
A Shadow in Eternity: A review
Two young readers of A Shadow in Eternity liked it enough to write the following review. Many thanks to Pakhi and Gulshan. The second book, The Key of Chaos is a couple of months from publication. I hope they like it as much! Here is what they have to say: A Shadow in Eternity is […]
Another birthday rolls by…
Each time a birthday comes by, it is tempting to sit back and take a look at where you’re going. Or maybe I am just showing my age! Age or not, I love presents, but this time I thought I should give something instead. Thus, Party came into being, all yours, to do whatever you […]
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A Sim-ful life!
Stefan Jarryd, the chinless freak I wanted to drown as a child, flourishes. I am so glad I did not arrange for an unfortunate accident. He grew up into a rather agreeable teenager, went to university and graduated with honours (or whatever the Sims equivalent is). In Sim State University, he met Simon St James. […]
Seasons in the sun
Usually, I hate the best and worst lists everyone seems obsessed with at the turn of the year. But here is one little list I couldn’t help making as the curtain came down on 2006. Amidst all the beginnings and ends, those that were important to me were the retirement of three sports personalites. They […]
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The Open Design Community
It has been a very busy month in the web design community I belong to. To cut a long story short, OWD fell out of favour with most of its long-time supporters when the new owner inserted advertising links in the submitted templates without the permission of the designers. He followed this up by taking […]
Turkish delight (WANTED: A better heading!)
Lame headings apart, exciting stuff has been happening. Apart from a revolution by some of us at Openwebdesign.org (but more about that some day later), my publishers inform me that they are close to finalizing Turkish translation rights for my book A Shadow in Eternity. The rights are being sold to an agency called Nurichan […]
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Third time not-so-lucky
I had a horrible shock yesterday when one of my Sims babies grew up into a chinless wonder! Sims 2 has a reasonably realistic genetics engine in which it picks up characteristics from both parents in offspring. Even though young Maya (yes, yes, I am not very imaginative with names, I know) had perfectly fine […]
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About the new design
A short post to report that the redesigning is officially over. The new look had been on for a week or so, but a few things had to be ironed out. All done now, so yay! Mainly, I was trying to get a feedreader to take the RSS feed from my blog and display it […]