EGOiste
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is EGO's first certifiable Egoiste! Tall, dark and handsome would have carried this cosmpolitan desi far enough, but sprinkled with a penchant for writing incisive social politcal commentary and a love for women and wine makes Parag a formidable force. Currently, he's working on a travel book, The Second World.
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Science & Technology
Blueprint Blues
Cancer means many different things to us: for some of us, it is the painful memory of a loved one who experienced it, and for others, it is a personal journey of trial and recovery. But few know that cancer is really the result the blueprint of the organism - our DNA - becoming vitiated, and that the true culprits of cancer are mutated genes.
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Bollywood
The Khanvert
The perils of introducing a non-desi friend to the seductive voyeuristic world of Bollywood cinema. "I warned her. Bollywood burnout is not a pretty world to live in. You spend too much time in front of perfect musical fantasies in Technicolor only to step outside one afternoon" and realize that reality is very different.
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Inner Sanctum
Rumi and Shams
Face to face stood two strangers: Rumi, a young scholar and Shams, a spiritual wayfarer with a penchant for the uncertain. The repercussions of each word spoken would reverberate through lyrical history forever. They met when both were ready --Shams to share; Rumi to seek; and both, to develop into a spiritual oneness.
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Inner Sanctum
Subject: The Affair With H.
A wildly passionate love affair set in the scenic mountains of Croatia is the subject of a letter written to a close friend. "Kissing her face, her chest, her arms, in that bed the first night, she was like a 15 year old girl, rigid with expectation, maybe some dread, eyes wide open one minute, fiercely shut the next, breathing heavily, sweating."
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Bollywood
Mangal Pandey
Ketan Mehta’s tribute to the great martyr Mangal Pandey responsible for the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 is reminiscient of an athlete who almost makes it to the finish line to win, but loses out by a few seconds. Still, the movie had a lot going for it: Aamir Khan, a timely release, and a story never told before about a worthy martyr.
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