T ourism Toronto named their promotion campaign Toronto Un limited. Certainly not the situation in Toronto at the moment. It took me an insa...

F or most of us, the Plan is clearly designed. When the time comes, our parents will try and arrange our marriages. Our focus, they ensure u...

I t was a strange sequence of events that found me at 10.30 pm on this Friday night inside a mosque rather than inside a cinema theatre watc...

W atched the Da Vinci Code on Saturday evening. Even though I enjoyed the movie, I wish I didn't watch it then as I was really tired (w...

The smiles we wear ... I was in the bank today during lunch, waiting to deposit a cheque. In front of me were a couple. They looked lovingl...

T hey were showing the myths discussed in the Da Vinci Code on the History Channel and mentioned a document tracing the genealogy of Christ ...

T he new Canadian quarter. I got this amongst my change today. I wonder what would happen in a cricket match at the toss were you to use to ...

I f you like action movies go watch Mission Impossible 3 . Ditto if you are a guy. If you are a girl, Tom Cruise is in the movie. He's a...

I went to meet a couple of friends downtown to watch Mission Impossible 3. As we were walking down University Ave., I started to hear shout...

I was mistaken last night for a Gujrati. I know, I looking nothing like this guy , but apparently I don't have a Bengali face. Well, I ...

M y MSN nick read - 'my cichlids ate my oscar'. I keep an aquarium of cichlids. Cichlids are usually African or South American, a bi...

O n Sunday, I was in downtown, out for a walk near the Metro Police headquarters. They have a police museum there that I had been planning t...

A s the kick-off time for the football worldcup 2006 dawns closer (41 days according to the MSN nick of one of my soccer-crazy pals), certai...

"Pay the laborer his wages even before his sweat dries up." - Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), as reported by Ibn Majah on th...

.. with a few observations. Why It Pays To Be The Bride's Cousins: (and why Ottawa is bo-o-o-o-o-ring) Gate-dhora. When the groom is ab...

N ote to self: do NOT let a teenager sit in the front seat of your car. Ever. I am at a party on the weekend when this aunty approaches me. ...

Crossposted on Desicritics.org I was returning from a movie with my friends. We had all taken J's car, and living on the eastern-most p...

I am usually not a superstitious person. Usually. And we Bengalis have a lot of strange superstitions. For example, do you know you are not...

"W ow, that's neat." One of my friends whistled as he checked out the dashboard of my car. He was looking at the motorcycle-in...

We had arrived just as the movie was starting, so felt our way in the dark towards the front of the theatre. An Indian couple sat behind us....