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Mayank Chhaya
Journalist trying to be a full-time writer
Interests: Everything and nothing.
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Mornings are my fiefdom
Posted 15 hours ago at South Asia Daily
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Booker winner Geetanjali Shree, Literate World and I
Posted yesterday at South Asia Daily
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Buddh and the absence of beinghood
Posted May 16, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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What is time?
This morning the YouTube algorithm suggested to me this terrific video by the noted physicist Dr. Sean Carroll. It is dated August 7, 2018 and deals with themes which have occupied my mind for decades now. As I watched it,... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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A pink flower sticker on Zeenat Aman's thigh and my 45-year-old visual memory
Posted May 8, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Does U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine constitute direct participation in war with Russia?
The following is by me for Indica News By Mayank Chhaya In an age where information is as much a weapon as it is an essential tool for daily life, does passing on crucial intelligence to one of the two... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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A thousand years hence a celestial dancer casts her spell
Posted Apr 27, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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My Leh Holiday and Princess Anne
Posted Apr 23, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Like a wanton boy I swipe ants away
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. That’s what Shakespeare so memorably and brilliantly said in King Lear. I am not quite a wanton boy swatting flies; I never have. However,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Suicide on my mind in a manner of speaking
Steps--MC, Watercolor on Paper I had written this post many Mondays ago. It is a rumination over suicide. *** Suicide has been on my mind lately; not as in committing it, perhaps someday that too though, but for now it’s... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Some observations about Will Smith's resounding slap to Chris Rock
As a longstanding comic Chris Rock knows what happens when a joke bombs. Sometimes it explodes across one’s face; in his case in the form of a tight, well-calibrated slap by Will Smith. I must admit to being ambivalent about... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Oscars and the 20th anniversary 'Lagaan's nomination
Posted Mar 27, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Ants and Zen of watching them
Posted Mar 26, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Farooq Sheikh: Reflective and genteel
Farooq Sheikh as Nawab Sultan in Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Umrao Jaan’ (1981) I am reupping a tribute I had written after his death on December 28, 2013. Today happens to be his 74th birth anniversary. December 28, 2013 When I met... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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"Imran, you are a rat."
Posted Mar 23, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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“I am Shashi Kapoor. I am an actor."
Posted Mar 18, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Universality of free fall and Albert Einstein
Posted Mar 14, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, the Bhagawad Gita and I
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, Photo: Courtesy https://www.atomicheritage.org/ On reading the news of the director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ I was reminded of a piece I had written for the IANS wire five years ago to mark the 113th birth anniversary... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Thank you very much for reading, Dr. Wakhlu.
Commented Mar 12, 2022 on My Kashmir files at South Asia Daily
My Kashmir files
The release of the director Vivek Agnihotri’s much-discussed film ‘The Kashmir Files’ brings back several memories of my having reported the harrowing plight of the Kashmiri Pandits in the early 1990s from Anantnag, Srinagar, Jammu and New Delhi. I was among the first journalists to extensively...
My Kashmir files
The release of the director Vivek Agnihotri’s much-discussed film ‘The Kashmir Files’ brings back several memories of my having reported the harrowing plight of the Kashmiri Pandits in the early 1990s from Anantnag, Srinagar, Jammu and New Delhi. I was... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Marking four decades as a journalist by reminiscing ramshackle aesthetics of newspaper office
If memory serves this month marks my 40th year in journalism even though I started interning at the Free Press Journal (FPJ) in Bombay towards the end of 1981 at a stipend of 500 rupees. It was only around this... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Remembering Shiv Kumar Pareek, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's trusted aide
The passing of Shiv Kumar Pareek, a long-trusted aide of India’s former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpyee reminds me of my only encounter with him in December 1992. It was either the 8th or the 9th of that December nearly... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Here is to the great mystifier Shane Warne
Posted Mar 4, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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Vijaya,
Thank you so much for reading and taking the time to write in. I am touched.
Cheers
Mayank
Commented Feb 27, 2022 on Mother and I at South Asia Daily
Mother and I
My mother Snehlata, Photo: MC I did not think that my mother Snehlata aka Zini’s memories would ever surge unexpectedly. Almost four years after she died on May 3, 2018, this morning her memories started looming large. Rather than doing a fresh piece I think it makes more sense to republish a ...
A look I would like to be looked at with by a woman
Posted Feb 26, 2022 at South Asia Daily
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