Moonballs from Planet Earth

Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering guru, wearing a signature white dress Dear Marie, I love KonMari. Your world famous decluttering me...

A Manifesto for McCluskiegunge A Death in the Ganj, Konkana Sen Sharma’s debut as a director, is on Amazon Prime. It’s worth watching. Fea...

Vajpayee mural in Lucknow Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was unquestionably one of Lucknow’s greatest citizens.  Vajpayee was a freedom...

Goddess Lakshmi Deepavali's Presiding Deity It is Deepavali today. We’re going to play cards in the evening. We always have. It’s  a tra...

Do we have an English word for a mother’s shadow, for her presence, for the comfort derived from a mother physically being there?  I don’t t...

IPL XIII Captains I’m watching the IPL. Everybody is watching the IPL. I’m watching the IPL partly because everybody is watching the IPL. ...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO Since Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft's CEO, my Facebook news feed and email inbox have been...

Johar Tsarnaev on the Rolling Stone cover I spent last weekend wallowing in this Rolling Stone cover story about Johar Tsarnaev, about...

Jack Reacher, the movie, starts with a gripping premise: Normal people are living their everyday lives on a crisp sunny morning in an Am...

Bollywood India For the same reason that Sweden does crime fiction. Camilla Lackberg Sweden's best selling crime writer, Cam...

Watched the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing last weekend, and loved it. The magic ingredient? It...

An old friend put me on the spot recently, and quizzed me on how I found the enthu to keep blogging. I wasn't expecting the ...

"Because the upside to disbelief is too small." Zigackly. I picked this gem up from Michael Lewis' hilarious new book, B...

 Kolaveri Di takes Europe by storm, as predicted by Limca Cuts from Planet Earth.

Kolaveri Di has lived out fourteen out of its fifteen minutes of fame. So, one final thought to occupy that last minute: Kolaveri Di h...

Once upon a time, grown women in Madras wore sarees. No longer. Now, the default outfit is a salwar kameez, especially among younger ...

Perceptive readers have noticed that this blog's name has changed from Moon Balls from Planet Earth to Limca Cuts from Planet Earth, and...

Sachin's 85 in the semi-finals against Pakistan yesterday has to be one of his worst knocks ever. He had four, maybe six lives. He could...

காட்டுக்கேது தோட்டக்காரன் இதுதான் என் கட்சி kattukkethu thottakaran, ithuthan en katchi These words are from a favourite old song by Kannad...