Monday Matinee at Elgin Talkies
The last of the film reel sputters to an end to the buzzing of the projector, spilling out one last bit of light on to the screen in the words 'THE END'. The mammoth american 1930s projecter fittingly more...Trivial Matters | 27 Jun 2008
Happy Turn of Fortune in Hong Kong
A day at the Races in Hong KongBehind the high walls, in the temple courtyard, among clouds of incense, Hong Kong denizens kneel before the statue of the Chinese deity Wong Tai Sin and frown as they c more...Trivial Matters | 28 May 2008
The Last India Coffee House
Balding men in untucked white collared shirts with ink-stained pockets shuffle about around a line of parked ambassadors. Their crooked noses lead them past unkempt asoka trees into a large labyrinth more...Trivial Matters | 16 May 2008
A Breath from the Snow
[Originally Published in the Zeitgeist Suplement of the New Indian Express]A BREATH from the snows blows away 20 years from the life of a man.'' This is how the old Buddhist lama in Rudyard Kipling's more...Trivial Matters | 27 Apr 2008
