Alienman

  • Summer Moonshine by P.G. Wodehouse

    Not quate (sic) as the sand in the Civilization’s Spinach, Not quate (sic) like the lunatic furies of the Royal Baronets, But rather like words slipping from a tongue lubricated by unaccustomed Bollinger, Pours out the words from a Master Storyteller. What Ho! The one author whose works I immensely love is that of P.G.… Read more

  • This Week in News

    Oh dear, there are many things that makes the news, The spicy Page-3 gossip or someone’s highly unpalatable views. Rest assured, here is all the stuff that you have unknowingly missed, Which I try to capture in a lyrical gist. A Manmohic Smile has come to play, At the Dalal Street and on Ms. Gandhi’s… Read more

  • Barfi!

      ‘Picture shuru, huyi picture shuru………………’ Even before the film started, ‘Barfi!’ gave a reason to smile. In the divine settings of Darjeeling, in its narrow streets and alleyways, the ubiquitous rail lines circuiting all over the beautiful hill station and in the hearts of the simple minded residents (lucky them!), this movie had a… Read more

  • Star Trek (The Next Generation) – Chains of Command

      I admit that I completed it in bits and pieces. Not only my laxity, but the utter “clichéd-ness” of ‘Star Trek (Next Generation) – Chains of Command’, was at play. Having read countless of such Star Trek books with similar premises, I must say it was quite boring. Even the fight sequences were few… Read more

  • I am the P.M.

    Hear, Hear My Friends, My Citizens My Countrymen, My constituents. A Tale of Tragedy, I speak of, Of Drama, Money Crunching and Rancor. Of Shattered Dreams and Broken Limbs, Of Brazen Opposition and a Stuttering Prince, Even of the Anna’s Aanshan, where you throng, I speak it all in this telltale song. Why did I,… Read more

  • Freedom with Fetters

    Fettered am I to this land, Which lets me squat when I get tired of roaming its length. Fettered am I to the Constitution, Which at least lets me breath in between tightening the noose around my neck. Fettered am I to my leaders (politicians), Who let me curse them when I want to release… Read more

  • A Study in Pink

      Speaking of the inspired and the inspiring… ‘A study in Pink’ is a remarkable and riveting episode of ‘Sherlock’, bundled with loads of drama, wry humor and some very excellent performances. Sherlock Holmes– the name conjures up images of the quite eccentrically brilliant detective thinking deeply in the haze of the cigarette smoke, stringing… Read more

  • Bella, oh Bella!!!!!

    Oh dear, my love is NOT like a red, red rose, No dear, I cannot bear the tantrum that she throws. With a thousand thorns wedged inside my undead heart, In another man’s arm, off she departs. Without a care or a goddamn concern, For my colgate-white fangs and my face that glistens in sun.… Read more

  • An Eye on the Gold

    The Sky is wild, all thunder and rumbling, The Waters are turbulent, with waves crashing and tumbling. The Mighty Sun is set to scorch and sizzle, For the Greatest Show on Earth is bound to dazzle (everyone). Take cue from these portent signs from the Gods, For Zeus, Poseidon and Apollo are no mean sods.… Read more

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    A few days ago, this is what I said ,“Markets plummet, countries come crashing down, jobs decrease, but ‘the dark knight rises’, always…..” After watching the movie, I believe that the Dark Knight NEVER EVER disappoints, he always lives upto his image. May His Soul Rest in Peace, but this movie didn’t need a Heath… Read more

  • Abraham Lincoln- Vampire Hunter

    “A man only drinks too much, if he either has to kiss a girl or kill a man………What are you going to do, young man?” And so begins the story. I will tell you in Caps Lock, “I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE MOVIE, OR WHAT YOUR PERCIEVED OPINION IS………….WHAT I… Read more

  • ‘Airman’ by Eoin Colfer

    Might this be the most old-fashioned way to tell a story, but a tale of a young, strapping genius as a hero wooing a beautiful princess, who is made to suffer a terrible fate due to the act of an unconscionable and dastardly villain, who after spending few dark and painful years in prison bounces… Read more

  • The Amazing Spiderman

    The Wall-Crawler is back!!!!!! The city-slicker, the geeky-bookworm, the ultimate smartass -the Brand New Spiderman is everything that you want him to be… Maybe, the world is eagerly waiting for the release of The Dark Knight Rises, and they should be because both The Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were wonderful movies. You may… Read more

  • The Flight Across Space- Part 1

    Inspite of a gap of a few light-years between them, a stench of the sweat of the lesser aliens from the other side of the portal disturbed his extremely sensitive nose. Saptarishi thought that the general was making a big show of it even though he wasn’t actually coming with them into the hostile territory… Read more

  • Worthless

    When you are an alien hunter, as a rule, you are alone. For days I would survive without any sort of human contact. Well, the other guys could sense it very well that I happened to be a weirdo. So they mostly stayed away from me. Even when I wasn’t actually able to discern humans… Read more

  • First Among Equals- Jeffrey Archer

    It happened for a first time indeed that I read a book again that I had left half way through in my tumultuous teens. ‘First Among Equals’ by Jeffrey Archer is not an easy book to read, at least for me.  Revolving solely around British politics, I found it a wee bit hard to comprehend… Read more

  • The ‘Not so’ Old Man and the Sea

    The following story has been published at Your Story Club. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean- roll! Ten Thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin- his control Stops with the shore. Lord Byron Unfathomable, deep, dark, turbulent, mighty, raw, intense, awe-inspiring, stone-crushing, foam spraying, pouting, gathering forces,… Read more

  • I am Kalam

      From a rustic Rajasthani setting emerges a movie that would have, I presume, sent reverberations across the country. If not the whole nation, at least across the hearts of a bunch of people who have watched ‘I am Kalam.’ This movie indeed is a wondrous effort by the director Nila Madhab Panda. This movie… Read more

  • It all begins here…

    I sized up my opponent. He looked nasty and hell bent to maul my face. Maybe I might have pricked his underbelly a few times in past. From his face, it looked like he would flatten me with his broad massive girth of a body. Anyways looks couldn’t kill, could they? So who exactly am… Read more

  • Prometheus

    Isaac Asimov might be turning in his grave right now!!!!!!!! How could any robot not follow the three laws! But of course in Prometheus we have an android by the name David who is wily and shrewd, cold and unconscionable; it seems that he has a heart of his own when he wishes his creator… Read more

  • In High Places

    Finally, it happens not only in India!!!!! With ‘In High Places’, Arthur Hailey describes the power struggle that takes place between warring political parties of Canada with each day bringing in new skirmishes and political maneuvers to haggle over. Though the Indian Lok Sabha maybe the epitome of ruckus with verbal blusters, sher-o-shayeris to woo… Read more

  • My 100th Post

    ‘Space- the final frontier…These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five years mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.’   –Introduction to Star Trek (television series) 1966 onwards, by Gene Roddenberry   Hello readers,                     Many of… Read more

  • Wild Justice- Wilbur Smith

    When you get swashbuckling, nonstop action, what more can you want?!!!!! Wilbur Smith’s ‘Wild Justice’ is everything that a hard core action buff would slaver on! I might have mentioned once or twice that I tread cautiously while reading one of the authors whom I haven’t come across. But Wilbur Smith emerges as a good… Read more

  • Lavaic- Prologue

      “I cannot find any damn anomaly,” he said, frustrated. “Try harder bony lass. Penetrate it apart with your very consciousness,” the operator said, guffawing at his own joke. Behind that roaring bass like laughter, Saptarishi could hear a strain in his voice. There were very angry and important people breathing down their neck as… Read more

  • Men In Black 3

    Maybe it does not have the best action sequences in the world, nor possibly a great story line, but that doesn’t mean that Men In Black 3 isn’t worth watching. Men In Black 3 packs a delightful punch down the pleasure nerve, with quite a few rib-tickling movements and weirdo aliens that are the movie… Read more

  • Hotel- Arthur Hailey

      What Arthur Hailey’s ‘Hotel’ achieves is far beyond its gripping plot and a hooked reader. It reminds me of a time (vicariously, of course) when readers were treated with rich prose, and I of course grasp in wonder at the sheer volubility of Mr. Hailey. Maybe I cannot possibly emulate him in his writing… Read more

  • Not in Me…

    I never wanted the thing to go the way it went. No one ever does. But once the dice rolls, you are quite helpless to predict the outcome. I wasn’t one of those. You won’t believe me, but I certainly know how the dice will roll and what number would surface. I know very well… Read more

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  • 3.2mp Spy Hidden Camera

    3.2mp Spy Hidden Camera In Key Chain wid USB. Spy Video/ Audio Recording/ Clicks photo. Expandable upto 8GB. MRP: Rs. 4990 Offer Price: Rs. 1990 Sms ANAND 555 to 567678 Damn these stupid SMSes. Not for them, I wouldn’t have my leg propped up in a hospital bed. Multiple fractures, I know it sucks!! But… Read more

  • The Sins of the Father- Jeffrey Archer

    Long after, a time would come when I would be heard telling my grandchildren that there was a writer whose name was Jeffrey Archer, and why his each book was a best seller. I have but read a few of his books, ‘Kane and Abel’, ‘Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less’, ‘Shall We… Read more

  • Lonely Planet

    “Arvind, I told you we are god damn ruddy lost.” “We are not, don’t worry we would find a habitable planet soon.” “You never ever listen to any one,” his wife was frustrated beyond imagination. “It must have been better if we stayed in queue.” “Now this is reaching a saturation point. You have been… Read more

  • Avengers

    I AM HULK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Powerhouse, the boiling bed, the grizzly, machismo and the Ultimate hammer-head, he knows how to pump up your very source of adrenaline. I regret that I watched this movie late- but it was due to my exams that I wasn’t able to do so. But if you still haven’t seen it… Read more

  • The Autobiography of a Haywire Asteroid

    It’s crash and burn. It’s boom and bang. You realize that all that you have ever strived for, all that you have ever aspired for, all that you have achieved for yourself is no longer important. You realize that your master wants you dead. You realize that you serve a purpose by being dead. You… Read more

  • Kill One!!

    Asshole is a wide genus. Though it may not come under any branch of taxonomy- there are varieties of people coming under its huge umbrella like purview. If you go through ‘Word Power Made Easy’- there are martinets, lechers, chauvinists, brash (well it mentioned ‘virago’ for such women), and sycophants. Anyone of them can make… Read more

  • The Money-Changers

    You know, even I am impressionable. I admit that it has been (and will be) my long standing attitude to never ever consider anyone superior to myself. Of course I have been proven wrong a million times over, and in the process I discovered that I am no good; it’s just sheer audacity and tendency… Read more

  • The Lost Race

    Date:                                12-03-3045 Subject:                            CLDR-234 Classification:                  Unknown Description:                     Subject is responding to external stimuli. It is characterized by high level of neural activity. High Brain Body Ratio. No apparent arsenal to hunt. Food:                                It is in infantile stage. It can be taught to eat any type of food. Based on the initial conditions, probability of its… Read more

  • Revenge of a Computer!!

    She fried my circuits, scorched up the wirings and had me infested with viruses of all kind. Pooh, I hate humans- jealous, egotist freaks. Okay, I get it. You won’t be able to help me out without hearing the case. So let’s start at the beginning. I am an EAU-49 computer. It simply means Emotion… Read more

  • Shri James Bond Chalisa

                                      It’s dark time indeed that has settled over the earth, When evil thought perpetuates the world, When dictators slaughter millions in their self-consuming lust of power, When bankers gluttonously pounce upon gold, When Crazy Crackpots are given the… Read more

  • Dead Beyond Imagination

    Ha, maybe you would say that death is not a quantifiable thing, nor can it be written in the form of degrees (dead, deader, deadest). So it may be a little hard for you to digest ‘Dead beyond Imagination’. But you see- I fit the bill. I am 100% dead- so dead that even heaven… Read more

  • The Lost Witness

    It has been a long time indeed, since I last completed a novel. It’s just that I couldn’t get enough time to do so. Anyways I was seriously missing out the fun of critiquing a book for you, imaginary reader, so that I can impose my viewpoints down your gut and make you dance to… Read more

  • The Guy with an Alien Accent

    The other day when I was in the Toilet Shack, I met the guy with an alien accent. Better still, I had a meaningful conversation with him, if you go by the rhetoric. It was a Monday Morning. Monday mornings are always rush hours, if you know what I mean. It’s so exhausting working as… Read more

  • When the God plays Dice

    This has been my only published work!!! Of course I am proud of it… Read more

  • The Five Hundred Words Limit

    This was one of those angry retorts that I sent to one of the publishers as I crossed my word limit!!!!! But don’t you worry, I am no stalker!!!!!!! Read more

  • Revenge

    This is one of my oldies, which I hope I can continue before boredom takes me in her lair… Read more

  • Star Wars :The Truce at Bakura

    Of light sabers and X-Wing Fighters, of super powerful Jedis to entenchment droids, Star Wars: the Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers indeed packs a powerful punch when it comes to space adventures. No doubt indeed that Star Wars beats Star Trek every time they pitch against each other. Not only does Star Wars boast… Read more

  • Holes

    It took me a ‘Book of Books’ to know its worth. It’s on the number 83 in the BBC Big Read Hundred Favourite books. But I am not talking about the book written by Louis Sachar, I haven’t read it, yet. What I am talking about is the movie adaptation of ‘Holes’- I say its… Read more

  • The Darkest Hour

    I think I have repeated this more than often. If you give me a good alien movie, I would slaver on it in no time. ‘The Darkest Hour’ is indeed a treat for me, and after a long time (the last good alien invasion movie was- Battle L.A.), did I get to see such a… Read more

  • Chapter 1: Gumnaam Engineer

    There he was, doing it again. Brash, pompous, with little or no acting skills, this young muscular henchman of a hero was once again straining his larynx to its loudest to get the message across and the heroine (clad in a skimpy costume) drooled over his each dialogue, though they have been used in at… Read more

  • Prologue: Chook Chook Gadi

    Well, the Aanshan has started, you may post in your views on the blog… Read more

  • Beauty and the Beast

    “We shouldn’t have come here.” “But here we are, on your very insistence,” Vinay said, snorting. But of course she ignored him. Almost everyone did, except the parrot Mitthu- who did not, solely due to his prime time greed of green chilli. She went forward, put a hand on Ramesh’s shoulder, faked an emotion of… Read more