RIFLE RANGE BOY

What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You The Annexe Lectures (Volume 1) by Farish A Noor You would become depressed after reading this book. Sad because it shows the doom and gloom that we are heading to. All the grooming after the independence by the legacy left by the colonialist masters, though they were no angels and are partly to be blamed for the rut, the head start that that we were heading for have slowly taken a nosedive. The author of the book joined the drove of band of intelligentsia who decided to migrate down south where the grey matter mattered. Looks like we have to contend with our motley crew of runaway maids, conniving dual citizenship 'one foot here and one foot there' flight by night bogus citizens and mediocre yeomen to make up the numbers in the country. This book is also a gloomy reminder of our wonderful teachers whom we had before who could cajole us to drown in the sea of knowledge with their excellent mode of storytelling. The lectures, 5 of ...

Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (Shirin-Farhad made it, Hindi;2012, ) Ferhad Pastakia is a 45 year old goody two shoes Farsi man who is living with his over-domineering and constrictive mother and grandmum. He has cordial relations with his aunt and cousins. The only problem is that everybody is trying to get him married desperately. He feels that his chances are getting slimmer as he gets older and the ladies he is introduced to are getting younger. And the embarrassing problem to the prospective brides is that he is employed as a sales assistant in a ladies' undergarment shop, which is not a problem at all to Ferhad. A chance meeting of a 40something customer, Sherrin Fuggawalla who happened to be a secretary at the Parsees' Trust Association just clicked the right button. After a few dates, Farhad brings her to meet her mother, just when she discovers that Sherrin was instrumental in destroying a certain illegal water tank in their ancestral home. Ferhad's mother g...