Dear bhaktas and Dipusanth, I bring you this message with the hope that peace reigns across borders and the air we breathe is safe again. Who am I kidding, let’s just hope that India retains the test ranking and some random bollywood starlet doesn’t get into another smuggling/MMS scandal. Speaking of scandalous smugglers, how are Messrs Ramdev & Hazare? Last I heard, they were having a fasting cage match, where they fast for 45 days [...]

Bhaktas, This is your resident philosopher Baba Bangali bringing you this update from my cave in the Himalayas. I’ve been away on important business like spamming sites that anger the wise folks over at HJS. I’ve had to set aside my troll activities to focus on a matter of grave importance. This past week, a very disturbing article was brought to my notice and my sympathies are with the mentally unstable columnist. Afterall it isn’t [...]

Bhaktas, this is your friend, guide and resident philosopher Baba bangali in the house. You see it is the birthday of a buddy of mine and that means I get to bring him to this space and roast him. OK we shall go easy on the roasting, for we don’t want to incur the wrath of fascist groups. We did a similar rendezvous last year as well and the feedback was mostly positive. We did [...]

Ah friends, we meet again! Myself Baba Bangali, resident astrologer, philosopher and everything-man for this space.It has been a while since I was last here, and I’m here to ring in the festive spirit. The occasion is actually to mark the birth of my buddy JC, and our initial plan was to have him grace this space. Following the strange fangirl assault on his favorite disciple, he has been advised to stay away from all [...]

Bhaktas, This is Baba Bangali and on behalf of everyone at Dappan Koothu, I take this opportunity to wish all our readers a very happy Vijaya Dasami. The scoop I did last year for the occasion was highly popular and I was looking for ways to repeat the same this year as well. Being highly connected in the world above gives me an all-access pass to get chatty with almost anyone I wish to.  This [...]

Bhaktas, This is Baba Bangali bringing you yet another spicy interview with my drinking buddy and fellow food lover Gunny Bops. He was here last year and has obliged to drop in this time as well. All is not well in the world and not much has improved since last year, new diseases, scandals and controversies have not made it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race. Last time [...]

Bhaktas, This is your guide and friendly philosopher Baba Bangali making yet another appearance at Dappan Koothu. While I’ve been away shielding the world from the ill effects of eclipses, and terror threats, you’ve been poisoning yourselves with overdoses of Rakhee Sawant and facing the truth a little too often. Like they always say you never shoot a man running towards a cliff. It was different in the days when kings had to prove their [...]

Sat sri akal and a copy to all, this is your friend philosopher and guide Baba Bangali along with our resident reporter Munna Mobile coming to you live from our bunker in the hinterlands. We’re stationed in a bunker because of the nature of information we deal with. You read the regular stuff in the papers and news channels but our constant endeavors are always to go beyond the headlines. With the election fever dying [...]

Bhaktas, politicians and terrorists this is Baba Bangali making an appearance at this space after a long time. This past week was Ram Navami and since the elections are around the corner, we decided to feature our most psephologist friendly deity this election season. There have been many deities who’ve had an objectionable streak but there is only one who flirts with controversy like Yuvraj Singh with a ball outside the off stump. If controversy [...]

Friends, comrades, countrymen and politicians, This is Baba Bangali and I would like to wish you on the occasion of India’s 60th year as a democratic republic. Sixty years looking back is infact a long time and one thing can be said for sure, ‘we’ve come a long way baby‘. As a country we’ve seen a lot, gained some and lost some as well. We’ve had to indulge in wars to protect our crown and [...]