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I’m still running a slight fever as a write this – I have it since the last two days of the Sankalan workshop. The fever could either be due to an information overload or a food and tea overload. We, the dozen plus two chosen writers, were treated to luxury which at least I’m not used to. We’d be taken to the venue, Digital Academy, in an AC minibus, fed breakfast, have a session, then a tea break, then session, then lunch – session – tea break – session – and finally goodbye tea and snakes – I mean snacks. Our hostesses (cum bosses Anupama, Arti and Sushmita (more power to women!) declared that they intended to make us at least one or two kilos heavier by the end of the session. Unfortunately for me, who’s struggling to get rid …

HEAVY RAINS LASH MUMBAI - I found myself staring at this byline scrolling across the bottom of most TV news channels on Sunday evening, 27th July.

This news had me distraught for a few minutes.

 I was scheduled to leave for Mumbai early next morning on a three day trip, which included amongst other things submission of scripts for the Sankalan script lab. I had it all neatly planned out. Arrival in Mumbai at 8.30 am, a visit to the Film writers association office at 2 pm, followed by a trip to the Biascope office, return in time to browse the shops at Hill road and then catch up with an old school friend over drinks and dinner.

Would these plan materialise? Would it stop raining? Or were we going to have a near repeat of the floods that happened a few years ago? The latter seemed improbable, I’d read somewhere that the administration had worked on …