While the majority of you have been rotting in normalcy, wallowing in needless human drama and reading pointless blog posts, The Prestidigitator has been out saving whales off the coast of Koh Samui, jumping off planes with strange men, restoring democracy to tiny African nations, rescuing damsel(s) in distress, taking care of corrupt Estonian government [...]

A couple of nights back, after watching Sideways for the millionth time, I decided to buy a bottle of wine. My knowledge of alcoholic beverages is the bare minimum but I must say I’d always considered wines to be marginally more elegant than gin, whiskey, beer and the likes and hence had once made an [...]

It’s amazing how much of a couch potato I’ve become over the last five months; so much that I actually spend most of my waking life perched (for want of a better word) on the couch with my eyes glued to the computer or television or in rare cases, a book.
I try justifying the lethargy [...]

I constantly keep track of my site stats, mostly just to feed my bloated ego but there are times I’m curious to find what people actually read here. Somehow my post on 300 shows up whenever people search for naked men. I will not comment on that but today someone searched for ”malayalee moron” and [...]

A huge chunk of my social life here comprises of the long pointless conversations I have with friends and family back home via the phone and instant messengers. A couple of days back, as The New and Improved Daedalus and I deliberated over one of our favorite topics; existential angst, he said something that both [...]

After years (!) of careful thinking and research (and mind numbing monotony), the list of probable candidates for  the honor of being The Prestidigitator’s Idea of the Perfect Woman has come down to three beautiful and not to mention intelligent individuals…er…women.

1. Cate Blanchett:  She blew my mind away with her performances in Elizabeth and even [...]

I recently found out that there’s a cinema in Melbourne (Cinema Nova) that plays offbeat films; so I decided to catch the french flick Paris, je t’aime which I’d been dying to see ever since I heard about it. Also, the lovely Ms Portman has a part in it.
Now, friends and family will vouch the [...]

Orson Welles wrote, directed and starred in Citizen Kane by the time he was 25.
At 22, Ian Thorpe became the only person to medal in the 100-200-400 combination in Olympic history.
Ramanujan compiled over 3500 theorems before he died at 33.
What did you do?

I’m not an alcoholic and I don’t smoke, but I’ve always been addicted to coffee. Addiction is an understatement actually.
During my school days, I remember walking into the kitchen and ‘eating‘ spoonfuls of coffee grains. Back in college there were days when I’d gulped down close to 17 cups of piping hot black coffee (and [...]

Heads up to Johnny for noticing this at Landmark, Bangalore.
New genre you say?