Bollywood

Amitbath Bachchan, aka The Big B, big on Twitter, not on Facebook

I recently has the pleasure of meeting Amitabh Bachchan, aka the Big B at the BBC. He’s probably the most famous man in India. Very charming, we spoke about his blogging and ‘vogging’ and his presence on Twitter. He wasn’t a fan of Facebook and asked me to explain it to him, which I did. [...]

TechCrunch – Could Tiny Somaliland Become the First Cashless Society?

Bob Dylan once said that ‘money doesn’t talk, it swears’, but in Hargeisa the capital of Africa’s Somaliland it stinks. It literally stinks, reeking of rotten paper, like a leaky library in a monsoon.

Monty’s Social Outlook – Issue 10

Today sees the global release of Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, a Bollywood historical drama in which I have a speaking role as Major Johnson, a 1930s British officer who pistol-whips a woman, shoots revolutionaries and is a good old-fashioned baddie. The movie is directed by Ashutosh Gorwariker, India’s only Oscar-nominated director and stars Abhishek [...]