Welcome to the newly-updated About section. Here I'll try to answer some of the frequently asked questions about this website. Here we go:

Who is Vishal Patel?
Who the fuck are you?

What is VishalPatel.com? Is this a "blog"?
Basically, this is where I write about stuff that interests or amuses me, and lot of stuff on here happens to be related to the '80s and pop culture in India. I wouldn't call it a "blog", but that's just by my definition of the word.

Two-and-a-half years, asshole! That's how long it's been.
Yeah, sorry about that. With everything going on in my life, updating this site was the farthest thing from my mind for a long time. I've been writing, just not the kind of stuff I like to put up here. Which is a shame for me; the Marukawa people liked my Fusen Gum tribute so much that they sent me a package with this letter and even more funky Japanese bubblegum. Arigato gozaimas!

I sent you an e-mail and you never replied! I hate you and hope you die!
If you sent an e-mail to the address on this website anytime in the last 24 months, I regret to say I never got it. Some of the most interesting e-mail conversations I've ever had have been with people I met because of this site, but after my e-mail server crashed, all my saved correspondences were gone (along with the plan to post them here). After that, the e-mails started bouncing back, but by this time most of them were death threats from angry readers. Now that everything's live again, please do get in touch.

And this is still a picture of me being cool.

Why do you love the '80s so much?
Best time ever to have been a kid. Michael Jackson was still black and Mumbai was still Bombay. Hindi cinema was turning into Bollywood at its cheesiest. The movies rolled in from the West: Superman I, II, III, IV. Back to the Future and Indiana Jones. And from the East, Jackie Chan and Johnny Sokko.

What else do you like?
Books, films, comics, music, cartoons, 3-D movies, Skeletor, philosophy, pop culture, theatre, travel, writing in Elvish and playing the didgeridoo.

Oh man, are these Tasha Files for real?
100% real.

25/6x² = 8/3
x = ±4/5

I tried visiting the site before, and it said bandwidth limit exceeded.
This site still gets an insane number of hits, and sudden spikes used to overshoot the server's capacity. Now that I've increased the bandwidth limit, this shouldn't be a problem anymore. Thanks for checking back.