A Cabbage And An Epiphany
There was a writing competition last week; the central theme was food. Ha. Food and an Indian - the theme was a landmine of choices. How much of our lives revolves around food! As someone who cooks at...
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Munroe Island (Mundrothuruth) - Review
Courtesy: http://allflicks.comThe premise of Munroe Island looked quite interesting. A father drops off his adult (eighteen-year-old) “sociopath” son at his ancestral home, where the grandfather still...
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Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Some books show up on your radar when you are ready to accept them, and such books must be savoured at least once in a lifetime. Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha showed up on my Amazon recommendation cookie...
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How To Watch A Movie In 2018?
Courtesy - http://hindustantimes.comWho knew watching a Bollywood movie in 2018 can be such a minefield? Here you are, a sorry-ass just trying to get through the week one traffic jam at a time;...
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Kitchen Cults
So, two of my childhood friends are turning out to be androids of some sort. I always suspected this of one of them – A – who’s efficiency in just about everything peaked much before the Japanese...
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Into The Water - Paula Hawkins
I wanted to put up this review a couple of days ago. But I held off till after Sridevi’s funeral – as a mark of respect for the woman and professional I admire immensely. I held off because the title...
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My Women's Day
Courtesy: ClipartI knew it was a special day. First, there was a clear day break. You don’t know what it is to wake up to perpetually weeping skies and suddenly spot a splash of red on the eastern...
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Of Pumpkins And Gourds...
Courtesy: Photo by fietzfotos on https://pixabay.com/en/pumpkin-autumn-food-halloween-3138179/I made an astounding (only for me) discovery this week. I had sailed through life all these decades without...
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A Quiet Place
Courtesy: http://empirecinemas.co.ukI walked into the cinema hall to watch A Quiet Place without any background whatsoever; I don’t think I’ve done this for any movie, especially horror. We’d seen...
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Lullaby - Leila Slimani
During my daily ferreting of news about new books, I stumbled across Leila Slimani’s Lullaby (French original Chanson Douce – literally means “soft song”; translation by Sam Taylor). The Guardian...
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Six Reasons Why ... (No one will make a movie about you and I)
Courtesy: Retrieved from http://pedia.desibantu.com/bollywood-1941-cinema-list/ under Creative Common License.I’ve not yet contributed to Hirani’s bank balance because of heat wave and resulting ennui,...
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Monday Moral Dilemma
My financial life is uncomplicated, as befits anyone without money. That does not mean I’m a yogi. I have my fair share of temptations. These past few weeks I’ve been tormented between buying a Dyson...
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Shape Of You
Breakfast is the time when I sponge up general knowledge about the world and mull over things. Like, all the flurry of weddings for example. That 75-foot veil – that’s the stretch from my home to K...
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Hindi gothilla. Bas.
Well, frankly speaking, I passed my high school Hindi exam only because of Doordarshan. That too, specifically because of Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. Well I guess that really means I passed...
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Mahira - Breaking Stereotypes
Courtesy - http://www.filmibeat.comWhen a friend told me about ‘Mahira’, a Kannada movie with a female protagonist, I was wary as well as curious. Wary because I’ve not really enjoyed movies like...
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The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
After a period of drowning in hefty academic literature, it feels so good to return to fiction, like emerging from underwater gasping for air. I had been on an insane book-buying spree in readiness for...
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Elevator Pitch - Linwood Barclay
(Book Review)I admit, 80% of my book shopping is largely based on the book cover and the blurb—I’ve delightfully discovered authors whom I’ve never read before this way. During one of my pre-lockdown...
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Unnatural Causes - Dr Richard Shepherd
A while ago I was researching about morgues in India for one of my manuscripts. My notes are depressing to say the least—no dignity even in death. So, when I spotted ‘Unnatural Causes’ – a...
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Fabulous Lives of Totally Irrelevant People
I thought I’ll leave this script out here in case someone wants to do an avant-garde film of our pointless, poorly-dressed lives. Some snippets of conversations in 2020.“What shall we have for...
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Tandav
(Spoiler alert. Also, a helpful forewarning on sentiment-hurting moments) For a guy who was so out of the accepted Bollywood star template, Saif Ali Khan has had a very interesting career graph. Back...
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KJo in Wonderland
ADHM was a good break from the daily drudgery. Great music, great aesthetics. In KJo’s world, there is no ugliness – no angry police officers, no beefed up middle-aged men, no hordes of demented...
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The Hungry Ghost
Courtesy: Cover of Chandamama January 1963 editionYou are never old enough to listen to stories from your parents...I mean "bedtime" type stories :) Why do we grow out of this habit? I think more and...
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Aarushi - Avirook Sen: Book Review
I picked up this book only after I got to know it was non-fiction: a journalistic account of the Aarushi case. Even so, I began reading with some trepidation; after all there were many a$$holes (pardon...
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Time, Slow Down!
Courtesy: ClipartEvery time I return to my blog, it’s like homecoming. I unlock the doors, open the windows, do some dusting and think Damn! It’s good to be back. It’s just been an extended break of...
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A Cinderella Evening
I came across an unusual writing competition earlier this year, in a magazine that I subscribe to – the UK-based Writing Magazine. WM was teaming up with JustWrite team (John Murray Press) for a short...
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