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Keepsake
I held my niece for the first time on her first birthday. We studied each other warily. Inky black eyes returned my stare. All I could register at such close quarters was a tight shock of curls and a...
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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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High on Hate
Courtesy: http://krishnamercy.comWishing all of you a very Happy New Year! I hope this decade comes with more smiles, happiness, kindness, and peace. For me, it seems this decade passed by in the blink...
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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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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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COVID-19...There's nothing mild about it
I am sure each of us are reacting to this existential crisis in different ways—from positivity, prayers, gloom and doom thoughts, to downright denial “this is all hype, it won’t happen to me”. Deep...
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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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Year of the Graphs
How many of you remember the red and green graph sheets we used during middle/high school? Do kids plot on an actual graph sheet now or do they use an app? But if you are of my generation, you surely...
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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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From Paatal to Betaal
Image courtesy:http://hitc.comSome genres already have certain benchmarks set so high that it takes an incredible amount of creativity to break the mould or offer something fresh within the template....
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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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