At the risk of inviting an idiot joke upon myself, I’d still say I liked 3 idiots. Qualifier coming up: It is a good movie, not a great movie. I did not have expectations of the movie, no. I did enjoy it thoroughly, yes. But do I think it is a deeply introspective/probing/intellectual movie that [...]
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Idjits
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aamir, education, Film, hindi, madhavan, pedagogy, Review on February 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Meeting the Maldivians
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve seldom been as impressed with a politician as I was with Mohammed Nasheed, the young President of the Maldives. President Nasheed is truly the new-age politician. Honest, effective and rooted in the realities of his nation. When you ask him what his vision for his nation is, he says with his most charming smile, [...]
Cleaning up Old Mess – Karpagambal gets a makeover
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adai aviyal, coffee, idly, Karpagambal, kitchidi, mess, mylapore on January 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
For nearly the entirety of my career (that would a decade and more), an assignment in Mylapore meant Adai-avial at Mylai Karpagambal Mess. A dingy two-and-a-quarter room with oily-sticky walls, chipped off tables with prominent sambar stains, crooked little steps that nearly took you into the dark kitchen to wash your hands… In the dark [...]
A toast to friendship.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ruchika on December 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
That Aradhna, Ruchika’s friend should fight all these years against a hostile establishment so that her friend’s rape and suicide would not go unavenged… That Aradhna should work so that the perpetrator of Ruchika’s violation and her family’s subsequent torture, SPS Rathore, should stand before justice and be punished… That she should come all the [...]
Facebook interface…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andhra, joke, ND Tiwari, Sudhir, Telengana on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My friend T.S.Sudhir (of NDTV) said on his FB status: Uma(Sudhir) was asked by a couple of students at Osmania University today : `”Are you from Telangana or Andhra?” Uma replied : “I am an Indian citizen.” Their response :”Oh, so that means you are from Andhra!” What have we come to?” What did I [...]
Avatar- Merely a reincarnation
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was not old enough to watch Star Wars when they first hit the screens in 1977. But when I did watch Star Wars finally, it blew my mind. It helped that at that stage I was a toh-tal Pantheist. George Lucas broke any conceivable cinematic mould. Many years of Star Wars fandom later, another [...]
In the spirit of the season, a little ahead of time…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, I know its not even Christmas yet. But since I’m the kind of person that really has never had a serious new year resolution in all the new years I’ve so far lived through, it takes some extra effort. So this new year, I will: * Watch Avatar (Check. Watching tomorrow. Haw haw) * [...]
Telengana is a bad idea
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged democracy, politics, secession, Telengana on December 13, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Secession is a tongue twister if you think about it. Sufficient reason to keep off it, one would think? Apparently not. Telengana is a great mistake. In a federal democracy, breakaway states send the wrong message. We might soon have twice the number of states as we have today. Bifurcate Andhra tomorrow and how are [...]
Random
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged church, joke, post on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, was that you I saw at the Church last Sunday? No, that was my altar ego! heee ha ha ha! I’m so impressed with myself. *** *** And, oh, the photoblog’s updated too. There is a link on the right palette.
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