Two instances triggered this blog; the first one was a joke which came in WhatsApp which went something like this: "Announcement in a SCHOOL "Students who've Parked their cycles in front of d Gate, Plz move their cycles to the Parking area !!" After 30 mins another announcement: "The 400 students who went to move... Continue Reading →
Last week I watched the movie 'Ijaazat' (permission) from my movie collection; one of the things in my 'bucket list' is to watch the best movies at leisure and write about them. Produced during the end of Golden Era of parallel cinema (period defined by me - from mid seventies to late eighties) the movie... Continue Reading →
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive” - Robert M Pirsig. Every man, according to me, makes one life defining travel unless of course he or she is Ibn Battuta where travel itself becomes life. If we leave out the early homo sapiens migration who travelled to populate the earth, the earliest travelers... Continue Reading →
After reading The Destructive Duo: Part-1, a friend commented that my narration reminded him of Richmal Crompton stories - "William and his outlaws' Adventures." Since we grew up without reading Hardy Boys and Enid Blyton or Compton for that matter, I could not recollect William stories. But I was happy to note that readers could... Continue Reading →
The famous Murphy law states, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." JK (my brother, first appeared in A Sunday, A Yezdi and An Adventure (To all those Yezdi lovers)) and I read this idiom much later in life. By that time, we had made attempts to repair everything from torchlights to transistor radios... Continue Reading →
"There is no pious like the new convert" says an old adage. The dictionary defines 'pious' as religious, devoted, dedicated etc. The original saying must have meant the religious converts but later the saying was used to identify people who have found faith in new ways of life. For example you can use it to... Continue Reading →
Frederick Forsyth's novel Odessa File, begins when the hero, Peter Miller, pulls out his car on a motorway to listen to the news of President Kennedy's assassination. There was no story if he had not pulled out. The news of unexpected demise of people hits you when you were least expecting it and under unusual... Continue Reading →
சில திரைப்படங்கள் நம் நினைவிலிருந்து நீண்ட நாட்கள் நீங்குவதில்லை - நினைத்தாலே இனிக்கும் - அந்த வகையில் ஒன்று. முதலில் படத்தைப்பற்றி.. நான்கு பேர் கொண்ட ஒரு மெல்லிசைக்குழு, கதாநாயகன் கமல் ஹாசன், இணை கதாநாயகன் ரஜ்னிகாந்த். நாயகி ஜெயப்ரதா; ஒரு நிகழ்ச்சிக்காக சிங்கப்பூர் செல்கிறார்கள். அபத்தமான ஒரு கடத்தல் முயற்ச்சி; அப்புறம் இந்திய சினிமாவின் ஆபத்பாந்தவன் - நாயகன் அல்லது நாயகிக்கு கான்சர் - இந்த படத்தில் நாயகிக்கு - படம் முழுவதும் பாட்டுகள். நாயகி... Continue Reading →
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination. Neville Cardus. Every single Indian, more so a male, will have one favourite cricket story to narrate. Probably it's true for all the erstwhile British Colony subjects - except the USA. R... Continue Reading →
