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Reviewed Rang De Basanti

Feb 11, 2006 11:41 PM 1016 Views

(Updated Feb 11, 2006 11:41 PM)

Cinema and nationalism have had a historically significant link in India. India is, for instance, the only country where the cinema industry precedes the independence from the British colonial power. The Indian Cinema Industry – especially Bollywood, has always remained a strongly conteste...Read more

Reviewed King Kong (New) Movie

Dec 23, 2005 02:38 PM 1375 Views

(Updated Dec 23, 2005 02:38 PM)

King Kong is not an attempt to retell a famous story. It is a tribute to all the movies that have possibly inspired Peter Jackson’s own journey as a film maker. Watching King Kong is like sharing an inside joke with somebody you are intimate with; or like reading a mystery novel where, if ...Read more

Reviewed Kaali Vadali Ujali Kor - Jashi Naik

Sep 30, 2005 07:29 PM 1985 Views

(Updated Sep 30, 2005 07:29 PM)

Jashi Naik’s Kaali Vadali Ujali Kor – Dark clouds; Silver borders – is a collection of short stories that draw from her own experiences as a teacher, an educator, a guide. Winner of the Sister Nivedita award by the Gujarat Sahitya Academy for Smaranyatra -her introspective and ...Read more

Reviewed Nudist On the Late Shift, The - P O Bronson

Sep 30, 2005 07:27 PM 1967 Views

(Updated Sep 30, 2005 07:27 PM)

It is a well documented fact that technologies produce icons – be it the glitzy movie celebrities on page 3 of newspapers or the commoner on reality television rising to her thirty seconds of fame or the young upstart entrepreneur who starts his own dotcom setup and retires, at 35, a doubl...Read more

Commented on own review

Sep 30, 2005 05:37 PM

I must say I understand fantasy and obscurity only in a Jonathan Stroud novel. I am not sure whether you found the review of any use at all...but hey, it was an attempt to try out reviewing books other than fiction. Nishant

Reviewed Natural Born Cyborgs - Andy Clark

Sep 30, 2005 05:09 PM 1485 Views

(Updated Oct 17, 2005 11:11 PM)

I am sorry but I have to withdraw the review I had made here. The review is now getting published in an anthology by SAGE and compiled together by MICA - Mudra Institute of Communications and Arts, and I have been asked to withdraw it from public circulation. And so, in the name of academia and ...Read more

Reviewed Reluctant Guru, The - R K Narayan

Sep 30, 2005 05:06 PM 4117 Views

(Updated Sep 30, 2005 05:06 PM)

The Reluctant Guru is none other than the celebrated author himself, exposed to the funny naiveté of American campus crowds. On tour as a D.V.P. (Distinguished Visting Professor), Narayan meets in shocked but amused silence, a throng of people who think of India as the fabulous land of snak...Read more

Reviewed Guide, The - R K Narayan

Sep 30, 2005 05:04 PM 20880 Views

(Updated Sep 30, 2005 05:04 PM)

Technically, The Guide is an advance on the earlier novels: the present and the past are cunningly jumbled to produce an impression of suspense and anticipation. We begin with Raju’s release from prison and Velan’s recognition of a ‘Swami’ in him. The earlier history of R...Read more

Reviewed Caste, Society and Politics in India - Susan Bayly

Sep 30, 2005 05:01 PM 3790 Views

(Updated Sep 30, 2005 05:01 PM)

Bayly tries to point out certain ‘caste-like’ ideologies that have always existed in the history of India. These ideologies are being traced in three structuralist formulations that Dumont proposed. As Bayly traces the two-stage rise of Kingship and Priestly hierarchy, she gets into ...Read more

Commented on own review

Sep 29, 2005 10:52 PM

Dear Borngenius (please excuse the slight smirk I get at that name), I get your point. Was it meant for public consumption? Yes. Was it meant for universal public consumption? No. I don't generally write reviews which are so convulated or academic but once in a while I like going the full nine yar...ds. I am sorry you spent 45 minutes reading this. I believe I spent lesser time writing the review. A lot of critical feminist writing does explore different style registers and break away from the heterosexist burdens of language. I wrote the review for fun. I am not sure how useful it would be to somebody looking for 'moral of the story'. I do not take it personally that you rated it as not useful. If I were to come to this review myself seeking a usability perspective, I would also have done the same. I wrote this review for the fun of it. Don't ask of it the answers you might do of a functional review - it might as well be called a thesis - and you might actually have fun reading it. Again, apologies for taking away your appetite.Read More

Reviewed Dollar Bahu - Sudha Murthy

Sep 29, 2005 11:32 AM 12248 Views

(Updated Sep 29, 2005 11:32 AM)

Popular; translated into different languages and media, claiming to provide an insight into the entangled – to use a hazy euphemism- connections between NRIs and the Is who aspire for the N.R. status; authored by a woman (from the abstract third world that has been raking Bookers by the do...Read more

Reviewed Mr. Sampath--the Printer of Malgudi - R K Narayan

Sep 29, 2005 11:13 AM 7998 Views

(Updated Sep 29, 2005 11:13 AM)

“There are writers – Tolstoy and Henry James to name two- whom we hold in awe, writers - Turgenev and Chekhov – for whom we hold a personal affection, other writers whom we respect – Conrad for example- but who hold us at a long arm’s length with their courtly forei...Read more

Commented on magicalsummer's review

Sep 16, 2005 06:23 PM

that was an extremely interesting analogy and analysis that you made there - that the underdog has to battle through blacks and whites to emerge in the spectrum of victory. However, intriguing as that proposition sounds, I think I would question it. to draw from your own analogy, the eklavya dronach...arya conflict was neither as simplistic or as monochromatic as common sense would have us believe. We must contextualise the problem to understand that the entire student-teacher conflict tradition in the mahabharata actually comes from the notion of dharma - one's duty towards one's profession. Eklavya's aspirations were not in compliance with his dharma. According to the poet, dronacharya actually did the right thing in letting arjun win. I am not promoting inheritance as destiny kind of an ideology but am just asking you to perhaps dwell on the fact that black and white is not actually as simply black and white as it appears. I think the strength of Kukunoor's treatment was exactly in that - in getting the blacks and whites to create unusual stereotypes. somebody (It must be dickens or maybe Lamb) mentioned that there are round characters and there are flat characters and if a stereotype is round - as they are in Iqbal, maybe it is good. Maybe we need to think that behind at the core of each character is a stereotype waiting to be discovered. But the joy that such a stereotype was rounded is perhaps what makes some movies and books better than others. sorry for being so verbose..you just gave me some very interesting ideas which I couldnt resist putting into words cheers NishantRead More

Commented on magicalsummer's review

Sep 16, 2005 06:16 PM

I think those were questions that bothered me in hindsight as well. Infact some of them sounded so ludicrous that I wondered what they were doing in the movie. and it wasnt until I relived the movie in my mind that i suddeny realised that the questions were perhaps not to be answered in the movie. I...n my review of Iqbal, I call it a movie of surrealistic dimensions and in the genre of magic realism. while your review is indeed well written, I would suggest that these are questions that Mr. K might now have to answer because perhaps he was not working with realism. Just some thoughts...sometimes it is good to question whether the grids we analyse the movie through and the syntax that the movie maker has used are in synchony with each other. nice to read the review and gave me more food for thought on what treatment and framing of the movie can make. Is it possiblle that kukunoor actually thought of this and just skimmed over it because he realised he doesnt have to answer those questions? We can only guess but in the meantime thanks for bringing the differences to light. cheers NishantRead More

Commented on own review

Sep 15, 2005 12:14 PM

I read the other reviews and most of them are actually quite pleased with the book - something i couldnt understand. Maybe I have read too much to like it, maybe i dont like the genre at all. do read the book and let me know if you liked it or no. Nishant

Commented on own review

Sep 15, 2005 12:08 PM

The book is based in a post independence modern india. Set around the mumbai riots and the mandal commission agitations, it is more recent history than contemporary India. The book deserves a review like this. I hope you have fun reading it. cheers

Reviewed Boyfriend, The - R. Raj Rao

Sep 14, 2005 06:02 PM 4664 Views

(Updated Sep 14, 2005 06:02 PM)

R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend is a usual tale of unusual happenings – a love triangle between two men and a mongrel Mumbai. Mixing facts, fiction and face, Raj Rao coconts a blend that relies on shocks, rude jolts and abrupt awakening for the reader. The Boyrfiend is a tale without a...Read more

Reviewed Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

Sep 14, 2005 05:22 PM 1846 Views

(Updated Sep 14, 2005 05:22 PM)

The good thing about college stories is that they end when the college years do. Five point someone is a similar story – fun while it lasts, embarrassing in hindsight, forgettable over time. Chetan Bhagat jumps into the much exploited American genre of Campus Novels and following Anuraag M...Read more

Commented on Cticize's review

Sep 14, 2005 02:10 AM

is what you have hit the nail on the head with - simplicity. I think that is the forte of this movie. Kukunoor has gone mainstream with what was his forte and I think it was a calculated risk that paid off so well. I am not very sure if the beginning of the movie was actually to show that his moth...er's passion for cricket was responsible for Iqbal's disability and exploiting that would have been too pathos ridden. I was in fact glad that there were no excuses or rationalisations made for Iqbal's condition. Nice review. It is always good to read that other people's opinions are the same as mine :)Read More

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