For want of a battle...

Cinema and nationalism have had a historically significant link in India. India is, for instance, the only country where the cinema industry precedes the indepe...read more

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Tale as old as time...

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 ...read more

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Only those who can, teach

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 t...read more

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From the Silicon Valley to the Silicon City

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 telev...read more

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Do cyborgs dream of human beings?

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 ...read more

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An unreluctant rave...

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. (Distingui...read more

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The misguided guide

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...read more

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To cast caste

Bayly tries to point out certain ‘caste-like’ ideologies that have always existed in the history of India. These ideologies are being traced in thre...read more

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Of dollar dreams - a feminist reading

Popular; translated into different languages and media, claiming to provide an insight into the entangled – to use a hazy euphemism- connections between N...read more

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For want of a title...

“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 af...read more

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In a world of its own

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 f...read more

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What not to do while writing a book

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 ...read more

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Iqbal - For the love of the game

Iqbal, the promos might proclaim, is the story of cricket. However, that is the last thing that the movie is actually about. Iqbal is a usual story of unusual p...read more

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Of Fruits and curds and yummy dreams

Nestle's Fruits N Dahi comes in two flavours - a delicious mango and a yummy strawberry. The adverts promised that it was the taste of fruits and the richness o...read more

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Not so much a riddle!

Paheli as a movie is pre-rational. The people who wash it away or question the logic of it are people who are unable to locate the world behind the parable, the...read more

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