Seeking Meaning out of Human Bondage

Watched Arth the other day. This movie brought a certain Mahesh Bhatt to the limelight and as Mr. Bhatt himself has accepted, Arth is an odd adaptation of his p...read more

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Forever Gulzar- the eternal poet-artist

Kabhi toot gaya, kabhi toda gaya Sau baar phir mujhe joda gaya Yunhi tut tut kar, yunhi lut lut kar Bajta hi raha hoo main [Chor Machaye Shor, 1974] Words are f...read more

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My tryst with the violent real world

I have seen my dad go misty eyed at the mention of ''Sholay'' , unfortunately I grew up when the euphoria of the mega-hit had died down. But the array of self-p...read more

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Let's not make it a man-made disaster

On the morning I landed at Indira Gandhi International airport, New Delhi, death waves had stuck our southern coastline. My mom told me on phone about the disas...read more

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My droplets from the ocean

My most difficult review so far(and after quite some time too).Choosing just a handful from the melody of ocean. I have my own biases, maybe not as exclusive as...read more

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One Unforgettable Collection

Recently while driving through the wind mills and the green pastures of Holland, my mind was racing off to distant memoirs, to a time when as a four year old I ...read more

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The Roman Experience- My Travelogue

It?s very rare that you get to witness historical beauty at such gigantic levels, bricks echoing myriad tales about legendary figures whose footsteps romped the...read more

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The disease of Secularism : My concluding remarks

A few days back, I was trying to answer few disturbing and fundamental queries regarding our religious identity, raised by Monsieur Criminal. And I must say I?v...read more

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My answer to the Devil's Da Vinci Code

Sorry, the comments section in the devil's review did not have enough memory to allow my entire answers. So here I am pasting the entire answerology. Btw, for t...read more

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The worst among the Best

Okay..I just could not resist writing something on this topic despite the fact I am cooling my heels in faraway Scandinavia and that I have thousand other mindl...read more

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Demythifying the JEE

Although it has been more than five years since I went thru the horrors of JEE, the entire phase of preparing and appearing in the dreaded exam is something I h...read more

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From George Reddy to Lallan Singh

This review has politically sensitive contents. Please abstain from reading it if you are very politically sensitive. I never thought of writing this review unt...read more

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The Mighty and The Arrogant

I had badly wanted to write a review on The Times of India for long, not of the praising flowery verbalization, but some hard hitting the nail on the head ty...read more

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Evergreen Anand at his best

This is my first review on MS and I feel it's very apt that it is dedicated to the man who brought style to Indian cinema and the film which had impeccable cine...read more

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