Too old for love
Do you ever get that feeling that you are too old for love? I used to love romantic comedies. Hugh Grant stumbling through his lines with his charming, wicked smile. Shah Rukh Khan being a lopsided Jesus. The grand romantic …
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On Plasticity and Evolution of Languages
English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the World and that is a fact. Coming from a tiny island nation of barely 70 million people, it is spoken by over 1.5 billion people on the planet. Of …
Reading Leaves from Another Time
Travelling home to Patna for Holi, due to some overly pessimistic planning on my part, I ended up at Mumbai airport a full two hours before my flight. I was there to catch an early morning flight so here I …
On Women’s Day
Every conceivable angle on Woman’s Day has been tapped out I think. There is the “gratitude” post, which thanks women for all their sacrifices, while simultaneously implying it is expected of them and they would be seen as less of …
Deconstructing Deconstructions
I am somewhere in the middle of my third readthrough of Watchmen, Alan Moore’s most popular graphic novel (which still falls short in comparison, to my mind, to his V for Vendetta). Now, I am an Alan Moore fanboy. I …
The Mirror Held Up
Before we get started, I have a disclaimer to make. I am a Dostoevsky fanboy. If you are not, there is nothing here for you. If you haven’t read him, why are you wasting your time reading me. Go read …
Visiting Old, Fictional Friends – 10 Years to Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The year was 2013. I was just about to start college when, sometime in early June, I went to watch a movie with my friends, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. The movie sparked a debate after it ended, and a few …
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Makoto Shinkai – A Retrospective
Introduction Approximately once every decade since the 1950s, a work of art comes out of Japan which takes the entire World by storm. It breaks through the cultural and language barriers and reintroduces a new generation of cinephiles to universal, …
Rocky aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani – Review
I am still surprised at the title I have just now typed above. This movie was not on my radar. I had seen the trailer once as a part of the previews for some other movie but that was it. I had neither any intention nor motivation to go watch this movie. I had written Karan Johar off as an out-of-touch Boomer who didn’t understand how love and relationships have evolved since the 90s ever since his “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”. And boy was I surprised!
Re-reading the book of your life
I sincerely think that autobiographies should be placed in the fiction section. It is the accounts of one person looking at the highlights reel spanning decades through the dusty glass of her own memories, and often has very little to do with the objective truth, if a such a thing even exists. I think all of us should revisit our planned autobiographies in our heads many times before we start writing them. Look for memories that might have been forgotten, question if you remember things correctly, find plot threads that you missed on the first reading.