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!
Jalti Chattan by Gulshan Nanda – A Retrospective
At the height of his popularity, the first edition of his books sold five lakh copies. He himself waas nominated for the Filmfare award for Best Story 6 times in a career spanning roughly 20 years. Yet, if I walk up to the average person on the street today and ask them if they knew who Gulshan Nanda is, I would in all probability draw a blank stare.