What makes great friends and sworn enemies? How useful is an island of peace in which we can while away our sometimes senseless and pointless existences because we have a place called home, for love and friendship? Very useful, you think. In fact, you probably think it is the only thing every person in a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Fiction’
November 5, 2008
The Mixed Blessing
Effortless and effervescent, the kids climbed the few remaining rocks to the summit. The soaring eagles always fascinated one of them, for the views were always breathtaking, but how much better it would be, if he were the eagle! There was an unwarranted freedom about flight that took him into the depths of his imagination. [...]
April 29, 2008
Cheeni Kum
I don’t know if I have written about this movie before: I didn’t even bother to check. I have to admit that I am no huge fan of Hindi movies – I watch the occasional good Hindi movie, but I do enjoy good movies in whatever language. Having watched Japanese, Iranian (Arabic), Jewish and French [...]
February 29, 2008
Musings about Greater India
I don’t want to be made out to be a political person, because I am apolitical. However, the concept of a Greater India or a culturally homogenous set of states which bear affinity to the ideas we can call Indian ideas, is an interesting concept to me. I for one have maintained for some time [...]
February 26, 2008
300
Sparta is over-rated. Leonidas was cool. The queen was hot. Hoplites are under-rated. Bronze armour rocks. Age of Mythology rocks harder. Xerxes was spelled wrong. Darius was spelled wronger. His name was massacred. Pururuhas (aka Purushottama aka Porus) was a god-level warrior. Alexander was spelled wrong as Sikandar.
Come on, I can do better than this. [...]
