The Rolling Stone described it as “James Bond meets The Matrix”, while Wired wrote that it is “Dense, intense, brainy and beautiful to look at”.
So often, I find that movie critics and reviewers in India fail to recognize the merits of any thing that lies outside of mainstream cinema.
Diwali (Deepavali) is a significant festival for millions of people around the world. Wikipedia writes: While Diwali is popularly known as the “festival of lights”,
Once again, Seth Godin’s recent blog post offers good advice on a topic close to my heart – How to read a business book! In
The wife sent an sms: “The courier has come”. I’d been ordering books home for a while now, and a courier delivery was not an
A new website offered an interesting premise: Publish your book in 10 minutes, free! Naturally, I was intrigued. On further investigation, it turned out that ‘If I Were A Book’ did not actually turn your words into a real book, but the did the next best thing possible. It gave you an opportunity to showcase your work among some well-renowned publishers. The list of partner publishers was impressive…
Bob started talking about the way cinema used to be a socio-cultural event, back in the ol’ days. This was a time when a ticket cost less than 50 pence. But, in exchange for that princely sum, the audience could do so much…Just going to see a movie in the theatre used to be a memorable event in itself! Most of us born on this side of the ’70s would not have dreamt of such a thing, were it not for stories like these handed-down from one generation to the next. So that got me thinking: What else has actually deteriorated in terms of its overall experience, despite modern-day advances? Surely, one could come up with many examples…
Do fonts have stories?! I didn’t think so. At least, not until I came across “The Scourge of Arial”…
Mumbai is not on the usual rock circuit, and is quite starved for good concerts. Most international acts give the city a pass, thanks to unfriendly government regulations and taxes. So it was with much surprise and enthusiasm that, yesterday, we witnessed one of the all-time greats of rock – Mark Knopfler – in concert at the MMRDA grounds!
India makes more movies each year than any other country in the world. Yet, if I had to choose one movie from all the ones made in Bollywood, past or present, it would have to be Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’.
Newsweek’s recent cover story – Girls, Boys and Autism – profiles a new theory which proposes that the “mysterious and sometimes devastating condition may just be an extreme version of normal male intelligence”!
While watching a local news channel the other day, I chanced upon a fascinating concept: BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind.
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