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”…
I started this blog inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, who once remarked : “Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter.” Sometimes, when I think about those countless hours spent in composing and posting entries to this site, I find myself wondering if it really matters. Is there any body out there, reading what I’m writing about?!
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’.
I love music. In all its forms…
James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Bill Conti, James Newton Howard, Michael Kamen, John Williams… What do these names have in common? Besides the fact that they are all music composers for Hollywood movies, and great ones at that?
It was this month, last year (March 2003), when I first began blogging. At the time, I did not know what I would be writing about, nor had any idea of how much I would be able to write. So I made a small beginning, writing one post a week, striving to maintain the pace in spite of a hectic work schedule…
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”!
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