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Truman Capote’s potrait by Henri Cartier Bresson 
 
Pic courtesy : © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” - Cartier Bresson
Here you can find 7 potraits by Bresson and […]

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Arabikatha, In theatres
It takes a while, after watching it, to reflect on “Arabikatha”. Maybe, that’s what good movies feel like. Arguably Lal Jose is malayalam cinema’s finest living commercial film maker. We saw the sparks in “Randam Bhavam“, (but when the Govindji, the villain was set free by the protagonist, the movie flopped and a lot […]

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OUR Lady is in Raisina Hill. History was made today when Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the country’s first woman President, who favoured socially inclusive economic growth and unity in the fight against divisive tendencies like communalism. The world’s largest democracy will be presided over by a woman, one of the mightiest militaries in […]

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“The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor.”
- Alfred Noyes

The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor. Voices said, we all live in a global village.
But I knew there was no village, no stop. National Highway. We all live in the National Highway. Every moment is a chosen […]

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Sometimes I  get tired of this whole blog business, its the same stuff everywhere and millions of them (and net is so slow). The rightists, leftists, cookists, fundamentalists (with balls and without), office jokists, individualists, boredists, trippists, vampists, hookerists, johnists, spamists, splogists, dopists, poeists, optimists, collabloggists, feminists. Whooo …. And its all the same old […]

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