Thalappavu – Review; Go Watch it!
Thiruvonam Greetings! Hope you had a great one! Onam comes every year, but “Thalappavu” comes once a decade. There couldn’t be a better Onam gift for Malayalis and Malayalam cinema [...]
September 2008
a single word: Home
ONV had written about an expatriate malayali breaking into tears when he saw a cassia fistula infront of a consulate in an arab kingdom. Neruda wrote that a poet’s responsibility [...]
Compiling RAM Drive
I remember the IIT geek who taught us C Programming in third Sem. He would go on and on about debugging in the time of punch cards and about how [...]
Useless
Why is he still there?
August 2008
Khujli
When over the heart a shadow, while searching for Eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. [...]
Joker and the Dark Knight
The Joker: You just couldn’t let me go could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible aren’t you? You won’t [...]
July 2008
The Diameter of the Bomb
The Diameter of the Bomb - Yehudi Amichai The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and [...]
Madambi Vs Parunthu – Review!
“Madambi” and “Parunthu” should go together, for the sheer hype and controversy around these movies, the two superstars playing moneylenders, almost the same cast, and the fact that both the [...]
Iruvar – Kanmaniye…
Vairamuthu's gem from Mani Ratnam's Iruvar. Voice Over by Aravind Swamy. Unnoadu naan irundha ovvoru maNi thuLiyum maraNa padukkayilum maRakkaadhu kaNmaNiyae 90 nimidangaL thottaNaitha kaalamdhaan 800 aaNdugaLaai idhayathil ganakkudhadi paarvayile [...]
Manmohan’s methods
When Manmohan Singh moves the one-line confidence motion on July 21st, the Indian Parliament will be finally voting for the Nuclear Deal, thanks to the Left parties. But after disregarding [...]
Eventhough that time has come
Dear Shri Pranab Mukherjee, ....that time has come - Signed: Prakash Karat, A B Bardhan, Debabrata Biswas, T J Chandrachoodan - and a few of us sighed and others, Good [...]
Walking around home
The girl next door has a rabbit now, she says there's male and female in rabbits, so funny right? I thought there were only cute rabbits. The girl says they [...]