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Sunday, June 20, 2021
Mare of Easttown: A Morbid Murder Melodrama that Mostly Works
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Mare of Easttown (Disnay Hotstar) may be described as a murder mystery but it works more as a drama, or more accurately, a melodrama. Mari...
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Treasured Trifles
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During the course of the pandemic, some have had it better than others. And they are reminded of it constantly. The loss and bereavement l...
Friday, June 18, 2021
Jagame Thanthiram: Goofy Gangsters who are not sure if they are into Gore or Gooey Sentiment
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Karthik Subbaraj is an ideas man. This is evident at the conceptual level of his arresting body of work which abound with some doozies and...
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Worthwhile Pursuits
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When in lockdown mode, I always promise myself that I am going to make it to the other side having padded up my resume to sizeable proportio...
Choose Hope over Hate and Hurt
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Currently, India is on its knees, rocked by a new vicious strain of a virus on a rampage which has led to a national catastrophe and a ter...
Battling the Rodent Menace
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These are bizarre times. Headlines heavily laden with alarm inform us that India is battling a record Covid surge that makes 2020 look lik...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Thoughts on Mari Selvaraj’s Karnan
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How do I put this? Karnan is one of the best films I have seen in recent times and truly deserving of that over used phrase ‘epic’. A towe...
Dealing with Indecisiveness
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It is hard for me to make up my mind. Should I go bonkers, cooped up at home during the pandemic or risk getting infected by stepping out ...
Unpromising Politics
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If you have the stomach for it and tend not to throw up when confronted with all things revolting, it is always amusing to watch politicia...
Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Interview with Abigail Dean, Author of the Excellent Girl A
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Girl A by Abigail Dean is an exquisitely crafted literary thriller and is one of the finest books I have read in a while. It is an agoniz...
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Ramayana with Anuja
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Hi folks, Very happy to announce that 'Ramayana with Anuja' is now available on YouTube (12 episodes in all). Working on the serie...
2020 and Beyond: Bad Years and Worse Ones
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Pic courtesy of PTI and TNIE The demise of 2020 was boisterously celebrated across the world, with reckless disregard for social distancin...
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Enough with the Love Stories
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The controversial ‘love jihad’ ordinance recently enforced by the Uttar Pradesh government for the purpose of preventing ‘canny’ Muslim me...
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When the Quotidian Crashed into the Quirky
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In recent years, Indian publishers seemed to have given short story writers the short end of the stick which is why is it lovely that 2020...
Domestic Woes and Dirty Truths
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There are many tedious, irritating, mind – numbing jobs in the world but housework has earned its place somewhere at the very top of the l...
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Humour with a Heart
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Mysterious screaming heard in the decrepit stairway of a suburban housing complex, evidence of domestic abuse, a suicide case that may jus...
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
The Perils of a Hasty Mission to Win Immunity
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Letitita Wright, who rose to fame with her star making turn in Black Panther, posted a link to a YouTube video which raised questions abou...
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A Treasure Trove Glittering with Brilliance
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The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told, selected and translated by Poonam Saxena definitively makes good on its boast. This collection is a ...
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