Some film personalities go beyond what they actually did, like Manoj Kumar. He was an actor. He was a producer. He was a director. But beyond all this, he made mainstream cinema (I like to make a difference between “mainstream cinema” and “commercial cinema”) that spoke to people. He made himself a part of the […]

I keep writing scenes and other random stuff. Thought they’d make for fun blog posts, titled ‘Tanglish Talks’. Do read, share, mock, comment, ring the bell icon, whatever 🙂 ! DEV holds a confused LALITHA by the shoulders and makes her sit on a stool. He sits on the ground in front of her, holding […]

With the exam season approaching in the northern hemisphere here is something on the kinked demand curve. In 1939 Paul Sweezy of Harvard University wrote his paper ‘Demand Under Conditions of Oligopoly’ in which he explained conditions around the kinked… Continue reading →

By Wise Ass Fool MIND BLOWN BY VOLGA MUDHAL GANGAI VARAI (VMGV) As a loud, proud and oftentimes obnoxious (hindsight is 20-20) atheist, I picked up Volga Mudhal Gangai Varai (VMGV) by Rahul Sankrityayan. It is an anthology of 20 stories chronicling the migration of tribes all the way from, as the title suggests, the […]

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With the unusual developments between the characters played by Salman Khan and Rashmika Mandanna, the film should have been an emotional powerhouse. But it is content to remain an ultra-generic Bhai outing. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Why does modern-day Hindi cinema keep going back to the 1960s to give us songs […]

Vikram is back. That should be enough, but there’s a lot more in this interesting crime drama, even if it doesn’t always succeed. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Many of us have been waiting for that one solo Vikram starrer that deserves to have an actor like Vikram in it. The long […]

The free market equilibrium considers only the costs and benefits to private producers and consumers. In a free market goods and services are produced where demand = supply (marginal benefit = marginal cost, MB=MC). The social market equilibrium includes spillover… Continue reading →

The globe-trotting imagination is epic, but despite good performances, the film does not connect at a human, emotional level. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Imagine a scene where a man gets a call that the people who wiped out his family have been found, and he can finally have his revenge. How […]

Currently down at the NZ secondary schools rowing regatta – the Maadi Cup – at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge. Today whilst waiting for some crews to come down the course I spotted a black swan approaching the finishing line with… Continue reading →

Over the last few decades the rapid decline in the cost of solar power has seen it as a definite alternative to fossils fuels. Since the 1950’s its cost has declined by a factor of almost 100 and epitomises successful… Continue reading →

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By Latha Rajasekar Ponman, a character driven movie ‘casually’ instilling an urge to find the purpose of life among the idling population and giving a grand hope for the slogging lot. On the go, young girls are sent on soul searches to decode what true beauty is, aimed to knock down the ‘dream killing’ dowry […]

I have played this with my classes and although not in the CIE A2 syllabus, found it useful to go into greater detail as to the strategies available. Robert Axelrod used an experimental method – the indefinitely repeated PD tournament… Continue reading →

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The story is about the misuse of the legal system, and it works because of the love story at the centre and the sturdy nature of the courtroom drama. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. The crux of Ram Jagadeesh’s debut feature, Court – State vs a Nobody, revolves around a young man […]

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