Professor of Economics at the University of Waikato, Michael Cameron (blog: Sex Drugs and Economics) wrote an interesting piece on note taking by hand versus device. In his lectures he mentions that some students persist in using laptops for exercises… Continue reading →

Like ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, this film shows us a patriarchal way of functioning we’ve always been aware of, but the girl’s POV makes the situations fresh and new. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. A friend of mine said yes to the very first girl he met in an arranged-marriage situation, when […]

This Kannada feature is not exactly a coming-of-age movie. It’s more like a bunch of X-rays that lay bare the workings of a mind grappling with the aftermath of a tragedy. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. The opening shot of Mithya is that of a boy standing by the doorway of a […]

Got this graph from ANZ ‘Charts that Matter’. While correlation doesn’t imply causation, it’s intriguing that regions with a heavy focus on dairy experienced strong growth in retail sales last year – Otago is the outlier. Dairy farmers are benefiting… Continue reading →

I watched The Brutalist on an IMAX screen, and I’m yet to recover from the experience. Experience. That’s the word for it. With most films, it’s easy to say… “I liked it”, or “the film did not work for me”. The Brutalist had parts I loved, parts that left me scratching my head, and a […]

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Before zooming large on the back of the protagonist Abhimanyu (played by Sohum Shah), the camera zooms past (with deliberately slow pace) a wall. On this all there are alphabets that goes like A B C….W Z X Y. Thus in the very first frame of the film, the (mis)spelling of […]

From the OEC site comes Tradle which operates just like Wordle and is a daily challenge. From the dollar value and composition of a country’s exports you have to try and find which country the data relates to. You have… Continue reading →

The film can be seen as a companion piece to ‘Luck By Chance’. It follows a bunch of ordinary folks whose lives revolve around cinema. They make movies, and the movies make them. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Nasir (Adarsh Gourav) is a wedding videographer in the sleepy town of Malegaon, which […]

A father searches for his kidnapped daughter. But along with this race-against-time thriller, we also get a psychological arc about a certain kind of man. It all comes together very well. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. The trailers have told us that Crazxy is about a father and his kidnapped daughter and […]

The OECD reports that after declining during the global financial crisis, house prices have rebounded strongly. Over the past decade, home costs in mostly high-income OECD countries have increased by 37% in real terms, with prices now 16% higher relative… Continue reading →