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Shauna Gautam’s ‘Nadaaniyan’ is a sweet, sensitive romance that hits some very real notes amidst the gloss
The film’s success is in blending teen angst into the glossy format of a ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. Ibrahim Ali Khan makes a not-bad debut, while Khushi Kapoor really nails her part. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. A few minutes into Nadaaniyaan, I felt this was not going to be my kind […]

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Mar 7, 20251 min read
Readers Write In #780: What The Five?
By abishekspeare March 25 will mark five years since the lockdown. FIVE! I was a carefree college student, whose biggest concern was if I’ll like my lunch today. Tbh it still is, but – They announced holidays. Sorry, lockdown. Then I stayed home attending online classes, started sanitizing every single thing that caught my eye, […]

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Mar 7, 20252 min read


Should university students take notes by hand or on devices?
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…
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Mar 6, 20253 min read
Interview: GV Prakash – Kamal Prakash (‘Kingston’)
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Mar 6, 20251 min read


Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s ‘Sthal’ is a look at the pressures and humiliations of arranged marriage through the girl’s eyes
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 […]

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Mar 5, 20251 min read


Sumanth Bhat’s ‘Mithya’ is a superb series of insights into the mind of a troubled boy
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 […]

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Mar 4, 20251 min read
Interview: Pushkar-Gayatri (‘Suzhal – The Vortex – Season 2’)
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Mar 4, 20251 min read
Dealing with illness
Ashwin Kumar wrote the following comment on the A very happy 80th birthday, Ilaiyaraaja thread. ***** @Madan, thank you for sharing..that was kind of you to take time and write a detailed review. I enjoyed reading it.I dunno if this is an appropriate place to put this, but my life turned upside down after I […]

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Mar 4, 20251 min read


NZ dairy production vs retail sales
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…
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Mar 2, 20251 min read


Briefly Reviewed – Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’
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 […]

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Mar 2, 20252 min read


Readers Write In #779: This is so CRAZYY that is it is CRAZXY
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 […]

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Mar 1, 20255 min read
Interview: Farhan Akhtar, Shibani Akhtar, Hitesh Bhatia (‘Dabba Cartel’)
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Mar 1, 20251 min read


Tradle – a great way to start a lesson
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…
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Feb 27, 20251 min read



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Feb 27, 20250 min read


Reema Kagti’s ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ is a beautifully made, tragicomic tribute to life and cinema
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 […]

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Feb 27, 20251 min read


Girish Kohli’s ‘Crazxy’ is a tight, tense thriller anchored by a superb Sohum Shah
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 […]

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Feb 27, 20251 min read
Interview: Sohum Shah (‘Crazxy’)
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Feb 27, 20251 min read
Linear to circular economy
We are always trying to inform students more about the real economy rather than just textbook theory. One area that we are focusing on is the circular economy. Traditionally the economy has been linear in that it takes resources from…
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Feb 26, 20251 min read


Major increase in housing costs globally
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…
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Feb 25, 20251 min read

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Feb 25, 20250 min read
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