By G Waugh The first book that had completely left me baffled was The Nausea by Sartre. I didn’t know why I had chosen that book. In those years, the first few months when I was trying to make baby steps into the world of literature, whatever I had done was solely with an intent […]
The film stars Vijay Sethupathi and Katrina Kaif as strangers in the night. It is a narrative that is easier to admire for what has been attempted. Most of the first half of Merry Christmas is foreplay of the most unexpected kind. We expect noir-ish thrillers from Sriram Raghavan, but we seem to be in […]
The film stars Sivakarthikeyan and Rakul Preet Singh. The visual effects are very good, and make you wish the writing, too, was up to that level. In an early scene in Ayalaan, from director R Ravikumar, the hero Tamizh (Sivakarthikeyan) saves a baby elephant that has fallen into a pit – but not before delivering a […]
The film stars Dhanush and Priyanka Arulmohan. The writing never dives deep enough to bring these characters alive. If the mere presence of ideas is enough to make a movie, then Arun Matheswaran’s Captain Miller – set in the pre-Independence era – is a success. The hero played by Dhanush is a tribal named Analeesan, and this […]
This debut film features Poornima Ravi, Rishikanth. What it lacks in craft, it makes up for with good writing and emotional honesty. MS Raaja’s Sevappi is set in a small village in the 1990s, and in an early scene, a widower named Paruthi (Sebastin Antony) drops his young son off at the house of a […]
Tiger Woods was in the news recently with the ending of his relationship with the apparel company ‘Nike’ which was worth $660m over three decades. Has he signed a deal with another company? We will find out what Woods will…
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Author Bio : Venkat Rajan is a seasoned management consultant in energy, engineering, and informationtechnology, with an impressive record of holding senior management roles across Asia andEurope for over two decades. With a wealth of experience from living and conducting business in overthirty countries,Venkat brings a unique perspective to fiction writing. His passion lies in […]
The Economics of Biodiversity by Sir Partha Dasgupta was published in February 2021 and was a wake up call for all of us. Sir Partha says nature must be recognised as an asset and that our traditional measure of economic…
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By Kakoli Bhattacharya On January 1, 2021, the announcement video for Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s film Animal came out. A glimpse of Ranvijay Balbir Singh, who we later saw in the film, distraught with love and anguish towards his emotionally unavailable father was provided by Ranbir Kapoor’s monologue in the video, which was paired with a […]
A recent post by Michael Cameron on his blog ‘Sex, Drugs and Economics’ looked at the writing of Eli Dourado and the marginal analysis of airline safety. The Federal Aviation Administration (FFA) sets the safety standards for international carriers as…
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