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Readers Write In #611: ஓடினேன்

By Soorya N பாருடி குழந்தை ! அம்பாள் முகம் எப்படி அலங்காரம் பண்ணி இருக்கா பாரு. உம்மாச்சி பாரு, உம்மாச்சி பாரு என்று பாட்டி குழந்தயிடம் சொன்னால் . கோவில் பிரகாரம் சிறியதாய் இருந்தது. 4-5 பெரு இருந்தார்கள்.குழந்தை அழ ஆரம்பித்தது , “பாட்டி ” இதோ ஆயிடுத்து போலாம் போலாம் என்று தாலாட்டினால். உள்ளே இருந்து பூசாரி வந்து குழந்தைக்கு விபூதி வெய்த்து ,அர்ச்சனை செய்த மாலையை பாட்டியிடம் குடுத்தார். பாட்டி மாலையை வாங்கி […]

Readers Write In #610: गुलज़ार के गीत में अमृता के अक्स

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma नदी की नियति – समंदर में मिलना । लेकिन‌ नदी की हर धारा को ये नियति मंजूर नहीं होती । कुछ धाराएं बाग़ी होती हैं । वो खामोशी के साथ समंदर में अपना वजूद नहीं खोती, बल्कि मौका ढूंढती हैं एक अलग वजूद बनाने का । और जब कभी भौगोलिक परिस्थितियां […]

Why is demand still strong with contractionary monetary policy?

Double-digit inflation and aggressive tightening by central banks has been the order of the day in the global economy, however consumer spending still remains robust especially in the more elastic (luxury) goods and services market. Events like Beyoncé concert in… Continue reading →

Lenin Balakrishnan’s ‘Article 21’ is well-meaning, earnest, but also too simplistic about delivering its message about the right to education

Spoilers ahead… The idea that it takes a village to get two underprivileged boys into school could have made for a powerful underdog story. Instead, we are left with something that feels like a fairy tale. Towards the end of Lenin Balakrishnan’s Article 21, Joju George makes a speech. He plays a writer and social […]

Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy’s superbly directed ‘Aachar & Co.’ is a feel-good film about a large family’s ups and downs in the 1960s/70s

Spoilers ahead… The refreshingly unmelodramatic and female-skewing screenplay gives the feel of ‘Little Women’ or ‘Pride and Prejudice’ as rewritten by RK Narayan. Human beings are like fruit, the narrator says. We may think we have free will, but ultimately – like mangoes – we have no control whether we are going to end up […]

Karan Johar brings the desi family drama into the woke era with the funny and moving ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani’, with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt in top form

Spoilers ahead… In many ways, the film feels like a heartfelt throwback to the heydays of the Chopra-Johar-Barjatya sagas, i.e. the pre-‘Dil Chahta Hai’ era. Note: This film review is based on an almost-complete cut seen on June 6. It had temp music, and post-production was still on. Some of the things I mention here […]

Economics in Fifa Ultimate Team

You find economic forces at work in the unlikeliest of places. One of my kids got me into playing Fifa 23, a fairly popular football (or soccer if you prefer) video game. One possibility in this video game is to play Ultimate Team, in which you build your own team that you gradually improve and […]

Readers Write In #608: Oppenheimer – Dancing in raindrops

By Karthik Iyer If nothing else, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has changed the way I look at raindrops. There are only two shots of them in the film: one at the beginning and one at the end. Everything that happens in between changed my perspective. Nolan gave Cillain Murphy, who plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, one note about how […]

Readers Write In #607: The new normal in Tamil cinema that’s abnormal

By Madhumithaa Jai Bhim, Viduthalai, Por Thozhil. This is just a quick list off the top of my head. There are definitely more movies that will effortlessly make it to this list. There’s a disturbing pattern that I notice in these movies, and an even more disturbing pattern with the audience. The disturbing pattern is […]

Using photographs to teach cross-country differences in real GDP per capita

I came across this novel idea of using photographs to teach cross-country differences in real per-capita GDP in the Journal of Economics Teaching. It draws on over 44,000 internationally comparable photographs (of households and their living conditions). Most courses focus… Continue reading →

Readers Write In #606: Visible Aloofness Vs Invisible Discord and Oneness in Kalyug and Tamasha

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Many a times, in his interviews, Imtiaz Ali has shown his reverence and respect for Shyam Benegal’s filmmaking. In fact, at one instance he even moderated a discussion about Benegal’s Junoon. Hence, if one finds impressions of Benegal School of Filming in Ali’s work then it should not a surprise. These […]

Introduction video to economic growth

Nicely put together video from the IMF that looks at a definition of economic growth and how it is measured. It explains why it matters but also discusses the limitations as a measure of standard of living in a country.… Continue reading →

The Amateur’s Art #49 – ‘Waiting’, by Tridib Bhattacharya (English)

See here for what this series is about. Director’s note: A meandering narration that appears to be about nothing more than a dreary existence is in fact concealing something unmistakably palpable. Structured as a conversation with the viewer, this film explores the narrator’s descent into the depths of his idle mind, as he wallows in existentialism […]

Nirmal Joshi’s ‘Goodnight Giggles’ is a superb short film based on a sexually active couple

Spoilers ahead… He’s an IT professional. She’s a doctor. They’re married, and they have a fantastic, fantasy-prone sex life. Nirmal Joshi’s Goodnight Giggles depicts sex in a way we’ve never seen in an Indian context (though the director is from the US). The act is utterly un-self-conscious — as are the brilliant actors, Chakori Dwivedi […]

Pros and Cons of Foreign Direct Investment.

In the A Level syllabus FDI is part of Unit 11. One way that developing economies can achieve a rise in investment is to attract multinational companies. A multinational corporation (MNC) is defined as a firm that operates in more… Continue reading →

How to deal with a resource curse – Venezuela and Norway

I have been doing exchange rates with my AS class and we talked about the problems some countries have when they are blessed with natural resources – the resource curse. Africa may have enormous natural reserves of oil, but so… Continue reading →

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