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Spoilers ahead… Cooking is considered such a regular, day-to-day thing for a woman to do that no one thinks of it as an art, a special talent – no less special than the talent that, say, a Shakuntala Devi had. After Tarla Dalal (Huma Qureshi) becomes a success, she finds that it has come at […]

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Khara Sona Ya Jevar (Pure Gold Or Jewel) In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Satyakaam, there is a conversation between Ranjana (Sharmila Tagore) and Narendra (Sanjeev Kumar). Speaking of Satyapriya (Dharmendra) in high regards, Narendra says, “Sath vahi ka vahi raha. Khare paase ka sona”, to which Ranjana replies, “Vahi to. Paase ka sona […]

By Jayram Sataluri To celebrate Dr. M Balamuralikrishna’s 93rd birthday today, I provide a brief analysis of a Dikshitar Kamalamba Navavarna Krithi he rendered at the Music Academy during December 1968. He is accompanied on the violin by T Kesavulu and mridangam by the southpaw Tanjore Upendran. I thank my friend Raju Asokan for uploading […]

I came across an article in the FT and the accompanying letter of response which alerted me to Unit 3 of the CAIE AS Level syllabus “public goods and the free-rider problem”. Benefits from pure public goods cannot be confined… Continue reading →

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By V Vijaysree They say that a donkey which chooses to graze exclusively on cinema posters would not have starved in this city –Madurai, my father’s hometown, was dotted with so many cinema halls. It was also home to Asia’s largest cinema, Thangam Theatre, which could seat over 2500 people. Every summer, we went to […]

You might have heard of the marshmallow experiment that was carried out with young children. A child was offered a choice between one marshmallow immediately or two small marshmallows if they waited for a short period, approximately 15 minutes, during… Continue reading →

Betty Grable, just like other sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield, is nowadays more often remembered for her physical appeal than her acting and the films in which she starred. We particularly remember her for that utterly iconic pin-up photo showcasing her famous legs (insured for a million dollars). Every GI owned […]

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Major Spoiler Ahead… “How much part ‘lust’ is playing behind wonders or blunders?”. I feel the more satisfactorily a segment of Lust Universe answers this question the better it works for me. Thus, my reading of all the four segments would center around this idea of ‘wonders or blunders’. Segment 1 […]

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Spoilers ahead… Kartik Aaryan sells his character beautifully. I wish he’d drop that pout once in a while and drop that loud, abrasive avatar that made him a star. But as the film goes on, he becomes really likeable. Satyaprem likes to dream. In his dreams, he is a “Gujju patakha“. In his dreams, this […]

Spoilers ahead… ‘Death in the Gunj’ already showed us what a superb director Konkona is, and ‘The Mirror’ made me lust for more from her. The way she captures mood and wispy atmosphere is exquisite. What is lust? A casual Google search led me to this definition: “to have an intense desire or need: to […]

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma A holiday is around and so is a star’s release. For a long time now, this combination of start-holiday has been becoming more and more banal and formulaic star service vehicle. The fear of witnessing one more such is not baseless when you see Satyaprem (Kartik Aryan) slipping into his famous […]

Spoilers ahead… The film stars Vadivelu, Fahadh Faasil, Keerthy Suresh, Udhayanidhi Stalin, and it has parts that are brilliant and parts where the ideas are not matched by the writing Mari Selvaraj pulls off a stunning character arc in the first half of his third feature, Maamannan, which unfolds in Salem. Vadivelu gives a moving […]

அதாவது மக்கள் சாதியாக பிரிக்கப்படவில்லை. சாதிகளாக ஒருங்கிணைந்தார்கள். அவ்வாறுதான் இந்திய சமூகம் உருவாகியது. Read the rest here: https://www.jeyamohan.in/185101/

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By Iniya A This is an excerpt from my short story called Half moon – based on a woman with bipolar disorder. There’s a woman. A woman who isn’t me. It can’t be. The woman who sits on the steps of the temple well, with the water pooling around her feet, she isn’t me. She stares […]

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Major Spoilers Ahead… There was a time when Hindi cinema used to come up with films which can be put in a genre called ‘Muslim Social Drama’. Majority of the characters used to be Muslims having Hindu best friends; they used to speak very likable Urdu and wear Shervanis and Shararas. […]

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