By Neerajaa Raghuraman I am not understanding the joke universe is trying to play on us with these mass deaths and injuries. Though there might be a lot of discussion at macro levels, I directly get into heart level discussion here. I think people should be allowed to love without restrictions. Responsibility from a place […]
This article is the third in a series of random reminiscences of the recent decades of Kollywood. The first and second are here. By Srinivasan Sundar Chennai 600028 (2007, Venkat Prabhu) It is surprising that a cricket-crazy city had not rolled out any memorable film based on the game until Chennai 600028 stormed the arena. The more you think of […]
Although in the syllabus only three stages of economic integration are mentioned there are actually six stages between nations, ranging from the relatively weak to more complex and stronger associations. 1. Preferential Trading Area – weakest form of integration. Nations…
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Spoilers ahead… This assured film is a chronicle of contrasts: man versus woman, blind faith versus practicality, progress versus status-quo… Fire In the Mountains runs just eighty-something minutes and it’s Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and is centred on a family in a remote Himalayan village. On the […]
Spoilers ahead… Fahadh Faasil shows us how a thinking performer can freshen up a familiar role, but the film belongs to three women from three generations: Anjana Jayaprakash, Viji Venkatesh, and young Dhwani Rajesh. In Vinodayathra, a flawed but essentially good-natured man learns a bunch of life lessons from the people around him. In Jomonte […]
Reading about the high levels of youth unemployment in China there has been a move to encourage university graduates to take jobs in areas outside their degree e.g. manual work. China Central Television has published profiles of university graduates who…
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By Jeeva The USSR despite its flaws, if anything was considered world over as a force that could threaten the unholy interests of the rich and the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich elite of the 20th century was neither a restricted, national entity nor just a bunch of industrialists harmlessly running their business operations within their narrow […]
By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma @ ​vishnumaheshsharma@gmail.com We have seen so many films where the hero meets the heroine when the heroine is accomplishing an act of theft. Case in point Amar Akbar Anthony, Parvarish and Thupparivaalan. In these kind of films, this portion, apart from giving the heroine melodramatic reasons/motives for theft, doubles up as […]
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This is a translation by V Vijaysee (who comments here as Vijee) of a Tamil short story by Lalitharam, based on a real-life incident from the life of the nagaswara vidwan Karukurichi Arunachalam. Author’s Note: Recently, I translated a Tamil short story by Lalitharam based on a real-life incident from the life of the nagaswaram vidwan, […]
I blogged back in April about Argentina’s inflation rate and interest rates. Since then both inflation and interest rates have increased further – inflation 109 percent last month and this week the Argentine central bank increased interest rates to 97…
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Originally posted on Three Enchanting Ladies: Although we’re still in May, it’s starting to get warmer and warmer here in Montreal, and it feels like summer will arrive sooner than later. There are already tons of people enjoying a drink on a terrace or having a picnic in a park. A serene atmosphere floats in…
By Kanhu Kishore I want to tell you a story. A story probably worth telling, at least I think so. Some names are changed because well, it’s a story. So, let’s start. Yeah, let’s start. But where to start, I don’t know. I am in this situation where I feel shitty all the time. […]
By Salini Senthil A lack of outrageous fanfare before the release seems to be the modern indicator of silently well-made, small-budget independent movies, in our current time and age. After a silent 2018 made silent waves through theatres to my heartwarming appreciation (i was not a fan of the triumphs The Kerala story saw in […]
