For over a decade, I have maintained the irrelevance of the Oscars, shunning it as a fofoshishilala extravaganza with little or no consequence to the movie industry at large. The declining viewership of the Oscars was a comforting factor that I was not the only one thinking this way. The last time the Oscars had [...]
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So Slumdog won the Oscars
Posted in Entertainment, Uncategorized, tagged Slumdog on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dhin-chak chants
Posted in Entertainment, Uncategorized, tagged chants, desimusic, hinduprayers, Indiamusic on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few hundred yard from the sanctum sanctorum of the Guruvayoor temple, are a line of music stores. Over the years that I have been visiting there, very little had changed. The music that blared for those stores in questionable yet colorful union was either Yesudas’s melodic salutation to one of the gods, or Balamurali [...]
Mumbai – Now what?
Posted in Geopolitics and current affairs, Uncategorized, tagged Mumbai terror attacks India on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Its quiet an irony, 15 years ago I spent a whole evening with a bunch of friends and acquaintances, kickoff a drink at Leopold, movie at Regal, dinner and drinking at the Taj and chat in Marine drive till the am, followed by breakfast at the Oberois. We were a bunch of management trainees from [...]
Lord Krishna sounds like a conservative Republican.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had an amazing conversation over cofee today with some hardcore research / armchair intellectual types… It was interesting to say the least. I will blog the conversation soon. Meanwhile, All comments on this topic are welcome.
