Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn” came highly recommended. Although, the novel on the whoel was just about OK, Ephron had moments where she was just so bitingly fierce and funny at the same time, it made me yearn for more. It makes perfect sense to call hers a rapier wit. I believe she got most of her […]
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Shahrukh and the new KBC
I don’t expect Amitabh to be dancing on television. Shahrukh looks natural doing it. Kaun Banega Crorepati 2007 opened with a snazzy, Karan Johar-esque music video. I mean it really was a full song, and was pretty slickly done, although I could have done without the women in short-shorts in a program airing at prime-time. […]
Read the rest of this entry »New Year Resolutions
My Resolutions for 2006 : 1. Attend EVERY work-out class that I’m signed up for : It’s not that hard, see ? Make a mental reminder to leave whatever I’m doing atleast 30 minutes prior to class. Keep handbag, and keys nearby. At appropriate time, stand up, put one foot before the other. Easy does […]
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There was a time when postal mail was very important. It still is – don’t get me wrong, but paper-less email by comparison is just wonderful. I think back to mail in India, and my father trundling up the stairs with a few papers in his hand, all mail and all important. No paper advertising, […]
Read the rest of this entry »My Don Review on Rediff
The review appears on Rediff here. The original (and more expansive) review appears on my Movie Blog here. Categories : _films , _film_reviews
Read the rest of this entry »Desi Pundit going down in 5 .. 4 .. 3 . .
Desi Pundit is going off the Web. Oh crap ! Just when I’m starting to get hits through them 🙂 . Ah well (philosophizing) All good things come to an end. DP is my daily read. My link to posts I would never have heard of before. There is such a dearth of sensible and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Friends with money
This is a smart, witty film, which is in places funny, even though it has a sad/neurotic under-tone to it. It is the story of 4 friends : Christine (Catherine Keener) unhappily married to fellow screen-writer David, Jane (Frances McDormand) a famous fashion designer married to Aaron (who Christine thinks is gay), Franny (Joan Cusack) […]
Read the rest of this entry »Poetry for Fridays – 2
Brief reflection on the sun by Miroslav Holub Thanks to the systematic work of our meteorologists,and altogether thanks to the general labour effort,we have all been witnesses of many solstices, solar eclipses and even sunrises. But we have never seen the sun. It’s like this: we have seen the sun through the trees, the sun […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Lincoln Lawyer
This is the first book by Connely that I have read, and it took me a few days. Not that the book was uninteresting, jut that time was scarce. The book actually is a top notch legal thriller, interesting enough to want one to finish the book even if you break the reading for a […]
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I got the first poem from Ammani’s blog, and the others I went searching for, because I though the poetess, Sophie Hannah was pretty fantastic : Now and then “Now that I’m fifty-seven,”My mother used to say,“Why should I waste a minute?Why should I waste a day Doing the things I ought toSimply because I […]
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