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The Dance of Donkeys and Elephants in a Global Village
The Dance of Donkeys and Elephants in a Global Village The heat and dust over the US elections has finally settled and those of my friends who just could not understand why non Americans are getting so...
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The Tortoise, An Incarnation(Original Kannada Title: Kurmawatara)2012
The Tortoise, An Incarnation (Original Kannada Title: Kurmawatara),2012 Dir: Girish Kasaravalli Every anniversary of Gandhis birth and death is time for the obligatory and entirely superfluous debate...
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Streets of Kolkata, a journey through photographs .
Streets of Kolkata, A Journey Through Photographs. Milan Kundera wrote about Prague”Its like a poem written on a piece of burning paper, fast disappearing”.( I quote from a fickle memory). 25 years ago...
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Matru ki Bijlee Ka Mandola(2013)
Matru Ki Bijli ka Mandola(2013) Dir:Vishal Bhardwaj Now thats a crazy title if I ever heard one.And it does not make sense. Harry Mandola is a rich, hard drinking businessman played by Pankaj...
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Zero Dark Thirty(2012), through Indian Eyes
Zero Dark Thirty(2012), through Indian Eyes Dir: Kathryn Bigelow The Death of Osama Bin Laden was greeted by a gigantic 1.2 billion people smirk in India.Look we told you, he is in Pakistan, the...
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The Gatekeepers (2012) (Shom’ray Ha’Saf-Hebrew Title)
The Gatekeepers (2012) (Shom’ray Ha’Saf-Hebrew Title) Dir: Dror Moreh The Gatekeepers is an Oscar nominated and much awarded documentary that brings together six former heads of Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon,...
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My Mandela
It was October 1990.Still hot and muggy in Kolkata even at 9 am in the morning.Perhaps it was a holiday or I would have been in school.I was exactly 14 years old then.My house was on the way to the......
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Postcards from George Town, Penang
Once upon a time, in a Thai restaurant which was “hot” favourite of me and my wife, we used to order Penang curry when we were tired of Red/Yellow/Green.We assumed Penang was a part of Thailand.How...
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Satyagraha, Arvind Kejriwal and the Delhi elections.
Anna Hazare haazir hoon!Ok, Anna is in the US on a lecture tour, and we will have to make do with Amitabh Bachchan playing him in Prakash Jha’s new film Satyagraha. How Anna lost his mojo is one of...
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Mandela: Long walk to freedom (2013)
Dir.:Justin Chadwick I met Ben Kingsley once at a film festival in Vlissingen, Holland where he was being honoured with a lifetime achievement award.I asked him which aspect of Gandhi’s life would he...
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It’s about the opposition, silly(me)!!
The biggest human event in the history of the planet, the Indian General Election of 2014 is nearly over.Statistics have been repeated ad nauseum and it has been billed the most important election in...
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Kyuki Smriti Bhi Kabhi Student Thi..
I have a pathological hatred for saas bahu serials.That even Phd’s watch them is a source of eternal mystery to me.These serials and pyjama cricket of which IPL is the latest and the most vulgar form...
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I am not Charlie Hebdo
This is not yet another massacre by Islamic fundamentalists. This time the victims are people who have made a career out of giving offence in a country where giving offence is legal and is called free...
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