I had always read of how History was full of Laments. The most powerful stories of mythology have been laments. Of Cities, Kings, Peoples, and Prophets. We middle class Indian boys are never brought up to dream of being one with such things except through the most ancient of ways: that of storytelling – reading… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011
I was about to write, but read instead. And I think you should too. Neel, you made my evening. http://skywithoutclouds.blogspot.com/2011/08/turn.html
July 12, 2011
It took me a long time to get over what I call the “Post-Diablo Condition”. I define this as the condition where you have played Diablo from Level 1 to Level 13 and more, at least 4 times, broken 2 mice, increased your near-sightedness by at least a degree, and had nightmares about Baal and… [Read more…]
January 4, 2010
I had a long weekend. And I used it to clock approximately 24 hours of Assassin’s Creed 2. I was glued. And hooked. And completely blown away. The History books will prove that with the coming of the PS3, PC gaming officially crossed the tipping point which would lead to its rapid demise. It is… [Read more…]
September 20, 2009
“We can love completely without complete understanding.” American Literature has a certain quality no other writing in the English Language achieves. It has a certain reflectiveness which is often compeltely without self-conciousness, a certain simplicity of purpose towards the understanding of the human spirit: an uncluttered-ness. The Literature of the Isle is more nuanced, more… [Read more…]
August 10, 2009
There are some cultural objects, which have viewpoints you find alien. Which describe social systems and generalisations you abhor. But of these, there are a handful, which have something else so powerful, so unearthly, that they pull you along into a world and relaity which changes everything. Your cultural contexts, your levels of tolerance, your… [Read more…]
June 2, 2009
Ralph Fiennes is one of my favourite actors . I thought his performance in The Reader was stand-out. He was equally brilliant in “The English Patient”. And I just love the Potter casting agents for choosing him as Voldemort. He’s perfect for the role. But it wasn’t because of him that “In Bruges” got under… [Read more…]
April 23, 2009
“Sit back aa!”. And so it began. In North India, you would be hallucinating if the cabbie spoke to you in English, forget English used colloquially. From both the shock and the amusement I sat back and let Raja dictate the rules in his Indica. “Seatbelt!!” he said, the movement of his lips hidden by… [Read more…]
March 2, 2009
Someone once told me: “After all, it is just light from the back of a projector which falls on a blank white wall. And yet, people will dance in front of it, throw flowers at it, hoot and whistle, laugh and cry, clap & dance, scream & cringe. its all a little overdone.” As you… [Read more…]
February 27, 2009
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy… [Read more…]
December 17, 2011
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