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Yes, Saqib Saleem is what all new actors could be and one can only hope they will be one day. Well at least we have him and he is someone  I wouldn’t mind being in ‘any room with’. Like his ...Read More

Saqib Saleem-What All New Actors Could Be

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  Little did I anticipate the moving adventure that would follow, when I booked a group birding tour, by Caligo Ventures, five days in Trindiad and four in Tobago. It promised rainforests with Trogons, lodging with hummingbirds, turtles, caves and swamps..We ...Read More

The Trinidad Diary

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  Most people, including yours truly, enjoy horror movies or books. Even though, like comedy, horror is a hard genre to work with and has the highest possibility of finding absolutely no takers in the audience. Then again, there are some ...Read More

The Greatest Evil Of All..

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    In the light of what is going on in India and several other regions of the world, I believe that calling Che Guevara lucky, is at least technically correct, if not entirely justifiable. It does not intend to belittle the ...Read More

Searching For Che..

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In the film industry, the transition is not that clear. We have had good cinema, off and on, more dependent on the directors- so Satyajit Ray (who along with masters from Bengal and South India influenced world cinema and ...Read More

Memories Of Gold And Dross: Cinema And TV-Part 2

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I recently remembered the shows on TV as I was growing up. When TV meant one and then just two channels of Doordarshan. There was even a time when all programming stopped after 10:pm and I used to think that ...Read More

Memories Of Gold And Dross: TV And Cinema-Part 1

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Ahem, what do Orwell and Darwin have in common? (Some people may ask) Well, this is actually about how those two geniuses can be so different and yet lead to the same dictum. Darwin led the revolution in scientific thinking ...Read More

The World According To Orwell And Darwin