When I was a kid I had a favorite TV show, called Jungle Book. It was a time when India and Doordarshan had good shows, even animations or adaptations. Jungle Book was an animation of the celebrated book ( directed by none other that Fumio Kurokawa) and since the book was written in India, perhaps […]
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Author: Ishita Das
On Living And Dying…
Are women more sensitive, more prone to need extraneous approval for self esteem because there certainly seem to be some types of work that make women prone to being depressed and suicidal. There are endless biological reasons related to hormones that make us more vulnerable at different periods of time. Men use other resorts […]
Saqib Saleem-What All New Actors Could Be
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 character (Avinash) in Bombay Talkies says about Randeep Hooda’s character ( who also I wouldn’t mind […]
The Trinidad Diary
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 were picked up at the Port of Spain airport by an Asa Wright Center […]
The Greatest Evil Of All..
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 formulae that work time and time again, if you get my meaning. I am […]
Searching For Che..
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 tireless courage, leadership and passion for assuring equality for ALL men, that the […]
Memories Of Gold And Dross: Cinema And TV-Part 2
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 not just Indian cinema and was active in years 1955-1991), Guru Dutt (1950s), Raj Kapoor (1950s,60s,70s even […]
Memories Of Gold And Dross: TV And Cinema-Part 1
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 the late night shows on New Year’s eve were the greatest treat ever! Who knew […]
The World According To Orwell And Darwin
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 about how all the diversity in nature was the product of “natural selection” and Orwell […]