I started reading a Pico Iyer book a few days back “Video night in Kathmandu”. I was hooked on from the first page because he started off with an icon from my childhood – Rambo đ Pico Iyer writes about how in the mid 80s Rambo took over Asia – China, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, India […]
The driver ahead, talking on the mobile, was disrupting trafficâŚirritating him. And then he saw the sticker. At the junction, he knocked on the window and said âThanks for the warning sticker, maâam, but your responsibility doesnât end there. You should also realize that the baby on board is too immature to drive you aroundâ […]
Two new malayalam movies watched in a fortnight. Nothing special in that, you’d think. What does make it special is that they brought back characters from the past. “2 Harihar Nagar”, the official sequel to a movie, after 19 years, has four characters who’d set a benchmark in comedy at that time. [Priyadarshan, as he […]
There are keys that unlock memories, some of them happen to be on a keyboard, the musical type. And that’s exactly what happened when I chanced upon a keyboard at a relative’s place. I started with the easy stuff that I could still remember – nursery rhymes đ That was followed by some attempts at […]
No one knew how the treasure myth originated, but it spread. And the eyes of men gleamed with greed. They created armies, with promises of the bootyâs share. The digging started, and the city was pitted against formidable foes – BWSSB, BBMP. He hoped theyâd find the treasure soon, so he could ride in peace. […]