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Rerelease Fad & Undeserving ‘Cult Classics’

The latest fad in the movie industry is re-releasing old movies in theatres. It started recently with a couple of Mohanlal-led Malayalam movies—Devadoothan and Manichithrathazhu. And before I knew, I started seeing re-release announcements from every other movie industry in… Continue Reading →

A Talker’s Confession

I had once written about a few instances of how the ‘talker’ in me was cut short quite curtly or made to feel embarrassed for talking by people, some very close to me at the time. The link to that… Continue Reading →

A “Wronged” Teen’s Tears

It is no secret that I hated my 10+2 life in a school that I went to only for those two years. Having finished my 10th grade from a school which had very simple teachers – most of whom I… Continue Reading →

No Means No

I have been at my parents’ home for a few weeks now for the kids’ school vacation. And in these two weeks, the most I have struggled with is something seemingly simple – getting my mother to take “No” as… Continue Reading →

Why Kaanekkaane Needs a Horror Sequel

Yet another blog about a movie that pissed me off – that would be an apt description for this blog. The movie in focus today is the Suraj Venjarammoodu-Tovino Thomas-Aishwarya Lekshmi starrer Kaanekkaane. It had pretty decent reviews, both from… Continue Reading →

Good News – Never the End

I have a habit of finishing a movie and then, spending the next few days imagining the life of the characters post the end of the movie’s storyline – their conversations, the events in their life, their day-to-day life in… Continue Reading →

To Censor or Not?

A few weeks back, I saw a sudden outrage about the latest editions of Roald Dahl classics being censored to remove several objectionable words. It took me some time to read up on what exactly the issue was. And when… Continue Reading →

Dear Pavithra, I’m Sorry

Two days back, Hari and I lost a dear friend. Along with a sense of extreme disbelief, the other feeling that grappled me was guilt. Here was a girl who was the absolute personification of positive energy and selfless love…. Continue Reading →

The Federer-Nadal’s Guide to Happiness

For the last two days, social media has been filled with photos and videos from Roger Federer’s farewell match. And as has been written or said a million times already by people, tennis fans or not, there hasn’t been a… Continue Reading →

The Namesake Holidays

You know how screwed our education system is when your LKG-going kid has 10 days of festival holidays coming up and is given a 10-page-long worksheet for that time. 🙄 At the cost of sounding like one of those annoying… Continue Reading →

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