A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
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By meetu
Rating (rating scale): Really keen? Watch on screen
A travelogue of a tourist on vacation capturing his experience through recordings and pictures. A personal diary – each page an observation about life and its people. Angst against everything that’s…
Going Around Chennai
We hired two 9 seaters and first went to the Kapaleeshwara temple, which is at the centre of the culture in Mylapore. Go through Karthik’s another brilliant post about Mylapore. Had the darshan of Shiva and Uma and…
There are very few times that you go to watch a movie and you get to smile, feel sad, excited, dreamy and fall in love all at the same time. Slumdog Millionaire gives you all that and much more. In a…
The brilliant and tragic history of nuclear fusion
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Charles Seife
Viking Adult, October 2008
Among all of humanity’s great quests to wrest control of nature and its own destiny,…
No matter how smart the terrorists, no matter how brilliant their tactics, we thought we had people who knew how to protect us. Once our protectors woke up however, they went above and beyond their duty, many of them giving…
Google launches a new web browser, Chrome. In the crowded and competitive field of web browsers, users wonder what’s new in Chrome that we already don’t have.
This is brilliant. If you visit a website that includes site search (for instance:…
Ashutosh reviews The Passion of Ayn Rand, a movie about Rand’s affair with Nathaniel Branden, a psychologist 25 years her junior.
If there is one quality that Rand embodies throughout the movie, it is of utter intolerance and dogma. Rand might…
Around the time we were wandering the spice gardens of Thekkady (Kerala), learning about the harvesting of betel nut, Maddy posted on the same. A comprehensive documentary on Paan and the culture of betel nut chewing. Plus, a link to…
Brahma went into a deep and lengthy meditation. Swirling through his mind were slokas and mantras from the Rig Veda, chants and sruthis from the Sama Veda, histrionics and expression from the Yajur Veda and emotions and sentiments from the…
Four short films, directed by Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Santosh Sivan, and Farhan Akhtar, were released to increase awareness of AIDS. Rockus has short reviews of all four movies.
Ranking according to me
4. Migration: Mira Nair has been eclipsed by the…
