Reading List

One of my birthday resolutions this year is to read more. Off late due to work schedule and laziness, I have been reading very few books. I want to re-ignite this passion of mine and be more disciplined in my reading. I read somewhere that creating a reading list and writing book summaries is a good…

List of favorite’s contd… Actors

Now that I have already fulfilled my desire of creating an all time favorite movie list, I am having this uncontrollable craving to create another list – that of all time favorite actors. So, succumbing to these cravings, here goes a list of my all time favorite actors with the reasons of why these stalwarts…

Why Sachin deserves the Bharat Ratna?

Announcement of very few awards evoke extreme reactions from us Indians as does that of the ‘Bharat Ratna’. And why not – this is the highest honour conferred by a nation of 1.2 Bn people. But perhaps most of us don’t completely understand the ethos behind this award. We tend to think that a ‘Bharat…

Durga Pujo in Kolkata – Check!

It is very difficult to understand the relevance that Durga Pujo has in a Bengali’s life unless you are a Bengali. The ten days of Durga Pujo are easily the most eagerly awaited days for Bengalis – irrespective of age, gender, caste or income. Some of my most treasured memories from childhood are also around…

An unknown movie lover’s list of favorite movies

Let me begin by saying – I have always loved watching movies. I used to think that there are no bad movies – there are only ok, good and great movies. No other creative medium touches an average brain like mine more than the audio-visual medium of cinema. My journey as a movie lover had…

Musings on Mumbai – The maximum city

It’s been ~6 months of my existence in Mumbai. Much has been written about the happening life or the dynamism of this city that supposedly never sleeps. At an individual level though, I feel nothing different about Mumbai than I feel about a Pune or about a Hyderabad, positive differences I mean. Negative differences are many – never…

Bariwali (The lady of the house) – A review

Sometimes after watching a movie you wonder how come you didn’t watch this movie before. I had the same feeling after watching Bariwali last night. Though I had the DVD of this movie for quite some time now (Thanks to my girlfriend), I had never watched it. Of late, I have watched couple of Rituporno…

My New York trip – Day 1

I love traveling and have been lucky to have traveled much of India and a very few places outside India too. There is so much more to see. I want to visit as many places in the world as I can, before I cease to exist. As I get to visit a new place I…

The Universe, its size and our minuscule (meaningless?) existence

Recently I visited the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Even more recently I saw an IMAX 3D movie called the “Hubble Space Telescope”. These two events/experiences sparked my hitherto dormant interest in the universe, cosmos and astronomy in general. I wanted to read more about celestial…

The magic of Doordarshan (Golden days of Indian Television)

Recently I came across some videos on youtube of the yesteryears hot favorite TV shows on India’s national and only TV channel back in the late 80s – early 90s – DD1. It was like a walk down the memory lane for me. I still love watching TV but back then TV wasn’t an idiot…