I got the first poem from Ammani’s blog, and the others I went searching for, because I though the poetess, Sophie Hannah was pretty fantastic : Now and then “Now that I’m fifty-seven,”My mother used to say,“Why should I waste a minute?Why should I waste a day Doing the things I ought toSimply because I […]
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Filmwise III
Touted as the movie to knock Superman off it’s number one slot, Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead man’s chest” comes as a dissapointment. The build-up was great and on a Sunday matinee, even after 2 week’s since the release, the hall was almost full as I entered ; people were trooping in as the […]
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Women are impure. Sabrimala Temple to conduct purification rituals. I’ve watched this issue on TV, read about it in the media. I mean, it’s not such a secret really. There are temples that ban women from certain services. Sometime back I’d read about the Sardarnis who’d tried to perform seva at the Golden Temple. They […]
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Superman is back and hasn’t aged a bit since we last saw him. In fact, after a little less than 2 decades since the last Superman film, the man in blue seems to have gotten younger. Played by Brandon Routh (26), Superman looks so young, I’m amazed Clark Kent is even out of college, much […]
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In continuation (see first part of this post) : The traffic situation is better I think, although I don’t drive there; the honking has lessened. At times though it’s almost embarrasing to be following the law and actually waiting at a red light while all other traffic whizzes past nonchalantly. No one considers it a […]
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Back in the US after a 4 week long vacation in India, I am now well and truly jet-lagged. Surprisingly wasn’t very jet-lagged the first time (after landing in India). Am glad to be back though, because nice as it is to meet parents and siblings, after a while I long to be back “in […]
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