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Archive for August, 2006

Side-effects of law-enforcement

Chockful ! Chockful of cars. Bumper-to-bumper traffic. That’s how I’d describe it, and I’m sitting in it. All 5 lanes are the same. If you need to travel by freeway you must travel like this. Not that the feeder road is any better. However there is a bright side to this story. Since it’s 2 […]

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My KANK review on Rediff

Rediff had called for review submissions of this movie, and I sent mine (a shortened version of the original which appears on my movie review blog). It was judged to be among the 10 best reviews (which makes my day, to put it mildly) and is now featured on Rediff here. Categories : _films , […]

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India within reach

Some days back there was a voice message on my answering machine. In a male Indian sounding voice it said, that now Direct TV viewers had free access to Doordarshan India. Imagine that ! Doordarshan in the good old United States ! I am delighted to say the least, although I’m not sure I’ll actually […]

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Poetry for Fridays – 2

Brief reflection on the sun by Miroslav Holub Thanks to the systematic work of our meteorologists,and altogether thanks to the general labour effort,we have all been witnesses of many solstices, solar eclipses and even sunrises. But we have never seen the sun. It’s like this: we have seen the sun through the trees, the sun […]

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The Lincoln Lawyer

This is the first book by Connely that I have read, and it took me a few days. Not that the book was uninteresting, jut that time was scarce. The book actually is a top notch legal thriller, interesting enough to want one to finish the book even if you break the reading for a […]

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