Imran Khan and Kalki Koechlin (of DevD fame) in this rather nostalgic (musically) ad. What an absolutely wonderful derivation of an old classic – I wonder if they have the full-fledged song somewhere ! Remember the original ? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkq6EpbKgM]
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Bollywoodian evil and all that good stuff
Filmi yore has it that when recalcitrant children wouldn’t sleep, Mothers would coax their children to bed with the warning “Beta, so ja varna Gabbar Singh aa jayega” (Sleep child or else Gabbar will come) ! Gabbar Singh of Sholay, that much remembered villain, with his maniacal laugh and gleaming eyes, asking that question “Kitne […]
Read the rest of this entry »Podcasting hindi movie reviews
Podcasting is that thing I said I would do which I was never sure I’d get to. I have a whole list of such things; things I would do when (and if) I had the time. But then really when do I have the time ? An older (and much wiser) friend once told me […]
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An excellent editorial in the Indian Express : The second dimension of this crisis is the blot it represents on our freedoms. We tend to see each episode of Sena mania in isolation: sometimes it is taxi drivers, sometimes Shah Rukh Khan. The Sena may be a weakening electoral force. But the price it extracts […]
Read the rest of this entry »Schooling and the desire to learn
My kids have been doing Science Projects at school for a couple of years now. The Projects are simple experiments where you have a question and you answer it with due process, analysis etc., not some high-faluting Scientific mumbo-jumbo which makes their mother (i.e.; moi) hyperventilate. Example of projects which kids did are: which battery […]
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