For want of a battle...

5

Reviewed Rang De Basanti

Cinema and nationalism have had a historically significant link in India. India is, for instance, the only country where the cinema industry precedes the indeperead more...

Tale as old as time...

5

Reviewed King Kong (New)

King Kong is not an attempt to retell a famous story. It is a tribute to all the movies that have possibly inspired Peter Jackson’s own journey as a film read more...

Only those who can, teach

3

Reviewed Kaali Vadali Ujali Kor - Jashi Naik

Jashi Naik’s Kaali Vadali Ujali Kor – Dark clouds; Silver borders – is a collection of short stories that draw from her own experiences as a tread more...

From the Silicon Valley to the Silicon City

5

Reviewed Nudist On the Late Shift, The - P O Bronson

It is a well documented fact that technologies produce icons – be it the glitzy movie celebrities on page 3 of newspapers or the commoner on reality televread more...

Do cyborgs dream of human beings?

5

Reviewed Natural Born Cyborgs - Andy Clark

I am sorry but I have to withdraw the review I had made here. The review is now getting published in an anthology by SAGE and compiled together by MICA - Mudra read more...

An unreluctant rave...

5

Reviewed Reluctant Guru, The - R K Narayan

The Reluctant Guru is none other than the celebrated author himself, exposed to the funny naiveté of American campus crowds. On tour as a D.V.P. (Distinguiread more...

The misguided guide

4

Reviewed Guide, The - R K Narayan

Technically, The Guide is an advance on the earlier novels: the present and the past are cunningly jumbled to produce an impression of suspense and anticipationread more...

To cast caste

4

Reviewed Caste, Society and Politics in India - Susan Bayly

Bayly tries to point out certain ‘caste-like’ ideologies that have always existed in the history of India. These ideologies are being traced in threread more...

Of dollar dreams - a feminist reading

3

Reviewed Dollar Bahu - Sudha Murthy

Popular; translated into different languages and media, claiming to provide an insight into the entangled – to use a hazy euphemism- connections between Nread more...

For want of a title...

5

Reviewed Mr. Sampath--the Printer of Malgudi - R K Narayan

“There are writers – Tolstoy and Henry James to name two- whom we hold in awe, writers - Turgenev and Chekhov – for whom we hold a personal afread more...

In a world of its own

4

Reviewed Boyfriend, The - R. Raj Rao

R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend is a usual tale of unusual happenings – a love triangle between two men and a mongrel Mumbai. Mixing facts, fiction and fread more...

What not to do while writing a book

2

Reviewed Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

The good thing about college stories is that they end when the college years do. Five point someone is a similar story – fun while it lasts, embarrassing read more...

Iqbal - For the love of the game

5

Reviewed Iqbal

Iqbal, the promos might proclaim, is the story of cricket. However, that is the last thing that the movie is actually about. Iqbal is a usual story of unusual pread more...

Of Fruits and curds and yummy dreams

5

Reviewed Nestle Fruit n Dahi

Nestle’s Fruits N Dahi comes in two flavours - a delicious mango and a yummy strawberry. The adverts promised that it was the taste of fruits and the richnread more...

Not so much a riddle!

4

Reviewed Paheli

Paheli as a movie is pre-rational. The people who wash it away or question the logic of it are people who are unable to locate the world behind the parable, theread more...