Lata's Unforgettable Songs

Reviewed Twenty Best Songs of Lata Mangeshkar

Jul 15, 2003 57700

Twenty best songs of Lata-didi? Let’s look at it this way: one song per category? that beats twenty; one song per major Music Director? easily beats twenRead more...

A Chilling Futuristic Novel

4

Reviewed A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Jul 14, 2003 7106

C l o c k w o r kO r a n g e Anthony Burgess’ book Clockwork Orange is hard to classify. Those who have read Orwell’s ’’1984’’ Read more...

How NOT to listen Western Classical Music

1

Reviewed Mozart - Greatest Hits

Jul 10, 2003 2809

If you listen to Western classical music (WCM) seriously, you can skip this review. I’m sure you wouldn’t be listening to this stuff. If however, yoRead more...

Twenty out of hundreds - Rafi's Best

Reviewed Twenty Best Songs of Mohd. Rafi

Jul 07, 2003 5346

I don’t believe in top 20 lists, as they keep on changing all through life. And then to take 20 songs of Rafi, that’s a difficult task! There are soRead more...

Meaningful, thought provoking film-making

5

Reviewed Ek Doctor Ki Maut

Jul 07, 2003 10520

There are two schools of thoughts, when it comes to film-making. One school believes that films are about entertainment (obviously, mouthshut belongs to this Read more...

Celebration of life

5

Reviewed Madhushala - Manna Dey

Jul 04, 2003 13439

If you’re connoisseur of good music, and good poetry, please, please, please get hold of this cassette, and, the text of Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan’Read more...

It doesn't get better than this

5

Reviewed Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Jul 03, 2003 2085

’’if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his Read more...

Dignity in Indignity

4

Reviewed Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck

Jul 02, 2003 3995

I bought The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, more than a year back, in a typical book buying frenzy that I get into, once in a while. I started reading itRead more...

Of soul-mates and love

5

Reviewed Bridge Across Forever, The - Richard Bach

Jul 01, 2003 4916

This is not a book for everyone. If you’re already a Complete Man , a la Raymonds, you can skip it. Rest of us, who are just struggling to find and to unRead more...

Life, as it should be

5

Reviewed FountainHead, The - Ayn Rand

Jun 26, 2003 2283

’’This may sound naive. But - is our life ever to have any reality? Are we ever going to live on the level or is life always to be something else, sRead more...

Discovery of I

4

Reviewed Anthem - Ayn Rand

Jun 25, 2003 3643

What happens to a world where the concept of I is lost? What happens to a society, where the very words I, my, mine, myself and the like, are not only forgottRead more...

Sublime Floyd

5

Reviewed Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

Jun 25, 2003 3010

Wish you were here, is one of the most poignant of the Floyd albums. It is dedicated to Syd Barret , once the heart and soul of Pink Floyd, who gave them a psRead more...

Thematic music at its best

5

Reviewed The Wall - Pink Floyd

Jun 24, 2003 1906

What can a mere mortal like me say about The Wall . Agreed it’s not the best Pink Floyd album by any criterion (except, maybe, public appeal), that has tRead more...

Indian Mini-Web

4

Reviewed Sulekha

Jun 23, 2003 2513

I got hooked on to Sulekha right from day one. I agree with most of the reviewers here, that Sulekha has a difficult interface, much to cluttered, all in one.Read more...

Age on Sunday

4

Reviewed The Asian Age

Jun 23, 2003 8135

In a way, this is a very restrictive review. I don’t read Asian Age on weekdays or even Saturday. So there is no point in commenting on the general AsianRead more...

Terrible Times for India

2

Reviewed The Times Of India

Jun 21, 2003 1482

There are reasons why I still read Times , as it used to be called lovingly. I mean it’s still called Times, but lovingly? What are the reasons? One, thRead more...

Roots - A human odyssey

5

Reviewed Roots - Alex Haley

Jun 20, 2003 6549

Rarely do ordinary words, ordinary lives touch you in such an extraordinary way. I’ve pondered a lot about what exactly it is about Roots that moved me sRead more...