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Readers Write In #695: குடும்ப தலைவன்
By Soorya N திவாகர் தன்னுடைய தங்கை செண்பகத்தை காண, போன வாரம் , செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை சென்றான்.இன்று வெள்ளிக்கிழமை . ஒன்பது நாள் ஆகிவிட்டது. இன்னும் அவர் வரல. போன் பண்ணல .நாளைக்கு வரேன், நாளைக்கு வரேன்னு ரெண்டு நாளா சொல்றார். அவர் வந்தாதான், வீட்டு வாடகை, சாமான், காய்கறி , ராஜாவுக்கு மாச வட்டி எல்லாம் கொடுக்க முடியும். இதுல மாத்திரைலாம் வேற வாங்கணும். இரண்டாம் தேதியே எல்லாம் என்ன வந்து வரவேற்பாங்க.வட்டி காரன்ல இருந்து […]
Readers Write In #694: One Nation One Election- a leftist perspective/rant
May 12, 2024
By G Waugh It sometimes pains me to think that most people, a majority of us, laymen and the educated alike, while assuming that we are socially conscious citizens, often care very less about what exactly needs to be cared the most – the economy. When I say economy, I hate to use terms that […]
Readers Write In #693: Can ten days of meditation change your life?
May 4, 2024
By Hari PR In this post, I try mostly to make sense of the ten days I spent in a vipassana meditation course of ten days. I have dabbled in meditation before and have also participated in a few online meditation communities. My pet theory is that ‘serious’ meditation practice (lasting for about an hour everyday or […]
Readers Write In #692: Celebrating Chandrabose
May 4, 2024
By Aman Basha As his most awaited work for Pushpa The Rule releases, a look back at my Chandrabose favorites. It is not much of a debate to call Chandrabose the most acclaimed Telugu lyricist of his age, and this was even before his Namaste at the Oscars. Great Telugu lyricists before Chandrabose had come […]
Readers Write In #691: The World of Sai Paranjpye’s Cinema
April 28, 2024
By Rohan Bhardwaj Podcast are the new rage, everyone is doing one. And naturally I stumbled upon one talking about movies which has aged well. The movie is Chashme Baddoor. Farook Shaikh and Deepti Naval among other cast stole the show. These types of cinema isn’t getting made now. And I miss them. Its amazing […]
Readers Write In #690: Summertime Sadness
April 27, 2024
By abishekspeare Penning down my crisis management thoughts in the heat of the moment My morning workout involves a very spirited walk from my bed to the hall in order to fetch the newspaper. Only today, on my return journey back to my bed, I was sweating so profusely that I could have solved Bengaluru’s […]
Readers Write In #689: Translations, Tamil Literature and Posterity
April 21, 2024
By Eswar What do ‘Crime and Punishment‘, ‘One hundred Years of Solitude‘ and ‘The Little Prince‘ have in common? They are all famous literary works that are, even to this day, widely read all over the world. Yet, all of these works were not originally written in English. For ages, it didn’t dawn on me […]
Readers Write In #688: Imtiaz Ali’s AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA Is A Biopic-Cum-Eulogy
April 17, 2024
By Vikas Yadav Amar Singh Chamkila died on 8 March 1988. He was just 27 years old when he left this world. This is not a big mystery, and Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila doesn’t save the assassination scene for the climax. He opens this biopic with Chamkila and Amarjot’s death, and this scene shocks […]
Readers Write In #687: Trees that are trees, and trees that are not
April 10, 2024
By Iniya A I have many trees. So do you. Everyone does. There are the childhood trees. The large canopied neem and gulmohar trees that you grew up with. Trees that you swear were small once, but you can’t ever recollect them that way, because you were small too. Trees that you first climbed. Trees […]
Readers Write In #686: Anand Ekarshi’s ‘AATTAM’- ‘An introspection’
April 9, 2024
By Latha Rajasekar An awakening art, a maze, that shuns all moral solutions redundant and questions one’s inner judgments about people around. Committed performance by the much talented cast keeps one engaged, but screenplay undoubtedly plays ‘hero’. An enriching experience that prompts one to redefine boundaries, through self-evaluation. A novel introduction of the premise – […]
Readers Write In #685: Aadujeevitham
April 8, 2024
By Aadesh Ramaswamy Aadujeevitham is difficult to criticize cos the normal audience, who are arguably moved by it, will shut u down with the simple fact that it got into production 16 years ago. It happens when the audience is very attached to a film, which is ofc the good thing about social media. But […]
Readers Write In #684: The Hall of Thousand Pillars
April 8, 2024
Author B. Jeyamohan 1995 Translated by V. Vijaysree Big grownups are all bad. ShenbagaKuzhalvaimozhi, the little girl with the long name,has come to this grand conclusion before she arrives at the Hall of Thousand Pillars. This is one place in the huge Meenakshi Temple complex with hardly any people, big or little. The hall is […]
Readers Write In #683: Tabassum madam ki jai ho!
April 6, 2024
By MANK Tabassum Fatima Hashmi aka Tabu was the most talented, but (Box office wise) the least successful of all the actresses to make their debut in Hindi films during the 1990s. After playing the conventional heroine in most of her early 90s films, she was relegated to thedreaded rank of supporting actress in some […]
Readers Write In #682: Retracing the past one year at a time
April 5, 2024
By Rahini David I was reading the recent and very relatable RWI by Abishekspeare and the reply was getting long enough to be its own RWI and so here goes. The disillusioned feeling after months of over-consumption of social media is so common and it happens so regularly to so many of us that it is a […]
Readers Write In #681: Smart Gadgets, Dumb Humans
March 27, 2024
By abishekspeare My favorite pastime is to go down the memory lane. I do it a lot. I could reach a point in the future where most of my memories are me thinking about my memories. And every time I erupt into a nostalgic zone of “They don’t make music like this anymore”, cursing the […]
Readers Write In #680: அற்புதமான நாள்
March 25, 2024
By Soorya N ஸ்ரீனிகண்விழித்தநேரம்சுமார்6.45 மணிஇருக்கும் . படுக்கையில்இருந்துஎழும்போதே ,போனைபார்த்து “Hey dear ,very good morning “என்றகாட்சியுடன்தான்எழுந்தான் .முகம்சந்தோஷங்களில்நிறைந்திருந்தது . எழுந்துகண்ணாடிமுன்நின்றுசோம்பல்முறித்துகொண்டே “very good morning dear “என்று “குரல்செய்திஅனுப்பினான் .’அவள்அதற்குரிப்லையாக“இதயஎமோஜியை”அனுப்பினால் .சந்தோஷம்முகத்தில்நடனமாடியது.மனதில்நினைத்தான் ‘ இன்னிக்கிஇவபேசிட்டா, ரொம்பநல்லநாலாஇருக்கும்இன்னிக்கிஎனக்கு‘ன்றுசொல்லிநினைத்துக்கொண்டான். ‘கீழேடிகடைக்குபோலாமா ,ஆனாஇப்பயேமணி௭ழுஆகபொது , லேட்ஆயிடும் ,பேசாமகுளிச்சிட்டு ,கீழேபோய்சாப்ட்டு , டிகுடிக்கலாம்என்றுகுளிக்கசென்றான் . பைப்பைதிறந்தான் ,டப்பில்தண்ணீர்விழதுடங்கியது , கொஞ்சம்ரொம்பியதும் , அதில் ‘கண்மணி’ என்றுஎழுதினான் , தண்ணீர்அவன்எழுத்தில்விழுந்துவிழுந்துஅதைஅழித்துகொண்டேஇருந்தது, அவனும்அதைமறுபடிமறுபடிஎழுதிக்கொண்டேஇருக்கையில், டப்ரொம்பியது. கப்பில்தண்ணீரைமோந்துமேலேஊற்றினான்முதல்துளிபச்சைதண்ணிஅவன்தோல்பட்டையில்பட்டவுடன்தன்னுடையகாதலிஅவன்தோளில்கைவைத்ததுபோல்சிலிர்த்தான் . இரண்டாம்துளியைபற்றிவிவரிக்கஅவனுக்குஆசைதான், ஆனால், டைம்இல்லைஅதனால்மௌனமாய்குளித்தான் . […]
Readers Write In #679: A Feast of a Song
March 19, 2024
By V Vijaysree The menu items to be served on the banana leaf are in steaming cauldrons, fresh off the stove. The laddoo, the murukku, the jalebi and the rest of the goody bag items have been ready for a while. But the duo from the groom’s side insists that there is still one key […]
Readers Write In #678: The Messiah Among the Sands
March 18, 2024
By Pranav Madathil ‘Dune’, ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’, ‘Khaleja’, and prophetic protagonist problems SPOILERS AHEAD When Stilgar, played by an almost unrecognizable Javier Bardem, first whispered to himself that the young Paul Atreides was ‘lisan-al-gaib’ – the outworlder fated to redeem not only his people (the Fremen) but his whole planet (Arrakis/ Dune), I was overcome by […]
Readers Write In #677: Manjummel Boys – ‘Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge ,Chhodenge Dum Magar , Tera Saath Na Chhodenge’
March 17, 2024
By Ajith Sathyanand Chidambaram.S.Poduval’s Malayalam film ‘ Manjummel boys’ is about a group of friends from the town of Manjummel in Ernakulam, Kerala who embark on a trip to Kodaikanal and find themselves in a do-or-die situation that not only tests their physical and mental limits but also the limits to which one can go […]
Readers Write In #676: Malaikottai Vaaliban (2024) Review: Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Thrilling Epic Action Drama
March 16, 2024
By Vikas Yadav Malaikottai Vaaliban is filled with circular images. It opens with the shot of two donkeys moving in circles. A few minutes later, the camera focuses on a wheel that (temporarily) gets stuck on a path due to some rocks. We also see a man who rotates his mace above his head in […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
May 12, 2024
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