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Irawati Karve offers a wonderful lesson in Yuganta, through an imaginative conversation between Gandhari and Dhritarashtra. The scene is o...

In my, self proclaimed, insatiable thirst for historical fiction or fiction in historical settings, i might have committed a sin today by p...

I was never good at languages, neither cared much about literature while at school and it was only in college when i  started reading fictio...

Last two years or so have been a terror. I don't how much of me has been lost in the process, besides that,so many weeds have grown, tha...

Biopic or a Biographical drama is a significant genre of film making. Some of the most popular and best known movies of our time fall into t...

Civil wars can also be cataclysmic in the extent of damage they cause,particularly the ones which involve secession of a small part of a cou...

And then suddenly it dawned upon me, that all this while when i thought i was sailing on the sea,failing storms that seemed violent and merc...

Below is a post of mine in one of the orkut communities in a thread related to Sacred games. I had initially of thought of writing this dire...

One of the major things I miss from my college is a group of art(read bakar) enthusiasts with whom I could discuss those sudden bolts of lig...

There is a wonderful feeling of happiness and satisfaction alike that arises once you start loving the book you're reading,although it h...

The 5th Asian Film festival kicked off yesterday in pune with the screening of ' Poet Of Waste s ' by Mohamad Ahmadi. The festival...

Long time ago there was a widow , with a very famous black and white centre parting, a widow who was once called a witch and a mother of a ...

This is something very interesting.The Long tail effect has some mind boggling applications,a theory which proves the amazing potential of W...

1. I finally managed to see Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi .I am yet to come across such phenomenal display of acting by ten year olds....

Found during one of many random profile hopping on orkut. about me: check out my testi's....i think thats enough...:) Can you guess...

I think this post will be edited and re-edited for many days to come. For some days I have been thinking of making a list of movies which ar...

I just saw Sophie Schol l- The Final Days. Throughout the movi e I just found myself saying two things; What grit and what clarity of though...

Boy doesn't he look like a film maker,thats Jean Luc Goddard ,one of the greatest in the French New Wave cinema. And I am stuck here wit...

I finally managed to see Patton and I knew I won't be able to write a review for the movie even before the first half was completed. I d...

I was never through with giving stars to movies,never understood them and those reviews in times.Anyways I just saw Eklavya ,here's a sm...