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Call 1098 Child Line – India’s 24 hour emergency outreach number for children in need of care and protection

May 13, 2012 / Articles, Society

I am not sure what the cynics of Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate would say after watching (if they watched) the second episode of the program that was focused on Child Sexual Abuse. Again this is also a known issue and as protective parents we all fear our kids having to face such a situation, but again do we know everything we need to know to keep our kids safe. This show was not just about awareness but also of how [...]

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Mayamohini – Hilarious and Paisa Vasool

May 12, 2012 / Movies, Reviews

Male actors doing female characters is not a new theme. We have seen Charlie Chaplin, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams John Travolta and Kamala Hassan in India doing characters of that sort. But Dileep’s Maya Mohini was slightly different. If you look at many of the actors I mentioned above and remember their characters they were all clothed in so much fabric and played an over weight character where it is quite easy to hide the masculinity. But in Mayamohini Dileep [...]

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How a lunch today reconstructed some old memories

May 9, 2012 / Personal

Even the weirdest things can reconstruct memories. Today I had brought Lunch from home. Nothing exotic, some Chappati and potato stew made in coconut milk one of my all time favorites (Well not really, I love the poori and baji that you use to get in the Indian Railways better). Yesterday I had this yearning to eat this old fashion stew we use to make back home when I was a kid. When you need something so bad you need [...]

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My Best Friend – Mon meilleur ami – Movie Review

May 8, 2012 / Movies, Reviews

My Best friend (Mon meilleur ami) is a beautiful 2006 french movie about friendship and the lack of it in ones life. The story is about François an Arts dealer who thinks he has everything. Then one night on the dinner table at a restaurant he is challenged by his business partner that he does not have a best friend and they make a bet and François starts his search to find his best friend in the next ten days. [...]

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The First Grader – The story of 84 year old Maruge

May 7, 2012 / Movies, Reviews

The First Grader is a true story about education. It tells the true story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge an 84 year old kenyan man and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who enrolls for primary education when in 2003 the Kenyan government announced free education for all. Maruge gets rejected initially but is enrolled later under the executive decision of a young teacher who could understand him. But this is just a start of what he has to face to make [...]

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Aamir’s Satyamev Jayate is a burst of truth into all the blocked veins of India

May 6, 2012 / Reviews

Watched the maiden episode of Aamir Khan’s TV show “Satyamev Jayate”. Explosive and charged with facts the message should erupt like a volcano in the minds of the people all around. The topic for the maiden show was on female foeticide an evil practice that has gripped the minds of a large number of people in India. This is a practice that will lead to definite increase in crime on women, and many other terrible consequences that would leave the [...]

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Last Train Home – Documentary Review

May 4, 2012 / Documentary, Reviews

Last Train Home (Gui Tu lie Che) is a full feature documentary in chinese directed by Lixin Fan as he tells the story of a family of workers who are among the 130 million chinese migrant workforce who have left their native villages to find better life in the sprawling industrial cities. The story follows the spring time travel of this large migrant force to their native villages for the chinese new year. That is the only time in the [...]

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You will always be in our lives where ever you go

April 25, 2012 / Personal

Yesterday we lost a very dear friend, someone who in a very short time had shown us the endless array of those vibrant colors in life that makes it so beautiful. Loss of a loved one is never the conclusion or finale of the relationship we had with them but it is a stage in an eternal relationship we will continue to have with them. A stage that transcends itself from our world of accepted realities to the world of [...]

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Vicky Donor – The entertaining sperms

April 22, 2012 / Movies, Reviews

I think it is the time for simple movies to take the reign of the film industry. Bold and never thought out themes being played out by new talents bring so much good feeling to the film goer. Vick Donor is a simple movie that has quite an unusual story line, the story of a sperm donor. The lead is played well by Ayushmann Khurrana whom I don’t remember seeing in any other movie. The role is not a very [...]

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Exit 420 A

April 22, 2012 / Flash Fiction, Stories

The history of the place had less to say compared to the rush in the market place as he stood there trying to find the address of the shop. He had picked a book on the town from the last gas station some two hundred miles away and had got ample time to glance through it. History was always his baby and he loved to know more about a place even if he only had to stop there for a [...]

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