tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121440682012-02-03T15:50:33.214-05:00In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? —Rainer Maria RilkeChimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.comBlogger1041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-47977055126028024532012-02-03T15:34:00.001-05:002012-02-03T15:50:33.222-05:00

The first month of 2012 has me happy with the number of movies watched. I think I have to write it down to make myself believe it. Jan 1st - The Adventures of Tintin - When I asked my 9 year old nephew if he had watched this movie, he replied in the affirmative adding 'It is a mix of multiple books'. My memory is hazy on this.Having read the books about 20 years back, it is already a mix of

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In 2011 someone asked me 'How long have you been in the United States?' and I said '5 years' and she said 'only 5 years?' Little did she know that in those 5 years there were enough activities that were filled into an already overflowing suitcase of memories. Moving to United States, relocating from Indiana to Pennsylvania, finding a full-time job, moving into a teeny-apartment with sky-high

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There is a moment in ‘Beginners’ when I felt like shaking Oliver (Ewan McGregor) to pull him out of his reverie of depression but then death is a life-altering experience and I think everyone goes through this phase while in mourning. ‘Beginners’ is a story of life, death, childhood, irreverent love, vintage moments and gay relationships. But at the core of it is a story of a father

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The afternoon was bright but deceptive – it was windy and the chill bit into my skin; in a pair of casual jeans and black flats, I headed towards ‘Hot Shots’ along with my cynical friend, who exclaimed that I was getting a ‘tramp stamp’. I reach the place at the appointed hour. John, the tattoo artist, was busy drawing someone else, so I had to wait. I had been warned by a maternally

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I have a thing for old soulful Hindi songs playing in the background in any movie, like for example in ‘Ishqiya’ , Vidya Balan and Naseer argue about the music composer of ‘Kuch Dil Ne kaha’ (which happens to be one of my all time favorite songs) , but then I digress. There is a scene in Monsoon Wedding where the soulful lyrics of ‘Aaj jaane ki zid na karo, youn hi pehlu mein baithe raho’ waltz

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Who recently said ‘Life does not imitate art, Life imitates bad television!’ (Woody Allen, of course). Imagine if the eccentricities of a single person are to be the focal point of a movie, then it would be nothing but hilarious and ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ has heightened focus on the eccentricities of several individuals – an animal lover with a stutter – Ken(Michael Palin), a Nietzsche loving

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Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ reminded me of Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. Just like Raskolnikov, Brandon and Phillip commit murder to get rid of worthless people of the world.But that is where the analogy ends. While Raskolnikov was filled with remorse, Brandon and Phillip are proud of this crime and present a macabre setting of a dinner party, to which the victim’s parents and fiance are invited,

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If anyone called ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’, a chick flick, I would totally freak out. It is as bad as calling ‘The Color Purple’ a chick flick.Fried Green Tomatoes is about women who are old and frail, women who are struggling with their marriages, women who are insecure about themselves, women who are not bigots, women who are capable, women who are strong and lastly women who inspire each other.

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So, the conversation went like this… my friend was trying to describe my eclectic taste in movies and she was quoted saying ‘she likes movies with a lot of dialogue’, to which my other friend immediately replied ‘like “Out of Africa”???’I said ‘Yes, that is one of my all time favorite movies’ and of course I had to write about it.The movie opens with the following wonderful lines ‘I had a farm in

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There are many reasons why I love ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ but the most important reason is that I identify myself a lot with Holy Goliaty. Her free spiritedness, the loneliness, the need to escape to a faraway place, her joie de vivre, and lastly her love for Tiffany’s which translates to my love for shopping. And just like her, I’m ‘a wild thing that cannot be kept in a cage’.Audrey Hepburn is

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I did notice the presentation of women in poor light in ‘The Social Network’ but I also tried to pat down my feministic head which raised in anger, because women are not central to the theme of this movie and they happen to be there in the light that the protagonists see them and not how we wish to see them.Now, that I have gotten that point out of the door; let me move on to the best part of

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If you watch too many of the film noir genre, you are likely to get confused, because classic film noir has what is called a 'formula' - a rich and manipulative dame (goes by the name of 'femme fatale'), an anti-hero who is willing to go to any extent just for the pleasure of the 'femme fatale' and a final twist in the tale where 'the best-laid schemes of mice and of men often go awry!'.But

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-55809522746769161002010-10-08T20:34:00.006-04:002010-10-09T23:36:26.924-04:00

A child's world is more confused than happy especially when they are unable to comprehend some of things that go on in the adult world. But their fertile imagination more than makes up for it. I do remember as a kid, wondering what the adults are fighting about and then letting it not bother me by locking myself in the world of 'Enid Blyton'.Ofelia, in Pan's Labyrinth,is no different.As she faces

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The bad thing about stereotypes is that it is true at least 60% of the time. So Thelma and Louise might be panned by many people as a movie with stereotype males like negligent husbands and molesters but, it is sad but true that life is filled with such men and 'Thelma and Louise' are not the only one who face them. This flick is as much of a road trip story to women as ‘Sideways’ is to

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Suddenly a thought crossed my mind, that there is a parallel between "Breakfast at Tiffany’s' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.Both represent women who are fragile and do not know what they want in life. Also both of them share a troubled marital life and have run far away from it. But that is where the similarity ends.When the film opens, Blanche DuBois(Vivien Leigh)is visiting her sister, Stella

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The highest compliment a person has ever paid me was this ‘if I meet another woman in my life, I would dress her up just like Scottie tries to dress Judy to resemble Madeleine’.And if you watch Vertigo , you would know why.One cannot forget the theme music of Vertigo; it is at once compelling as well as mysterious that you associate it with the haunting tale of Scottie and Madeleine.Scottie (

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When I first watched the movie version of one of my most favorite books of all time, ‘Gone with the Wind’, I thought how in the world people liked this movie, since according to me it is nothing but the tip of iceberg of the tome. But the movie grew on me. You know how it is when you read a book and you paint a mental image of the characters and the places, this is brought to life before your

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I can’t believe I’m attempting to write Annie Hall after downing 4 martinis and 2 vodka shots on a Sunday night. But this is the type of movie that I would love to write about whether drunk or sober especially after watching it for the n+1th time last night. Annie Hall is not about Annie nor is it about Alvy Singer, it is about relationships.Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) says ‘I thought of that old

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Mendacity is a word you would hear often if you watch ‘Cat on a hot tin roof’. What would you say about a rich guy who has a drinking problem? That he is shallow and empty and drinking would come easily to him? Then you would be mistaken, Brick (Paul Newman), the dipsomaniac has too many thoughts going on, most important of them is ‘Mendacity. You know what that is. It's lies and liars.’ Brick

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As a tribute to Tony Curtis and the 50th anniversary of ‘ Some Like it Hot’, I take pride in writing about this movie. Normally I’m a woman who is proud wearing my feminism on my sleeve except when it comes to Marilyn Monroe.Marilyn Monroe, but obviously, takes the cake for flaunting sensuality in a beautiful and graceful manner and Some Like it Hot presents her in her fullest glory.When I think

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10 minutes into ‘Inception’ , the first wisp of violence and I was ready to puke my guts out. I mean what is it with movie-makers today, are they afraid to invest into something that does not pop out a gun every 10 seconds or do they think that a guy missing his long dead wife and 2 kids can masquarade as some existential angst??? Really, I fail to understand and I think it is not even worth

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Nearly ten years after World War 2, France was smitten by a young new writer, Francoise Sagan, whose first book 'Bonjour Tristesse' created quite some ripples in the literary circles.When the story unfolds, a seventeen year old girl, Cecile, is holidaying with her father and his girlfriend Elsa. The book comes alive with fresh wisps of breeze from the French Riviera that you can almost smell the

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Watching a motion picture the second time is not an exciting venture for me. I would rather spend my time on viewing something I haven’t seen before. But tonight was an exception. I couldn’t resist the temptation of Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. They set new standards of on-screen chemistry in Hitchcock’s 1946 film, ‘Notorious’. It has been a couple of years since I watched this movie and

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-52401272360158106532009-09-23T00:48:00.003-04:002009-09-23T00:52:10.623-04:00

In this age of information overload of face book, twitter, cell phones et al, the beauty of this movie lies in the fact that it has a retro feel to it. Los Angles minus Beverly Hills, old buildings, simple dresses, peppy pop numbers and beautiful cinematography is what (500) days of Summer presents you.Summer, the surreal love of Tom’s life does not want to be anyone’s girlfriend. She wants a

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-61975512878161587312009-09-09T22:29:00.003-04:002009-09-09T22:37:00.913-04:00

At some point while reading ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’, you stop and wonder if this book is about external appearances or philosophy or the mediocrity of the bourgeois?I think it really is contemplation on life – that ephemeral beauty is eternal.“Beauty, a dazzling apparition that we can only contemplate through the singular, but that opens a tiny window onto eternity and the timelessness of

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The moon over Saigon. A car battery sits on the make shift podium, A Street of sizzling snails, a boy fire-eater, screamingly fresh sea food, buttered snails in tamarind sauce.That is Anthony Bourdain – sporting a blue jeans and a white shirt, he rides a scooter in Vietnam as easily as crossing a street in NewYork.Travel to exotic places would never be the same again!These days I revel in the

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Is life worth going through the pain of a relationship which affects us so deeply that it changes our life forever or is it best left forgotten as time goes by?If the latter is true, we wouldn’t have the story of ‘The Reader’. A young boy, Michael, has a brief affair with an older woman, Hannah. This takes places in the Germany of the ‘50s. Besides the obvious sexual emancipation of Michael,

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When you have been away for so long that you forget what it feels like to bring words from your brain to the keypad, it must be called a sabbatical, I bet.Okay people, I am going to disappoint you completely and not write too much today.Did you get a chance to watch ‘The Dark Knight’? and did you just come out of the theatre with a hangover of the Joker? Well, that is Heath Ledger for you. Yes,

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-9511141765552926592007-08-22T03:11:00.000-04:002007-08-23T07:04:58.135-04:00

The Story behind the interesting site What is Stephen Harper Reading? is Life, it seems, favours moments of stillness to appear on the edges of our perception and whisper to us, “Here I am. What do you think?” Then we become busy and the stillness vanishes, yet we hardly notice because we fall so easily for the delusion of busyness, whereby what keeps us busy must be important, and the busier we

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As I pause at the 330th page of Book1 of Ashok Banker’s adaptation of The Ramayana, I am amazed to find that a single day of Rama’s life is vividly brought to life in 330 pages of this 550-paged tome. Banker’s story-telling is full of colorful imagery, mental picture of different sounds and presenting the seers and kings without making them appear as caricatures.This old mythological tale is

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-66170015905638087582007-07-06T08:32:00.000-04:002007-07-12T06:36:36.074-04:00

It is almost a month since I’m back from **what-my-friends-call** a South East Asian trip and I haven’t blogged about it (what a shame especially when one of the reasons to travel is to blog (read brag) about it) And so what if the entire neighborhood and their pets have already been there and done, did I mention that I’m not someone to be so easily discouraged.A friend of mine in Singapore has

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-25114361072497728192007-06-07T03:07:00.000-04:002007-06-07T03:23:29.562-04:00

Recently I removed the dust jacket off my TeeVee , to watch the third season of Indian Idol (yes, we idle indians watch Indian Idol) .Guilty of not cheering for a fellow Hyderabadi in Season2 (blame entirely on my Belgium trip) ,I ensure that I try to remember to watch it this time(alas! I forget to most of the days) .The highlight of the episode I’d watched last Friday was unfortunately not from

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David McKie at the Guardian Books muses about his ‘uncontrollable urge to seize the nearest magnifying glass and try to decipher the titles’ from the spines of books in a photograph.Do you have this intense urge to reach for the nearest sharp instrument and use it to scratch your body parts, which in other words can be termed an itch – now imagine that we bibliophiles have a similar feeling when

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As a rule I do not link to any good write-ups, but who says I live by rules!!!Aren’t we all on the look-out for that one piece of writing which would beat the shit out of our mundane existence (ok, sorry did I say ‘we’ all, please read it as ‘I’) and that is how I stumbled across ‘Killing Batteries’ – I know, a zany name for a travelogue, I mean it does not seem to have anything to do with travel

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What was it that Rousseau said ? ‘Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains’ and looks like this adage is true to this day.- Chandra Mohan, a student of the Fine Arts college, Baroda was arrested for (hold your breath) paintings which apparently hurt the (non-existent!) sentiments of some VHP and BJP activists. The paintings were not for public display but were exhibited for assessment for

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-48015455346908222752007-05-04T03:39:00.000-04:002007-05-04T06:51:05.698-04:00

Minneapolis did not extended a warm welcome to me –instead it was a cold one at minus 7 degrees even in April (statistics revealed that it was the first in 82 years that temperatures dipped in April) Having heard about the Minnehaha Falls and the famous The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow my reaction was akin to someone who was handed a diet Pepsi when expecting a dirty martini.If

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-18261037965949461612007-04-30T02:27:00.000-04:002007-05-11T08:37:54.308-04:00

I thought Cinema Paradiso is the saviour of the good-movies-starved people of Hyderabad until I discovered that there isn’t a single DVD of any of those Oscar nominations and is this not reason enough that they should stop robbing people in the blazing daylights of Hyderabad?But I’m glad I caught some of those my-kinda movies on the KLM flight –and I know you must be saying ‘come to the point ,

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Flying to US from India is no doubt a painful affair, but the entertainment provided by Mumbai airport officials, lack of bawling kids and the ladies loo in Schiphol Airport made it quite entertaining for me. Arriving at the Mumbai airport, I was relieved to see that Jet Airways had a tie up with KLM and my luggage was checked-in through from Hyderabad to Minneapolis. I heaved a sigh of relief –

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There is a moment in this video of a student, who supposedly saved many lives by barricading the door at the Virginia Tech University , when questioned whether he is a hero, does not answer but bends his head down as tears well up in his eyes and I suddenly found tears in my eyes too – all these young people with dreams in their eyes squashed like mosquitoes in a jiffy just by some lunatic and

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I feel like a lousy husband who, on the verge of forgetting his wife's birthday,rushes to the nearest Archies store to buy that last minute gift for 500 bucks with promises of diamond rings the next year.So here’s wishing a Happy Birthday to my blog for turning two and yes baby, those diamonds which I promised have to wait .And my blog is like a middle-aged housewife who desperately wants to

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Anna Beer at the Guardian blogs says ‘I am too self-conscious to read in public places, because I might start sobbing’ while discussing schmaltzy books.The responses to this post, form an interesting pattern which varies from Anna Karenina to Brothers Kharamazov, Charlotte's Web, A Time Traveller's Wife, The Mayor of Casterbridge and what appeared like a cute cartoon called 'The Cat Came Back'.

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-24165128767449656732007-03-22T07:24:00.000-04:002007-04-05T14:39:58.669-04:00

The Hyderabadi in me is always curious about any movie by Nagesh Kukkunoor, hence 2 hours of last weekend was spent in watching Dor.Two women - Meera and Zeenat –diverse in all aspects come together for a cause.Zeenat’s husband Aamir is accused of murdering Shankar, Meera’s husband, in the Middle East. Aamir could be saved from the death sentence only if the wife of the deceased gives a letter

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I don’t have anything against pick-up lines – they are smart, innovative and above all provide great source of immense entertainment, especially on a day like Valentine’s.While women dream about their gifts – red roses, candlelight dinners, perfumes, John Abraham(?) and all other assorted paraphernalia, the men are busy trying to invent excuses – the TV, Radio and posters galore (not to mention

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-52704295421661936562007-01-24T11:47:00.000-05:002007-05-12T01:10:05.439-04:00

A gathering of like-minded people thronged the corridors of the Diggi Palace - venue for the Jaipur Literature festival,2007 and yes, yours truly was very much part of that.Since a lot has already been written about this by indiauncut, jabberwock and kitabkhana,I'm adding only little nuggets of information.William Darlymple's post lunch session on the first day of the fest., was good till about

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-54377835655251727862007-01-05T07:02:00.000-05:002007-01-05T07:08:55.260-05:00

“If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great,some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrustupon them”It is not often that you find lines from Shakespeare mouthed in Indian movies and 36 Chowringhee lane revels in it, complete with a cat named Sir Toby.The scene where Nandita, who was a student of Miss.Stoneham tries

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-5171356384552713452006-12-18T06:06:00.000-05:002006-12-18T06:09:54.452-05:00

I have no one, but my inability to capture those half-formed sentences which are lost in the labyrinths of my brain, to blame for my forced hibernation from the blog world but here is an attempt to resurrect my blog.They were not there below the shelf nor were they in the loft.Everyone scurried in search of them; a few more minutes of delay and she would have to forget the party. He stood in a

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the epitaph reads :'May the memories never fade away' I know I should have titled something in the lines of 'death of the ink pen' but then...Remember those days? when the favorite April fool prank was to throw ink at the back of someone else's shirt, and the partner-in-crime was none other than our beloved ink pen.Pardon my ignorance, but I really do not know what kids these days use for writing

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1156738720591658042006-08-28T00:04:00.000-04:002007-05-11T08:38:35.673-04:00

'dil kee tasalli ke liye, zoothhee chamak zoothhaa nikhaarjeewan to sunaa hee rahaa, sab samaze aayee hain bahaarkaliyon se koee poochhe to, hasatee hain yaa ke rotee hainayese bhee baate hotee hain.. ..' lines from my favorite song from Anupama (one of my all time favorite movies).I don't know why I had carried this DVD with me and whether it was a strange coincidence that I was watching it last

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1155277529423131172006-08-11T02:00:00.000-04:002007-05-12T01:20:55.689-04:00

Reaper or Huntsman??? Doesn't it sound like another of those delightful poems... Just a-little-over-22 hours of flying from Mumbai to LA and I can proudly announce that I have almost conquered my paranoia of flying (well, almost!).I did not expect such a warm embrace from California; the arid wilderness is nothing different from rural Telangana . The feeling I get is similar to the one where I'm

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1154340996760257262006-07-31T06:05:00.000-04:002007-05-12T01:25:42.213-04:00

This weekend was a unique one in the story of my life (ok, that was for dramatic effect..) - This is the first time I ever watched two movies in the first week of their release.‘Omkara’ and ‘Lady in the Water’ and without further ado I proceed to type my thoughts about the first one.Vishal Bhardwaj seems to be Bollywood’s answer to the growing public angst of badly-plagiarized-Hollywood movies.

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I wonder when stupid, archaical Indian newspapers would wake up and stop posting articles titled ‘Why do girls smoke?’.Would someone please help me understand the reason behind such inane articles? Is it because… * People would read anything with the word ‘girl’ in it* Mightily bored people read all the articles in any newspaper on any given day* It would please the Shiv Sena activists* An

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India, hailed as the world's largest democracy fails the very title. I'm shocked to learn about the ban on sites like blogger,typepad and geocities by most ISPs (fortunately i'm at work and looks like thro' Sify I'm still able to access those sites, which is one good news). See accounts in Rediff, Economic Times and the latest posts on desipundit. In other news, bloggers across metros in India

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Why do civilians suffer?Why do inhuman acts target the innocent?Is the world no longer a safe place?Is this where mankind is headed?Shattered lives of people...When would peace prevail?? Kudos To the power of blogging - Mumbai Help

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the above lines are from one of my recent reads - 'A Woman of No Importance'. Only 84-odd-pages and Wilde seems to have filled it with pearls of wisdom (well, you can say that for any book of Oscar Wilde). A simple story (might remind you of some old Hindi movie)-Young Gerald is offered a job of a secretary by Lord Illingworth and the twist in the tale occurs when Gerald's mother

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Ok, I agree that once in a while I have to come out of my reclusive self and accept the tags that one my blogger friend graciously led me to(whats is so gracious one might ask, but that is beside the point)I am ready to believe that people would enjoy reading the weird quirks of fellow beings, rather than some boring rant of long forgotten movies, books and other assorted paraphernalia which lie

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Though 'Fanaa' was too tempting to write 'bout(I would’ve gladly ripped it to pieces),better sense prevailed and here comes a rant on some amazing movies I happened to watch last month. 12 Angry Men: It is not only Indians who have misunderstood the Western culture but it seems to be a case of vice-versa as observed by me during my last visit to Europe. Some of my collegues (Italians, Dutch and

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1148626082913663522006-05-26T02:46:00.000-04:002007-05-12T01:28:51.807-04:00

(After a frustrating two days of trying to post this rant, i finally discovered that blogger seems to have some sort of word limit on the posts, so here comes the latter half of the Summer of '85 ) Now, to let you into a secret, you wouldn’t find a greater fan of horror movies than my mom. Two decades and more later, she still thrives on them -- a fortnight or so ago, she thoroughly enjoyed

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1148621540611714862006-05-26T01:31:00.000-04:002007-05-12T01:28:51.808-04:00

(for lack of any rants, 'am posting something i'd written at S&Co)In an era when multiplexes had not yet been heard of, Pondicherry did not boast of too many theatres where English films were exhibited. Unless you counted some which showed sleazy movies, Ratna Theatre was the only exception.Situated on the main road leading to the bus stand, one couldn’t miss this theatre. I remember its blue

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How do I fit into a half-page travelogue the experience of 5 full days in Italy?? How do I capture the feeling of walking around the Colloseum in Rome , the Sistine Chapel in Vatican, up the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the pathways of Venice in just 500 or 1000 words? How do I pen down my Fascination of staring at the amazing masks in

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1141913018168559292006-03-09T08:51:00.000-05:002007-05-12T01:29:35.470-04:00

A couple of Sundays back, I found myself boarding a train to Ghent at the Midi Station of Brussels and ‘bout 25 minutes later, I land in the St.Peter’s station of Ghent. Ghent is supposedly one of the lesser-known tourist places of Belgium but it seems to be a treat to the visual senses.Check these Cathedrals, bridges and castles are not a novelty in Europe where most places are

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1140380240470788162006-02-19T15:04:00.000-05:002007-05-12T01:37:42.468-04:00

When, Belgium - home of the best beer, chocolates, waffles and diamonds in the world, beckoned me, I succumbed to it and landed in Brussels, bag and baggage et al. So be prepared to hear anecdotes of my stay at Brussels. While I promise not to bore you, don’t expect a travelogue, rather it would be some general stuff about living and working in Brussels. Brussels is

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1138004667711509672006-01-23T03:17:00.000-05:002007-05-15T02:57:01.611-04:00

ok folks,many Thanks for post-requests but ....I'm on this travel spree and as busy ,with the new project, as a mother is with her new-born.Herez a short 55er which I'd written sometime back and I shall promise to be back after a brief hiatus.Was it his hazel eyes?? He had hazel eyes -'just like mine' ,she thought.Suddenly he looked deep into her eyes and gaveher a smile, which lit up her

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As I peep into the kaleidoscope of nostalgia ,I see colorful images of memories whose dates/years are insignificant; - those tamarind trees on the way to my school, the eagles hovering around my school's playground, watching re-runs of Fauji(school kids drooling over 'I say chaps' guy), English movies in Ratna theatre with Mom, waiting for the school bus, those petty

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1135694300797952062005-12-27T09:22:00.000-05:002007-05-15T03:02:48.777-04:00

Who doesn’t love to go into hibernation,once in a while? With the sun always rising-in-the-East and setting-in-the-West type of mundane schedules, nothing like pepping it up with a vacation, ain’t it?Since my Rajasthan plans toppled and disappeared without a sign, I had to make do with the last-minute travel plan to Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani. The train journey from Hyd to Pune was uneventful (

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Volumes must've been written about Satyajit Ray's school of filmmaking; since I'm ignorant about the actual nuances of filmmaking I wouldn't delve into such details.But that wudnt stop me from going gaga over Charulata - which I had watched recently.The only other Ray movie I had watched was Nayak - while in school and all that I can recollect are the odd bits and pieces of it. Without

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1133437319143458322005-12-01T06:21:00.000-05:002007-05-15T03:06:38.357-04:00

Sometimes it takes two, sometimes three and sometimes itz more.... I’m speaking 'bout the no. Of drinks it takes to hit people.Here I'm deliberately avoiding any mention of those who would get sufficed with a few of what I call 'Ink-Filler shots' - S is one such girl - just give her one small Smirnoff+orange juice and she would conk off in no time. These days Ladies Night is when the pubs

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1132745841954669502005-11-23T06:22:00.000-05:002007-05-15T03:08:18.947-04:00

So Truth Fairy(TF)tags me and so here I go... Word of the Day maelstrom maelstrom \MAYL-struhm\, noun:1. A large, powerful, or destructive whirlpool.2. Something resembling a maelstrom; a violent, disordered, or turbulent state of affairs. and foll. is my attempt to use this wordhis emotions were turbulent as his eyes darted in and out of the roomthis was the D-day of his life and

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I just added another year to my life and traversed a little further away from the age of teeny boopers-not that I’m regretting it but however hard I do not want to believe that forgetfulness is a sign of growing old, the fact keeps surfacing time and again these days.It gives me immense pleasure to note that I’m not alone in this endeavor, my best (est) friend D seems to exhibit these symptoms

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1131012715687146562005-11-03T05:11:00.000-05:002007-05-15T03:06:38.359-04:00

  So hopefully everyone had a ‘blast’ this Diwali and back to the same old sun-rising-in-the-east-setting-in-the-west rigmarole. My Diwali can be summarized in one sentence – no show by the maid-cooking-more cooking-entertaining neighbors-colorful diyas-lighting sparkles and flowerpots-and finally a good dinner at my friend’s place. Oh and if I forgot –it also included flashing the ethnic black

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Been wanting to write ‘bout a couple of movies I’ve watched over last few weekends and the moment has finally arrived –(in the order that they have been viewed)  Rear Window The Apartment A Clockwork Orange and A Streetcar Named Desire Rear Window is a very different Hitchcock movie – there is no denouement whatsoever but the dialogues were quite entertaining esp. those of Lisa and Jeff… like

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1129288988514568642005-10-14T07:23:00.000-04:002007-05-15T03:06:38.360-04:00

So I finally found the Mantra to the blogger's block, which seems to hit me every once in a while, I haven’t patented it yet so all u fellow bloggers feel free to plagiarize it (but let us not get into the discussion of whether it is worth plagiarizing)   but please don't blame me if you don’t get comments enough   Mantra #1 - tried and tested n never ever failed - any movie/movies u have watched

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Haiku - the first time I heard the term I thought it was some sort of an exotic East Asian Dish but was soon enlightened that it was a form of Japanese Poetry.So my feeble attempts at haiku has borne fruit finally her arms were around him as he carried her -to the hospital bed

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1127819913719989672005-09-27T07:15:00.000-04:002007-05-15T03:06:38.361-04:00

Every era has believed that the previous one was better.Grandmothers thought that their grandchildren were ultra-modern and when the grandchildren became parents themselves they faced the generation gap once again... Well you must be wondering what is the point of this rant ? while I muse on that point, I would take the liberty meanwhile and make a punching bag out of this post. No one likes

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I know I'm not at all good at stuff like those listomania tags but this 55 word thingummy got me interested, I mean this might be the beginning of my venture into fiction, albeit a forceful one. Much thanks to Sagnik for honoring (read tagging) me n so I proceed (trumpets blowing in the background) The Return of the Count She was totally engulfed in his love,

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I think Tags have been specially designed for people (ok, all I meant was me) who, even after long hours of staring at the screen, at the next cubicle or the artificial plant near the window, cannot put a word to the keyboard. I know it would be boring to read the below list of 5 things 'bout me but in case you still insist u can read further at your own risk and if you complain I can only

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the ambience was set....I sat huddled up on the carpet with those fabIndia cushions for comfort n leaned against the sofa, a cuppa ginger tea in one hand and the remote in another, I pressed 'Play'. only then I realized that Charlotte also sits huddled up except that she is in a luxurious suite of the Hyaat n I'm at home.(question to self :Is sitting huddled up a sign of loneliness???)

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                           If you thought that building a temple for Khushboo in some remote village of TamilNadu is heights of frenzying fans –think again! PPl the world over are tuning in to Desperate Housewives just because the First Lady of the US of A mentioned it. (quote “I am married to the President of the United States and here is our typical evening. Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is

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the bags are packed, good-byes told n all-the-bests mouthed. the return to my home sweet home begins ,back to -the kitchen where I rule- the actual Princess Chimera's realm -the potted plants on my balcony ledge bearing a forlorn look in my absence -the teddies in my bedroom badly in need of a hug -the tiny money-plant craving to be watered by me -the 5am Yoga classes to shed the excess calories

Chimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847827658841829629noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12144068.post-1123841983588416762005-08-12T06:15:00.000-04:002007-05-15T03:10:39.402-04:00

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance -Oscar Wilde

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If you guys thought that women endure only childbirth then you are mistaken, when we are not worrying about what to cook for dinner we are worried about the project deadlines but that single worry, which is constant and persistent across women of all ages, is the Calories! Of course I’m not counting our obsession with the shade of nail polish or the make of our sandals. I know it is

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It was 1 in the night and I had just finished my conference call, though sleep was beckoning me, I got in the mood of poetry and not wanting to lose that moment, I started writing. Of late, I find myself drawn towards Anna Akhmatova’s poems, which seem to convey a whole lot of meaning in a few words. Now, brevity has never been my forte but try I would …… She lies intoxicated in those arms

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Even before I set foot into the shop, I fell in love with it jus 'coz it is named "Blossoms" which reminds me of the color n fragrance of flowers and since I’m as much fond of books as I am of flowers ,this place was added to my list of must-visit places in Bangalore. My auto came to a rickety stop at the entrance of Church Street, the auto guy apologetically telling me “maadam yeh to

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Ok I did not plagiarize, only borrowed a nice sounding title from Vigs and inspired by Megha 'bout Hindi movies but believe me all the others are my very own -'mother promise'! So u hear 'aaja re aajare mere dil bhar ...noorie....' and you start picturising the then sweet looking Poonam Dhillon in her Kashmiri attire ,But no for me this song holds a different picture -

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I was sitting, sipping a cuppa garam chai in my cafeteria,when I heard something, which I faintly recogonized as giggles, from the nearby table. N whom do I see? A Krishna with gopikas -yes a single guy surrounded by 6-7 girls and I couldn’t help but hear their topic of discussion, they were really loud. (So I can’t be accused of eavesdropping) Can you guess what their topic was? I bet Not in

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(Disclaimer - for all those who thought Paheli was a chick-flick or worse it's just 'nother of those stupid fantasy movies -puleeeze get back to your work/studies/college/browsing or to whatever u were doing before.) I'm not a major TeeVee buff but the minute I hear the sound of an Amol Palekar movie then I stop whatever I'm doing (some of the aforementioned things) and stay glued to

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There I was- all of a full twenty and an addition of 1 whole year and still had no clue of cooking.My grandma would exclaim (as most grandmas do) "at your age I was the mother of 2 kids" and to this date I could never figure out the connection! I mean I don’t see why cooking should be a pre-requisite for reproduction. They say necessity is the mother of invention and in my case it

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no happiness holds me high like that of the eternal light none other do I seek as I fly when there's hinderance in the flightdo i near the light emerging i can feel the smell of fire seductive appear'd the flame flickering as i flew into the unsuspecting ire unawares was i caught as i smelt the burning wings my life has gone wrought as i let go of it without any strings (song am thinking of ....

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Finally I gave up resisting the urge of writing ‘bout Parineeta. A gud lesson I learnt is never to watch a movie after reading like a zillion revus on it, but cant help it, usually I’m one of those who just manages to take a peek before the movie leaves the theatres. Going by those standards, it is still ok. Itz an okey dokey, once watchable type of movie but what I missed most was the total

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so i had this nice,long 3 day weekend(when the rest of the world is having only a 2 day weekend) an additional day as a special treat to self for visiting Hyd'bad after a loooooong time. besides a whole lot of things which cant b blogged 'bout,I caught up with * Aruna (on all things not covered on our long mails) * chatting on y msgr (if u want to know how much u r missed come online after

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dwelling on the matter of Kisses, i recollect these verses on it :Strephon kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,Robin's lost in play,But the kiss in Colin's eyesHaunts me night and day.

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Since this is on one of my favourite topics (books), I don’t mind Vigs tagging me and even if it wasn’t on books, I don’t mind tags because it really gives you something to write about without thinking too much. On a side note, I should say that considering the number of times I fill such questionnaires especially in restaurants (where the bill is always invariably handed to the guy and

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Am really bad when it comes to writing(read blogging) regularly and can think of 1101 excuses for not writing n I also know that no one is interested in listening to them (1101 is a long list after all) but couldn’t disappoint searchinformrmojorisin.For the nth time Deccan Chronicle’s headlines glare “rain lashes twin cities” – someone please ask the DC ppl to find new phrases to welcome the

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Inspite of what historians might call the British as 'colonists'who r proud of the axiom "the Sun never sets in the British Empire", I am ever grateful to them for popularizing English in India.I can’t imagine India sans IT jobs and the much popular BPOs (popular for the wrong reasons though), with Hindi as its lingua franca and still competing with Somalia in terms of itz GDP! Unless US became

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Wonder who coined the term "Monday Morning Blues"? that even the Word detective failed to elaborate on.I always thot blue represents bright things in life - like the sky as on a beautiful sunny day and water as in the ocean.But come Monday and the color blue revolves all around trapped in my lille head. It is of the darkest hue and shade. The only silver lining sported on these clouds is the

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my recent fixation is fotografy n i'm jus learning the tricks of the trade,so herez a decent foto i had shot ...

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Talking about pets(of the animal variety!) is a touchy topic, which should be carefully avoided in my presence. Well I do find some dogs cute, cats chweet and all types of birds adorable but then they are good from far and far from good sometimes.Close friends of mine would vouch about my fear of the canine species.A special Note to all animal lovers (esp. Swamy and Pradyot)- don't mistake this

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wat is it that they say 'bout life?? "that it comes with no instruction Manual!"A zing in my step, a smile on my lips n life goes on with added zeal.ppl wonder whatz wrong with this girl today? she keeps smiling for no reason!this is when the instructions (which ones u ask, havent u read the title??)could come in handy.Am reminded of those eyes once again :"aapki aankhon mein kuch mehki hui si

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I'd bought the cassette of "Kinara"(yup I am ancient in my ways and still stick on to my antique walkman) for the song "Naam Gum Jaayega" but was in for a pleasant surprise, another awesome song with heavenly lyrics.Sung by Bhupinder -he sounds so heavenly and morantic -also notice that almost no musical instruments have been used in this song, he seems to be narrating a poem ...now comes those

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I was in deep mourning thinking of the wasted years I spent when I did not read PG Wodehouse’s works. How did I miss noticing Lord Emsworth and Jeeves and Wooster books beckoning me from their colourful covers is beyond my ken! My memory takes me back to the days of apna doordarshan, which did indeed telecast good programmes apart from Krishi Darshan.I would have been about 13 years

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preserved in my memory forever....(Warning: Plagiarists steer away from my poem,'coz itz not the poem i'm worried 'bout but my memories which tag along with it)One day in an alien land I look up and the sky seems grey grey as in the sadness of deathfelt the night in between the day but that did not make me sad instead i stood mesmerised i luked at the clouds almost kissing the earththere was

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