Amruta Patil’s upcoming Parva

04Nov09

Ms. Patil, it seems, spends most of her time working on Parva, the upcoming graphic novel on the epic The Mahabharata. It explains why her posts are becoming shorter, though frequent (to balance it out maybe). We think she’s playing it safe, taking care not to divulge more of her professional work before time. Also, [...]

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Tags: Amruta Patil, Graphic Novels, Parva, The Mahabharata

The movies

02Nov09

I’d promised Slimy Snake that I’d give him a hug each day for the rest of my life if he got me the two movies. He’s kept his part of the deal and it’s time for me to honour mine. Being the yellow chicken (I can’t call myself a chick now, can I?) that I [...]

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Tags: Chicken-hearted, Lessons, Movies, Promises

Being ordered about

30Oct09

There’s this little thing inside each one of us that suddenly inflates to gigantic proportions without warning, pushing commonsense out of its place when the slightest hint of being ordered about is detected. Commonplace acts become laborious if undertaken under command. Refusal and disobedience lurk in the vicinity while orders are being handed out. Each [...]

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Tags: Being ordered about, Ego, Egoistic, Orders

Do you have it in you?

28Oct09

No, I don’t.

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Tags: Bangalore, Indian Army, Selection Centre South, SSB

The Serpent and the Rope

21Oct09

When Raja Rao questions his existence he exudes poetry.  With me, it’s rant. He celebrates his detachment by indulging in idiosyncrasies that are celebrated. I honour mine by shutting out others. No wonder it’s taking me forever to get through with him. I’m lulled to sleep wondering if ever a man could be as logical, [...]

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Tags: Indian authors, Novels, Raja Rao, Semi-autobiographies, Serpent and the Rope, Writings

Leela Naidu in The Householder

14Oct09

Q: And what kind would you like?
A: Someone like Leela Naidu in The Householder.

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Tags: Leela Naidu, Merchant-Ivory Productions, Movies, Ruth Praver Jhabvala, The Householder

You pull him out first and then you kick his ass.

12Oct09

6-pack-man to us: ‘I’m doomed!’
Me to 6-pack-man: ‘I’d told you way back not to do this.’
The Dude to me: ‘You don’t tell a drowning person that he shouldn’t have entered the waters if he didn’t know how to swim. You pull him out first and then you kick his ass.’

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Tags: Advices, At Work, Lessons, Reason, The Dude

Glimpses of Dussehra

09Oct09

Dussehra has different connotations in different parts of the country. While it goes largely unnoticed in Andhra Pradesh, except of course the mass emigration of the migratory population, it overwhelms Orissa days before it actually sets in. Even after the ten day period is over, the festival fervour continues till Diwali, usually a fortnight later.
This [...]

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Tags: Arches, Bhubaneshwar, Bhuvneshwar, Celebrations, Dussehra, Festivals, Goddess Durga, Hanuman, Idols, Pandals, Parvati, Religion, Shiva

Caprica – The Pilot

07Oct09

I haven’t watched Battlestar Galactica yet, but that’s no reason why I shouldn’t have watched the pilot of Caprica. While Caprica makes for fascinating family/sci-fi drama, it lacks subtlety at times. Reiner goes an extra step to make sure the audience stays with him all along. But to give him credit, issues of godliness-ungodliness, morality-immorality, [...]

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Tags: Alessandra Torresani, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, DVDs, Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Family Drama, Jeffery Reiner, Pilots, Sci-fi, TV Series

All that remains is ichor

22Sep09

Hearts parched as dry desert land,
visions blurred by ichor,
thoughts half real unreal half,
like images swirling within,
theirs is the path taken by who
are bitten by death in the air.
Nor of morality, neither sanity,
are they governed.
Sinews giving away under the harsh glare,
dreams dried up already,
tears flow no longer,
all that remains is ichor.
Of karma and shanti,
meanings half understood,
and [...]

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Tags: Crazy, Crazy writing, Poems, Senseless