Death on the Nile – adaptions of Christie’s brilliant mystery.
Agatha Christie wrote sixty-six crime novels during her illustrious career. I have read most, and I keep returning to them[…]
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Category: movies
36 chambers of Shaolin – the movie, the Hero myth, and the art of training and mentorship.
Whether it is the turbulent journey of Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey or the heroism of Rama in Valmiki’s Ramayana or[…]
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“Don’t Look Up” – A movie that fails to get the message across.
One of my fondest memories of 1980’s television was the telecast of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos each week. I don’t need[…]
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The power of the dog – A Jane campion movie. A work of cinematic brilliance.
There is an unmistakable stamp on Jane Campion films. They are all beautifully shot, hauntingly slow, have a brilliant star[…]
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Annaatthe – Strictly only for obsessed and fanatical Rajni fans.
( A side note: Just last week, I happened to re-read German Philosopher Frederick Nietzsche’s brilliant book ” Thus spake[…]
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Jai Bhim – a good solid movie, and excellent performances
I love the title: “Jai Bhim”. Though this essay is a movie review, I would like to spend a couple[…]
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Reflections on the 09/11 tragedy, The question of worth vs value in the victim compensation fund, and the work of Kenneth Feinberg.
( Preface: September 11th, 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy at the twin towers. For my generation, the[…]
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The digital divide, the generation gap, and #Home – a sensitive Malayalam film that meaningfully captures the rippling effects of a digitized world within a family)
In 2014, a very penetrating book written by Erik Brynjolfsson ( a tongue twister of a name), director at MIT[…]
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“Navarasa” – the mini-series. My first impressions of the first few episodes.
The word Rasa in Sanskrit cannot be adequately defined. It has no specific meaning, other than indicating a sense of[…]
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Thoughts on the sexes, surrogacy, and “Mimi” – a film I thoroughly enjoyed
One of the puzzling and unresolved questions in evolutionary biology is this mysterious need for two sexes- male and female[…]
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