Will The Real Woody Please Stand Up Not so long ago, a strange, corrupted, translated, and least of all chauvinist, version of a Tamil proverb, splashed in bright graffiti on the back seat of an auto rickshaw, stared me in the face: Advertisements Continue reading
The Evil That Men Do Like a phoenix from the ashes, the dark knight rises. To fumble again. To crumble again. After all, even Batman is human. He crimps. He limps. He walks with a stick. And while in exile, he is forced to think: Is he but an instrument in the war against evil? … Continue reading
Thanks to Author and Founder & Editor of The Stone Magazine, David H. Schleicher, a short story of mine — Train of Thought — features in the second issue of this digital literary offering. You can purchase and download it from Amazon.com. At US $1.99 (that’s roughly Rs. 100) The Stone is economically priced and … Continue reading
On Why You Won’t Hate The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Depending on what you expect from director David Fincher you’ll either love The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (TGWTDT) or you’ll be disappointed. Don’t worry, you won’t hate it. Let’s deal with the bad news first: Continue reading
The Godfather…RIP For me, The Godfather is a movie of many firsts. Born a few years after the The Godfather released, I was deprived of a big screen viewing until recently when a cinema house, may the powers that be bless them with more such intelligence, screened it as part of their vintage film festival. … Continue reading
The Tree of Life, Death and Everything In-between We had a choice. We could live in a world that’s uncomplicated and simple, yet fulfilling, creative and tolerant. We chose otherwise. Now, we live in a world that’s complicated (and not just complex), disillusioning and intolerant. Sooner or eons later, we as a human race, if … Continue reading
The Ultimate Salvation for Writers Disconnected from reality, often writers live in a world of their own. A world where the lines between fact and fiction, conscious and subconscious, and hope and despair dissolve to give birth to their next best (or worst) creation: a novel, script, play et al. A world of fantasy perhaps … Continue reading
