Monthly Archives: August 2016
Partition of India – Before and After
In my humble opinion as well as in the opinion of several great litterateurs and critics, Jhootha-Sach is one of the greatest novels of the world and the greatest literary fiction book ever written in Hindi. The readers who can … Continue reading
Searching for the lost love in someone else
Human life is strange as well as complicated. And so are the male-female relationships. You never know whom you fall for, how, when and why. The ‘why’ is the most ticklish among these questions and normally it is difficult to … Continue reading
A tribute to Richard Attenborough
Sir Richard Attenborough passed away on 24.08.2014. The artist who is best known for his Oscar winning directorial venture – Gandhi (1982) is no more. An actor turned director, Richard Attenborough touched the sky of excellence in his making of … Continue reading
The predecessor to Chak De India by Prakash Jha
I liked the movie – Chak De India (2007) very much which was made by Yash Raj Films and directed by Shimit Ameen while casting Shah Rukh Khan and many girls in principal roles. I watched it in theatre (PVR … Continue reading
A movie based on the Nanavati trial
By reading A Time To Kill which is the very first novel penned by John Grisham, the author of several bestselling legal thrillers, I learnt that the trial of a murder committed in USA is not that much linked to the evidences … Continue reading
A tale of checks and checkmates between spies
Another Independence Day is around with our prime minister maintaining a blow hot and blow cold approach towards our perennial enemy Pakistan. Pakistan has never been friendly with India in the true sense since its coming to existence. Many movies … Continue reading
Love ! Love ! Love !
Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001) is a flop movie which I had seen in theatre with my wife (in the Aakash cinema of Kota) on 05.08.2001. It is by no means any great movie but I liked it. And hence … Continue reading
Get ! Set ! Go !
There are several self-help books available in the market in different languages telling you how to succeed in life. I have also read many of them and found them to be similar in various ways – containing the same kind … Continue reading
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