Exploring Stories, Culture & Society.
Exploring Stories, Culture & Society.
With our modern lifestyle, stress is unavoidable. But can changing how you feel about stress and viewing it as less harmful, make you healthier? Stress has got always a bad reputation and unfairly so! It is not stress per se…
Watch two legends from the literary world and the tennis world make a powerful, soul-stirring and political statement via one of the most beautiful and effective medium there ever was – Poetry. Two women who may come from diverse professional…
Just watched XXX : Return of Xander Cage with Hubby dearest yesterday! First day, first show! The movie is a no brainer. Guns, bombs, flyings cars and planes, babes and dudes! Plot? Who cares! Vin Diesel makes anything worth watching!…
I still remember the Winter of 92´. I was standing underneath the moonlit sky, participating in the Christmas Midnight Mass. I felt as if the ground under me would just collapse and so would I, along with it. Suddenly, my…
Three things you cannot recover in life the WORD after it´s said, the MOMENT after it´s missed and the TIME after it´s gone. Today is the last day of 2016. Its time to bid adieu gracefully to the year…
The year of 2016 was a year of comebacks for me. Comeback to India after a six year stay in the USA, comeback to family and old friends and to Bollywood movies in particular. Yes! There´s somehow no escaping the…
India is fortunate to have borne testimony to some of the finest women politicians in the world. Recently, according to US based Pew Research Centre, India tops the list of countries, beating countries like US which stands at 33, when…
One of my earlier posts when I started this blog was titled ‘Angles or Curves’. I was in my early twenties then and clearly pondering about this whole notion of beauty. An advice I would give my twenty year old…
“Aaja meri gaadi main baith ja Aaja meri gaadi main baith ja Long drive jaayenge full speed jayenge Kahi rukhenge na hum gaana bajaana khaana peena gaadi main hoga sanam…pom pom Aaja meri gaadi main baith ja Aaja meri gaadi…
I have to thank a really sweet girlfriend of mine who shared the link of the Malayalam movie, “Bangalore Days”. Yes, the very same one who actually recommended me to watch it in the first place. And ever since I’ve…
One of the greatest influences and blessings in a child’s life comes in the form of a father. And I am no exception. From the time, he held my hand to take my first steps to walking me down the…
Oh! What joy to rekindle all that fairy tale extravaganza and romance this afternoon with Hubby Dearest and Daughter Loveliest! After a long dry spell of great kid’s movies, Disney’s ‘Cinderella’ comes as a whiff of fresh air.…
As I write about an issue that I feel very strongly about, I feel a surging rush of hopelessness, disappointment and frustration with the current standing of ‘India’s Daughter’ in the mainstream Indian society. India is a land of immense…
‘And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.’ – Paul Coelho For me, this quote always seemed way too far-fetched, unimaginable and almost too corny to be true. Until, something intriguing happened to me…
More quick reviews of the recent movie flicks I saw in the very recent past Dumb and Dumber To (2014): The ‘King of Comedy’ is BACK. Jim Carrey is at his usual comedic best as always. Effortlessly goofy, Carrey along…
Hallelujah! My blog has finally risen from the dead! All thanks to the constant reminders of few loved ones coupled with an inward surge to write again. Sure, a lot has changed since I penned last. Some of my past…
Few fleeting movie reviews of mine. Fleeting coz’ one, I don’t want to play spoiler sport with you spilling way too many beans. And two coz’ these are MY opinions which are highly subjective. So, am keeping it pretty much…
Today, February 14 is Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine. It is celebrated worldwide in honor of Valentinus. Saint Valentine of Rome was imprisoned and killed for performing the weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to marry…
‘Somewhere out there,I know there is a someone who is waiting just for me, Maahiyaaaaaaaaaaa He is gonaa set me free maahiyaaaaaaaaaa’ Jiski aankhon mein meri hi nami ho Koyi toh hai woh yaar maahiyaaaaaaaa Karoon main intezaar maahiyaaaaa’ There…
This blog is dedicated to all the readers who made my blogs reach 2000 hits. It is encouraging and motivating for an amateur writer like me to learn that my blogs are being read, appreciated and even criticized. I had…
In Shakespearean’s words, ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows and some with traps’ Cupids or No Cupids, we are nonetheless encountered with several such traps in our daily lives – Be it professional or personal. Does the Gandhian principle of Honesty…