Shuba is a writer based in Chennai. Her expertise is in editing and translation of literature between Tamil and English. She works as an editor. She has a PhD in physics, more specifically, theory of magnetism. She has translated articles and some plays of Chennai artist Mr G. Chandrasekaran and playwright Mr Na. Muthusamy into [...]
Mahaanagar (The Big City), by Satyajit Ray (1963)
(Bengali Movie) This movie is not about urban/rural divide, but its about a married middle class Bengali woman(Arati). Parts of India have moved past some of the situations portrayed in the movie, but its a delight to see ourselves in the big screen, with no bells and whistles. Arati goes to work, against the Father-in-Law’s [...]
My dog has died
Just like most of you, I have come across the name Pablo Neruda multiple times..I admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to Poets..Not all kinds, but the kinds unraveling life’s knots with flowery language or the ones blabbering about love intoxicated with hormones..It may also be, due to the fact that the [...]
Orhan Pamuk: a true hero of our times!
This post is about Ferit Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize winning Turkish novelist and professor of literature. He is one of Turkey’s foremost novelists whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He has won numerous national and international literary awards and is the first Turk to receive a Nobel Prize.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Human Mind is beautiful, and this is about one such mind. An extra-ordinarily Beautiful Mind. When this movie came out in 2001, it bagged 4 Oscars. It was obvious that the reason Russell Crowe (John Nash) was not given the Best Actor Award was only because he received the same award the year before for [...]
Hungry Hearts by Sohaila Charnalia
Written by guest writer Shekhar Kapur Ok, so we tend to get a little patronizing about our own family members, especially when that person happens to be your younger sister. You kind of tend to pat them on their back and treat them like a child and then look back at your life and realize [...]
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