This year has been good reading wise. I have been reading some amazing books. I am getting more and more awestruck by writers’ creative imagination and experimentation. There is so much to read and so much to feel. I always get affected, as any other reader would be, by weaving of words. But only some … More Musing on Chronicle of A Death Foretold
I am rewatching Seinfeld once again. I go back to Seinfeld and 30 Rock again and again because as a humour fan and an aspiring humour writer these shows are pure pleasure to watch, study and learn. Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey show us again and again you can make people laugh without demeaning another … More Musing on Three Men on the Bummel
Karan Johar is arguably the second most influential person in today’s Indian Film industry after, again arguably the numero uno Aditya Chopra. Aditya Chopra is reclusive and inaccessible to press personally while in contrast Johar is all over all kinds of media and every who’s who in Bollywood is his best friend. He is most … More AN UNSUITABLE BOY: REVIEW
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is a gorgeous film and under no circumstances to be missed by the fandom and, children and spouses of the fandom. Generally it is said to be a prequel to the Harry Potter series but I would not say it is a prequel. It is a story which … More The Expanding Wizard Universe: Musing on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
I think I have got my next series fixation ready. I have been avoiding reading the series A Series of Unfortunate Events in spite of reading wonderful snippets from the book here and there. I am weary of reading bad things happening to fictional and non-fictional children. But recently when I was taking vacation in … More A fortunate discovery: Musing on A Series of Unfortunate Events – The Bad Beginning
Replace Dr Who with Game of Thrones/Harry Potter/Lord of Rings/Snow White/…… and you get the caption of the most click-baiting blogs in book/tv/movie pages. One thing I can’t understand is “crazy” is the adjective of “fan” or of “fan’s theory”. I am definitely a crazy fan of Dr. Who and my theory is crazy too … More A Crazy Fan Theory Which Will Change Everything You Knew About Dr. Who
Words and phrases are limitless. They always have well defined general meanings yet they have unlimited number of specific personal meanings for different people. Take “guilty pleasure”, it has some well defined meaning which can easily be found if one would Google. Most of the times I am not keen on the well defined meaning … More Guilty Pleasures and Political Correctness
When one is obsessed with Haruki Murakami then after reading Sputnik Sweetheart one ends up reading Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” sooner or later. The first time Sumire met Miu, she talked about Jack Kerouac’s novels. Sumire was absolutely nuts about Kerouac. She always had her Literary Idol of the Month, and at that point … More On the Road: A Musing
Life is getting back to centre of gravity and I managed to (re)watch/(re)read few movies, TV series and books recently. In some cases a single line or thought popped into my brain so here they go…. Psych (TV Series) Everyone moved to San Francisco for a happy ending and there got to know the San … More Collection of Single Thoughts
Gillian Flynn, you take a bow! Flynn is undoubtedly one of the best writers (of popular genre) of this century. People would disagree with me but I don’t much care about the made up styles of the Paulo Coelho and Khaled Hosseini crowding the “serious” sections of Indian Railway Station stalls. Flynn doesn’t know made … More Sharp Words: Musing on “Sharp Objects”
