10 oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Director, ScreenWriter plus two nominations for A R Rahman. Actually three nominations for Rahman : Best Score and two best songs. I think we need to applaud ?
It’s Slumdog Millionaire’s Summer of Cool !
With film makers in India regretting they did not pick up Vikas Swaroop's Q&A ( on which Slumdog Millionaire is based), guess which is the next book getting all the hype ? Its Suchitra's "Summer of Cool. There is a little bidding war going on for it... I should know, everyone is calling me to [...]
addicted
I do because I want things done but the more they are done the more I want done till i ask what did i really want to do ? and what was really done ? for the drug called 'done' is a finishing line that i am constantly and breathlessly running towards that seems to [...]
Plastic bags banned in Delhi ! Well done again Sheila Dixit
The state government in Mumbai had announced after the terrible floods caused mainly by the clogging of the drains by plastic bags, that they would ban plastic bags. But they had neither the will nor the guts to go through with the order. Now Sheila Dixit, the Chief Minister of Delhi has announced the same, [...]
Israel declares cease fire in Gaza
After killing 1200 (or more) mostly civilian Palestinians, injuring seriously another 900, Israel has declared that its objectives have been achieved. I doubt it. If the idea was to destroy the Hamas leadership, then perhaps temporarily yes. But armed strength and invasion can kill people, not an idea. The idea is more freedom and less [...]
“Poverty is my art ….”
In a village in the interiors of Gujarat this man's family has followed the art of lacquer work on wood for many generations. Right from the making the thickness in castor oil, to the grinding and creation of earth colours, and finally applying it to wood to decorate anything from spoons, to furniture, to toys. [...]
Slum Dog Millionaire, time to celebrate
Lets get this right. Slumdog is an Indian film. So what if it the funds came from outside India. The funds for Bandit Queen came from the same source and it is considered an Indian film. The funds for Chandni Chowk to China came from Warner brothers, but it is considered an Indian film. So [...]
Satyam, the tip of the iceberg ? What is being hidden by the banks
The long tentacles of the huge Satyam fraud will ultimately engulf not only the the auditors (Price Waterhouse) but also the banks where the cash deposits were claimed to have been kept. The answers are just not good enough, and the lies will soon engulf the banks. I trained as a chartered accountant, and in [...]
Madrid, Jordi Molla and El Greco
No, not at the zoo, but the show window of a fish restaurant inviting you to a gourmet dinner ! A view of Madrid from my hotel room I am in Madrid to talk about a movie (tell u about that one later) but also to see my friend Jordi Molla, who played King Phillip [...]
Two last images of Innsbruck as I left
Frozen stream The church behind my hotel