What is IPL without the crowds screaming, howling and cheering ? What is IPL without all the controversies of what the sexy cheerleaders should or should not wear ? Without all that IPL is just ... well .. cricket. In India cricket sizzles and IPL was cricket mixed with heady festivities of a pop concert. [...]
The beginings of the social revolution in the US ? Obama now rides the ‘tiger of change’
Panicked by the rising public anger in the US, President Obama and his team have taken an extraordinary step by retroactively taxing almost 95 % of all bonuses received by executives/employees of any corporation that has received government bailouts. Despite that, executives of AIG have asked for private security guards in case the public anger [...]
Live 8
The dust settled from the whirling of the helicopter blades. A hundred dark gaunt faces, ghost like, cautiously approached the fat machine. Women barely able to carry babies, their stomachs bloated and flies triumphantly gorging whatever little they could find around their oozing eyes and dry lips. No energy even to brush them away. A [...]
The loot of Colonization
"An estimated 1.64 million Chinese relics are owned by foreign museums. Even more than that are owned by private collectors. A great number were looted, stolen and smuggled out of China between the 1860s and 1949 when the country was subjected to colonial invasion and civil wars. Because of the difficulties on the way to [...]
TV debates for political leaders in India
You must vote. Of course. It's the way we live. But for whom ? There seems to be no political agenda of any party. The only agenda is to malign or bring the other party down. Or to form alliances so that the seat count is favourable. But I have not heard one good speech, [...]
Obama gets it
But does everybody else ? In a planet where 95% of the wealth is owned by 5 % of the people. Where 5% of the people consume 95% of the earth's resources beyond their basic needs, and where global media has ensured that the 95% know how that 5% live, is it surprising that the [...]
Pankaj Parasher’s digital Art
Film maker Pankaj Parasher has always been obsessed by the use of new technology in the medium of cinema. He was scoring his films himself through pro-tools and his computers before we even knew they existed, and now intends to make movies and tell stories through Digital Art. Here is one of his digital paintings [...]
Gulal by Anurag Kashyap
Whether you agree with him or not, Anurag kashyap is one of the most compelling Directors in India. His innate rebellious natures transforms itself onto the screen so effectively that he is constantly challenging any preconceptions that you may have. Don't expect easy plots or 'armchair' cinema from him. His characters and nature of his [...]
Hungry Hearts by Sohaila Charnalia
It all began the day the four of us sat down to complain. Two of us had lives beating us down….anti-stress pills, rebellious kids, struggles to put in place careers that would have been easier to handle had we been men, or simply, if we had decided to compromise ourselves. The third grumbled about the [...]
true grit
I am in Udaipur filming here, and surrounded by great stories of the Rana's and the courageous warriors of Mewar. Fascinating stories that make me wonder what true courage really is ? Does true courage need an enemy to provoke it ? Does honor need something dishonorable to fight against to bring it the fore [...]