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My Name is Khan-Film Review

“My name is Khan and Iam not a terrorist”, a relevant message, but sadly not compelling enough. My name is Khan is a movie, with its heart in the right place but lacks the conviction and power to steer up your emotions. The movie from the Karan Johar camp is refreshingly different, as the director adopts a simplistic approach in dealing with a pertinent issue. The director goes beyond his trademark Grandeur and traditional family drama to describe the journey of the protagonist; an...

I, ME AND MYSELF

We at ease can talk, advise and comment about the entire world around us, but when it comes to tackling personal issues, we are often without a solution. Why is that so? It is not because we are not competent or incapable of decision-making, but have emotions and inhibitions attached to it. Each one of us is bestowed with an abstract sense called the ”Sixth Sense” or a “ Gut feeling “. The sixth sense provides us with an answer to many questions, but we seldom go by it. More often...

Life On the High Street

The high streets in India have always fascinated me. They are filled with life, colour and are representative of  the changing culture of the city. Every person who walks the street as a notion of being cosmopolitan. There is a sense of being sophisticated and up to date, yet there exists distinctness between its ‘regular inhabitants’ and the ‘ visitors’ who cross each other’s paths everyday. As a child, visiting the high street (in my case M.G Road, Brigade Road and Commercial...

Paa – Film Review

Indian cinema is slowly coming of age and Amitabh Bachchan continues to fascinate, endear and silence his critics in times when slapstick, under-the–belt comedy is raking in the mullah at the box-office. Cinema in it’s true sense is a reflection of reality, bringing forth the various shades and characters in life on the large screen. Paa is one such movie, which depicts a “god gifted “chromosomal disorder with subtle humour, grace, wit and maturity. What appeals most is the movie...

24 Hours

24 hours... I do not know whether it’s too short or long a time to make or break life ,but in this vicious cycle of joy and pain , happiness and sorrow , anger and frustration ,it is a 24 hour cycle that defines the little life around us. As the time ticks by, the date changes and the sun rises in the east, it marks the beginning of a new dawn. Each day brings with it a sense of anticipation .If you’re going through a rough patch, you hope to leave behind the past and make a new beginning....

A reflection on the tragic terrorist attacks of 26/11, a year later.

The sight of a wailing 2-year old, Moshe, the Jewish child , who lost both is parents during the shootout at Nariman point , remains etched in my memory .He continues to be in his world of bliss. As the little one grows older, 26/11 would remind him of a day that changed his life forever . The tragedy has had its share of heroes and martyrs who fought a valiant battle to remind the world of the “power of truth”. Every time I switch on the television these days, I am reminded of the...

Stock markets –The Unbounded temptation

A Business graduate by degree, a job with an MNC-, white collared, to say the least and yet at the end of the 30th day, you believe you ought to take home a better pay.” It only peanuts that you get “. As you wonder where life is heading, you phone buzzes like a death knell, from your ever so frowning boss who expects the unexpected . Your tied down in chains by the so called “respectable job”. And then you have a friend, a dropout, who failed miserably at college and was so...