I've been musing on the way we interact with other human beings, all through our lives. Of all the relationships we have, those that involve love (and especially, romantic love) are praised to the skies in all our cultures and literature, and held in high esteem ( Read more... )

If one thought that violence against women was something very recent...here's a song which justificaties drunken violence against women: it says, "Ithu thAn iyarkkaiyin niyathi" (This is the law of Nature). Vannakkili was a 1959 film. The song makes me cringe

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Here is the storyline, and pretty grim it is, too ( Read more... )

Why do relationships die ( Read more... )

One of my favourite melodious songs, from the movie

Guide

made based on

novel by R K Narayanan

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This song seems a happy one.... but there's an underlying current of sadness in it...as "Rosie" is already moving on from the relationship that "Raju" has fought the world and given up a lot for. No matter that R K Narayanan hated this ( Read more... )

orukkAl, nIyum nAnum ( Read more... )

galtiyon se juda tu bhi nahin, mein bhi nahin ( Read more... )

Back from a great trip to JLR Old Magazine House, Ganeshgudi, Karnataka...but more about that later. A series of misunderstandings , and a song that my friend Pavitra Jayaraman sent me, set me musing on relationships, and how proper communication is vital...

Here's the original:

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And, though I do not like remixes usually, this one is an extremely ( Read more... )

Dawn approaches ( Read more... )

Enjoyed these ( Read more... )

For my review of the play, "Amrita", directed by the noted film-maker, M S Sathyu,

click here Watching this play, and doing the reading required before and after watching, I fell to musing. Today, I'd say Amrita Pritam was a woman not bound by "middle-class morality". But by that standard of middle-class morality, a not-too-pleasant adverb would ( Read more... )