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When I was in CA last month, I celebrated Holi, the festival of colors, with my brother and his family. Very rarely I get to celebrate this festival in US as it falls during the colder months where I live. We had fun playing with colors and camera to get some innovative Holi photos. All courtesy of Instagram. :P

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13 Full Moons, including 2 Super Moons, and 2 Full Moons in one month, the second full moon being the Rare Halloween Blue Moon: That’s what we get to see in the night sky this leap year which starts a new decade. A treat to all those stargazers! Here continues my amateur photography of this gorgeous orb ( Read more... )

Note: It's 2017 and I still have four months of reviews to go from 2016. I am hoping I should be able to finish it soon but we have to wait and see how far into 2017 this will go into. :)

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  4 / 5
Recommendation: A mystery with the ( Read more... )

Note: It's 2017 and I still have four months of reviews to go from 2016. I am hoping I should be able to finish it soon but we have to wait and see how far into 2017 this will go into. :)

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  4 / 5
Recommendation: Entertaining and ( Read more... )

Note: It's 2017 and I still have four months of reviews to go from 2016. I am hoping I should be able to finish it soon but we have to wait and see how far into 2017 this will go into. :)

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  3.5 / 5
Recommendation: A fitting movie ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  4.5 / 5
Recommendation: A complete chronology of one of the divine beings based on epics written long ago depicted very well in the 3 hrs film.

August 25th of this year marked the day of the festival of Sri Krishna Janmashtami, ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  4 / 5
Recommendation: A very beautiful movie depicting a revolution and how it turns the lives of people around toward the right path depicted through the eyes of leaders and soldiers of the 19th century.

August 15th is the day ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  3 / 5
Recommendation: With the theme of realms and kingdoms, adding the element of sorcery and finishing it off with magic and devotion, the movie has all elements to reach out to one and all.

Varalakshmi Vratam is the 1961 ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars:  5 / 5
Recommendation: Patriotic with romance and comradeship blended in there making it a movie to watch at all times.

July fourth marks the U.S. Independence Day. On this day normally we get to see the 1996 hit movie ( Read more... )

Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.
Stars:  5 / 5
Recommendation: A movie filled with laughs, tunes and much needed life's lessons - yet completely entertaining.

This year Father's Day fell on June 19th. For this day I picked this movie as it is one of the movies that my dad ( Read more... )