Many people may claim many different things, but I think the main motivation for people to watch so many soaps is schadenfreude.

• Why do you think most characters in soaps are shown leading such miserable lives? I mean not miserable in the material sense, but everyone seems to have one problem or the other.
  
• Assuming that people who watch soaps, on ( Read more... )

So on Wednesday I watched a Hindi movie in a theatre after a gap of a year and three months. The previous time too, Ashwin was with me, though the rest of the personnel were disjoint. Anuroop also joined us this time, before he embarks on a mission to sell phones in the seven hills. I had seen Baradwaj Rangan's positive review of Jaane tu ya jaane ( Read more... )

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I was just going through the program list of the classical music season at the Fort High School grounds. What strikes me is that whenever two siblings in the same family are good at this kind of stuff, they pair up and advertise themselves after their town or something.

I don't know who was the first pairing that started this, but now artistes ( Read more... )

you raise the blade
you make the change
you rearrange me till i'm sane

read the above lines again taking into consideration "blade" in the sense of "putting blade". takes on a whole new (and nice and non-dark) meaning.

reminds me of this 1980's duet Kannada song. don't exactly remember the lyrics so will just put the approximate translation

heroine: ( Read more... )

• When you have a company like ITC sponsoring a quiz, you can always expect lots of prizes in kind. Last year's finalist prizes included a bag of cheap biscuits (mostly marie/krackjack types - sunfeast of course) and a packet of Aashirvad rajma. This year, they seemed to mess up on that. I think two finalist teams didn't receive anything. There was ( Read more... )

I reached Madras a full four hours before the Odyssey quiz was supposed to start two weekends back. The presence of another "good" quiz the previous day meant that not too many others were taking the early morning train for the quiz. In fact, I was the only quizzer on that train - not something you normally see on national holidays, when half the ( Read more... )

I don't know why but i really really like these old English romantic movies. Ok my sample size isn't too large. First it was Casablanca and now this. But they're awesome. Extremely well made. Amazing storyline, and an excellent way of telling it all. And unlike in the Hindi movies, in which a happy ending is usually guaranteed, there is no such ( Read more... )

I realize that after graduating from IIMB I don't have access to a convenient LAN from which I can download the latest hindi film music which someone else has managed to procure ( Read more... )

Listening to Barrett on the stereo or using headphones is literally a hair raising experience! No wonder his music was classified as psychedelic rock ( Read more... )