The day after the big night. The day after a decade of Oscars. This is a better time than most other to air my mixed feelings about awards in the acting categories (hereafter called acting awards) given my interest in fiction. While the deservingness of awards are eternally debatable, awards play a role in reminding [...]
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Freedom of and from Religion
There are two aspects to religion: faith and affiliation. Faith is the aspect that has to do with the tomes of literature owing to the perpetually fecund imagination of people throughout the history of mankind. It is fun, like it is when a million fans filled with Pottermania cast spells on each other and go [...]
Our Passive Classrooms
I changed school thrice between kindergarten and tenth. The majority of my schooling happened through two public schools (which are actually private, not government). Later in college, whenever friends shared their pasts and compared their accomplishments I always spoke highly of the first school. Even today I am biased towards it. The first school was [...]
Welcome to Cine Cynic
Having publicized a little about this on my personal blog and elsewhere, I am expecting a few visitors. This link love is a primer for all first-time visitors. Thank you for stopping by. Feel free to navigate around using the links on the sidebar. You can start with a little further from fact, one of [...]
Moving Past PIFF 2009
What disappointed me the most about PIFF 2009, more than the occasional sub-title glitches during the screenings, was the catalogue. NFAI (I know) and FTII (I presume) have wonderful libraries with lots of literature about movies. Whether the catalogue had been put together using assignments to students or not, it shouldn’t have used the content [...]