To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the few works that I read more than twice, watched more than twice, read the book first and then watched the movie and still didn’t get disappointed. Harper Lee’s novel is also my default gift, the way some gift the Bible when they can’t think of anything else. [...]
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ఝుమ్మంది నాదం
My introduction to Veturi began with the ETV programme ఝుమ్మంది నాదం years ago. I was so overwhelmed with his repertoire that whenever I heard an interesting song – సరళమైనవి, లోతైనవి, చిలిపివి, గమ్మత్తైనవి, అద్భుతమైన భూతులున్నవి – whose writer I didn’t know, I attributed it to him. I still do and I might continue to for songs [...]
Remember Me, Remember Marcel Proust
This Friday evening a friend who wanted to get out of the office told me that he hadn’t been to a theatre in a long time. Actually I haven’t been to a theatre in a long time and he hasn’t been to one in a very long time. We decided to watch some movie, any [...]
Happy Birthday Roger Ebert
Today is Roger Ebert’s birthday. Sixty-seven years young. I wish him a long prose-ful life. A little more than a year ago, I discovered his official website and journal. It was easy to identify my role model in criticism and I started religiously reading his reviews and blogs, even though I have little chance of [...]
Stanley Kubrick on Words
I watched only four Stanley Kubrick movies: Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. Spartacus did not feel very much like a Kubrick movie to me even though I had watched only three of his other movies by then. I later learned [...]