It is hugely appropriate to announce on the week of nation’s Independence Day, that the State of Tamil Nadu has attained critical mass in GDMM. GDMM, as any Keynesian economist will point out, is Gross Domestic Madurai Movies. Madurai Movies, over the last four or five years, have become a genre in themselves. So much so it is only a… Read more →
I think we have reached a stage where this running fever that is spreading fast in this country should be officially declared an epidemic. You want to know how alarming the situation is? I will tell you. My wife has got herself registered for a marathon. And she is a person who must have covered a sum total of 1.7… Read more →
New Delhi: Close on the heels of many recent unsavoury incidents that were seen to imperil press freedom in this country, a sub-editor of a well-known newspaper has been denied leave that he had applied for earlier. This is also viewed as yet another incident in the series of increasing frontal assaults on the independence of media professionals in India,… Read more →
Indian cricket team’s win against England early this week was extra special as it came at the Lord’s which is probably the only cricket stadium in the world where it is possible to still feel, even during pulsating matches, the compelling afternoon somnolence of a college library. No seriously, the Lord’s is quintessentially British, where Wodehouse and (Jane) Austen characters… Read more →
Mumbai: The makers of the film Mary Kom today conceded that they might have made a mistake in casting Priyanka Chopra as the boxer Mary Kom when the right thing would have been to let Mary Kom play Mary Kom. “Mary Kom as Mary Kom ticks all the boxes”, said the film’s director Omung Kumar. “She is not only a… Read more →
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