Hmmm… surprising… Can i have some of those loony bunches who were carrying placards calling for equality? Here is one for you people….
May
10
Though it will be an over exaggeration to say this, Indian hockey team is having a good run in the Sultan Aslan Shah hockey torney currently underway in Malaysia.
Catch this article which talks about the rejuvanated Indian Hockey Team
May
07
On very few occasions some dreams though insatiable will come true. This is the case of Hari Pippal. As a child he slept on the pavemts pulled cycle rickshwas but he has turned out one of the very few aberrations our society witness.
Read more about him here.
May
05
This slovenian born post modernist philosopher has been taking the intellectual circle by storm for a quiet while now. His observations are obviously ”out of the box” kinds.
Catch up with some of his out of the box views here :
Disaster movies as the last remnants of Utopia
Apr
30
I myself dedicated some space to acknowledge this great writers death. Now, that over and gone but the reverberations of reading him has not subsided in me. I have been searching to find some befitting obituaries written about him. I dint find quiet a lot of them rather quite a lot of credible ones. Now, it seems i had missed out one some good pieces written about him.
Harvey Wasserman has an incredible piece written about him here.
Ron Jacobs writes about him and gives due credits to his God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (My favourite)
Apr
30
Quentin Tarantino makes slick movies. They lack any kind of essence but they are a welcome break from the usual spectacle. This has earned them many fans and some critics. Elizabeth Schulte says
Three hours I will never get back. That’s the verdict after seeing Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, a tribute to the horror and exploitation movies of the 1970s.
Catch more of this article from here.
Technorati tag : Quentin Tarantino
Apr
27
Imaginations always run wild when we think about silk route and the slow moving caravans to innumerable destinations. There is always a wanting lingering in the mind, if we could travel through these roads discovering the innumerable surprises that they will hold for us. Centuries after, this dream might come true and ofcourse China – the booming Asian nation will help us to conquer this dream. They are planning to lay roads through this historic paths to connect Asia to Europe. It might run all the way from the northern- western province of China- Xinjiang to Istanbul in Turkey.
The plan is part of an ambitious road map for Asia drawn up two years ago by China, Japan and 30 other countries. That 87,500-mile network of motorways, bridges and ferry routes will connect the trans-European landmass as never before, easily surpassing the old Silk Road, the camel route by which the occident and orient once traded with one another.
Catch more of this article from here.
Technorati Tags : China, Silk Route
Apr
26
Apr
26
How many assasination attempts will a man survive? One, two or may be five. But there is a man who has survived 638 times. He is none other than Fidel Castro. He is being haunted by the CIA ghosts for decades now . Though it is covert, it is an open secret that CIA employs dubious ways to eradicate their opponents – Murder attempts, coups are some of the usual ways employed in removing belligerent and voracious leaders who oppose the free market fundamentals preached by America. Cuba-a small country right under America has been threatned over its sovereignty for quite a while now. Some the attempts will put James Bond to shame as the article quotes.
Knowing his fascination for scuba-diving off the coast of Cuba, the CIA at one time invested in a large volume of Caribbean molluscs. The idea was to find a shell big enough to contain a lethal quantity of explosives, which would then be painted in colours lurid and bright enough to attract Castro’s attention when he was underwater
Catch more of this article from here.
Technorati Tag : Cuba , Fidel Castro
Apr
26
Why is Palme d’Or the most coveted prize for a film maker? How did Cannes film festival start? The article carried by Guardian have answers for all these. It contains some curious comments by readers too. Though i can believe all those what has been written- there is one issue which i could not digest – The newly wed Indian lass Aishwarya Rai was on the jury list couple of years back. What was she doing there? Now, this shows there has been some glitz and glamour seeping in to Cannes, for i am sure she is not entitled for such a role.
So what sets Cannes so much à part? In its 60 years, Cannes has managed to keep its identity intact and resist rampant commercialism. I’m obviously not talking of the parallel circus going on around diamond-laden and scantily clad stars walking up the famous red carpet each evening. I’m talking about films.
Catch more of this article from here.
