Beasts of No Nation – Beastly Beauty

Beasts of No Nation – Beastly Beauty

I’m now knowing the smell of death. They are sweet like sugarcane and rotten like palm wine. And when [dead bodies] stay in the sun, they’re growing plump like brown mangoes. – Little Agu, after witnessing one too many deaths as a child soldier Director Cary Joji Fukunaga has put out no less than a […]

The Undertaker’s Daughter – Fails to Live Up To its Potential

The Undertaker’s Daughter – Fails to Live Up To its Potential

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Kate Mayfield 2015, 348 pages Good books are hard to come by these days in my local library. So I was all atwitter when I spotted a beguiling title like Kate Mayfield’s memoir The Undertaker’s Daughter. Little did I know the bitter disappointment that lay ahead of me! Enormous Potential Given […]

Are Chromebooks Overpriced Junk?

Are Chromebooks Overpriced Junk?

Try as I might, even a hardcore gadget freak like me finds it impossible to get excited over Chromebooks. Compared to the prospect of using a Chromebook, sitting through a Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Allu Arjun or Ajith Kumar movie would be an unending thrill. Just yesterday, a gaggle of journalists fawned over a new […]

Mera Bharat Mahaan – Jyoti Singh’s Sad Fate

We can ban India’s Daughter in India. This is an international conspiracy to defame India. We will see how the film can be stopped abroad too. – Indian Parliamentary Affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu Appropriate legal action will follow. The government will take all necessary measures to ensure that this film doesn’t get telecast further, […]

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