Vedam First Half – Boring Shit

9.35PM Intermission time. Boring shit. Boring. Five different stories. They haven’t intersected yet. Presumably, they will now that all the characters are in Hyderabad. Allu Arjun – nothing extraordinary. Anushka as the whore Saroja is alright.

Thermos Nissan 14-Oz Travel Mug – Good Buy

(Primarily for our U.S. readers, who tend to tend to drive a lot more than Indian readers and are given to buying Coffee at rest areas and convenience stores). After more than a decade of sticking around with our old, seen-better-days travel mug we decided to kiss it goodbye and buy a new one. After […]

Ponniyin Selvan – A Masterpiece from a Master Raconteur

By SI Blog reader Racer44 (Parts 1 to 3) (For SI readers Boopalanj and Shadowfax_Arbit who first mentioned this tour de force) Note to SI Readers: I have used the word “Sozha” which I have verified with scholars as being the phonetically correct spelling, as opposed to “Chola”. Caveat: Before delving into the review of […]

On Love, Beauty, Women – Somerset Maugham

At the behest of an insistent friend many summers back, think back to an era when that petty tyrant Indira Gandhi and that pee-drinker Morarji Desai were leaders of our former nation, we read Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale although we can’t remember a whit now. Our interest in Maugham was rekindled this week by […]

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