Raison d’etre. Like a hovering bee, the French word raison d’etre kept buzzing in our mind during a meal at Aangan Indian restaurant in Freehold, New Jersey. Just in case you are curious, the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition, P.1028) defines raison d’etre as ‘reason or justification for existence.’ The smart ones amongst you have […]
The Kaminey plane has nosedived in its second weekend at the U.S. box office. Collections of the Shahid Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra film plunged nearly 70% at the U.S. box office for the August 21-23 weekend. The movie came in at #31 compared to #20 the previous weekend. As of August 23, Kaminey had taken in a […]
Oh boy, our Tamils are all over the place. They really are. Even in places where you’d least expect to find these karuppiahs (dark-skinned creatures). Perhaps, they didn’t use enough Fair & Lovely. 😉 Guess what. The Chief Doctor in the office of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles that performed the […]
Europe is bled regularly by war. America is pacifistic and cannibalistic. Outwardly it seems to be a beautiful honeycomb, with all the drones crawling over each other in a frenzy of work; inwardly it’s a slaughterhouse, each man killing off his neighbor and sucking the juice from his bones. Superficially it looks like a bold, […]
Finally, we’ve gotten around to watching Thalapathi. Featuring Rajnikanth, Mammooty and Shobana, Thalapathi came out in 1991. We were surprised to see the story, screenplay, dialog and direction for Thalapathi credited to Mani Ratnam. Just wasn’t aware that Thalapathi was a Mani Ratnam film. Here’s what we’ve seen so far – two stupid fights, the […]
You know these Hindu characters have a strange custom (just one among their million weird practices). After an inauspicious ceremony, like returning home from the funeral ground, the first thing they do is take a purificatory shower. Well, we did attend a funeral of sorts last night – we watched Vikram’s Kanthaswamy. So as a […]