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- Sep 3, 2010
- Hindi Films: License To Kill
Hindi movies are as painful as a two-hour-45minutes long yawn.
- Aug 20, 2010
- Movie Review: The ExpendablesEscapism has long been seen as appropriate fare, with the hope that the 99ers will satiate their anger and frustration through the flickers on the
- Movie Review: The Expendables
- Aug 16, 2010
- Graphic Novel Review: Level 10 Studios' Comic JumpThe artwork is sumptuous and visually rich, not quite manga, yet the action-sequences owe a lot to the typical shonen manga series.
- Graphic Novel Review: Level 10 Studios' Comic Jump
- Aug 14, 2010
- Movie Review: Peepli [Live]
The movie is a slapstick drama set in a sleepy village called Peepli where Natha, a destitute farmer who is about to lose his land
- Aug 12, 2010
- Game Review: StarCraft II: Wings of LibertyLike Inception, the much-hyped StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty seems to be a humdinger of a game at first blush.
- Game Review: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Aug 6, 2010
- Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in MumbaaiThe film conforms to the genre, being simultaneously a 70s-style crime thriller and a chronicle of an inflating hypercity.
- Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
- Aug 5, 2010
- Book Review: The Power of Half
Does this book bring out the farce that aid is? No. Because they are still very innocent and idealistic in their "giving"
- Jul 20, 2010
- Movie Review: Tere Bin Laden - A Brilliant ComedyA side-splitting comedy/satire, that feeds on the stupidity and prejudice of the US authorities and on the goof-ups of Pakistani intelligence.
- Movie Review: Tere Bin Laden - A Brilliant Comedy
- Jul 19, 2010
- Indian Railways Turning Into A Death TrapWhy are our railways so accident prone?
- Indian Railways Turning Into A Death Trap
- Jul 17, 2010
- On the Ban on Shivaji: Hindu king in Islamic India
Profanity & the Intellectual Fools! Nothing but the truth, the whole truth!
- Jul 10, 2010
- How To Write BetterTreat your final draft as a piece of rock ready to be sculpted.
- How To Write Better
- Jun 19, 2010
- Movie Review: Raavan – Completely Devoid of SoulIt’s too simple a story which runs on a single track, at the same pace towards an ending which we are all too familiar with.
- Movie Review: Raavan – Completely Devoid of Soul
- Apr 7, 2010
- Ayesha, Sania, And Dhokha
Should all marriages with Indians or between Indians be formally registered with the state?
- Mar 24, 2010
- Movie Review: LSD: Love, Sex Aur DhokhaDon't take your girl out for this one, unless you're looking to give her an excuse to dump you - but if your relationship survives
- Movie Review: LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha
- Mar 10, 2010
- Fallen Role Models - Keeping The ValueThis kind of extreme reaction serves no one - not the media, not the people.
- Fallen Role Models - Keeping The Value
- Feb 26, 2010
- Washington, DC After The Snow Blizzard
The Blizzard is well timed with glacier-gate scandal.
- Feb 25, 2010
- February UnleashedIt had now been scientifically proven what we have known all along.
- February Unleashed
- Feb 22, 2010
- Movie Review: Dharm - Unfairly SnubbedThis film is not about the chaos that hatred leads us into but of the humanity that pulls us out of it, unscathed.
- Movie Review: Dharm - Unfairly Snubbed
- Feb 21, 2010
- Movie Review: Nishikanth Kamath's Dombivali FastDombivali Fast is not just an engrossing film, it is a mirror for the lives most of us have led in India.
- Feb 12, 2010
- My Name Is Khan - Media Holds India HostageOver a period of an entire week, SRK emerged as new age India's freedom fighter against Sena and its goons.
- Movie Review: Ishqiya - Sex and SensibilitiesA sexual tug-of-war with Mantoesque sensibilities
- My Name Is Khan - Media Holds India Hostage
- Feb 9, 2010
- Five Films We Did Not Talk About In The Last Decade
5 films of the decade overlooked by the mass and the critics alike. - Movie Review: Harischandrachi FactoryAlmost a century ago, one man showed dreams on the silver screen to the Indian people.
- Feb 7, 2010
- Movie Review: Avatar - A Movie for the Theater Audience I was in Pandora and I did not want to leave.
- Movie Review: Avatar - A Movie for the Theater Audience
- Feb 1, 2010
- Movie Review: Tingya - A Little Boy and his BullockThe story is of a little boy, Tingya, who loves his bullock.
- Jan 30, 2010
- Movie Review : Guy Ritchie's Sherlock HolmesGuy Ritchie delivers another impressive movie by transforming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
- Movie Review: Ishqiya - A Cinematic TreatOut of all the feelings people have in the world, love is easily the most unpredictable.
- Movie Review : Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes
- Jan 27, 2010
- Movie Review: Natarang -The Choices And The Passion
It’s all about choices one makes and the passion in one’s heart. - Phir Mile Sur or Frivolous Mile Sur?The new version has been launched with so much Bollywood emphasis that the Olympics medal winners have been pushed to the very end of the
- Jan 23, 2010
- TV Review: Colors Bingo Fails to ClickTo put it baldly, Colors Bingo is the worst, most ill-conceived poorly produced product-promo show ever on television
- poetry: singin' the same songsa wall of fire to contain
- TV Review: Colors Bingo Fails to Click
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