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What are the odds that two epic poems, one from Western civilization and one from Indian, each composed more than 2,500 years ago, get a fantastic cinematic treatment, in the exact same year nearly 3 millennia later? If that isn't a divine coincidence, then I don't know what is. Even the principal themes of both stories - The Odyssey and The Ramayana - are remarkably similar. (I assume by now that there's no such thing as a spoiler for this, the most well known of globally f

When a piece of literature survives and thrives for 2,800 years, and still resonates in the age of AI, with its universal themes of love, war, wanderlust, belonging and the siren call of home, you know you are dealing with a classical masterpiece. Like the Ramayan and Mahabharat in India with their similarly evergreen and resonant ideas and tenets, the Odyssey written by Homer from ancient Greece is one of the canonical works of Western literature. (There are many similaritie

During the height of the demonetization mayhem unleashed on India on November 8, 2016, a date which will coincidentally live in infamy in U.S. politics as well, when ordinary Indians had their lives turned upside down, comedian Kunal Kamra had come up with an apocryphal line based on a supposed encounter with a man standing in line to exchange notes at a local bank. When asked whether this hassle was worth it, the man said, " Humarey jawaan Siachen mein lad rahe hain, aur hum

“The only clue to what man can do is what man has done”. The fantastic movie Nuremberg (now on Netflix) ends with this line from British philosopher R.G. Collingwood. It’s a chilling reminder, especially in this day and age, of the paradoxical banality of pure evil. It doesn’t always have to come dressed in the imperial Nazi uniform of Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring, it can come in a regular blue suit with a long red tie or any other common attire, regardless of country, race

Where does religion end and unquestioned doctrine begin? What is faith if you don't live it and breathe it? Why are we certain of something without really knowing anything about it? These questions are at the heart of Haq , the superb movie released today in theaters. Based on the more than 4 decades old Shah Bano Supreme Court case that rocked India in the 80s, and that set the stage for the identity and religion based politics that is now the coin of the realm, it is a shar

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Exactly 29 years ago, on May 22, 1996, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) made his iconic, soft as a whisper, upside down entry from a ceiling...

I must have missed the new memo from NCERT on the age of Indian civilization. All this time since childhood, I had always heard of "...

Once in a while a movie comes along that's pretty much flawless in every way with nary a misstep nor false note. Getting the right...

India v Pakistan. Whether it's a cricket match, a hockey game, or diplomacy at the United Nations, it's a marquee match-up guaranteed to...

Tiger 3 is way better than Jawaan (2023)- that should suffice as an one line review. The latest entry in the YRF Spy Universe after...

Let's cut to the chase, since everyone already has a bunch of preconceived notions of the movie - about its length (at a bladder bursting...

Question - What do you get when you try to eat idli dipped in saag paneer soaked in a bowl of hot and sour manchow soup? Answer - An...

Kangana Ranaut, eat your heart out ! After the abjectly dismal performances, both acting and box office wise, of her last few outings...

If you think Oppenheimer is the name of Barbie's Jewish boyfriend, dressed in a pink tutu and wearing a pink headband, then trespass no...

Unless you're an extra-terrestrial who just landed on Earth, or have been living under a rock, or get your facts only from Fox News or...

Forty two years ago, a fedora-wearing, bullwhip-toting, wisecracking, gruffly handsome archeology professor outran a massive boulder in a...

I feel like Satyen Kappu in Deewar after he comes out having signed the documents - “Main tum logon ko bech kar aa raha hoon”. At any...

Jubilee on Amazon Prime is the new series from Vikramaditya Motwane who earlier gave us Sacred Games (2018) on Netflix. It’s set in newly...