Moderation mayhem in LSR
‘Cecilia you’re breaking my heart, you are shaking my confidence daily.’ This ancient Simon and Garfunkel classic resonated the feeling of restlessness and anxiety being experienced by the students of LSR till a few days ago. Make no mistake; it was no fair haired maiden but the moderation committee which was overseeing the correction of...
The Work of the Devil
Were a long flowing white beard synonymous with immense wisdom, discord would cease to exist and peace would reign supreme. Unfortunately however, that is not as rampant as we would like. On the other hand, the aforementioned white bearded men seem to have an addiction to spice and sensationalism; sentiments they are usually bereft of...
Sex Amma
Shifted to the city recently from the backwaters of Kerala, Sex Amma answers the queries of her children in Delhi University… Q. We are friends from two years. I like her very much and now see also gave some sign that see also like me. So how can I propose her. Plz give me some...
Humouroscope
Aries- Regulate the pace of chewing your food and colour-coordinate the clothes in your closet for some credible karma. Taurus- Accidentally installing timeline on Facebook will put off the longtime object of your secret amorous attentions who finally found you marginally interesting enough to check out. Gemini- A good time to purchase the Gulshan Kumar...
Yes I’m Bihari!
Back in the day when there were no cellphones and people didn’t have to text/bbm each other a million times to meet, everyone would get together at the park for a game of cricket. Childhood aberrations can be peculiar and a portly senior at the colony park who was also my neighbour gained cognizance of...
Smiley all the way
Director : Tomas Alfredson Cast : Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds Rating : 4/5 The career of Gary Oldman – frequently cited as the finest actor working today never to have been nominated for an Oscar – is something of a mystery. In the...
“Elementary, my dear Watson?”
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows MOVIE REVIEW CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry with Rachel McAdams RATING: 4/5 The much awaited sequel to the 2009 flick Sherlock Holmes hits the screen, once again giving to us Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective world...
The King is Surely Back
Don 2 MOVIE REVIEW Cast: Shah Rukh Khan. Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Om Puri Music- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Direction: Farhan Akhtar Rating: 4/5 Sleek, Stylish, Sexy. Don 2 is all of this. When the promos claimed ‘The King is Back’, you couldn’t help but expect a lot of thrills and chills from this sequel...
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Author : Oliver Sacks Rating- 4/5 From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time and the author of this illuminating and poignant memoir, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family...
The Dirty Picture
MOVIE REVIEW RATING - 2.5/5 Raunchy? Yes! Bold? Very! Good? No! Milan Luthria’s The Dirty Picture, is easily one of the boldest films you have seen recently. But how I wish it could have been ‘one of the best’. It is very clear after watching the film that the makers’ foremost priority was to shock...
The Buddha of Suburbia – a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Sometime before the world began perceiving him as a once-brilliant success-cliché who’d simply gone stark raving mad and taken to penning scathing novellas about intolerable ex-wives, Hanif Kureishi produced his debut novel The Buddha of Suburbia – a curiously satirical work that drew almost entirely from Kureishi’s own tumultuous teenage years growing up in the suburbs of South London....
Top 5 ways of Taking Over India
5. Get everyone to play Big Boss (reminiscent of 1984, perhaps?) 4. Get Amir Khan to make a movie about how awesome your rule would be. That should convince everyone through discussions in newspapers, news channels etc. 3. Pretend to have a highly contagious disease and threaten to sneeze if everyone doesn’t give in to...
