My new blog on WordPress

I first started blogging in November 2005, courtesy Anamika. At that time, blogging was just a way to keep in touch with friends. I chose Yahoo 360! as my platform as that’s the one that all my friends used.
Over the next two-and-a-half years, my relationship with my blog changed. It became the space where I [...]

Juno

I am a writer. So, predictably the thing that I appreciate most about a film is its screenplay. I could like a movie just because of its screenplay. And so it was with Juno.
It’s true that it is a very average story, with very standard direction (I can’t understand why it ended up with so [...]

Lido lives on

Once upon a time, there was a theatre called Lido in Bangalore. In the Cantonment area, it was the only theatre with a lawn. The Majestic area also has Movieland.
Here, at least two generations of Bangaloreans sat discussing films – sometimes under the trees, sometimes under the stars.
Then, one day Lido was no more. The [...]

Boney M Revisited

Like many of my generation, I grew up with Boney M. They belonged to the music of my aunt’s youth that was also bequeathed to me. The group never moved me in the way that Bob Dylan or Joan Baez did. Yet, I was drawn to their spirit and could always hum their tunes.
So last [...]

Women achiever?

Am I woman achiever? I am not sure. I guess a lot of it has to do with the fact that I resist tags like ‘woman achiever’. I would prefer to just be an ‘achiever’.
I also find that I resist the ‘making a difference to the world’ tag. I prefer to make a difference to [...]

Brahmagiri

Each trek with getoff ur ass has the potential to be an inward journey. Sometimes you discover a new resilience within yourself. Sometimes you meet old friends or simply discover new ones. So was it with the weekend trip to Brahmagiri.
Located on the border between Coorg in Karnataka and the Wayanad district of Kerala, Brahmagiri [...]