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Why not? If it has the girls in mind we need to support it. Pooja Patel travelled alone from her village in Allahabad to Lucknow to participate in a marathon organised by Congress. She is a BA first year student who ended up winning a scooter as the first prize. With a minor hurdle ofContinue reading “Girl Marathons”

Into the 16th episode & the dread is thick. With the nose bleed there are complications. The liver is damaged. Long time effect of the pain killers. His sister collapses as she looks at the blood report. The transplant is out of question. I had been toying with the idea of her giving a partContinue reading “Rain or Shine”

Screamed the headline & otherwise muted she made her headline… In Italy,a debate is raging around a proposed statue in the country’s largest public square. In 1678, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia received a doctorate in philosophy from the university of Padua, the first woman to achieve this feat. Yet She was not included in theContinue reading “Her Place in the Sun”

Yoo Bo ra is the writer of series like ‘Reflections of You’, ‘Just between lovers’, ‘Snowy road’, ‘Secret’ have all one thing in common. The characters have many shades to their personality. Also she makes them down to earth. In ‘Reflections of You’ as the name indicates it is mainly about self reflection. The leadContinue reading “The Writer”

It is also known as ‘Just Lovers’. But this title is a bit too cheesy. Another is ‘Just Between Lovers’ it is also something we can’t suddenly relate to. The story evolves too slowly. So going by ‘Rain or Shine’ is the best option. Could have been ‘Sunshine ‘instead of ‘Shine’ but that is theContinue reading “Rain or Shine”

Not knowing ‘bell hooks’ is a crime for all the educators. So what are you reading & teaching ? Gloria Jean Watkins better known for her pen name bell hooks which she borrowed from her maternal great grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. Born in 1952, she died from kidney failure at her home, on Dec 2021Continue reading “The legacy of bell hooks…”

A tragedy which casts dark shadows on the lives of two individuals who are trying desperately to lead a normal life. But then what is normal? Isn’t that concept very elusive?? As they meet people affected by the incident as much or more than them they start getting to the depth of damage it hadContinue reading “Rain Or Shine”

Around the half way mark & yet it remains an enigma. Why did some people have to be there at the perfect time?? They could not have come & avoided the tragedy of losing the loved ones. It looms large on the lives of the survivors. They go about their lives with deep scars. BothContinue reading “Rain Or Shine”

I loved it from the first frame. The leads are so fresh & cute. There is that untouched quality. They are good lookers yet so simple. That simplicity gets to you.Both are involved in the SMall crash. Their childhood is scared forever. But both are survivors. She is taking care of her mother, who wishesContinue reading “Rain or Shine”

KS Sethumadhavan made his first film in 1961 in Malayalam, Gnana Sundari, when cinema was just emerging in Kerala. His final film in 1991, Venal Kinavukal he had become one of the figures responsible for Malayalam cinema developing its own idiom. As Walter Salles says, A Filmmaker can never be distant from his roots, heContinue reading “The Filmmaker..”