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Traffic, the film and compassion

Saw a film named ‘Traffic” while in Kerala recently.The main thread of the story is based on a real life incident of a little over two years go in Chennai. Dr. Ashokan and Dr. Pushpanjali had lost their son Hitendran in a car accident.The boy had not responded to treatment and had been declared clinically [...]


Through the glass darkly :-( ……….Happy Diwali :-)

         What demons haunt the dark alleys of our mind…..this thought would often  echo like a refrain in those days when Nithari  awoke to fresh stories of the heinous details of the Pandher and Moninder duo. What really intrigued me was that one of the reports that was published in the papers  carried a small [...]


Peepli live and other films

             What do I do in my spare time?…read , listen to music and watch films, mostly. Nowadays its more of watching films than the other two pursuits. Being a member of Bigflix makes it easy , as you can make a list of the movies you would want to watch and they will deliver [...]


Kuch Kuch hota hai

            I’ve just completed two years on this Iland and suddenly I’m feeling lost. I feel I’m being tossed about here and there with no knowledge of where I am or where I am supposed to be going. It’s as if I no more have any control of my life here on the Iland and [...]


Welcome to sajjanpur

Mahadev, the hero of the film, “Welcome to Sajjanpur” gives us a short introduction about his village, at the beginning of the film. It used to be called �Durjanpur� at one time, he explains and it was �Pandit Nehru, who, after his visit there, ordered that it should be changed.
       As the film progressed , [...]