Capsule reviews

Harry potter and the Half blood prince: When you’re British, white and you own a musty old castle full of skeletons in the closet, Gay cousin Valdermot does need some explaining away, specially if you think youre Jesus, John lennon and Prince Harry , all in one…and there’s that complicated business of snogging, too….Arrg its [...]

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The Sloka youtube post

This started as a trip on facebook, which has absorbed much of my youtube passion these days.
Quick links: Ganapathi stotram, Mantra pushpam, Om Klim Shreem Lakshmim, Purusha Suktam,Sri Suktam,Rudram I II III ,The Prajnya Paramita Sutra(the Heart sutra),The Lotus Sutra,The Green Tara Mantra,The White Tara Mantra,Gayatri, The Padma Purana vishnu sahasranamam, Vishnu sahasranamam I II [...]

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Editorial: The Rape of Shiney Ahuja

Long ago, dearly beloved(would begin Rudyard Kipling’s Classic stories from the Jungle tales(of which mwogli gave America the Jungle book)- Stories of an apocryphal india from the jungles of madhya pradeh and the chambal valley, from an India not recognized by the schoolchild in humid Mumbai who sincerely believed that Kipling Imagined the stories from [...]

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Kambaktth Ishq (khan 2009): The joke’s on US.

Chick flic meets stoner buddy comedy. Universal Studios theme park meets Pammal K Sambandan(Kamalhaasan).Harry bhai meets sallyben, (Ramesh meets Moitra ).  Nadiedvala grandson meets white women in progressive states of undress. Indian paisa vasool meets Eros international. Ought to be a winning combination, right? So where did it go wrong?

KI has so much [...]

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