Month: June 2005
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Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
I had no idea what Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi was until I watched it. Srihari had written a review which I comfortably forgot to read. I heard him comment elsewhere about HKA being a good film and hence I wanted to watch it. Turned out to be sweet. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi a.k.a Thousand Dreams Like These,…
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Movable Type ya Blogger whine – Redux
The flow of spam comments keep increasing even I keep a blacklist and also make sure the ones that escape blacklist filter gets deleted. This takes a good half hour during weekends. To cut this maintenance time, I finally decided to cut the HTML in comments which would discourage spammers from leaving a comment. I’ve…
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Blogger’s Park
Blogger’s Park is probably the first no-URL-wrongly-spelled column in the main stream media. Ramya‘s acquaintance with the Indian bloggers has reflected well in the article that details blogger meets. It was truly suprising to know about the two bloggers who got married after meeting in a blogger meet. There are many blog sites listed on…
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Sujatha, Mani Ratnam and Ponniyin Selvan
Sujatha, in this week’s vikatan column, lists out practical stumbling blocks of making Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan into a movie and how Mani Ratnam had etched a neat script which encompasses all the five volumes of the novel in just eighty scenes. The stumbling blocks included popularity of the novel over 5 decades, budget and ofcourse…
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Book Taggin’
For starters, there is a meme that’s rolling in the Indian Blogosphere which intends to make bloggers list their acquaintance with books. It was Chenthil who tagged me. So here is my list. Total Number of Books I Own : Must be close to 200. This excludes the book that I gave off to cousins…
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