Month: March 2025
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all that is – 5: the last days of the 20th century man
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was unmistakably the end of time as we knew it. The twentieth century was down to its final ten breaths, its last flickering fax transmissions, and its remaining struts down the…
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Bombay: Notes from a Burning House
This essay is part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series and revisits Bombay. Watch the retrospective on youtube. It’s hard to say exactly when the house began to burn. Was it the moment Shaila Banu and Shekhar first exchanged glances on a quiet boat ride in Tirunelveli? Was it when their love, innocent…
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Mouna Ragam: Why Mani Ratnam’s Classic Still Hits Hard
Written as part of the Pesum Padam – Mani Ratnam Retrospective Series, this piece revisits Mouna Ragam. Click to watch the Mouna Ragam retrospective. A girl, a boy, an arranged marriage, the ghost of a lost love, the divorce papers, the heart that will not quit. That is Mouna Ragam in six beats, Mani Ratnam’s 1986 film that…