Category: Guest Blog
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On Coincidence…
Guest Blog #16 – Anand C “can the loud clap of a cymbal change everything?” – ‘The man who knew too much’ (1956) “a large van coming across the street, onto a slab of glass, Lola and her boyfriend fleeing from the police…” – Run Lola Run (1999) “…discovering a little box of playthings that…
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World Themes for Indian Cinema (Part 4 of 8)
Co-Blogging Series – Anand C and Lazy Geek ‘ART FOR ART”S SAKE’ “If I worship thee for fear of hell, burn me in hell; if I worship thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship thee for thy own sake, grudge me not thy everlasting beauty!” This hymm from Sufi…
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Mani Ratnam and the “relative grading” syndrome!
Guest Blog 14 – Anand C Good students are good students in the Indian education system, regardless of how well others perform. You get “first class” if you have 60%. Simple! However in the American educational system you could get a ‘B’ if you got 60% and half the class scored higher than you. On…
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What makes NEWS?
Guest Blog 13 – Anand C I’ve wondered how news is prioritized and given preference and how they choose what is repeated again and again on 24-hour news channels. (Case in point: The same weekend that Britney Spears went through her “one-day” wedding in Las Vegas, NASA’s Rover landed had its historic Mars landing. It’s…
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World Themes for Indian Cinema (Part 3 of 8)
Co-Blogging Series- Anand Chandrasekharan and Lazy Geek Fire-fighters, investment bankers, engineers working on outsourced IT projects, doormen – thousands lost their lives. The untold outrage, the genuine sorrow (and the political photo-ops) aside, one of the most vivid memories of September 11, 2001 is tens of people jumping down from a burning tower. When people…
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