Category: Happy B’day Dude!!
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Happy Birthday Dude !! – Sujatha Rangarajan
A friend of mine came from India last week. He brought along some Ambika appalams and Manga thokku bottles. I threw them aside and got hold of something else which I wanted desperately. Sujatha‘s Selected Shortstories Part II. He gave me a wierd look and said, “Machan Itha ethukku eduthundu vara sonna ? “. I…
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Happy Birthday Dude !! – AR Rahman
As South Asians took root around the world and their local movie culture avidly followed them, one could hear Rahman’s music even if it didn’t puncture the consciousness: as background music in restaurants and posh stores, in the very beat of certain neighborhoods, and of course in the movies that occasionally broke out of Desi…
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The Year of Blogs
Have a peaceful and delightful new year!! This year is unofficially declared as 2005 : The Year of Blogs. What say ?
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Happy Birthday Dude !! – Steven Spielberg
[Pic: Intercom with spielberg’s signature ] The passion for storytelling, the passion for being highly imaginative and the passion for delivering films with a sense of belonging can be attributed only to Steven Spielberg. As a kid, he was probably my first biggest inspiration for the wonderworld of films. If I could recall one instance…
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Happy Birthday Dude !! – Subramanya Bharati
[Thanks to Thiru for the pencil sketch] Last evening, after the office hours, me and a few of my collegues, unconsciously got into a conversation about Bharati. One of them had brought the Bharathiyar Kavithaigal to office and what started as an informal poem reading session ended up in a conversation of sorts on Bharati.…