Movies

For some months now (after buying new LCD monitor), my schedule for weekdays was to come from office watch one movie then sleep, and on weekends watch back to back movies. I am passionately following imdb, metacritic and rottentomatoes lists and recommendation, and watched many good movies in recently. Based upon this, I have compiled [...]

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Jhumpa Lahiri and Khaled Hosseini

they are the only authors whose all the books published till date, I managed to grab a copy and read them.
Recently I finished reading Unaccustomed earth and A Thousand splendid suns. Relished each moment reading them, the characters so moving, the description is such that you would think your self you are in kabul during [...]

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Bangalore Tigers

I had always wanted to know what the business model is for IT companies. I used to wonder what they are going to do with these thousands of people they recruit per year. What kind of work they do? Though I am in Bangalore didn’t really got chance to see it close but after reading [...]

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Super Size Me

Morgan Spurlock is on a roll, for next 30 days he is only going to eat food items purchased exclusively from McDonalds. He makes a persuasive case of effects of fast food on physical and psychological well being.
It delivers loads of facts about food, a food for thought. I would think twice before [...]

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The Great Debaters

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school’s first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
I really love movies based on true stories, hope indian film industry learns from it and [...]

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Movie Marathon

This weekend nothing better to do, so I had decided to finish off with some movies. Following movies (in exact order) I manged to watch over the weekend.
1. Kabul express (hindi) : Avoid watching
2. No country for old man (eng): Nice movie
3. Enron; the smartest guys in the room (eng): Highest degree of human [...]

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Into the wild

Some movies are not just be watched, need to be experienced.

2 and half hour of adventurous travelogue about Chris, in his quest to Alaskan wilderness. Great watch

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Film Festival

I have always loved foreign films, partly because they show us insights into diverse cultures and history. The first foreign film I watched was ‘Life is beautiful’, I was amazed by plot and story of it and also acting and direction of Roberto Benigni.
Then in college days I was lucky to watch some of the [...]

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librarywala

36 books per year @ 1400 Rs
+ free delivery and pickup from home
+ you can choose from list of 7000 odd books online or if the book is not there they can arrange it for you
= the greatest thing ever (yeah after slice bread)
I knew about it in feb (through article in Digit Magazine) but [...]

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Reading list

Last year I bought many books, in fact at least one or two books per month. Though I wasn’t able to read them all but I managed to read most of them. But many still books to be read this month and the list goes on ..

Zen and Art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig [...]

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