Pan’s Labyrinth

Watching Pan’s Labyrinth the thing that catches your fancy the most is how a children fantasy and a horrific war are intermingled as a matter of fact thing without ever burdening one thing with the other and also never losing anyone’s relevance. Guillermo del Toro here takes his craft another level up from where he [...]

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Almost Invisible

The ancients built Valdrada on the shores of a lake, with houses all verandas one above the other, and high streets whose railed parapets look out over the water. Thus the traveler, arriving, sees two cities: one erect above the lake, and the other reflected, upside down. Nothing exists or happens in the one Valdrada [...]

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How fair is that?

Well, whether one believes in God or not, the idea of a creator can’t be ruled out. Yeah one may advocate the Darwinian concept of evolution here but still for it to be functional we still need an earth, a big bang and many other accountable things. But thats not the point here. Point is [...]

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The Brothers Karamazov

I am just through with the third part, abt 700 pages, of this mammoth saga about man’s destiny and existence. It has been quite a laborious read till now, mainly because of the melodramatic intensity with which Dostoevsky writes. Almost all his characters keep on brimming with emotions. Its a conscious approach i guess, which [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut dies

Kurt Vonnegut, the amazingly comic and frequently satirical writer, who wrote against the wars and the mindless human technological pursuits, famous for classics like “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle”, died yesterday at the age of 84.
In the times of Bush we loose an important moralist like Kurt. Sigh.
Here’s NYT ’s piece on him.

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