23

Posted on 27 May 2010 under Random

Approximately a week ago, I was 22 years old, and I was still a kid. I think about it now, I’m 23, and by God! I feel like I’m at that age at which I should no longer be a kid. In the span of a week, I feel like I’ve aged a year, and [...]


Review: Iron Man 2

Posted on 22 May 2010 under Essays

Pick the top 3 superhero movies of recent times. Spiderman, Batman and Iron Man. All 3 were wildly successful blockbusters, and all 3 brought something new to the table. Spiderman, for the first time, took us to the man behind the mask of the superhero. We were exposed to Peter Parker, the kid, the loser, [...]


Why Films will never be as good as Books or Videogames

Posted on 21 May 2010 under Random

One of my favourite games of all time, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has recently had its film adaptation made. Normally, I would treat such news with despair, because it’s very rare that a good game or a good book give birth to a good movie. However, I have comparatively higher hopes from [...]


Short Blurb

Posted on 19 May 2010 under Random

In the last 6 weeks or so (since the summer ‘break’ began), I have read more novels (3) than I have read during the preceding few months at XLRI. And just FYI, the books I’ve read: 1984 – George Orwell My Life as a Fake – Peter Carey A Prisoner of Birth – Jeffrey Archer And lined [...]


On Theatre

Posted on 09 May 2010 under Journal/Life Updates

I’ve been in Mumbai for about a month, roughly, and I’ve already been to two plays here, both at the Tata Auditorium at NCPA, Nariman Point. The first one, attended a couple of weeks ago, was the Lillette Dybey-directed Love on the Brink, a comedy about romance and the circle of life. It was roughly [...]


My (Mis)adventures in Mumbai

Posted on 08 May 2010 under Journal/Life Updates

I’m spending my summer in a not very well maintained room at one of the boys’ hostels at Wilson College, South Bombay. There is no mess where we get dinner, so all of us go out for dinner to restaurants close by, balancing between expensive and budget places. The former are generally characterised by being [...]


An Ode (of sorts) to Long Conversations

Posted on 03 May 2010 under Random

I was out with friends a couple of nights ago, and I had a great time. Normally, I like to live in the moment, preferring to dwell in the ‘here and now’ and leave the thinking and reliving to be done later. The more I pondered about it later, the more I realised that there’s [...]