When scrolling through Instagram or Facebook, have you ever come across this ad for the app Blinkist? It intrigued me too. I did a trial run. There was a huge load of books and it was kinda crazy to pick the one for my liking. The books I pick up depends on my current focus …
Short stories are tricky. Some great masters of the craft who perfected the art of long novels, didn’t dare to go near short stories. But whoever mastered the art of short stories are seduced by the brevity of it and never moved away from it though they had occasional stint at long novels. This is …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you are a person like me who has a poor color sense and design sense, you may understand how difficult it is to shop jewelry. I was at my wits end last week, still undecided about what to present my Mom for her birthday. Like any person who is very undecided about what to …
I have to admit it. I was skeptical to go to play. I have been to plays which promised a lot, and all I got was silly jokes one after another to choke me out. When Chennai Bloggers Club stalwarts like Salesh, Gokulane, Megha and Mahesh decided to go, I thought I would go too. …
Name: Birds of Prey Author: Archana Sarat Pages: 182 Blurb: You wake up, parched and famished, at the bottom of a deep well—dark and dingy with the foul smell of excreta and rotting scars and no seeming way to escape—what do you do? This is the predicament that ex-ACP Anton Pinto faces when he reluctantly …
Few things struck me when I read Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekara. In our day to day lives, we try to avoid a lot of questions. We only answer important questions like what movie are we doing to watch this weekend? Or Where are we going to hang out in the evening? In the city …
I have always wanted to do Tamil book reviews. It is not easy. I am torn between examining the books in English and Tamil. If I do it in English, it rarely reaches people who can also read Tamil. So their chance of buying the book is slim. If I write in Tamil, I don’t …
I have lent this book to a couple of my friends and I guess they haven’t finished this book yet. So this is going to be a spoiler free review. I don’t really like the word review because I feel that I am not such a voracious reader to ‘review’ a book. And I treat …
When people from Chennai influence initiative called me and asked if I will be interested in taking up an appointment with Apollo Dental White, I was eating in Murugan idly shop. I last of my teeth has a big cavity and all the coconut shreds in the veggies will promptly get settled there. I was …
When I came out of the film, I wondered why the director had chosen this name. Was that something personal? Or Is she trying to say something to someone? How ironical to name a movie as “The Last Round” when the movie is all about second chances. The boxer who had lost his chance and …
