Antara Echoes

What in the name of the good lord do you think are these? - Laptop , Novel, Kangaroo, Flash, Rock'n Roll, Chocolate..No its not some guessing game devised for my toddler but some actual film names from the malayalam industry! "What's in a name? A Rose Is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose" said the famous bard and our film makers decided to take it utmost seriously I suppose. For where else would you find such ridiculous names for movies. Now sample these Kannada film titles - 35 out of 100, Jolly Days, Bombaat, 10th class A sec, PUC, Satya in Love Hahahah While am not asking for something very profound such as the "Quantum of Solace" but even it can be something as simple yet meaningful as "Kill Bill" please. Now don't think Tamil & Hindi movies fare any better. Its just that I am unable to make myself to even come to list the ones in other languages. So do we call this lack of creativity or taking creativity to its extreme? I dunno but I wish a l...

Books, it has been said, enlighten lives like no other. They often conjure up a differnt world of vivid color & images that not even movies can surpass. A world where one can see through the eyes of the protogonist and live through a thousand situations which one would not even have dreamed of. Atleast books have this magical effect on me. The last book I read was Wicked Women of the Raj by Coralie Younger. Here is an apt summary from Indiaclub : An unputdownable factual account of the zenana world of the rajas and sultans of India, concentrating on the firangi bahus and begums of this veiled world of myths and folklores. This book gives us the stories of twenty different European women who broke society’s rules to marry the heathen Indian princes. Who were these women? Were they gold-diggers, or hopeless romantics hoping to enact their own Cinderella fairy-tale? Did they live happily ever after? Set against the backdrop of India’s independence struggle, the book has a delicious a...