It's not everyday that you can appreciate the work of a person you've always made fun of. And when the work is genuinely good, you have to take a step back, put your ego aside and give credit where it's due.
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Cinema Originals – Monthly Roundup #6
Roundup #6, Jul 2017 Titles bought - 21 Total owned - 185 Speaking about classics, my pick of the month happens to be another Yash Chopra movie - a cult classic now, it had flopped miserably in 1991.
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Catching up with blogging after 10 days!
Beyond fibromyalgia symptoms, short-stories and email writing, another thing did keep me busy and ate into my blogging hours in the last 10 days. A movie called Lamhe. I've been so hooked to it that I have watched it 3 times in 5 days.
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Fibromyalgia: First Encounter
I sulked, I ate even more, slept even more hours, was hit by insomnia on some nights, troubled stomach, indigestion, back-aches, strained neck. One day, I was not able to put a spoonful of food into my mouth, sitting at the dining table. I weighed 88 kilos now.
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Posts on fibromyalgia – A new section on the blog
I was writing a blog post on an interesting topic “dormant” for a daily blogging challenge called Daily Prompt held by The Daily Post. As I was outlining the content for the post, I felt …
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The thing about being dormant
Dormancy in life's like a physical object mentioned by Newton. You're permanently dormant in life unless you commit yourself to change that state, which kind of makes it not permanent. Contradicting, really.
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Dunkirk (2017)
(#) 10/10 (+) Everything (-) Nothing
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Learning new languages (or not) is a mindset problem.
Learning languages (or not learning) is a mindset problem. People with one mindset make efforts to learn it. Those with the other mindset don't.
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We have a new President. Will we remember him ten years from now?
Will Mr. Kovind leave behind his RSS-BJP affiliation and rise above mediocrity or will he be another president who'll use public funds to enjoy all the material facilities and perks that the post brings? Time will tell.
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Some toilet gyaan for my fellow Indians.
Some of us cringe when advertisements on television featuring our favorite actors preach the benefits of building a toilet at home. The middle classes and the rich wonder if the technology savvy India is really that backward! We can place 104 satellites in their orbits with precision but can't build toilets for half a billion people.
