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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

Rakhi Sawant – Joan of Arc..

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

My friend from school, Madhu Kedia, now Gupta asks me how the Rakhi Sawant show is among my favourites. Madhu knows me as I was some forty years ago, quintessentially from a Bengali bhadralok background who turned her nose up … Continue reading →

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Whats My Raashi? 27th September 2009

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

Not every day do we get a film in Bollywood that sears through the contented middle class views on the two most fundamental social institutions – family and marriage. Not every day do we have a typical Bollywood formula film … Continue reading →

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Japanese Wife – Kurosawa’s Style Marries Ray’s

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

Aparna Sen’s film The Japanese Wife is a text book case of what happens when film making styles of Kurosawa are married into the Satyajit Ray style. The Japanese Wife provides for an occasion to marry these two styles as … Continue reading →

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Tum Samjho To Sahi

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

Newton’s third law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Going by this law the worldwide unchallenged spread of neoliberal globalization should have by now had an equal and opposite force standing up against it. Unfortunately this … Continue reading →

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August Obituaries and Anniversaries

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

The month of August is supposed to be majestic and powerful, as its name August suggests. The Western month of August corresponds to the second half of the Indian month of Shravan, also supposed to be ritually the most active … Continue reading →

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Peepli Live – For Parthada, Kavita and Arundhati (Ghosh)

Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

This note is for Parthada and Kavita who are waiting to hear my views and for Aru for posting a wonderful review of Peepli Live. After the review that Aru posted, I have nothing else to say on the film. … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 3, 2010 by secondsaturn

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