Despite giving innumerable gems to Indian cinema, the Kannada film industry was lesser known out of all South Indian film industries to non-Kannadigas. It was often overshadowed by the much bigger Tamil and Telugu industries whose scale, budget, and literally everything else were too huge in comparison to Kannada cinema…

August and September of this year saw the premiere of two epic fantasy shows based on the works of two of the most popular fantasy writers of all time — JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin. While House of the Dragon which aired on HBO is a spinoff from the…

Hello. It’s been a really long time since my last post. In fact, it’s been a good 7 months since I published Books Read in February 2022. Well, I could not keep up with the reading after February as my life changed a lot from a personal perspective :) Also…

After a roaring start to 2022 where I finished 5 books in January, February was a little low-key. Maybe because it has fewer days compared to January or I was reading lengthier books compared to last month, I don’t know exactly. Nevertheless, I’m on track to completing 24 books this…

Last year, I read a total of 29 books and as the year came to a close, I listed out my top 10 books in a post right here. Now since I comfortably crossed my goal of reading 12 books in 2021, I have doubled my target to 24 in…

2021 was quite a prolific year for me as far as reading is concerned. Although my target for the year was 12, I went way beyond that and have read 29 books this year. A couple of them I had started long back but got to finish them this year…

The “graveyard of empires” is a term historically attributed to the land of Afghanistan. No one really knows how the term came into existence and there are several countering arguments on it but given the history of the nation, particularly the involvement of the different superpowers in it, the sobriquet…

By now, everyone must have watched the latest ad by CRED, the one featuring Indian cricket legend Rahul Dravid. If you haven’t done so, here’s the link below. Now, what makes this ad so brilliant. Well, the obvious answer is the presence of Rahul Dravid and his mannerism in…

Dil Chahta Hai (2001) is a movie that has had a deep impact on my generation. Aamir Khan’s look in the movie with that little goatee wasn’t common back then but now it is very common and so many men in India have tried it including yours truly. I remember…