What Really Happened to Sukumara Kurup
A fictional take on what happened to the infamous fugitive Sukumara Kurup, imagined as a crossover between two, movies and some imagination.
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971) – Very Dusty, Mr.Bond.
Sean Connery returned as James Bond in the seventh installment of the series after one appearance by George Lazenby. This also was the Connery’s last appearance in the official series. The movie was rushed, without imagination and tries to achieve much but falls flat, despite some well executed sequences. Will be remembered for kicking off…
GoldenEye (1995) – James Bond, Resurrected
Goldeneye was the move that resurrected James Bond and gave him a fresh lease of life without losing his identity in a newly globalized and Cold War-less world. The movie was fast, fun and a delight to watch and most of that thanks should go to Pierce Brosnan JAMES BOND – PIERCE BROSNAN (First Appearance)…
The Case of Flight MH370: What Technological Advance?
“This is 2014!! In these days of all our technology, how could a huge airliner 63 meters long, weighing 145 tons and carrying 239 people just vanish mid-air?” is the general rhetoric echoing all over the internet on the aftermath of the bewildering, mysterious and tragic disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on its way from…
I Didn’t Leave Bangalore Only Because of the Traffic
Bangalore had always been the city of my dreams. It had captured my imagination a very long time ago, right during the innocent days of my childhood itself, long before the IT boom that created the so-called “Silicon Valley” of India and the mindless frenzy of greed and destruction turned it into the fustercluck it…
Driving Like Dummies 2 – A Car is NOT an “Investment”
Compared to those who lived twenty years ago, us Indians of today are a pampered lot. For instance, anyone who wants to buy a car is spoiled for choice today. During those non-liberalized days when I was growing up, you couldn’t buy a car even if you had the money for there were only the…
Tips and Tricks to Get the Best out of your Wonderla Kochi (Veegaland) visit
Plan your day and get the most out of your Wonderla Kochi visit with these insider tips and tricks. (Hint: Water first, Always!)
Indian F(r)iction Part 2 – I Can Haz Bubblegum!
It is a considerable #WIN on many fronts that Indians have taken to reading in droves, again. As I have said in Part 1, (Suggest you go through it, if you havent) a large chunk of the thanks for this has to go to Chetan Bhagat and the other pop-culture type novelists. There is no denying…
Layoffs and Left Shifts in the Indian IT Industry
Once upon a time, the Indian IT world was the promised land where milk and honey flowed, the sun was bright and there was a nip in the air, just like the weather of its most famous host city. Companies were hiring by the thousands and money, opportunities and H1Bs abound and everyone was happy….
The Living Daylights (1987) – The Dark Bond
The Living Daylights, just like its explosive name, was one of the defining movies in the series in more ways than one. Bond’s 15th outing came 25 years after the start of the franchise, and was the first of Timothy Dalton’s two Bond movies. The opinion on Dalton is largely divided, but he did succeed…
A Humble Historical Analysis of the 2014 Election Results
On the clammy evening of the 3rd of June 1991, during one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of independent India, a cargo van broke down with a flat tyre on a busy highway leading to the Sahar International Airport in Bombay. The van contained a highly classified and secret cargo, the existence of which and the…
India’s Middle Class Revolutionaries
(NOTE: 1. Read the entire thing before outraging and shouting abuses. 2. This is not an outright pro/anti post, just trying to drill down the facts of what is going on. 3. I am not a supporter of any party and no one asked me to write this.) All over India, people are outraging against…