A media veteran with over 10 years of experience in curating, writing, and editing news. Have been an Editorial Consultant for many firms. An avid reader & learner, I'm what you call an auto-didact.
Panaroma
Successful businesses manufacture products for the markets, but the extraordinary ones create markets for their products. For all intents and purposes, Momofuku Ando was neither successful nor remarkable till the first half of the 20thcentury. When he built a makeshift shed outside his house in 1957, he was 47, broke,
Cinephilia
Life is a series of accidents stitched together by an observer’s memories. And what better example of this could be made available than maverick auteur Maha Venkatesh’s C/o Kancharapalem. The cinema cements the suggestion that we are a product of accidents, which we carelessly call experience. Understated
Cinephilia
Rajesh Khanna knew the pulse of the people but forgot that it was auteurs like Mukherjee that created them. After Namak Haram, Khanna and Bachchan never acted together again
Cinephilia
Agreed it is no Raging Bull or the marvellous Daniel Day-Lewis’ The Boxer, yet there is a certain studied panache to the way Pa Ranjith goes about Sarpatta. Though it peddles in clichés, it is the best sports movie ever made in India
Panaroma
In 2017, Carlos Ghosn's success story was the envy of his peers, but by the end of 2018, he was in jail. And by 2019, he was out of it and how.
Cricket
When play resumed, under the Least Productive Over rule, two overs had been lost. As per the rule, the two overs that could be deducted from the South Africa's chase were that of Meyrick Pringle
Opinion
The mismanagement, corruption and bad press notwithstanding, the economic strain of the Games was as shocking as the consequences of botching up the event.
Opinion
At the onset, this discussion does not aim to demean the achievements India has made over the past few decades, but seeks to build a cautionary tale by highlighting that the side-effects of organising the extravaganza far outweigh any perceived gains.
Opinion
Our universe is fast expanding, but our earth is not. By rough estimates, we add over 2,00,000 people to the world population every day, but the resources to support this spurt is limited. According to a UN estimate, by 2050, the world would add 2.5 billion more
Panaroma
Do you remember those old box radios, which would every once in a while latch on to some obscure frequency and belt out random gibberish? Perchance, your stroll in the garden opened you to the frequency the trees were chatting on
Cinephilia
Sensationalism and disregard for victims' privacy has come to define the very existence of media coverage. However, can we say with conviction that we crave only for hard news to keep ourselves informed?
Cinephilia
It was in protest of this partisan selection that French bureaucrats and ministers decided to start their own festival. Cannes was selected as the venue and September 1, 1939 was set as the date of inauguration. However, on that very day Nazi Germany invaded Poland to start the Second World War.
Cinephilia
Columbia Pictures was deeply interested in the script, and is believed to have even roped in actors like Peter Sellers, Marlon Brando and Steven McQueen. In 1968, Peter Sellers backed out citing a lack of a meaty role; Brando and McQueen followed suit.
Cricket
The Zimbabwean cricket team made its World Cup debut in 1983 under Duncan Fletcher, who would later go on to become the England team coach. The African country's finest moment came when it defeated a strong Australian line-up in the league stage
Politics
With all the diplomatic aveneues shut for them, the Bolsheviks decided to sell the Czarist jewels they had appropriated during the revolution. To sell the jewels and fund the trade delegation, the jewels first had to be smuggled into America.
Opinion
The Constitution of the short-lived Spanish Republic for the first time enfranchised the women in a European Catholic country. They promptly exercised their democratic right by voting for the restoration of the monarchy.