Orbital. A book I lived with for many days and nights. And then for periods I couldn’t make sense of – between rush runs and garrulous concalls, between silent dreams and chaotic honks, between pressured cabins and blinding night-lights. But I held it tight under all circumstances. Because it had become a friend. Across its … More View (and spirit) from Space
Slow. Very slow. But it did finally happen. One solitary tear, unable to hold back anymore, rolled down my cheek. And then the dam broke. Watching the final scene on the screen – a moving painting that captured a young girl’s reunion with her best friends of childhood – filled me to the brim with … More To our best kept secret
ENCANTO | Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Charise Castro Smith | Voices by Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo My Rating: 10 of 10 Stars Encanto lives upto its name – it casts a mesmerizing spell that refuses to fade despite completing its defined run. There are so many sparkling dusts hidden in the vintage shelves and encrusted … More Know you are good
Homo Irrealis by André AcimanMy Rating: 5 of 5 Stars I am the gap between what I am and what I am not. Even before the essays – beautiful, wise, full yet strangely wistful – begin to sing, this quote of the maverick Fernando Pessoa finds place. And that rounds up the mood of the … More Life, as you don’t see it
Parasite | Directed by Bong Joon-ho | Starring Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Jeong-un Lee My Rating: 10 of 5 Stars It has been exactly 47 days since the avalanche hit me but I clearly remember my stand in the aftermath. When the final frame of the movie blacked out and the end credits started rolling on the … More Movie Review: Parasite by Bong Joon-ho (2019)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongMy Rating: 5 of 5 Stars Memory. A twig to hang our old ages on, a current to charge our failed youth from; a blanket to hush our demons from the black, a spring to nourish our wounded dreams underneath. A whole. A hollow. And everything suspended in between is … More Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars When I turned the final page, I was relieved and sad at the same instant; relieved to have finally let the fates of POWs take wings to better skies and sad to not be living an alternate life, altogether. … More Book Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Chris RiddellMy Rating: 5 of 5 Stars When I walk down a street I take often, I don’t need telling where the hump is or where the manhole splays. But even so, on days the street light doesn’t work, I feel a pinch; as if the little streak … More Book Review: Art Matters by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Chris Riddell (2018)
This is Water by David Foster WallaceMy Rating: 5 of 5 Stars ‘This is Water’. Water – Now I love that metaphor. I end up addressing many things and their traits and their progresses and their declines through this unbound source of immense satiation. But how does this fit into a speech delivered to students, facing … More Book Review: This Is Water by David Foster Wallace (2009)
Dear D, Yes, I know it was yesterday. But like your books, I suppose, you too wouldn’t care for worldly conventions; conventions like wishing someone on their birthday. So, I have taken the liberty, and without feeling guilty, of wishing you birthday a day late. Just why though? You can’t hear me. You can’t see … More Happy Birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky!
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