Little known life forms
Last week “The Economist” in its Intelligent life feature carried an interesting article titled “Some like it very hot”. It talks about extremophiles. Wikipedia defines them as “organism that thrives…
May 2012
The IT Crowd
British sitcoms have more variety in their comedy compared to American variety which centres on sex alone. Remember Yes Minister, Mind Your Language, Mr.Bean, Come fly with me, all were…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Booked tickets online at Bookmyshow.com, I went to see this new British comedy movie “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” at Inox Movies. The movie has quite a star cast of…
Micromax Funbook P300
I have been using an iPad2 tablet for last one year. With all the news about the low-cost Android tablets that are out I wanted to try one. I purchased…
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Today I saw this movie “The Ghost Writer” directed by Roman Polanski. The story is about a “Ghost” writer (Ewan McGregor) contracted to write the memoirs of a former British…
Udupi Temple
Last week, we were holidaying in Bekal. On one of the days, we travelled to Udupi town for darshan – by road, it takes about two-and-half hours. Udupi Sri Krishna…
The kid with a bike (2011)
The French film was subtitled in English as “The Kid with a bike”. The story is about a 12-year-old boy (Cycil) who is abandoned by his father to foster home.…
Trip to Bekal, Kerala
Last week, we travelled to Bekal, Kerala for vacation. From Chennai, we flew down to Mangalore, from there it was about 90 minutes by road to Bekal. We stayed in…