The Colour of Paradise or Rang-e Khodā (which literally means ‘The Colour of God’) is an Iranian movie set in a beautiful little mountain village near Tehran. The film is visually appealing, in fact the landscapes and its accompanying sounds form an important character. They help to establish the world of the blind protagonist, a tender hearted …
What with flights crashing and disappearing, the Germanwings flight that crashed into the mountains because of one man’s mental sickness is quite difficult to fathom… The transcript of the final moments of the ill-fated Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on March 24th, 2015, gives the chilling account of what occurred in the …
Suddenly I seem to be a part of so many whatsapp groups, first the college group was formed and we’re just getting to know each other after thirteen years. Then a school group was created and the faces of school friends with their double plaited folded up braids came rushing in (to my mind’s eye), …
Well, today marks one year since more than 200 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped in 2014 and so far, they haven’t been rescued. I have thought about these girls quite often over the past year, wondering about their plight. I hoped that they would be rescued soon, the girls must have felt the same… that …
If you’ve been following my blog, you probably know about Tyler Knott Gregson, a poet whose poems tend to draw you in. I’ve written about Knott a couple of times here, and my sister even met the guy. So it was quite a pleasant surprise when I came across this on Tyler’s instagram feed… I …
This is what happens when you send cards to poets… Read More »
Been a while since I visited this place, I keep making notes (on my phone) of all the things I have to write about here, but I never get around to it. Anyway, here’s the PK review I wrote for the church magazine… Having recently seen this movie, I thought I’d write about it and …
I saw this movie recently while travelling to Chennai in the train and before I knew it I was transported to a sleepy little Italian village on the coast where beauty abounds in every frame. Beauty herself forms a major character, she is everywhere you care to look and that’s what the protagonist Mario (Massimo …
I’ve written lots about my hometown, Nagercoil, in this blog… about how every trip home is like being embraced in earth’s bountiful bosom. So you can imagine my surprise when for the very first time in my life, I felt bereft and speechless at her decrepit state. The past few weeks were exactly like the …
Christmas turned out to be wonderfully surprising this year. After the midnight mass I ended up having Irish Bailey’s and plum cake with nuns in the convent. Clinking our glasses to Sláinte! (the Irish version of ‘Cheers’ or ‘drinking to your health’) we sat around the dining table swapping stories. For a person missing her …
Every year, setting up the crib is an experience… when we were kids, the crib was made with this sweet smelling wild reed that dotted the landscape back home. I don’t know what they call it, but the scent of the freshly built crib wafting through the house spiked the excitement levels. The reed though …