Category: Thoughts
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Six Paragraphs on Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘The Mirror’
Memories are not chronological. They do not visit us in the order in which we created them. Memories are also not entirely past. One does not visit them with the objective of purely visiting the past. The remembrance has its origins in the present. I may visit the memory of a summer afternoon when the…
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2013 Hindi Films – Lists
For the Hindi film industry, this year will definitely go down as the year of ‘Naam Bade aur Darshan Chhote’. And now that the year is coming to an end and people are coming out with their various lists of films, I also thought to give it a try. The domain for my lists is…
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Artificial Intelligence – A Creator of Art
“Analytical Engine (Computer) cannot create anything” – Lady Ada Lovelace There is a group of people who believe in the said line of Lady Ada Lovelace, world’s first computer programmer. They firmly believe that computers lack the creativity needed to create something meaningful. A computer just does what it is programmed to do. Well, not…
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A Bookstore Wanderer
Best place for me to hangout is a bookstore. I love the smell, the raw musty woody smell, that could very well have been an aphrodisiac if not for the shortcomings of human senses and sensibilities. Give me a book and I could eat it. Digestive system may go for a toss. Losing it out…
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A Grim Disgusting Guide to Getting Entertained
You, like everyone else, have got a set of people around you who, after being brought closer to you by mere chance and after many years of mutually sustained tolerance and collective experiences some of which have been the anti-thesis of exhilarating and some, well, let’s stick to the tolerance part, have managed to stay…
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Ship of Theseus – Movie Review
Directed by Anand Gandhi Cast – Aida El Kashaf, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah Rating – 9/10 There is a 45 seconds scene in the movie where we see a caterpillar crawling on the floor with shoes passing by and over it. Each time, a shoe comes on the screen, you cringe and pray for its…
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What is Love?
What is love? The feeling of being with her all the time or the feeling of being remembered by her every second.. What is love? Those dew drops suddenly turning to some romantic poetic noun or these sun-rays seeming like emerging rays from a diamond.. What is love? Grinning all day long for every…
Shishir Chaudhary 