When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis. Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you. Roger Federer Oh..London it was, yet again! I reckon this loss at the Laver Cup was rather bittersweet. It…
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The Queen
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – The Queen, 1989 It was seven years ago, I chanced upon an opportunity to engage in an interesting conversation with my grandmother over a game of Dayakattai – a variation of dice game…
Abiding Brilliance
Life is… about forming habits; good or bad, is one’s own choice; Life is also… about holding virtues; highest or lowest, it’s known what ain’t a vice; Life is, more often… doing actions and reactions; former is rarely proactive, latter is mostly instinctive… An actor bears the burden, of forming, holding, and doing; one more…
Versatility nonpareil
There were the fans, the film buffs and critics. In spite of how contrarian they were in general; in Sridevi, they converged to a singular thought and couldn’t agree more. Versatile, vivacious and stunningly charismatic. To a legion of fans, Sri was a dream diva. To some, she was an epitome of style and fashion….
Shaken, not stirred
It is quite ironical that Roger Moore’s Bond never actually ordered the martini cocktail himself in any of the seven classic outings as 007. He has one ordered for him by other characters, nonetheless. As much as I can jog back in memory, the first English movie that I saw was The Spy Who Loved…