Love often gets a bad rap. Especially after a break-up when the cynics come out in droves and declare that true love only exists in books and in movies, that it’s fiction, a trap laid out by writers and poets, fooling, misguiding the guileless junta who don’t know any better. And there’s some truth to […]
If you happen to hang around people who work in the TV industry, you would know how scary are the words Lapsed Audience. Earlier lapsed audience use to mean the viewers who had migrated to shows on other TV channels in the same time slot (which could be quickly fixed with an animal attack, […]
We should start with a fact to put this review into perspective. The first book by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, now a major motion picture, has sold a staggering 20 million copies worldwide, and that meant tremendous pressure on the author to come with a cracker of a hit with the second […]
We all have our smartphones glued to our hands, our eyes barely flitting away from it. We can text the people we love, a few seconds later like their picture on Instagram, retweet their tweet a few minutes later, and be a speaking carrot for them over on Snapchat. We are constantly connected. There’s a […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is weird, funny, acutely self-aware, all things you don’t expect out of a sequel. You expect sequels to overdo on what had worked the last time. Every time you watch a sequel of a movie you loved, you’re just sitting there, letting a sense of nostalgia wash over, making […]
The first two days in Bali were spent coddling in the lap of luxury at The Bale. My heart was breaking when it came to leaving the hotel. We hadn’t seen much of Seminyak in the first two days (the heart of the city and the party district), so I was a little sceptical if […]
I should admit my ignorance right at the beginning. I didn’t expect much from Bali the first time I went there. It was a detour of a trip Avantika, and I had planned to Israel. When that didn’t go as planned we – as we often do – looked for places that don’t require a […]
There’s only so many times you can just to go to Goa or Pondicherry in the middle of the night, right? Sometimes you might want to go somewhere farther away, stretch your horizons, and blow through your savings, flood Instagram with ‘vacay’ pictures because why not? As the parlance goes. YOLO. For moments like these, […]
