Archive for June, 2006

How “The Alchemy of Desire” changed my life

June 5th, 2006 by Shiva | Comments | Filed in Reviews

The Alchemy of Desire

by Tarun J. Tejpal

This is an amazing amazing book. What prose?! and what a story?! This has rekindled my faith in Indian authors, Finally a book in “english” by an Indian author, without a thousand transliterated words from Hindi.

It has made me see a few things I had forgotten, made me look and find new things, that I didn’t knew existed.

Thank you Tarun, you need to write more!


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Why it’s taking me forever to finish consuming “The Da Vinci Code”

June 5th, 2006 by Shiva | Comments | Filed in Reviews
The Da Vinci Code
by Ron Howard

Well, finally managed to catch the moview! The moview has been banned all over Tamil Nadu (Drat!!!), but I chanced to catch it. IPrehaps because I have read the book, the actors seem to be mere narrators of the script. I could hardly accept Tom Hanks (guess he is getting a little old these days), as Robert Langdon. I like Silas though, but would have expected a more burly man!

Aringarosa, fails to convey the passion that he felt for christianity!! But nevertheless, the movie is a must watch, atleast for you to realise, you are better off reading a book, than watching it!


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Piya Bole - Pareenita

June 5th, 2006 by Shiva | Comments | Filed in Random Thoughts

I was listening to the song “Piya Bole” and couldn’t figure out meanings of some words … so I googled it and presto!
BollyWHAT? presents THE TRANSLATED LYRICS of PARINEETA
enjoy.. nice lyrics eh?!

Btw, You can find guitar tabs for that song here and here