The Great Ganesha

This week’s Economist has an article in the ‘Books and Arts’ section about detective fiction across the globe. The article cites Raymond Chandler as creating the cool-as-ice detective character. You know, the world-weary, philosophical, alcoholic-but-alert man, with a mess of relationships in his wake. I think they put it best: The hardboiled hero is cynical [...]

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This appeared in this month’s issue of Thirsty [here] and a version was posted to Blogcritics [here]. Two films stood out among those that were screened at the 2006 South Asian Film Festival in San Francisco organized by 3rd I (San Francisco) on Nov 10-11-12. Omkara What if Othello were to come on Oprah? She [...]

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