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Global hotting

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 It is no longer global warming but global hotting or more precisely global burning like hell!!! If there is one topic which finds place year after year in this space that would be on how hot it is becoming with every passing year and how unbearable it is becoming with every summer that seems to be on an ever increasing trend. During my school days it used to be 4 months of summer from around April till june-july end and then it would relatively become cooler with rainy season starting. Or bare minimal when it used t blaze away during day time, evening will be filled with rain. This year, from March onwards, AC has been running non-stop everynight and we are already in the 9th month with forecast of every day having increased temperature by atleast a couple of centigrades. This year may be exceptional with el nino, la nina and all combinations of those vowels and consonants playing havoc across the globe. But it seems to be increasing severely despite the peak summer being supposed...
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Micro by Michael Crichton

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After completing Prodigal daughter, a book which always gives a sense of fulfillment and happiness, i thought of posting about it. But if there is one book that has found numerous reference in this space, that would be it. In fact, i was reminded of how i had a thought of becoming President myself, when i read the book for the first time and how it invited ridicule and embarrassing comments when i shared the same with couple of collleagues from my first company. The fact that i am not even qualified to become president of an apartment association leave alone a country is an altogether different matter. But whenever i read that book, it invokes a sense that if you are determined you can become one. Of course, Archer doesn't dwell into the details of every single day of the life of the characters and obviously the novel deals with key things from their lives. But whenever i read the section where she is first nominated for Senate and the quote that "Kennedy said he had the best ...
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Person of Interest - review

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I first came across this series maybe almost a decade back. Even within first few episodes it felt very content heavy and that too quite serious about itself. The reason why i even went about this one is because of the name "Nolan" being associated with it. It is created by the brother of Christopher Nolan, the madsensical director, who is hell bent on making movie watching as serious and interesting as reading quantum physics for public exam. He is one guy who has an increasing set of niche followers with every movie of his!! Not understanding his movies in first watch is an "in" thing to say and no one would believe if you said anything else to the contrary. Person of Interest, stands heads and shoulders above any other data series that has ever been made and possibly will be made as well in its genre for the simple reason that it takes itself seriously from episode one and every single episode then onwards, which form a straight line towards the season finale epi...
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Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

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This is not a typical book review post, but more of an emotion. I can't tag this book as yet another favorite of mine. It carries lots of happy and positive memories for me and if at all i've to tag someone for a teacher's day post, that would Jeffrey Archer for improving my english and in fact for having taught me most of the words i use and familiar with at present. His books were my distance learning course which gave me confidence about the language that Rapidex couldn't. My dad was anxious and at times more worried at my language skills, especially English and his insistence and the efforts he took to improve it only made me more scared and insecure about the language. So much so that while my school mates played shuttle on the day before tenth public exam for English, i was slogging till late in the night mugging up lessons as if it was science. Archer's books made me relax and enjoy the language and his easy use of sentences made me understand and realize wha...
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Younger - drama series review

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An interesting premise which sounds illogical not just on paper but on every sense, despite which the series managed to survive seven seasons means, it sheerly on the strength of casting.  The story is about a 40 year old woman, who fakes her profile as a 26 year old to get a job. What starts as a genuine attempt to make ends meet, by getting into a job, spirals into several situations, each of which almost results in her secret getting revealed, but manages to save herself just in the nick of time. By the final season, almost every one in her circle, one after another, gets to know about her secret and real age, but not surprisingly, keeps her secret and even supports her. Idha first seasonlaye panniruntha renday episodela kadha mudinjirukum is a different story. The casting, as i mentioned saves the story and makes it watchable. The lady who fakes herself as a millenial despite being couple of decades older, was actually in her 40's when the show began, so goes for rest of the ca...
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Recursion by Blake crouch

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One last book in the Blake Crouch series of novels :) Ithoda stopping it for now. Too much of dystopia and even normal mirror looks like "Black mirror" after reading all these books. Now, to the story. I am not sure of the sequence or the order in which his books were written, leave alone getting published. But Recursion seems to be an extended version of Dark matter. In both the books, love and the quest to re-unite with your loved one across multiple timelines or universes seems to be the theme.  In Recursion, the heroine invents a chair, which takes back people in time. She wants to help her mother suffering from Alzheimer, to restore her memories. As expected, the chair falls into other peoples hands and what happens forms the rest of the story. As an one liner, this may sound more sci-fi than emotional. But the way the chair transforms her life and the lives of everyone else in the world, forms the whole of the story. The hero happens to be an alcoholic (surprise! surpri...
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The golden era

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At some stage, every one of us would have, will be, using this phrase - "andha kaalathula". That is your graduation ceremony into geriatry , password for being labelled perusu , valedictory speech of being vayasaaidchu, kinder way towards being/becoming kezham. Ardha raathrila edhuku indha post? What was the trigger?? Well.  I saw a speech by late Mr.Nellai kannan about Kannadasan. He was speaking about the depth of philosophy on his thathuva songs and how his command over his language helped him churn out so many immortal creations. One such song, he just mentioned a para that stayed with me.. haunted me to be precise. "Iravin kanneer panithuli enbaar Mugilin kanner mazhaiyena solvaar Iyarkkai azhudhaal ulagam sirikkum Manidhan azhudhaal iyarkkai sirikkum" Even while reading the lines you can't resist hearing Chandrababu's voice and the immense sadness it leaves in your heart from the movie "kavalai illaadha manidhan". I've never seen the movi...
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