2024 is the year I re-discovered my love for malayalam movies. Growing up in a multi-lingual household, I used to watch malayalam, hindi, tamil and english movies. Slowly, over the years, it had become mostly english movies, with malayalam movie industry and Bollywood slowly becoming unpalatable. Commercial trash dominated the…
Like a lot of kids from the 90s, I grew up loving Christopher Reeve's Superman. As I grew older, Superman seemed like a dated concept, while newer and "cooler" superheroes caught (and kept) my attention. While there were comics that made me like Superman again, it…
AI, or artificial intelligence, is the talk of the town. Every day, there are new products announced or launched, which boast of being driven by AI. Existing "smart" products are being slowly re-branded to "AI" products. As with the "smart" device hype, the moniker…
belief (noun) 1) An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. Some of the major world events have been driven by beliefs. Beliefs are deeply personal. You can influence someone’s beliefs, but you can never force someone to believe something. truth (noun) 1) The quality…
Superman is one of the most iconic fictional figures of our time. Superhero lore is the closest we have to mythology from the modern era, and Superman is the most prominent of them, the one who started it all. He is one of the few fictional characters whose story has…
Immortality. The holy grail of existence. Many strive for it. Some attain immortality in the memory of others. I restrict my thoughts to biological immortality. Living forever. What if you could live forever? Some would opine that living forever is a curse. You live on while those around you fade…
“This is my December.. This is my time of the year.. This is my December.. This is all so clear..” I alight from the bus and take a deep breath. Here I am again, alone in the big city. A slight tug in my chest reminds me that this would…
Batman v Superman has been an extremely divisive movie, with a ridiculously low Rotten Tomatoes score of 28%, and a strongly divided fanbase. While far from being perfect, personally, I loved how ambitious the movie was. It was not just another summer blockbuster. I loved how Zack Snyder, in typical…
When I was small, I thought a psychopath was someone who was insane (obviously I confused it with psychotic). I still find many people making the same mistake – referring to someone as a ‘psychopath’ when they mean ‘psychotic’. However, psychopaths are not easy to identify, precisely because they are typically…