All posts by Alok

Aadukalam
September 4, 2011, No Comments

Guest blogger Sowmya ponders about Aadukalam's take on the intense world of rural cockfighting... and blind love.

The Fire and The Smoke: A (belated) review of Fire in Babylon (2011)
July 29, 2011, No Comments

Anticipation and expectation, in the context of a long awaited film, are usually harbingers of disappointment. Each day ...

Camp Intensive Drama
July 10, 2011, 1 Comment

Sowmya Kumar gives us an extended love letter to Bollywood and Indian TV's taste for camp.

Back With a Bang
July 7, 2011, 5 Comments

When one returns from a long break from work, one is tempted to take it easy, switch gears slowly, and settle into a rhy ...

Bollywood Begins [Harischandrachi Factory (2009)]
June 27, 2011, 2 Comments

(This film has already been reviewed on C20s in depth and detail by Ankan here. This is to add my two cents on what the ...

A Rivalry to Remember
June 20, 2011, 4 Comments

On 6th of July, 2008, the technicians at the UK’s electric power transmission and distribution company, National G ...

How BS Yeddyurappa has Survived 11 Attempts to Remove Him (so far) – Part III
May 30, 2011, 5 Comments

Part I | Part II | Part III Almost as I write this, another Karnataka-related crisis turns up out of nowhere to torment ...

How BS Yeddyurappa has Survived 11 Attempts to Remove Him (so far) – Part II
May 26, 2011, 3 Comments

Part I | Part II | Part III In 2010, when the BJP’s campaign to oust Ashok Chavan as Chief Minister of Maharashtra ...

How BS Yeddyurappa has Survived 11 Attempts to Remove Him (so far) – Part I
May 23, 2011, 6 Comments

Part I| Part II| Part III Another attempt at the (political) assassination of BS Yeddyurappa fails. That makes it the 11 ...

Vacations
May 21, 2011, 5 Comments

(This is a supremely personal take on an issue most working adults in this country find hard to live with: Supreme Court ...