Tamil need diverse content not just preachy Cinema, should come out of drug lord, poor people blood drinking villain..etc. My life is already tough, why will I go to theatre to see more suffering. Need new hero's not just boomers, better pay to story/screenplay writers 1/2

Not everyone want to sit in the front row. I hate sitting in the front. My comfort place was 2nd row not because I have low confidence, just donot want see many teachers eye-eye, half of them are there for job security, as useless as Cuddalore railway gate keepers.

Austerity seems to be the water in which we swim. Based on the results, or lack thereof, we owe it to ourselves to investigate just what it is, where it comes from, and why it’s still here A brief look at the origins of austerity, its effects on our leisure and our imagination:

#Chhava movie showed that Mughals looted Gold and treasure from Marathas and kept it in the Asirgarh Fort, Burhanpur, MP. After watching the movie, locals flocked to the spot with digging tools, metal detectors and bags to dig up the treasure and take it home. My heart bleeds

I couldn't have said it better if I tried. No one has exploited the intrinsic fatalism and predestinarianism of the poor Indian more than this dispensation has done. It has sucked pride and dignity out of people's lives, confident that there is no price to be paid.

It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world.

His term in office represented an outburst of hope that paralleled the one right after independence. Made India believe the impossible. Fastest rise in prosperity our civilization has ever known. His uncommon decency made you believe our better angels had won. Thank you sir.

Self-help gurus have made big bucks in the past 5 years, teaching people how to: 1) Manage time 2) Multi-task 3) Skim and summarise 4) Ignore theory, focus on practice This is going to end now. Only those who aquire knowledge for the sake of knowledge, with no other purpose

@beefeater_blr @dstock_insights I am okay with those movies. I am fedup of Tamil movie industry. People life is already tough, f**ked-up. Tamil industry want to show how others life also f***ed-up, too much virtue signalling. There should be a balance. I donot think, we will ever see another Panchatantram

In 1998, Richard Rorty, the American philosopher predicted the coming of Donald Trump: "Members of labor unions, and un-organized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being

A brilliant, lucid piece by @EmergingRoy about the economic crisis we are facing, that everyone - even those who are scared of economics - must read. He has been saying this for a decade, and now, as he says "the chickens have come home to roost." https://t.co/ekuqJ4bDMj

The political Left has still not found a way to evolve beyond a focus on industrial workplace struggle. Instead it has deserted the economy for dubious cultural causes that only cement capitalism. It needs to refocus on rent, debt, labour movement and use of technology.

The decline of the headphone jack has released an epidemic of braindead mouthbreathers playing videos in public spaces. Airpods are expensive but even if you manage to get them they're easy to lose (easier if you're dumb). So tech companies increase profits as people buy more of

Sometimes online videos reveal one enduring truth about life: extreme amounts of money and power don't preclude people from being ridiculous. In fact can actually precipitate ridiculousness by cutting off feedback

What went wrong with India. A personal opinion and a long post. In an agrarian country, whose strength lay in farming, farmers were left behind everyone in 75 years of existence. There has been zero representation of farmers in any place of power or policy making. Today, hardly

"In contrast to the age of revolution, which took action, the present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements: nothing happens but still there is instant publicity." - Kierkegaard, who might as well have been writing about our own time.

2. Rahul is decent. But he doesn't have the hunger for power or vision for the country, other than a sense of noblesse oblige, driven by his own sense of guilt over being born with privilege. He has moral conviction, but less ideological and is easily swayed by the activist Left.

Problem with this framing is that Malayalam is not where Indian cinema is heading. Malayalam cinema is like British TV. It exists in a classier indie niche because the audience need for populist, often dumb mass entertainment is fulfilled by movies in Tamil, Hindi and English.

50 over format is not dead. BCCI is murdering it in broad daylight by putting zero effort into organising what is still world cricket's marquee event.