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Brilliant piece by @kbalakumar: "The voice was hers. The sadhana was hers. The bhakti was hers. The genius was hers. What Sadasivam possessed was something else — the extraordinary ability to understand how that genius could be presented, protected, amplified and taken to an audience far larger than the traditional Carnatic world.
To reduce that achievement to the handiwork of a caste patriarch is not a radical reading of history. It is simply too small a reading for the magnitude of both Sadasivam and MS."
swarajyamag.com/amp/story/cu…
No one does micro infractions as well as Michael Haneke. Pick any movie of his, and you can see a master at work.
There is no better music to soothe a crying baby than the melodic moorings of Ali Farka Tourre and the kora master Toumani Diabate!
Headhunters by Herbie Hancock is one of the all time greatest albums that needs to be heard by more folk. 41 minutes of magic!
As I get older, I find it much easier to meander through my days listening to ambient, jazz and instrumental music..helps glide through!
It’s a pity that there isn’t a nice fine dining Indo Chinese restaurant called ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ as yet on the scene!
Oye Lucky Lucky Oye captures the Delhi patois so well. Revisiting the movie after all these years and it holds up quite well. Was also my first introduction to the zany world of Sneha Khanwalkar!
Rather than going gaga about the wankery of Wes Andersen, the world would be much better off appreciating the brilliant use of colour that Almodovar employs in his films. Case in point being his English language debut ‘The Room Next Door’. Delectable!
Reading the movie reviews of Anthony Lane, random life musings of Geoff Dyer and food reviews of Jonathan Gold have given me the greatest joy these past few weeks. Perfect to dip in and dip out of amongst the madness!
The parallels between Su from So and Aavesham are not just limited to the bangers Illuminati and Danks Anthem, but also in the quirks shared by the leads Ranga and Ravi Anna.
Ry Cooder has weaves together a lovely score for Wim Wenders ‘Paris, Texas’. He’s basically just noodling with this slide guitar, but it’s pitch perfect for the tone of the movie..
Basketball players have some of the most elaborate pre game rituals. And here I thought a batter doing an exaggerated run between the wickets or some heavy duty stretching was a bit much!! #NBAFinals
2 movies with brilliant soundtracks that I’ve watched this year - Bullitt and Shaft. And the dialogues are so on point. It’s a pity they don’t write dialogues like them anymore
Christos Tsialkos is becoming my favourite Aussie writer. Bonus that he is a bonafide Melburnian who weaves the city artfully into his books. The Slap, Merciless Gods and The In Between have all been seriously good books.
Nice meta reference of using a song by Khruangbin in the latest season of The White Lotus set in Thailand
This song should be the soundtrack to the twilight session of every D/N test
youtu.be/YkADj0TPrJA?si=Ws1J…