I’ve welcomed this month by staying awake, which I seldom do. I was awake for the last two days of last year and was roaming around Hyderabad, meeting people, and spending time with cousins. While I used to go to bed early before, there has been a slight change in…

In the last week of 2022, I got 4–5 books as gifts from my friends and colleagues. The shortest one among them was “Exactly What To Say.” …

December is always exciting for me for various reasons. I plan a lot about how my year should be, and by the team, I bring them to life; it’s already December. I made it a point to travel every December, and it has been going well. With just a couple…

I’ve been writing Monthly Reviews and publishing them here so that I can keep track of my monthly activity. I started this in September 2021 because I watched many films that month but couldn’t write a blog for each movie. I started it off as a compilation blog, but some…

Pondicherry has been on my bucket list for more than three years now. I’ve been to Chennai twice but couldn’t visit Pondicherry. A couple of my relatives and friends went there, had fun, and called it the Goa of the South. Since it lies on the East Coast, I can…

I was talking to my colleague and friend, Yitzhak, and he suggested that I watch Kooman, directed by Jeetu Joseph, streaming on Amazon Prime Video. It has been around ten days since I watched a movie, and I was looking for the right one to resume the marathon this month. …

Meeting friends, celebrating with relatives, enjoying little moments and watching Monica O My Darling — November has been kind to me! Books Nallanchu Tella Cheera: I purchased it a few months back when the Emesco bookhouse bus was in our town. I went there to buy Vishala Netralu after knowing that it was an…

Although I had decided not to write work-related stuff here, this is an exception. Oh wait, this isn’t work-related either! Our company, Fyle, organized an offsite in Sakleshpur (Karnataka) last weekend. We met in Bengaluru and headed there in two buses on the morning of 25th November. Disclaimer: This isn’t…

I didn’t watch a movie for seven days straight, so I had to return to watching movies! I opened the list where I noted the recommendations by friends; the first was Maja Ma. Though I didn’t know anything about the film, with the poster, I assumed it to be a…