-
Game of Thrones Season 8 Review
Episode 1 The first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones premiered earlier today, and even the title sequence shows how far the series has come from its humble beginnings. A map that used to span the whole of Westeros and Essos now has only three significant areas of interest — Last Hearth, Winterfell and King’s Landing. Last Hearth is named so because it is the final place that gives people south of The Wall a sense of home and warm fire before they venture north to the colder climes. It is the northernmost castle in the country (not counting the three that belong to the Night’s Watch alongside The Wall) and is…
-
On Gratitude – Part 1
Beware the ides of March So said a soothsayer in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. While that quote remains in most people’s minds, it is what Caesar replied with, that stayed in mine. He is a dreamer; let us leave him It was January 2015, the first time I saw multitudes of comics on stage as part of an event organised by Times of India. I knew of only one amongst those comics and that too in a completely different avatar. I loved what I watched that day. All but one (an interesting story for another day) succeeded that day in getting consistent laughs. Following that high, I pushed myself to…
-
On Vanthooral from Peranbu
My mind took me on a journey while listening to this magnificent Yuvan Shankar Raja song
