Yours Sincerely

There's no arguing about how fast-paced life has become today. We've meetings, deadlines, ambitions, stress and there's very little time to eat, let alone cook. It takes a toll on health and I'm sure most of us have faced situations where we're tired of eating at Mc Donald's four out of five working days in a week or simply tired of eating out. Those of us who don't have a cook (like me) and sometimes even those who do (when the cook is away or you don't want to eat the actual 'meal-food') are very familiar with the times when we're dog-tired and do not have energy to so much as cut a carrot but are sick of ordering from the same 'near the home restaurant' again. After my stunts in the kitchen, I realized there're a few things which I would always want to keep a stock of - Some healthy options and some not-healthy-but-happy-energizing options: 1. Crackers, rusks, biscuits and cookies:  Health-freaks can try out the no-suga...

Honestly, I'm no horror movie fan as they give me creeps and I just don't enjoy that kind of cinema. Drama is more like my genre as I find it engaging. Anyways, I had to watch The Conjuring thanks to my fiancée (I'm going to ensure that he returns the favor :P). It was a good horror movie (not sure if I can really judge - I don't have any benchmark to compare and besides, I closed my eyes during half the movie!) and you can gather the rest from reviews. This is one review which struck me though and I'm in agreement with it: Andrew O'Hehir of Salon said the film provided "all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule", but thought the central conceit -- that the innocent women accused and executed in the Salem witch trials "actually were witches, who slaughtered children and pledged their love to Satan and everything!" -- was "reprehensible and inexcusable bullshit". I'm glad somebody mentioned it! Y...

Try this - watch an old Amitabh movie from the bell-bottom era and see how it feels like. I was discussing movies with my fiancée and I remembered how I felt like when I watched Andaaz Apna Apna and Amar, Akbar and Anthony last year. There's something charmingly amusing about the simplicity and innocence of the life in that era. It's the same naiveté which I adored about the first part of Om Shanti Om. It's touching and somehow makes me smile for Ohmy even when he considers changing his surname to become successful in bollywood, even when he talks to Shanti's poster coyly declaring his love and when he does so many other things which we obviously find stupid today. Life back then was different and when we see it from present day, you can't help but wonder - how naïve could those people be! And it also makes us realize how we might be perceived by our future generations... But given that, do I say that old is always gold? Not necessarily. We are evolving constantl...