Praveen Shivashankar

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  1. A Pain called Indian Passport Office! — 41 comments
  2. Soulful Songs for Soul – Bhaavageete – II — 29 comments
  3. Bhaavageete: Soulful songs for hearfelt emotions – 1 — 28 comments
  4. Bhavani Ashtakam – An Ode to the Universal Mother! — 13 comments
  5. Favorite Kannada poetic numbers in movies! — 11 comments

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Rio-tously Colorful!

Rio

Its been really a long time since I wrote about movies! And boy have I been watching them! Ok! Candid confession. I LOVE ANIMATIONS! (Phew! glad I got that out!). No, seriously! I could survive a whole year watching animaged flicks!  I can put out a huge list of my favorite animated movies, and never …

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Closures….

zindagi kis kadar aasaan hoti rishte gar hote libaas – aur badal lete kameezon ki tarah! – Gulzar (How easy would’ve life been, if only relationships were like clothes! And we could change them like shirts!) Reading Gulzar is like walking into a tornado! It sweeps you with its words, tosses your heart around, devastating and bringing out …

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The Journalism of Sham(e): TV9

“Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism” said Graham Greene. With due apologies to the noted author and a journalist himself, I would like to quote that TV-9 has come to mean bad journalism. It is irrefutable that television holds the center stage when it comes to the household media. Amongst …

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Krodha bhakshyas….

Krodha Bhakshya was a demigod who would feed on the anger of people and grow strong.  He is a legendary character who had almost succeeded in dethroning Lord Indra. Needless to say, we do have some Krodha Bhakshyas amongst us too! Well, for all that one may know, maybe the person who created this character, himself was a …

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Pissed off….

The Government is proposing a budget cut for the UID project.  An estimated 1,400 crore is what is recommended to be allocated to the project instead of the 3,500 that was requested by the UID folks. So, why am I pissed off?!! Well, the estimate of the bribe that a certain fu**ing, b@$t@rd of a …

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In memory of Thatha…

My earliest recollection of my grandfather (paternal) is one of sitting on his lap, as he would patiently read to me stories from resplendantly colored books, with lot of animated characters in them. More often than not, they were all stories of Gods, demigods, their progenies – describing various adventures and pastimes. My mom, often says that the …

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