Sep 302009
Anatomy of an Ekta Kapoor Soap - The Sleep Matrix

Another one inspired by Ekta Kapoor. Note that taboo concepts in India are not touched upon in soaps.
Cheers.
Sayontan.

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Sep 122009
Anatomy of an Ekta Kapoor Soap - The Regurgitating Plot

Folks in and from India are probably familiar with Ekta Kapoor and her unending saga of soaps. It is my belief that it is algorithmically possible to define the plot for these:

PS: I have been really busy with Suffusion, and weekly transcontinental travel isn’t helping either (actually it is from one coast of the US [...]

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Jul 172009
Truth and Seek

Following my article about the Harry Potter series I have decided to write another summary, this time of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series. Before I begin, a few words about books and me. I love books, though I am not obsessed with them. On an average I read around 12-15 novels a year. That [...]

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Mar 042009

By nature I tend to avoid books and movies with a lot of hype associated with them, because the bigger the hype the greater the magnitude of disappointment in a large number of cases. So I was quite judgmental about the Harry Potter series when I first heard about it in June / July 2000 [...]

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