Mani Sankar

blogs from Trivandrum

Interstellar : A Movie Review
There is that one hilariously sardonic exchange(ostensibly which only the 5 of us in the entire cinema hall found tacky enough to share a laugh) between Coop(Matthew McConaughey) and his daughter Murphy's teacher about how the Apollo moon landings were staged to drain the Soviet resources and its su...
Posted on 8 November 2014 | 12:15 am
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A Hyperbolic Spin: The Post Polls
"A media house is a business firm. It is unwise and imbecile of the audience to expect ethical and moral treatment of information from them!", remarked a vehement Jeemon Jacob (an award-winning investigative journalist and the South Indian chief of the Tehelka, upon meeting him at an event recently)...
Posted on 13 May 2014 | 8:04 pm
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The plight of Desi Boys: an unravelling of the deep-rooted propaganda
Though,traditionally,the western world regards Indian women to be the submissive,meeky, shy, hiding-behind the curtain cloth type , there was always the dormant alter-ego which was battling the constraints of conventionalism and the great Indian propriety. You can't complain the Whites either for th...
Posted on 6 May 2014 | 7:25 pm
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