Archive for August, 2007

Refworks to go offline

Refworks the now online bibliography and citation manager is slated to be available offline in a short while. It looks like this has been one of the most demanded features of refworks and without doubt it will increase the usability of refworks considerably. Watch this space for further announcements.
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Dis-concert in Madras

A little note on how Hariprasad Chaurasia’s concert left me between agony and ecstasy
Hariprasad Chaurasia is a man who never disappoints. I have been mesmerised for a while in every performance of his and always.  Typically I walk out in a semi-trance with a feeling of ecstasy that only a great live music performance […]

Kamal Hassan’s Anbe Sivam: An underrated classic

Anbe Sivam

IMDB

Year: 2003

Writer: Kamal Hassan, Madan

Director: C. Sundar

Length: 160

Category: Drama

Rating: 5 out of 5
Anbe Sivam i.e. “love is god” is a story about changing values in an era of globalisation. It is an all-time favourite movie for me and many others

Anbarasu, a young upper-middle-class Indian ad moviemaker, encounters a middle aged trade union activist in an airport. Due to heavy rain the flight gets cancelled and the two make an arduous trip by every means available from Orissa to Chennai. Their conflicting values and approaches constantly creates frictions and through this journey changing value systems in India is beautifully portrayed.

[to be continued…a friend I’ve been waiting for has arrived!]





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