Thinking Got Loud

There is a rather extraordinary moment in the first hour of “Dorothy.”  The two leads of the film, Karthi (Rishikanth) and Subbu (Sananth) a...

Anyone who knows me even on a passing level, knows that I place a fair amount of importance on birthdays.   I am good at remembering dates w...

A famous Carnatic maestro named Charukesi receives arguably the worst medical diagnosis for a creative mind: that he has Alzheimer’s disease...

A middle-aged schoolteacher goes to a vegetable shop.   The unsuspecting vendor invites him warmly, expecting a brief and productive interac...

  We are living in the age of information.  Not just data.  But information .  I have lived through a time when a Google search opened infin...

I saw the man from a distance, from the stands of the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad.   The natural lenses that I was born with were not en...

I was not born a non-believer.   Not by a long shot.   “ Umaachi Kaapathu !”   Those were the first two words that I remember using as a c...