The latest monster film, Cloverfield [http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com] (IMDB [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/]), has drawn a massive buzz online. This film will not leave you with a middle-ground, so you’ll either hate it, or you’ll love it. We saw Cloverfield last weekend, and for a…
Noting that cricket is one of the great things that bind the Commonwealth nations together, British PM Gordon Brown has hinted [http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=9129cb2d-1f72-4d9d-bd2c-9d48104e63d3&&Headline=Brown+for+bestowing+knighthood+on+Sachin] that Sachin Tendulkar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar], one…
Arthouse style films, specially shorts and micro-movies, have been one of my keen interests for the past few years. This creative medium of depicting and sharing a personal view in a public forum is a challenge, and a delight to watch. The other day, I stumbled upon a short film,…
The project I’m working on at work is gaining momentum, and we are nearly starting with the proof-of-concept architecture solution. While I’ve used ORM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping]‘s for data objects and domain persistence in the past, we have been playing with NHibernate [http:…
The new Apple MacBook Air looks amazing … Read more at Gizmodo [http://gizmodo.com/345051/apple-macbook-air-looks-absolutely-amazing] or the official MacBook Air website [http://www.apple.com/macbookair/]. By the way, the cute song in the ad is New Soul by Yael Naim [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM].…
The other day we watched “Taare Zameen Par [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986264/]” (Stars on Earth), a new hindi movie. An enlightening film to say the least. A must watch for all ages! One of the songs, “Maa” (Mom/Mother), is touching with its simple yet beautiful lyrics. It…
Over the years, it has been debated in the meta-popular culture that we might be living in a simulation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#We_are_living_in_a_simulation]. I wrote [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/07/05/are-you-tuned-to-the-godcast/] about this “Matrixical” notion earlier. And again,…
In 1957 Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador car. Sturdy and rounded, the Ambassador still races on Indian roads, ironically serving both as a taxi cab as well as a official transport for government officials. These 50 years of the Ambassador have represented India’s indigenous efforts in the…