After a long and hard week of work, weekends usually mean getting some rest and catching up with the rest of the world. Being grad students means working on the weekends sometimes, but it doesn’t have to be the same as a weekday, so we can take it easy. I actually like to start working [...]

Jagadish has long insisted I read ‘Gone with the Wind’. It was also made into an Academy-Award winning movie whose re release poster you see above. It’s a book he absolutely adores, and I never had any real interest in the so-called classics. I love mystery, thrillers, and some comic relief. Yet, he persuaded me [...]

Valentine’s Day is a day invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.
–Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s an amazing movie with some brilliant lines that resonate through some good acting by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. It is one [...]

A famous song and more recently, a Karan Johar movie is entitled “Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna”. I was googling for the release date etc for a friend of mine today and I came across something very interesting:
“There are three kinds of married people in the world. First, whose marriages are arranged. I’ve never understood that, [...]