Dream Ink

"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." ― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

Thursday, September 19, 2013

On reading ‘A Matter of Rats’

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I started reading Amitava Kumar’s A Matter of Rats at 3 am on a Sunday morning. The book was in my office bag, and finding myself sudde...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Amit Virmani: Audiences need something to keep them engaged

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Singapore-based filmmaker Amit Virmani’s debut, “Cowboys in Paradise”, was one of the most talked-about Asian documentaries in recent ...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Tiger tales, Neurolinguistics and the power of positive thinking

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Imagine you are standing in front of a tiger. Not in a zoo but in a real forest. And let’s say this tiger is a man-eater. How woul...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Charity screening of 'Menstrual Man' in Singapore

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Singapore-based filmmaker Amit Virmani, who shot to fame with his first film, Cowboys in Paradise, is screening his second documentary film...
Friday, July 26, 2013

An evening with a Hollywood editor

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Yesterday, I spent nearly two hours in the company of a veteran Hollywood video editor. His name is Kris Trexler and he is an Emm...
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Thursday, July 04, 2013

20 things you should be thinking about if you care about journalism

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1. Why don’t we build the audience before we build the product? 2. As technology companies have become media companies, media companie...
Friday, June 14, 2013

The day human privacy died

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When Edward Snowden blew his whistle on the secret big data surveillance system of the US government, called PRISM , I could hear ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Kith and Kin: A Portrait of a Southern Indian clan

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I have been trying to take a crack at Sheila Kumar’s collection of short stories Kith and Kin (Rupa , 2012) for a few months but witho...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

India’s population: Boon or bane?

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If you are an Indian child of the 1970s and 80s, you would remember the ‘population explosion’ scare of that era. During the days of P...

Hair and the Indian

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Hair now and gone tomorrow. That’s the story of hair, in short, for most Indians. In between (one is telescoping time here), there is ...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

On Boston Bombings: A Convoluted Narrative of Terror

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In the last few days, the developments of the Boston marathon bombing case have dominated the international media coverage. The attack...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

Anuradha Kumar: A writer to watch

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Anuradha Kumar is one of those rare writers who straddle the worlds of writing for children and adults with equal ease. Today, when t...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

P. Sainath to speak at AMU

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The I G Khan Memorial Trust & Club for Short Evening Courses, GEC, AMU  invites you to The lives of others: Stories of Workers P...
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