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John Sturges gave two back-to-back films that will be remembered as long as cinema subsists, ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (1960) and ‘The Great Escape’ (1963). The former was an Americanization of the Japanese film titled ‘Seven Samurai’ by Akira Kurosawa while the latter was based on the book by Paul Brickhill. The movie in discussion, ‘The […]
Chetan Bhagat couldn’t be prouder, after all yet another book of his is the inspiration behind this incredibly well made ‘bollywood’ flick. Everyone who has seen the movie or will be seeing it is bound to compare it with the book provided s/he has read the book. My suggestion would be don’t do it. Enjoy […]
1. Miracle: Getting placed at PSU. 2. Honeymoon period: All pay and no work makes Jack a happy boy. 3. Denial: This isn’t happening, I can’t stay here for too long. 4. Anger: What the f**k is this $#!t? I deserve better! 5. Desperation: Appearing for CAT,GATE,IES,IAS,GRE anything & everything! 6. Realization: Failing miserably in […]
Summer was in a good form that year and mother could not stop washing the floors as she felt that the heat was making floors sticky. We were walking like kangaroos, jumping over the wetness . Of course we could have avoided doing so by not roaming around but there was not much else to […]
1) How would you define the current state of Indian Higher Education Market ? The Higher education sector is in a churn. On the one hand there is a low GER(Gross Enrollment Ratio) while on the other, we have seen the closure of a number of private technical and management institutions. Clearly while the demand […]
Close in the footsteps of dark comedies such as “Soodhu Kavvum” and “Moodar Koodam”, comes “Damaal Dumeel”, which unlike its contemporaries, may not be exceptional but still has what it takes to be applauded for the effort. The film is based on a series of accidents that pave the way to humour at regular intervals. […]
Life is unfair- I’m not denying that. My only complaint is why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor. Sure I’m not the only one who failed. Sure ninety percent of people who were running behind the same thing as me lie stuck in the same abyss. But I’m sorry, I ain’t from the ilk […]
While I haven’t read the best selling book ‘Divergent’ by Veronica Roth, I was quite amused and baffled by the comments from individuals mentioning how the movie doesn’t capture all that’s there in the book and of various other dis-similarities between the book and the movie. After all, the movie is based on the book […]
An RTI application regarding IIM Ahmedabad admissions has taken the B-school circle by storm. The RTI query has disclosed that for the last academic year (2013-2015) the institute has ‘possibly’ admitted ST students with a percentile as low as 38.34%. PaGaLGuY asked IIM-A to confirm and the reasons for the same but we got no […]
Recently, I, Rishikesh Pande (not Pandey), talked about a ‘devil’ in our society on my blog post “The name’s ‘Pande’ not ‘Pandey” – a devil called “Racism”. This post is about possible methods to curb the ‘devil’. But before we move ahead, let’s go through the dictionary to truly understand what the word ‘racism’ means. […]
