Mani Padma

She looked at him beseechingly from the other side. “…I missed you… Why did you leave me alone?” “I didn’t…You went away…too far”. “They say it’s never too late. So…?” He sighed, “They’re wrong. It’s always too late to undo whatever you’ve done” And God disappeared leaving her in the purgatory to repent -...
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It’s tough to translate one’s imagination, one’s thoughts into words , pictures or theatre in other words to create magic, but it is altogether a daunting task to recreate someone else’s  creation retaining that same magic about it. And Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is no mean feat, the book I mean. While...
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The Buffalo glanced at me with rheumy eyes- a bored look. He or was it she?? (Never mind, let me assume it to be him) wasn’t as surprised as I was, to find me there. I slowly looked all around me. Strange land it was- as if enchanted and enclosed by an invisible magical...
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Hi. I am back again to finish our unfinished job of exploring Delhi through the common man’s eyes or to be more precise common woman’s eyes… In our previous part we had taken a look at the five trendy, happening places of Delhi. This time we are going shopping for mementoes for your dear...
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There were some ruffled egos. Hurt sentiments. And huge scandals almost knocking to spill over in other words – a total washout, but sigh! The bride is here. The reception date is fixed. Guests have arrived. I think we should bury our small and big differences and the proverbial hatchet and place our best...
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Friends, Bloggers, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to praise Poltergeist, not to bury it. The good reviews that movies get, lives long after their release; The bad ones are oft deleted along with their authors; So let it be with Poltergeist. The noble Spielberg, its writer n producer Hath told us that...
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Tim Burton and JohnnyDepp combo is always guaranteed to give you something different .Example? – Edward Scissorhands, Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Ed wood… Oh you haven’t heard of Ed wood? Well then, Ed wood it is today, but before that let me give you a few background details. Ed wood...
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What does a 16 year old girl normally converse about? School? Career? Dresses? Movies? Music? Boys? Well, when I and Astha Srivastava (name changed), a sixteen year old from Bal Bharti School, resident of Saraswati Vihar, Delhi had a chat, none of the above topics were discussed. She instead narrated to me an incident...
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Here I am back again with my DVD pick and its Rosemary’s … wait no not Rosemary. I CHANGED my mind. It is Changeling the Clint Eastwood directed movie based on the real life events in Los Angeles in the year 1928 famous as Winevile Chicken coop murders. I could never visualize Eastwood as...
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Bashir Rickshaw wala? Now who is he? – Is that what you are thinking? Well there is nothing extraordinary about Bashir. In fact, he is less than ordinary. He is one of those face less person lost among the millions of people struggling to make a living in this big bad world. He is...
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