Culture – Page 3

Wah, Taj boliye!!!

anandkumarrs / October 30, 2016 / 15 Comments

When I visited Agra and the Taj Mahal last week, it was exactly after 10 years. That was in the […]

anandkumarrs / June 12, 2016 / 16 Comments

Followers of South Indian Cinema in general and Tamil cinema in particular would remember the hit film ‘Manal Kayiru’ in

anandkumarrs / May 29, 2016 / 17 Comments

It’s almost the last week of May and the much dreaded Agni Natchathiram (Star of Fire) – the phase which

anandkumarrs / April 17, 2016 / 12 Comments

Adman turned filmmaker Balki’s latest outing as his previous ones treads into unchartered territory in Bollywood. This post is not

anandkumarrs / January 11, 2016 / 22 Comments

First a disclosure. The topic for this post is lifted from the ace columnist Shekhar Gupta’s columns – the ones

anandkumarrs / October 18, 2015 / 25 Comments

Pardon me for joining the “Return” bandwagon😉 But hang on! This piece is not on the “Return” which is in

anandkumarrs / August 2, 2015 / 33 Comments

Ever since I wrote a piece on the Mamas – “My close encounters with Mamas” (read here) – their counterpart,

anandkumarrs / May 18, 2015 / 10 Comments

It was about 3 years ago that I made my 1st visit to China – Shanghai and wrote the 1st

anandkumarrs / January 4, 2015 / 16 Comments

For long as I remember Chennai or for the romantics – Madras had 2 seasons – Summer (for almost 340

anandkumarrs / September 28, 2014 / 23 Comments

It’s about 10 days now since music lost one of its great ambassadors – Uppalapu Shrinivas and we, a musical

anandkumarrs / August 31, 2014 / 26 Comments

I’m not a Madras boy. Not born there. Didn’t quite spend my formative childhood years there. Have not worked for

anandkumarrs / August 17, 2014 / 12 Comments

It’s that time of the year in India. The scorching heat of the summer is behind us and the monsoon