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@thehawkeyex @ARanganathan72 More decoration. This is kaizen.

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It’s no big deal for a man to have yearning for educational achievements if he grew up surrounded by educated people. Modi’s family was’t particularly achievers. Yet he pursued degrees. If Kejriwal isn’t a nutcase, he’d realise that the ruckus he created is boomeranging on him.

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@prasannavishy @SudhirSrinath The reason his music is so beautiful is that its foundation is carnatic, only the decoration is western :). Rahman’s greatest hits are also those with strong classical notes. Kannodu kanbathellam comes readily to mind.

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@sreemoytalukdar Rubbing my eyes in disbelief. No Hindu writer would dare to be so forthright.

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@centerofright Such nuance and the sparking of viewer’s imagination was not evident to the same extent in latter films.

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@centerofright Of course. That’s why it’s such a path-breaker in Telugu cinema. Take the relationship between Sankara Sastry & Tulasi. Was it music-lover’s adoration for maestro? Student’s devotion for master? Or even platonic love? KV leaves it open to multiple interpretations.

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@centerofright I believe the unexpected scale of its success actually did not help. It forced shri KV into casting himself into a mold — as a maker only of family-oriented, classical-arts-promoting & somewhat formulaic films. The boldness of Sankarabharanam was not repeated.

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@centerofright Sankarabharanam is his zenith. Neither its predecessors nor successors bettered its boldness, its unselfconscious pitch for cinema as poignant art. Its makers probably hoped for nothing more than recovering costs and winning a few awards.

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@prasannavishy @akshayalladi Ditto happened with Rahman too. It makes me wonder if the idea of the award-givers is like: “this guy seems to have done great work, we missed the bus, let’s not that give that way. We must let on like we know him already” :)

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@prasannavishy @akshayalladi Did you notice that when Indian musicians win recognition on the global stage, it’s not for their best work but generally for the mediocre? Keeravani has many excellent numbers under his belt, but naatu naatu is not one of them.

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@pamelaphilipose Why must Gujarat’s voters be as morbidly obsessed with Morbi as you are?

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@RajeevSrinivasa @sreemoytalukdar Conservative whites are racist in domestic politics, but their global diplomacy is informed more by pragmatism than race prejudice. OTOH, liberal whites are progressive domestically, but tend to be racist on a global stage. That’s my reading.

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@macgupta123 @elonmusk He bought Twitter at an inflated price and is currently burning money.

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@NarenMenon1 @centerofright @mygovindia Rank idiocy. Locals still call IISc “Tata Institute”, and it existed from decades before IITkgp came into being.

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Therein lies a lesson for aspiring journalists: don't get carried away. Your bosses will wink at your fabrications, pat you on the back & even defend you to some extent -- but not to the extent of admitting that they played along knowing well you were fabricating.

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My hot take on TheWire fiasco:

Media outfits incentivize staffers to fabricate stories, as long as those fabrications are in line with the political/ideological leanings of the outfits. New comers to the profession, like trained monkeys, soon learn to play the system.

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But then something like a Devesh Kumar blows up in the ass of a Varadarajan. What went wrong? Devesh Kumar had gone too far. He did not build impeccable deniability into the story. He was, in short, too greedy and too incompetent.

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@shetty_rishab Your attention to detail is commendable. I looked hard to find a flaw -- like a forgotten cellphone on the 90's period set somewhere, perhaps? Couldn't find any. Well executed. #Kantara

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@AbhishBanerj When I read that @ndtv headline, I knew the truth had to be something else.

Put every NDTV headline through occam’s razor.

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@ShekharGupta @BloomsburyIndia Gupatji, your asinine headline is not helping promote the author’s book at all. Nobody in his right mind even begins to compare Kautilya with Machavelli; your headline suggests that the book is meant for the idiots who do.