I finished reading Ernesto Che Guevara’s Bolivian Diary. It is an exciting book about the guerilla life and how Che enjoys the very hardships he comes across in the mountainous jungles of Bolivia. He admits once he had a bath after 6 months despite continuous presence of streams and rivers. Che and his guerilla cadres eat horsemeat by killing ...
Coach Carter Poster The movie Coach Carter is based on a true story. The movie was released in 2005 and directed by Thomas Carter. Samuel L. Jackson portrays the character of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter. Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results. The students and ...
So, it has come to a stage that a Public Health Inspector (PHI) had to die an untimely death on the hands of a citizen while trying to eradicate the dengue mosquito menace. They say the killer is a mentally restarted but one valuable life has been lost. I’m not sure if the government does the right thing by putting ...
Guru Poster Aishwarya in Guru I don’t usually go to cinemas to watch Hindi movies. I buy the DVDs and watch them at home. But when Mani Ratnam’s Guru came to Colombo I went to watch it at a cinema with my wife. Because I had read on the internet that Guru is such an entertaining and inspiring movie. Besides, ...
Pride and Prejudice I read Pride and Prejudice for my Advanced Level English and listened to its audiobook recently. I have watched the two movies on the same novel and the Indian adaptation, Bride and Prejudice too. I still prefer the paperback book over all other formats. The novel explains how hypocritical men and women can be when it comes ...
I read The Google Story a couple of years ago. It is meant to be the history of the Google Inc. but it looked more of a detective story as the whole book is very interesting with unbelievable incidents. The way Sergey Brin and Larry Page got together, the way they dropped out of Stanford University, their constant experimentations, ...
A mason handling his business with a mobile phone Pakistan shut down mobile phone networks overnight in major cities to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda attacks as celebrations began for the biggest Muslim festival of the year. Similar things happened while the LTTE war was going on in the North and East but mobile coverage was affected only in those areas, ...
Rahul Gandhi It was a dormant issue until Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid opened the can of worms. Everybody was questioning whether the Crown Prince of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi was good enough to become the next Prime Minister of India but only Khurshid had the backbone to put the question in the open keeping aside the fears of ...
Idols Cover Page Sunil Gavaskar wrote ‘Idols’ on his most favourite cricketers. The book has profiled 30 odd cricketers of his time. The book profiles cricketers such as Rohan Kanhai (Gavaskar named his son as Rohan as a tribute to Kanhai), Sobers, Hadlee, Marsh, Kapil Dev, “Jimmy” Amarnath, “Zed” Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Viv Richards, Bishen Singh Bedi, ...
Lolita 1962 Poster There are two movies based on the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. I prefer the Stanley Kubrick version of Lolita which came in black & white in 1962. Not that I loathe the Adrian Lyne’s version of Lolita which came in 1997 but I just prefer the older version as it is more artistic. Lolita is a ...
Eyes Wide Shut DVD cover Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. The following films can be mentioned as a few of his work. ...
A Lost Revolution A year ago, I had the privilege of reading “SRI LANKA – A LOST REVOLUTION? The Inside Story of the JVP” by Professor Rohan Gunaratna. This is about the second attempt to topple the government by the Rohana Wijeweera-lead Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during late 80’s. It was an interesting read as I could remember most of ...
