Awards are beautiful, shiny things that dispel your insecurities and instil you with the reassurance that you’re doing all right, after all. What of that moment just before your name gets announced to the world — that second when you’ve shut out the rest of the world and are hoping, desperately praying even, that the…

Suddenly, a lot of random statistics are being celebrated in Tamil cinema. When Kamal Haasan was felicitated at a grand event six years ago for completing 50 years in the Tamil film industry, you understood why. Most people don’t even live that long. For instance, the life expectancy of Chad — yes, it is a…

It’s incredible how a minor change to one’s routine — like paying a visit to the neighbourhood playground — can make you part of fascinating experiences. At a corporation ground near Valluvar Kottam after sunset, I saw a unique game being played by slum kids. They’d take their position about 10 yards from a light…

All roads lead to YouTube videos. From my experience of Internet browsing, that much is clear to me. You can start off anywhere — an innocent Wikipedia page, an office email, a bank transaction… Somehow, its far-reaching tentacles manage to reach over and suck you in. And then, before you know it, you are furiously…

So, I was rewatching this episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S called ‘The One Where They All Turn Thirty’ recently. It’s essentially about the horror of turning 30, perhaps the first time in life that a human being realises it’d probably be a good idea to stop ageing. And it got me thinking — about how wrinkles are…