Note: This article is intended as an introduction of terms for understanding Jyotish. We are not trying to teach deep aspects of Jyotish though this article Most of us at some time or the other, must have wondered about ‘why’ certain things are represented in Jyotish as they currently are. Like, Why are there 12 …
‘Ok Computer’ is precisely the kind of series I would have imagined as a fourteen-year-old. Remember, for an Indian kid of the nineties, the Sci-Fi benchmark was Captain Vyom. The show’s biggest USP were sliding doors, which we later came to know were manually operated. We cannot imagine an incredibly slick Sci-Fi on a tight …
The first memory that the trailer of ‘The Disciple’ evoked was ‘Whiplash.’ I thought the movie is a rehash for an Indianized version. But the brand of Chaitanya Tamhane (Court, 2014) was enough for giving it a try. Some parallels do exist. The Guruji of ‘The Disciple’ is a hard taskmaster like Fletcher (Whiplash). Both …