In America

Mystery Spot One hour drive from our home in Fremont, as we exited the highway, we went through lush green winding slightly bumpy roads that reminded us of silent valley in Palaghat, Kerala. At showtime, an energetic curly haired early twenties host took over and started presenting his scripted humorous presentation to our group of about twenty four people. Niya and Ponnu (Sudheer's daughter) were made to stand on two ends of a small flat one-feet plank and Niya gained significant height over Ponnu as she switched to one side over the other.  The park is presenting this as an unknown mystery and we were not able to come up with any plausible explanations either. More similar interesting exhibits followed to a fulfilling unique experience. The height difference between these kids become so much more pronounced based on whether the kid is inside the mystery circle or not. The theory is that you are significantly shorter when you are inside a small radius of circular gro...

It is about two weeks since I watched the movie and the movie has stayed with me ever since.  Too honest and bold to deny.  The movie addresses caste. It is shocking that the meaningless biases of superiority/inferiority based on caste rather than substance cannot be swept under your mind's carpet as a nuisance of predicament you were not responsible for either ways. You can get killed.       I had watched the movie on a clean slate without knowing what the movie was about. The shocking and realistic murders that were being presented were kept on the questions list to be answered while the plot of the movie unfolds. However, soon I realized that these were being carried out not by a serial killer but by an honor killer. It was so much more disconcerting.      The movie makes it's marks all through. Starts off with a sharp indicative prologue. As the titles come on, first song strikes - karuppi. A rap with strong visuals. Music by Santhosh Nar...