Madhuri Katti | madkat70@gmail.com | 58 posts
I am a writer and a voracious reader, film and music buff too...
The interview with oldest surviving World War veteran Harry Patch had inspired a song which has become a tribute song from Radiohead after his death.
August 6, 2009
The German drama, Lives of Others (made in 2006), is a brilliant film about life in German Democratic Republic (GDR) that is East Germany before the collapse of Berlin wall.
July 30, 2009
Germinal, written in 1885, is considered one of Emile Zola's masterpiece. The novel is set in the back drop of a mining village in northern France.
July 23, 2009
Made in 1954, La Strada is a typical neorealist film which travels with the protagonists on the road and captures real essence of life through the lives of people on the streets.
July 17, 2009
Le Petit Prince has been translated into 80 languages, this popularity shows people seek imaginative philosophical fables to navigate through dark life.
July 8, 2009
National Gallery, London is exhibiting some extraordinary open air landscape paintings by 18th century artists.
July 1, 2009
Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is a neorealist Italian film about a man and his son's desperate search for a stolen bicycle.
June 29, 2009
Young contemporary artists from Tehran are exhibiting their work reflecting modern Iran in the exhibition entitled ‘Made in Iran’ at Asia House, London.
June 25, 2009
Books for the soul are plenty. They all offer quick fix solution to life’s problems and agonies and help people tide over personal disenchantments.
June 20, 2009
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea will always remain a tale of solitude and struggle of an Old Man and his endearing relationship with the boy and the sea.
June 10, 2009
The 1960s saw birth of American Folk Revival through music of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez. But the seeds of folk songs were sown by legendary Woody Guthrie.
The Fiendish
August 9, 2009
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