VijVen

Exploring the Wonderful Journey of LIFE

  • Movies: The Game

    ‘The Game’ can mostly be described as just another movie. Sure there is nothing fantastic about it. But personally, in my list of favorite movies, The Game will occupy a very top position. And it is hard to explain why. When I was young, I could never understand the concept behind cinema (not that I Continue reading

  • Life Journal: Introduction

    I always view my life before 1991 in 4 phases: Korattur days Perambur – 1 Perambur -2 Malk days Post-1991, life has been too chaotic and hectic for me to organize. I feel many, mixed emotions looking back at the journey so far. Amazement, happiness, disappointment, sorrow and shame. And it all culminates into a Continue reading

  • Hyderabad Diaries: Irani Cafes

    Continued from Part 1 Hyderabad is popularly known as the city of pearls. To me, it is also the city of Irani cafes. From the famous Alpha, Garden, Paradise, Blue Sea, Café Bahar, Bawarchi, Madina, City Light, to my personal favourites Mezbaan, Ramser, G N Tea Point, Rambo, Sangeeth café and more. Describing an Irani Continue reading

  • Deceptive Dialogues: Dilemma in Life

    Continued from Part 1  “I continue to feel like something is missing. There is some unexplainable emptiness about my life now. I am struggling to see the purpose behind my actions. I am caught between what I would like to do and what I am being forced to do”. The older man was smiling. Not Continue reading

  • Movies: Mr. Holland’s Opus

    This movie narrates the story of a musician, Mr. Holland, who is shown expressing his passion and desire to compose music at the beginning of the movie. He takes up a teaching assignment hoping that it will help him meet his financial commitments and give him the free time that he thinks he needs to concentrate Continue reading

  • Hyderabad Diaries: Introduction

    Cities, like life forms, keep changing, growing and evolving. History also has records of cities that have decayed. While change is unavoidable, the rate at which the changes take place differ from city to city, from period to period. Viewed in this context, the transformation of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the last two decades, has Continue reading

  • Deceptive Dialogues: Introduction

    We were just the three of us in our cabin, when the train started to pull away from the railway station. A young man, an old man and myself. It was going to be a long journey and there was plenty of time on hand. I started to look around. The young man and the Continue reading

  • The 3 Winners

    Winners regularly overcome challenges, setbacks and failures. I am fortunate to have personally known few such winners. While in their teens, the 3 friends had identical misfortune cast upon them. The setback would have been difficult to comprehend and painful. But they carried on. Today, they have overcome all the odds and have emerged triumphant. Continue reading

  • Movies: The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

    This movie is based on a novel of the same name and narrates the story of a young German boy, son of an Officer, in Nazi Germany. Strong opinions that most people have, in relation to the events of this period, generally ensures that such creations have their share of admirers and critics. This movie Continue reading

  • Revenge Of The Village

    They were long waiting for this excuse. They would not let go of it. He started as one among them. Looked like them, talked like them, thought like them and behaved like them. Somewhere along, and no one remembered exactly when, he became different. He started choosing right over easy. He stopped dancing to external Continue reading