Gaslight - @naatak Play Review

The play “Gaslight” by @naatak company is an absolutely not-to-miss play of this theater season, in the bay area. The play is in Hindi with English supertitles (dialogs projected on the screen above the stage).  The term gaslight is such an antiquated term that it might have easily been forgotten. However, political events during the Presidency of the 45th President, brought the term back into…

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Tiger Style - @Theatreworks Play Review

Written by Mike Lew and brilliantly directed by Jeffrey Lo, the play Tiger Style is a satire on “tiger” parenting that is associated with Chinese immigrant parents in the USA, on universal tendency of the teenagers to blame the shortcomings of their lives on their parents and on the ultimate truth that no parenting style achieves perfection and no country is a panacea. The origin of the name for…

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2024 નો અનોખો ગાઝા પ્રદેશ - Gujarati Poem

ગાઝાના અપંગ દેહો વચ્ચે ટૂટેલાફૂટેલાં ઘરતંબુઓની ચારેકોર વેરવિખેર કચરોમાનો ખોળો ઝાલી ઉઠવાની કોશિશ કરતુંદોઢ વર્ષનું પગ વગરનું બાળક ગાઝા….. માત્ર જમીનની એક નાની પટ્ટી….આ ગાઝામાંભરપૂર ભયાનકતા, પીડા, ભુખમરોઅપંગતા અહીં સામાન્યઅંગવિચ્છેદન રોજબરોજ થાય માનવતાની વ્યાખ્યા રોજ બદલાયતબીબો હાથ પગ કાપીનેલોકોને જીવાડવાની કોશિશ કરેપીડાનાશક દવાઓ વગર…… પ્રકૃતિનો ક્રોધ ત્રાટક્યો કેપછી માણસની હેવાનિયતઅખંડ દેહો…

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12th Fail: Bollywood Movie Review

12th Fail – Bollywood Movie Review Brilliantly directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, movie 12th Fail is based on a true story of a man Manoj Kumar Sharma who comes from extremely poor background from the valley of Chambal, known for dacoits. Manoj harbors big dreams but he has no mentors or role models. In fact, the principal of the school where he was appearing for his 12th high school graduation…

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Eclipse 2024 #Gujarati #Poem

The poem below is translated from my English poem written in 2017. You can read it below the Gujarati poem. સૂરજદાદા સંતાકૂકડી રમે આજે સૂરજદાદા સંતાકૂકડી રમે છે ચાંદા પાછળ સંતાઈ તે મને ગમે છે કે પછી આ ચાંદામામાની મજાલજગમાં ઉજાસ લાવનારને છુપાડે છે આ ચાંદા સૂરજના તોફાની ખેલમાંપ્રાણી ને માનવ મૂંઝવણમાં ભમે છે મારો પ્રેમ પણ આમ ક્યાં છુપાણોઅંધારે મન અમથું વિચારે ચડે છે સુરજ નીકળે છે ચાંદા…

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Dhak Dhak Bollywood Movie Review

Director and writer Tarun Dudeja and co-writer Parijat Joshi have made this beautiful film with an inspiring story line and dialogs that will make you smile. Fate brings four women together to join an adventure-filled motorbike trip to Khardungla Pass in Leh district of Indian union territory of Ladakh.  At the height of over 17,000 feet, the road opened to public motor vehicles is one of the…

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ધક ધક - ફિલ્મીની સમીક્ષા (in Gujarati) - Dhak Dhak movie review

દિગ્દર્શક અને લેખક તરુણ દુડેજા અને સહ-લેખક પારિજાત જોષીએ પ્રેરણાદાયી વાર્તા અને સંવાદો સાથે આ સુંદર ફિલ્મ બનાવી છે. ચાર મહિલાઓને ભારતીય કેન્દ્રશાસિત પ્રદેશ લદ્દાખના લેહ જિલ્લામાં ખારદુન્ગલા પાસની સાહસથી ભરપૂર મોટરસાઇકલની સફરમાં જોડાવાની તક મળે છે. 17,000 ફૂટથી વધુની ઉંચાઈ પર, જાહેર મોટર વાહનો માટે ખુલ્લો મુકાયેલો આ રસ્તો વિશ્વના સૌથી ઊંચા મોટરેબલ રસ્તાઓમાંનો એક છે. ચારેય મહિલાઓ તેમના રોજિંદા…

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धक् धक् - चलचित्र की समीक्षा - Dhak Dhak Film Review 

निर्देशक और लेखक तरुण डुडेजा और सह-लेखक पारिजात जोशी ने एक प्रेरणादायक कहानी और संवादों के साथ यह खूबसूरत फिल्म बनाई है जो आपको मुस्कुराने पर मजबूर कर देगी। चार महिलाओं को भारतीय केंद्र शासित प्रदेश लद्दाख के लेह जिले के खारदुंगला दर्रे की साहसिक-भरी मोटरसाइकिल यात्रा में शामिल होनेका मौका मिलता है.  17,000 फीट से अधिक की ऊंचाई पर, सार्वजनिक मोटर वाहनों के लिए खोली गई यह सड़क दुनिया की सबसे ऊंची…

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King Liz - @CityLights Play Review

In this basketball themed comedy-drama currently playing at City Lights Theater in San Jose, CA, Liz Rico (Damaris Divito) is a sports agent in the cut-throat world of sports and she scares men. She has a powerful roster of clients and enviable list of endorsement deals for her clients. (Some extra information – During the 2022/23 season, the 30 franchises comprising the National Basketball…

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Going beyond Legacy Technology, key to enhancing CyberSecurity - Jay Chaudhry will speak at TiEcon

According to most recent data, in the USA alone, companies spend close to $80 Billion annually, on beefing up cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is on the top of every big company’s leader’s mind. It is estimated that close to $300 B annually get spent on cybersecurity and on security solutions, products and services, globally. “Self-confidence, will power, and strong determination are game changers…

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લાપતા લેડીઝ (laapataa ladies) - ફિલ્મની સમીક્ષા

રામ સંપથ દ્વારા રચિત અને રામ સંપથ, અરિજિત સિંઘ અને પ્રશાંત પાંડે દ્વારા ગાયેલા ગીત ના શબ્દો જે ફિલ્મના અંત સમયે બેકગ્રાઉન્ડમાં સંભળાય છે તે આ હળવી કોમેડી ફિલ્મનું હૃદય છે. સમાજમાં રહેલ પ્રેમ વિશ્વાસ પરિવર્તનના વણાંક પર ઉભેલ સમાજ માં પ્રેરણાદાયી મિસાલ બની જાય છે. કૌટુંબિક ગોઠવણ મુજબ પરણેલા યુવાન દંપતિ વચ્ચે ઉભરતો ઉમળકો અને કોમળ પ્રેમ; પ્રેમ જ્યાં એક યુવાન કન્યાને  અજાણ્યાઓ ને પોતીકા જેવો આવકાર મળે…

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Laapataa Ladies: Movie Review

The lyrics below composed by Ram Sampath and sung by Ram Sampath, Arijit Singh, and Prashant Pandey in the beautiful melody that plays in the background towards end of the movie “Laapataaa Ladies”, form the heart of this light comedy film, albeit with a deep and inspirational theme of hope and transformation, in India. Sometimes things look bleak. But in a society at the cusp of transformation,…

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“Innovation is about solving problems” - Jensen Huang - Keynote at TiEcon 2024

Jensen Huang’s humble beginnings in the USA started when he came to the USA with his brother, not his parents. He worked hard, skipped a couple of years of school, graduated early and never looked back. Jensen co-founded Nvidia in the 1990s and it is now the 4th largest company in the world. “Innovation is not about grand visions, it’s about solving real problems.” – Jensen Huang Nvidia focused…

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Ordinary Angels - Movie Review

Directed by Jon Gunn from a script by Kelly Fremon Craig and Meg Tilly, the film “Ordinary Angels” focuses on real life story where the town of Louisville rallied around 4 year old Michelle Schmitt (Emily Michell) to help get her a liver transplant during a raging blizzard in January of 1994. LIttle Michelle who once came to be known as “snow baby of Louisville” may have just remained an ordinary…

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Queen at @Theatreworks - Play Review

At Queen @theatreworks ethical obligations & scientific rigor collides with mounting personal & professional pressures.

Queen brilliantly directed by Miriam A. Laube, based on insightful, thought-provoking script by South Asian playwright Madhuri Shekar, was born from a little kernel of an idea that “science, like arts, is chronically undervalued”. The play takes the audience on a fabulous journey where in addition to learning about arts and science, we learn about psychology, philosophy, corporate corruption,…

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Poem: International Women's Day 2024

On this International Women’s Day, let us awakenCaring energy of compassion residing withinCreate world with a better, safer, more peaceful future For all our children let us ensure They never become collateral damageFor food, they never need to beg or forage Are never left ravaged and traumatized Not deliberately injured, killed or maimed By wars, disease, death and starvationLet us teach our…

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The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth - #Netflix docuseries review

Directed by Uraaz Bahl and Shaana Levy, “The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth” is a bizarre real life story of an unsolved murder. It centers around the disappearance of a girl, Sheena Bora, in April, 2012 in Mumbai, India.  Four people accused of her murder were apprehended 3 years later when the remains of a girl were found and DNA evidence showed them to belong to Sheena Bora. But some…

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