Review: Evening Shadows Sridhar Rangyan is known for his championing of LGBT+ rights and his movies depicting the challenges faced by the community in India where, till recently, homosexuality was a crime. His latest offering, Evening Shadows is a coming out story. But more than that, it is the story of a bond between a … More Movie Review: Evening Shadows
The Talisman Ring is one of Georgette Heyer’s early novels. While the book combines the humour that is her hall mark and is set in the Regency Era and sports not one, but two romances, it will be hardly fair to simply categorize the book as a romance. It is a mystery rolled into a … More Book Review: The Talisman Ring
I started reading Georgette Heyer books when I was eleven. I had no concept of what was age appropriate and neither did my parents. They held that the more books you read, the better. And since English was not my mother tongue, they encouraged me to read as many English books as I could. The … More Rediscovering Georgette Heyer
From Beginning to End is a Brazilian movie that had the potential to be great and yet proved to be disappointing. The story is about a homosexual relationship between two half brothers, Thomas and Francisco aged 22 and 27. That premise, unfortunately, is the only interesting thing about the entire movie. Having created an interesting … More Movie Review: From Beginning to End
The other day I happened to watch a movie named Shelter. I knew that it was a gay love story, but what I did not expect was to be moved by what is unquestionably a beautiful love story. The storyline is simple, the actors brilliant and the emotions that the movie evokes are universal. Anyone … More Movie Review: Shelter (2007)
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