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Tips to become a succesful book blogger

No one has become a superstar blogger overnight.Recognition in blogosphere takes time and there are no short cuts for achieving instant success as a blogger.Read like there is no tomorrow and pen down your sincere thoughts in a lucid, organised and unpretentious manner.Your work will definitely get its due.

Blogadda-Quikr Shopping Fiesta: My Experience

It was like a slap on my face.Thankfully Arun was not there with me to witness by embarassement. I was all set to call him when some random piece of paper with a phone number written on it from my pocket caught my attention.

Book Review:Salvation Of a Saint

On the whole,’The Salvation Of Saint’ is a decent thriller.It may not be as racy as ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’,but still it’s a pretty good one.

Interview with Doctor-turned- Writer Deepal Kripal

Earlier this week,we chatted with Doctor-turned-Author,Deepak Kripal.He has authored 'The Devil's Tale:An impossible journey',published by Leadstart Publishers.In this candid interview,he tells us about his debut work,future plans,his journey as a writer and his other interests in life.

Private India: Book Review

On the whole,'Private India' by James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi is a strictly average work.

April 15, 2010

Love sex aur IPL.....!

thought by nikhimenon@gmail.com

In a move that might come as a surprise for many 'interlocutors' of the country,Rindaloo sports, the stake holders of the kochi IPL team  has found a new mentor in nikhimenon,a highly succesful blogger and a tweeter from kochi.His blog posts are so widely read and his tweets so awesomely awesome that his twitter page is often considered  a text book of sorts for wannabes like Shashank Thavanoor,the canadian import (who is more interested in the 'external affairs of Kashmiri women' these days ) whom even Rakhi Sawant considers as a potential threat to her 'controversy queen' throne.When contacted, though Ayushman Gaekwaad -the CEO of Rindaloo sports refused to comment on the topic , it is commonly believed that nikhimenon's close proximity with Malith Lody-an avatar of Lord kubera and a champion of "transparency" has bagged him this covetable honour.

However inside sources say that nikhimenon is an apt replacement for Shashank Thavanoor as the mentor/patron of the team as he is still single (thanks to his girl friend Mandakini Murtaza  who found him 'incompatible'  to live happily with her Iranian husband in Yugoslavia )and there are no more Pushpaka Ranis running after him.Meanwhile Malith Lody in an interview to a national news channel yesterday revealed that he had received an e-mail from a Kochiite which requested  him to shift the base of the kochi team to Ahmedabad since the Malayali Samajam in Gujarat wanted to raise funds for their annual 'Malayalee Sanghamam',to be held in Hong Kong later this year.

Bollywood's superstar King Khan ,who was consoled by his neighbour Srane Werne today morning accused that the whole IPL-Kochi-Thavanoor-Lody conflict was  a  cover up for the disastrous performance of Kings XI punjab in the present season of IPL.The Monkey man Sarantkumar Sreerang,a team member of Kings XI has  refuted this allegation and has also expressed his desire to perform his favourite dance number wearing the 'Kochi' cap.

On the otherside,the supporters of Shashank Thavanoor in Thiruvananthapuram,kerala have claimed that Thavanoor is bankrupt and his relation to  Pushpaka Rani  has nothing to do with his desire to patronize the kochi team.They also made the revelation that  Thavanoor had been  the captain of the U.N. cricket team and his interest for cricket started since then.Shashank Pawar, the union minister for Irrigation and Narasimha Lodi the Chief Minister have also supported this statement by saying that cricket is the best sport for Ministers as it helps to relieve stress and strain.





April 14, 2010

Paapy Appacha is brutally bland..!

reviewed by nikhimenon@gmail.com

Thanthonni,Pramani,Janakan,Body Guard,Agathan.....Malayalam cinema has been delivering duds one after the other this year.Dileep's debutant Mammas (mis)directed Paapy Appacha is nothing but a mere addition to this seemingly 'never ending' list.The movie is painfully silly,predictable  and boring to say the least with some mediocre performances by the lead cast.

If  George 'Thanthonny' Varghese's did a cut and paste job on his favourite movies like Usthad,Narasimham,Lelam,Vazhunnor,devasuram and puthiya Mukham to deliver a Thanthonni,Mammas has done the same to Sathyan Anthikkad directed Manasinakkare,Sibi Malayil's Ishtam,Joshiy's Lion and Lelam and served it as a weird 'dish' called Paapy Appacha.

The posters of the movie promised it to be a light hearted tale on the friendship between an illiterate father son duo.But sadly the movie ends up as a b grade flick with cheap/stale jokes( that seldom rises above the standard of silly 'tintumon' kind of sms jokes),loud action scenes , fake melodrama and a predictable climactic twist(which is a routine these days,thanks to lal) that might have worked in the techni colour era.The audio cd of this movie had a couple of melodious numbers tuned by Vidyasaagar like 'Manjin Velli' and 'Thammil Thammil'.For some strange reasons the makers haven't  included these two songs in the movie and there are two other noisy ones instead which can potentially gift you a migraine.

Coming to the performances, Dileep repeats his usual antics and one liners for the nth time with limited success.Innocent is wasted and he has had a better role in Satyan Anthikkad's Manasinakkare with Jayaram.K.P.A.C. Lalitha yells at the top of her voice whenever dileep feels sad and so does the girl who plays Dileep's sister.Kavya Madhavan looks plum and totally unfit for the role.Cinematography was adequate which sanjeev shanker aptly visualising the beauty of melukavu-thodupuzha on screen.Had the editor been sincere to his work,the movie wouldn't have been this much painfully long and for the same reason i dare to accuse the editor for complacency.One of the plus points of the movie(and may be the only one) was the genuinely funny title cards.

VERDICT: Avoidable.....