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Bird Box (2018) Normally, I do not fancy post-apocalyptic disaster movies. I guess I got sucked into it with the constant bombardment of advertisements all over the place and the friendly suggestion by Netflix. It tells of a lady who is in limbo with an unwanted pregnancy. An epidemic of sorts seems to be affecting many towns the world over. People are committing suicide en masse! During her antenatal checkup, with her sister, she realises that it hit her town too. That cascades scenes of pandemonium, cars plunging into buildings and other car and people walking straight on into speeding trucks. After the horrid display of gore and blood, the remaining survivors try to make sense of the situation, fight remaining zombies who are hellbent on 'recruiting' 'suiciders' (for no apparent reason), staying alive, delivering babies, sacrificing most of them and finding safe space. From the outset, the viewer can sense the storyline. Even which characters will be...

Sully (2016) Director: Clint Eastwood This movie is quite relevant in this time and age. The democratisation of access to information and freedom to verbalise has reached such a height that everyone with half a brain is a warrior, at least in cyberspace. With the luxury of an obscene amount of information that their disposal assisted by the ease of artificial intelligence (which, knowledge-wise, coincidentally is as much as its inventor), turns every armchair critic into a seeker of the Truth and a self-appointed Robin Hood of the oppressed. Heroes are born every day, but most of them remain unknown to us all. They appear out of thin air at the necessary time, do things beyond their expected capacity and disappear as quickly as the manifest. Sadly, many a time, their genuine intentions are questioned and put under the spotlight for scrutiny. Too much trust is placed on computer simulations. The human factors like empathy and compassion which had brought mankind through so many ob...

The actions of King Rama, his consort Sita, his brother Laxman, his humble servant Hanuman have been used as the yardstick of how a human being should live his life. King Rama and his principle on natural justice, respect of power and upholding of promises; Queen Sita and her virtues of a chaste wife exemplified by her conduct; Laxman with the meaning of true friendship and Hanuman with undivided subservience to authority. The conducts and misconducts of the aristocrats and noblemen in Rama's court yard form the pillar of what Hindus the world over use to run and not to run their daily lives. Man, the losers, were always awed by their captors. They would try to emulate and assimilate the cultures of their new found victors as their own. That would explain why we speak English and not don our sarongs to work. So what I am saying is...Everyone is a role model either directly or indirectly to his subordinates. A child, no matter how much he despises his parents, will eventually pi...

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/09/22/chin-peng-deserves-his-place-of-rest/ September 22, 2013 Chin Peng’s ashes should be allowed the courtesy of entry into the country and internment in the place of his wish. By M Kula Segaran I have heard about the Communist Party of Malaya secretary general Chin Peng from a young age. For as long as I can remember, Chin Peng has been associated with the town of Sitiawan. More than interest in his career as a guerrilla fighter drew me to him. I, too, hail from Sitiawan where I was born a good many years after Chin Peng emerged on the west coast of Perak in 1924. Marxists might disagree, but a sense of geographical solidarity may be just as strong as class solidarity. I had wanted to meet up with Chin Peng since the time I first heard about him. Being from a rubber tapping family, I was drawn to read quite a lot about him and his struggles. Rubber was the mainstay of the Malayan economy but rubber tap...

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