RIFLE RANGE BOY

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag ( भाग मिल्खा भाग, Hindi, Run Milkha Run; 2013) What better way to stimulate nationalistic spirit than via sports? And the silver screen forms the platform to disseminate this message further. After watching this movie I came to realize that this towering Singh is indeed had an illustrious life, on and off the track. Perhaps also with a little push with the magic of Bollywood! Hailing from the Pakistan part of Punjab, young Milkha Singh was witness to brutal killing of his parents and Sikhs during the Partition. Almost plunging into a life of pilfering and dacoit, he swayed to side of righteousness by promise of love by a young lass.  In order of getting his life in life in order, he enrolls into the Indian Army. The lad who has been running all his life, first from the mob during Partition and then in his clandestine activities soon started running again. Only this time it was on the tract.  The m...

Looks like more and more lawyers are disillusioned with the practice of law and are wanting out, looking over at other pastures! There was Tan Twan Eng, the Penang born Cape Town based corporate lawyer-turned-author whose two books were listed for the Man Booker's prize - The Gift of Rain (longlisted,2007), The Garden of Evening Mists (shortlisted,2012). Another person who took the same path of giving up writing legal document to venture into the ever engrossing world of storytelling is Sharmini Flint. She gave up her high flying 'evil past' to be a full time mum. After starting writing children's book, she has ventured into books meant for adults too (I do not mean adult themed!). This is the second book of hers on the Inspector Singh series that I managed to lay my hands on, the first being 'A most peculiar Malaysian murder'. In the Malaysian series, he was assigned by his superiors in the Singapore Police to see to things right for a Singaporean model accus...