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I'm Prasad Venkat. I write about technology, politics and cinema among other things.
Wild Pear Tree
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"Someone once called time a silent saw. You never know what it'll do to us." - Suleyman At the outset, Nuri Bilge Ceylan...
On Sivaji's Legacy
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What is Sivaji's legacy? As an audience who now have access to international films with subtle acting, how do we receive Barrister Raji...
Anne Tyler's French Braid
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Who're the Garretts? Over the course of six decades, from 1959 until 2020, Tyler opens the curtains, roughly once a decade, for the read...
St. Louis Fed Comedy Tweet
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Lol. An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have dri...
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My 13 year old, listening to Kpop: Did you know a parent pulled a gun on one of the students and that's why they had a shelter-in-place...
Musk's Twitter Tantrums
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About a week ago, Twitter's 3rd party clients like Twitterrific stopped working. They had no idea what was going on. Even worse, they di...
Richard Russo's Compassion
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I'm reading Everybody's Fool , my fourth Russo novel. He specializes in telling the stories of everyday folks in a small town in New...
Mr Inbetween
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Mr Inbetween, the excellent Australian low-key drama is about Ray Shoesmith, a hitman for hire. But that's just one dimension of Ray. Ye...
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