Akira
All-time great of Japanese animation. The adventures of bike gang member Tetsuo in post-nuclear apocalyptic Tokyo. Bleak outlook, violent narrative and utterly coherent cinematography.
Culture Vulture
The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Plot Twins Esther and Rahel hurtle inevitably and agonisingly towards losing their innocence. "They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."
Why Read it for the Big Themes: Love, Madness...in a Language That Breaks All Rules: "...the coconut trees were sea anemones waving their tentacles, hoping to trap and eat an unsuspecting cloud."
So you thought you knew all about
Bryan Adams
The sugar-daddy of pop-rock is here. The wrong chord in his 20-year career?
A. First solo album was no hit, so the next was going to be ‘Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard Of You Either’. He settled for ‘You Want It, You Got It’, out in 1981.
B. Acting debut in the 1988 Clint Eastwood movie ‘Pink Cadillac’.
C. Stopped eating "all dead creatures" in 1989, loves Chinese and Italian food.
D. Is an amateur photographer with two published photo books to his credit.
E. Has been nominated thrice for the Oscars in the Music category.
Answer C. Not Chinese, but Indian food, especially aloo-gobi, is a turn-on.
What Is
Jidoka
Part of the legendary Toyota Production System, Jidoka is translated as Autonomation or autonomous operation. It means adding an element of human judgement to automated equipment to make it more reliable and quality-conscious.
