By Shashi Bellamkonda ·
I watched this movie on the United flight from Las Vegas this week.It was a masterpiece. A window into a forbidden world. Very human, and a story that leaves you hanging, wondering how humanity always wins even when it loses.Jafar Panahi’s 2025 Palme d’Or winner, It Was Just an Accident (یک تصادف ساده), turns a chance roadside encounter into one of the most quietly devastating moral examinations …
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By Shashi Bellamkonda
Somewhere in the first half second of meeting someone new, your brain runs a background check faster than any conference badge scanner. It looks at the face, the outfit, the accen…
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A friend of mine called on a Sunday night, not to talk about anything in particular, but to talk about a text message. Someone had replied to him with one word. "Sure." …
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Ask most people what they regret and they will reach for the ledger first. The stock they didn't buy in 2012. The job offer they turned down for the safer, duller path. The pa…
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By Shashi Bellamkonda
Personal · Space Forty-six years to the day after ISRO first reached orbit from that same island, a private rocket did it. I was there once, as a boy, before any of it existed. Jul…
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By Shashi Bellamkonda
I keep thinking about where she said it, and how hopeful it was.She said it to a room of people who draw the lines for a living. The San Diego Convention Center, the second week o…
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By Shashi Bellamkonda
The plan was Four Corners. You stand on a painted circle and put a hand in Arizona, a hand in New Mexico, a foot in Utah, a foot in Colorado, and for one silly minute you are in f…
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