10 Most Recent Posts

• Entering the 2024 Film Festival Season
• The Sticking Pain of Losing a Bicycle
• Why the Credit Card is Still Around
• 2 Men Stole My Bicycle
• My Booker Prize Book Collection Journey So Far
• IFFK Guide: Navigating the Kerala Film Festival
• IFFI Guide: Attending the Goa Film Festival
• Tejas vs Tejash vs Thejus vs Thejas vs Tejhas vs Thejuss vs Tejus vs Tejesh vs Tejoos
• Notes on the 2023 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
• Watching a Gothic Horror Film in a 2,500-Seater Open-Air Auditorium

All Posts

• Entering the 2024 Film Festival Season
• The Sticking Pain of Losing a Bicycle
• Why the Credit Card is Still Around
• 2 Men Stole My Bicycle
• My Booker Prize Book Collection Journey So Far
• IFFK Guide: Navigating the Kerala Film Festival
• IFFI Guide: Attending the Goa Film Festival
• Tejas vs Tejash vs Thejus vs Thejas vs Tejhas vs Thejuss vs Tejus vs Tejesh vs Tejoos
• Notes on the 2023 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
• Watching a Gothic Horror Film in a 2,500-Seater Open-Air Auditorium
• BlaBla Between Mumbai and Pune
• Attending a Residential Society Meeting
• Losing Books, and Friends With Them
• Half a Morning at an India Post Branch
• Travel Notes from Munnar, Guruvayur, and Wayanad
• The Case Against Queueing Outside Restaurants
• A Dog Bit Me
• Obsessive Compulsive Watch Repair
• Instructions Unclear, Visa Denied
• My Wordle Ritual
• The Futile Hunt for Fridge Magnets
• Donating Blood Is Not Enough
• Thoughts On My First Trip Outside India
• Professional Update: I Joined Western Union
• How I Developed My Writing
• 10 Essential Blogging Questions Answered
• On Acquiring “tejasnair.com”
• The Delayed Pain of Selling a Car
• How Difficult Is It To Buy a Laptop These Days?
• Books I Read in 2019
• My Lockdown Novelties
• Book Title Drops – A Project
• Updating my Support Page
• Zapping Google Analytics User Tracking From My Website
• My Nostalgic Pre-Coronavirus Experiences
• Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES): 8 Observations
• My MA Convocation Was a Fiasco
• 10 Things to Do While Observing Janta Curfew
• 10 Best Malayalam Film Posters of 2019
• My First IKEA Bookshelf
• Arguments Against Gifting Flower Bouquets at Weddings
• Best Films I Watched at MAMI 2019
• The Definitive Guide to the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
• 3 Days at the 2019 European Union Film Festival of India
• List: Dumb Things People Do in a Movie Theatre
• When I Run My Own Cinema Theatre…
• The Right Way to Celebrate Ganeshotsav
• List: All the Films that Opened the Mumbai Film Festival Since 1997
• On Completing MA in English
• Times My Vehicle Has Hit Another Vehicle Since 2004
• Is No One Else Hyped About IKEA in Navi Mumbai?
• Attempting to List All Publicis Groupe Agencies
• Why I Don’t Use Zomato
• The Menace of Slow Walkers
• The Time I Stole a Rotring Pencil
• Bombay and Alienation: Interview with Island City’s Ruchika Oberoi
• Observations During My May 2019 Kerala Visit
• Few Observations During the Day of Poll (Lok Sabha 2019)
• List: Airlines in India and Their Fall
• Preparing To Vote for the First Time
• Types of Staff at Every SBI Branch
• Mumbai Film Festival: A Waiting Guide
• The Chronology of Modern-Day Film Promotion
• Random Questions I Ask Myself
• Types of People Per the Number of Tissues They Use
• Gazing at Hands in Mumbai Locals
• Indian Websites Take the #10YearChallenge
• Packers, Movers, Unpackers
• Describing the Four Newspaper Kiosks that I Patronize
• List: Why Do People Honk
• Best of Malayalam Cinema in 2018 (Critics’ Choice)
• Best Posters of Malayalam Cinema in 2018
• My Experience at IMDb’s First-Ever Contributor Meet-Up
• The State of Legal Consultation in Navi Mumbai
• Rethinking Movie Disclaimers
• David Ehrlich’s 25 Best Films of 2018
• Endorsing Redditgifts
• Why I Pursued Master of Arts After Bachelor of Engineering
• Last Day at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• Days 4, 5, and 6 at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• Day 3 of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• Day 2 of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• Day 1 of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• Day 0 of MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018
• MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2018 – Preview and Plan
• Argument Against the Item Song in Kayamkulam Kochunni
• The Definitive Guide to Surviving Shopping at DMart
• List: Types of People You Meet in an Elevator
• My Experience at MAMI’s Young Critics Lab
• List: Why People Don’t Wear Helmets
• Premam Review: How the 2015 Malayalam Film Affected Me
• The One Thing Common in My 70+ Uber Rides
• Top Malayalam Movies of 2017
• The Rise and Rise of Soubin Shahir
• The Dry Waste and Wet Waste Problem
• Effective Strategies to Watch Padmaavat Without Getting Killed
• It’s In The Family
• Denouncing People Who Don’t Participate in Secret Santa
• Festival de Cannes is Hiring: Professional Standing Ovation Timer
• How to Fall to a New Low in Cinema Box Office Business?
• The Thing with Wristwatches
• Why I Am Always Late to the Movies These Days?
• Top 15 Malayalam Movies of 2016
• List: Things Adults Do At A Supermarket
• List: Things Kids Do At A Birthday Party
• Who Copywrites For Them?
• The Decline of Malayalam Actor Jayaram
• No Indian Author in the 2016 Edition of Man Booker Prize Longlist
• Sometimes I Think We Don’t Give Enough Credit To Air Conditioners
• The Best Malayalam Movies of 2016 So Far
• The Suspicious Disappearance of Rigan Sargose
• Step Aside, Religion A. I’m Religion B.
• When You Accidentally Offend Someone
• Singappooram, a Malayalam Comedy Web Series That is Worth a Shot
• The Lost Feeling of Graduation
• The 20 Best Malayalam Films of 2015
• Mumbai’s Autorickshaws And Their Evil Quotient
• Why Unmarried Couples Don’t Visit Siddhivinayak Temple?
• Man Booker Prize 2015 Winner Prediction
• At The Movies With My Future Son
• Charlie Hebdo Incident Fuels A Gradual Fear
• Ban On PK Will Be Murder Of Creativity
• PR Maverick Of Cinepolis Saves The Day
• The Moral Folks create a National An(a)them(a)
• A Bangalore Chronicle!
• What If Men Could Menstruate?
• Flyers In My Soup
• Why I Want To Be An External Viva Examiner Once In My Life!
• Your Local Raddiwala Is Fooling You!
• What’s The Fuss About SIES Graduate School of Technology?
• The Policeman Thinks He Owns The City
• The Surrogate Story, Part 2 Of 2: A Woman Dies
• The Surrogate Story, Part 1 Of 2: Man Walks Into His Own Lecture
• The Dream
• That’s A Lie, That Horror Story!
• Throw It Off The Window Like Its Customary!
• Story Of The Life They Call Balanced!
• The Secret Of The Ignorant Mumbai University
• Elevation
• What’s Wrong With The IMDb Page Of The Film, GUNDAY?
• In Front Of The Screen
• Commodity
• Faculty Error
• New Robbers In Town
• How To Receive A Person Distributing Flyers
• The Horror Of Errors
• A Theater Habit
• I Once Named A Cyclone & Felt Acutely Bad About It
• I Once Asked A Girl Out To A Temple Who Was…
• How To Be A Bad Teacher?
• Theft System, Part 1 – The Lady Who Killed The College
• How Not To Say ‘NO?’
• Don’t You Get It? I Know Why They Don’t Want A Girl Child
• Independence Day Is A Day Off!
• The Curious Case Of A Misnomer
• Ignorance & Reference Books Will Get You KTs
• The Way They Stare
• The Dark Of Authority
• Dance Of The Meteorological Department
• The Problem with Toothpaste Ads
• How to Survive the Initial Days Of Degree After Diploma?
• I Once Got Aroused By a Roadside Mannequin
• Is Diploma Before Degree In Engineering a Good Bet?