Dangal

The sheer authenticity and power of performance, role length or actor age notwithstanding, kept me glued from start to end. The wrestlers feel alive and the wrestles real, evoking the same kind of reactions as watching a live game. I loved the songs, esp. the title track sung by Daler Mehandi and Dhakad (they are running in a loop in background as I write this). It is made more 'user-friendly' than necessary in a few places, but that is not important, it is certainly a great movie, all things considered.  And to the fitness challenged, it even might give some goals. 

Black Hole Blues

My reading has gotten quite erratic recently, so it felt great to actually finish one book from cover to cover. Book in question, Janna Levin's Black hole blues and other songs from outer space. It's about the gravitational wave detection that happened at LIGO last year, along with the history leading upto it, and what exactly was found and why it matters. It's an easy read, more lyrical than technical, and more of a narrative than systematic exposition. I enjoyed reading it, and as my popular science reading has leaned mostly towards the theoretical, it was good to get a glimpse of the experimental.