Siddhartha Golu
Siddhartha Golu
Siddhartha Golu
Homepage containing my reflections on everything from cinema, books to programming and home servers.
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Started on: Dec 16th, 2025 Finished on: Mar 18th, 2025 Time to read: 39 hours, 54 minutes Also published on Goodreads “Medieval” and “Dark ages” has become two faces of the same coin in popular culture, so much so that we almost always...
Check it out on Letterboxd Extremely happy that a film with an original story is the biggest blockbuster of the year, but man did it feel rushed and poorly executed, especially in the second half. I don’t watch trailers before watching a...
Started on: Dec 20th, 2025 Abandoned on: Dec 23rd, 2025 Also published on Goodreads I picked up this book expecting it to tread into the choppy waters of war, ethics of killing and the psychological costs associated, something that the...
Check it out on Letterboxd Technicolor maximalism at display. Every shot feels controlled and patient and you can feel the craft shining through. The story is immaterial, maybe even treated as a crutch to let the visuals speak some...
Started on: Mar 26th, 2025 Finished on: Apr 8th, 2025 Also published on Goodreads Memoirs are by definition biased, which means you have to always put things in perspective and exercise caution while forming judgement. However, it is...
Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd An important film not just for the career of Kitano but an interesting take on the Yakuza genre films. Sharp cuts, pensive soundtrack and absurdist portrayal of the leading man. When you...
Read 2 times Started on: July 29th, 2023 Finished on: Aug 24th, 2023 Time to read: 14 hours, 31 minutes Also published on Goodreads Update from my 2nd reading A kind friend gifted me the hardcover version of this book. It was a sublime...
Started on: July 12th, 2024 Finished on: Aug 29th, 2024 Time to read: 9 hours, 9 minutes Also published on Goodreads I have been riding motorcycles for past 7 years. I’ve had so many crashes in the early days that people were afraid of...
Recently when my mom got a new phone, I wanted to remove some system applications from the phone which are bloatware. Now doing this with a laptop is fairly easy, we can just use adb to uninstall, however the task becomes difficult if...
Started on: Jan 31st, 2023 Finished on: Mar 19th, 2023 Time to read: 15 hours, 55 minutes Also published on Goodreads A phenomenally written book! Mr. Rushdie is a master of using metaphors and he went all in in this book. Weaving...
Check it out on Goodreads It’s a uniquely strange experience, when you try to put yourself into others’ shoes. It feels fake, dishonest even, to say that you “understand” how the other person must be feeling. Empathy can be a strong...
Check it out on Goodreads I remember first knowing about the Sackler family when Jon Oliver did a segment on them, and I remember feeling infuriated. Little did I know about the empire that they had created, riding on the wave of...
Check it out on Goodreads This book falls into the category of books that I like to call “Fast-food books”. They won’t necessarily make you healthier or your mind sounder, but it’ll feel really good while you’re eating them. There’s only...
Check it out on Goodreads Nothing extra-ordinary in terms of content, but special when you think of the book as a compilation of useful frameworks to think about time. Alas, I stumbled upon Four Thousand Weeks at such a point in my life...
Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt...