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Weeend Fantasy

2011-07-25T08:19:00.000-07:00

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Another attempt from B-town to hatch a "cool" movie, It starts with the concept of eco-friendliness (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) i.e same tone being copied from Lakshya,Rock on and so on :P (Akthar family after all), the story revolves around some sort of "soul-searching" except for Farhan Akthar who has done some acting-search,Unfortunately Hrithik has done less dancing and more of Spanish speaking and Cooking , as a side effect he was approached by Nova TV to launch "Bailar Mientras Cocina", a dance cum cookery show. Abhay Deol, portrays that a disaster can follow stupidity by showing a ring to his "friend (Whatever)", Kalki Koechlin, who in fact grew up, from Dev-D to become his "friend(whatever again)".All in all TV channels like TLC and Discovery can be combined to make a movie. Wait wait, there was one more face, with a oxygen mask, later on a bike, but with lot of cloths on, and it was similar to someone named Sheila, I don't know who is it, do you?. Watch this movie just as an entertainment. And keep an eye on that "face". :)

Our Leaders, Our View

2011-07-14T07:52:00.000-07:00

We human beings are so much fond of manipulating things and perceptions with prejudices. It so happens that in most of the time that we wish to comment upon what the other person is lacking than noticing what he/she has. It was in 1915, one man arrived to India, who was then NRI as most of us are today.He could have practiced law and looked after his Roti, Kapada aur Makaan but he did things beyond one's capabilities. He walked half-naked through out the nation, he added taste to the food we eat, he cleaned toilets, he lived with people who are said to be untouchables as per our culture, most importantly he made us stand together. And thats whom we can call a leader. A leader not one who dies before you die, he is the one doesn't let you die.We call him "Father of the nation" and all others know him as Mohadas Karamchand Gandhi or a half naked fukheer.

Today you tune to any news channel, we find one or the person fasting, protesting (peaceful) against something or the other and call themselves a Gandhiwadhi. The question is did fasting by Mr.Gandhi got us the independence? and we all know that its such a stupid reason to say so.Lets say for an instance it did get Swaraj, in such a matter, why Mr.Gandhi did not sit for fast in 1915 demanding independence for our nation? if it had happened that way we would have had our history as some person did peaceful protest for the Swaraj by fasting and died. He would have been dead because there was no media unlike today where they cover the fast then feed "the faster" and feed us with sensational news!

Somewhere, somehow we are making a mockery of our own system, a system that our founders thought best suited for us and our growth.On the other hand, we have revolutionaries in our history and we, the Youth strongly believe in them and their "Bravery" but what actually were they? they were just like the naxals who looted taxes paid by people, killed innocent woman in a carriage,bombed a government meeting in which probably they were discussing about bringing more development in India.Finally, the result was they killed themselves because they were ashamed to show their face to society that they failed and that is the work of "Ego", where as Mr.Gandhi failed in 1930's when he asked for Poorna Swaraj and yet he kept his "Ego" aside and as I said earlier, he walked half-naked asking people to come together to envision a common goal, An Independent India. And we the educated, the future of India treat him like a traitor who conspired the death of those revolutionaries. Mr.Albert Einstein described this Great Soul as "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." and he is true. Our children and their children and grandchildren may believe that "Protuberance under one's chin is the Apple eaten by Adam" or "An apple was the proof for gravitational laws" but when you describe them Mahatma, the first question will be "Did he really exist?".

White Tigers

2011-07-14T00:35:00.000-07:00

We the Indians today stand equally aged and when we call ourselves as Indians, we are all 64 years old.And, when we look back, we see a long path taken by all of us amidst all sort of turbulence, we are the largest democracy in the world by which we puff up our bosom and bark that we have power to elect our leaders. Lets take a look at our great leaders who made/make some difference in our yesterday,today and tomorrow.When our fanciful west was stepping into The Industrial Revolution in 18th century, to scale the pinnacle of innovation there was this boy taking birth in a remote village of what we call today as India Inc.No one ever knew he would grow beyond 'industrial revolution', Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.When I joined TCS, a part of Tata group, I was one among those privileged folk to watch a documentary which was made to commemorate the 100th death anniversary of Nusserwanji and the birth centenary of JRD. The film traces the origin and the growth of the tatas starting from nosherwanji who relocated from Navsari in Gujarat to the then Bombay to start his career in cotton trading.The documentary tracks the lives of three generations of tatas-Nusserwanji,Jamshedji and JRD.I must say I was in for some pleasant surprise.Facets of the personalities of these doyens which one had not read or heard about hitherto. Brilliant photography,excellent onscreen narration by the flamboyant Kabir Bedi,a well prepared script narrating the tata family's rise to become a top industrial group in India,their ethics and the vision of the founder came out in the most convincing manner.The many firsts of the tata group- Empress cotton mills at Nagpur,steel plant at Jamshedpur,Taj Mahal hotel at Mumbai,tata institute of science at Bangalore where Nobel laureate C V Raman worked and Air India were shown along with the stupendous efforts and sacrifices made by the family in the last 100 years to create world class institutions.the sacking of JRD, the First Chairman of Airindia, by Morarji Desai when he became Prime Minister was poignant.
All in all its a rarest of the rare cases when such visionaries walk in the form of flesh and blood on this mortal Earth.They are "The white tigers".

A thousand splendid suns

2011-05-25T12:23:00.000-07:00

It was two day trip in the land of poets,traders,scholars and more like we call it Afghanistan. When I started reading one of the finest story ever written in the field of literature, it was like the author is guiding me through the hearts of the people of Afghanistan. Misfortune has always cast its darkness over this country in one or the other period of time whether it was fundamentalists, communists or Americans they have all tried to use it to their own benefit. The story of Mariam and Laila, from their birth, through their fight for survival in the devastated city, the sacrifices, deaths,droughts,uprisings, amidst all these, they survived,held on to see the bright future,to see a new beginning,a future under the radiance of Thousand Splendid Suns. Amen.