We spend our lives trying to get attention and loving it. Getting attention is what provokes people, creates relationships and also destroys relationships. At some levels the ego is propelled to do greater things while it seeks attention. But at other levels, for so many of us attention seeking becomes an obsession. Therefore self-destructive. You [...]
India prays for rain as the water wars break out
The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue. Gethin Chamberlain reports Gethin Chamberlain THE OBSERVER Sunday, 12 July 2009 A young man walks across Bhopal's Upper Lake, which has shrunk to an 8th of its original area. It was a [...]
Money cannot be eaten
"Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten". Prophecy of the Cree Native American Tribe Thank you, ratna
Missing the real Gandhi : from Ratna
This is from an old friend who left a high flying career in advertising to be closer to reality. There are many different opinions on my being in the Talent show, but read on to what she sys later. It's important and from the heart : "Watch you every week on India's Got Talent and [...]
Spiritul search a luxury of the rich ?
Seema said " You have it all hence have the luxury of search for self and soul. Its sad that even discovery to self is a usually a pursuit of the rich and famous because after they have it all they realize that there is still a feeling of emptiness that no amount of money [...]
Pebbles in a pool of stillness
Deepak R wrote the following piece, and does anyone have answers ? "Shekhar, you started your blog'site' with something so simple and smelling fresh: 'I exist because you imagine I do'. Where did that come from ? One could have pretty much stopped with at that. And it would not matter. However words keep appearing [...]
Fim Design and narrative : Elizabeth
My last post sounds more complex than it is. Theory always does, and theory comes for me in hindsight often as I look back at my films and wonder 'what was going in my mind when I made those decisions'. ? The central focus in Elizabeth was Power. The PLOT conflict was between Elizabeth and [...]
Film Design in relationship to Film Narrative
Peter asked :we are concerned with and focused on the role of design in relation to narrative. Every great director is a genius with narrative, that's a given. This issue in relation to any filmmaker would be - what is their relationship to design, and to a cross-media discussion that might exclude conventional linear film [...]
Harmony and disharmony
For those that define Harmony as the natural state of existence, or a state that we should aspire to, I have a question. : Does the Universe not exist in constant battle between contradictory forces of Harmony and Disharmony ? Like the sunspots of the Sun, the Universe too tends to explode out of itself [...]
James Baldwin on Michael Jackson
James Baldwin, writing in an essay in 1985 in his essay Here Be Dragons, where he says : “The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at all. I hope he has the good sense to know it and the good fortune to snatch his life out of the jaws [...]