I was supposed to leave for Paris to edit my commercial with Nicole Kidman, when I got a call from Baba Ramdev to come to the opening of his new Yoga and Healing center in Hardwar. And who could say no to him ? The last time I met Baba Ramdev at a friends house [...]
Need consumption vs Greed consumption
I dont get it. For years we cursed the US and Western Europe for consuming too much and living far beyond the resources that our planet could afford. And now trillions of of dollars are being pumped into the US and Western Europe to stimulate demand, encouraging, for example, the American people to buy more [...]
Conception
I conceive myself in my imagination and then lose myself in my own conception
The G 20 talks will fail,
I was traveling with my producer in the US who was expressing real concern on the environment. " What is going to happen to global warming when every Chinese has a car ?". He is a caring intelligent man, who completely missed the contradiction. We were traveling in his gas guzzling Rolls Royce. It's like [...]
Afganistan will be Obama’s Vietnam
No one has a won in Afghanistan. For there is nothing to win. The country has been ravaged by a centuries of invasions and attempts to control the irrepressible tribes. All there is left is the fierce pride of the people. And the British, the Russians, the Americans have all failed to control that sense [...]
Is there a new idea for India ?
After all India was formed out an idea. An idea of freedom from the British. India now needs a new idea. Having been formed, what could keep it going ? Democracy was a great idea, but after over 60 years of independence 80% of India's population does not have any of the basic fundamental rights [...]
Why does Obama always raise the bogey of India and China ?
We in Asia have always suffered because our best minds left our shores to take jobs in the US and the West. The 'brain drain' as we called it was a big problem for the growth of our economies. Now that our economies are growing faster than the rest of the world, and there is [...]
Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire
I tried to keep it quite and hush hush, but it's all over the news papers today in any case. I am at the Taj Lake Palace Hotel shooting with Nicole Kidman, Arjun Rampal and little Rubina from Slumdog Milionaire. Fascinating cast, even for a commercial !
Paani, the movements begins
Scene from Paani : " As the little girl running towards camera gets shot from behind, she screams her last words " Water is our right - it is not for sale" As she falls, through the dust you barely make out the uniform of the man that shot her. He wears a blue helmet [...]
The truth behind the IPL cricket shift
What no one is saying is that the foreign players have expressed their unwillingness to come to India subsequent to the terrorist attacks in India and in Pakistan. So the IPL organizers and the team owners had no choice, if they are to recoup their investments and make the kind of profits they were hoping [...]