like a gentle breeze your constant presence where have the storms gone ?
Aamir Khan’s Tare Zameen Par and the Oscars
So what are the chances of Tare Zameen Par to get a nomination or even better, win the Oscar for best foreign language film category ? First my usual rant. The Oscars do NOT represent the ultimate in films of that year. 85% of the foreign language films are not even seen by the voters. [...]
The US Presidential Debate, who won, Obama or McCain ?
I was hoping that this was going to be a complete walk over for Sen Obama. I was fairly sure it would be. But no it was not. For some reason I cannot fathom, the confident, visionary leader that gave one of the great acceptance (of nomination) speeches of all time, was defending himself. That's [...]
Happy Birthday Dev (anand) uncle !!
Hi Shekhar, Just wanted to drop a note to say it was your uncle Dev Anand's 85 birthday yesterday. A truly amazing man purely for his unputdownable spirit and his ability to do what we keep discussing on this blog.. to seperate effort from fruits. To work with a sense of detachment to the outcome. [...]
Emptiness : what Osho said
"There are only two types of people in the world: those who try to stuff their inner emptiness, and those very rare precious beings who try to see the inner emptiness. Those who try to stuff it remain empty, frustrated. They go on collecting garbage, their whole life is futile and fruitless. Only the other [...]
emptiness
the fear of emptiness that hollow sinking fear that grip of panic that first realization the moment of waking up that there is nothing there was nothing but the mind trying to hold fantasies and memories to somehow connect those fantasies those memories to the coming day how will I survive it ? if I [...]
What does it mean to be Hindu ?
I am Hindu, and very proud to be one .. but I have often wrestled with that question. What does it mean to be a Hindu? I have spoken to some of the best minds, the most spiritual minds. I have journeyed to many places in my quest. and I have to come to believe [...]
Islamabad bombings, is this really about Bin Laden anymore ? where are we headed ?
How many people need to pay with their lives for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre ? What started as a hunt for the few people involved in that attack to bring them to justice has ignited into a fire that has spread and threatens to gradually engulf half the populations of the [...]
Scream
did you hear me scream ? laughing an chattin' holding hands and lovin' but can you hear me scream ? shaking hands and smilin' but please can you hear my scream ?
Is this the end of Capitalism ? An Open Forum for debate
The headlines everywhere, over dramatic as usual herald the end of an era. Perhaps this is the end of an era. But the era of what ? What was so different here from the few times it has happened before ? Like the Great Depression ? or Black Monday (or was it Tuesday ?). I [...]