The gift of talent, I believe, is a huge responsibility. It does not really belong to you. It never did. If used for merely acquiring wealth fame and power, talent turns into the devil that eats into your soul. Like a gambling debt, like an addiction. Not to a supreme creative endeavour but to the [...]
Loss
I thought I lost you because you were you but now I know I lost you because I was I
consciousness
is there a slipstream of consciousness that i can tap into ? buffeted by currents so strong that i completely lose a sense of myself in a rush towards such infinite speeds that finally there is nothing but stillness shekhar
joy
The joy of life also lies in forgetting what was, and then rediscovering it... I heard the birds sing again this morning, every morning....
to be lost
to be lost is to be free and to be lost in being lost freedom lies in what I lose not what I gain shekhar
Open Forum: Is India being sold ?
... to the highest bidder ? Is the high rate of economic growth being achieved by a larger and larger concentration of wealth in fewer hands ? or is there indeed a an internal growth in productivity and wealth that is spreading through our nation...... .. certainly a huge boom in real estate and the [...]
j krishnamurti
my cousin sent me this birthday greeting that I want to share : "as j.krishnamurti says 'the roots of heaven are in living and dying' so birthdays are important as a reference point of the great illusion of time.
Birthday/Marrakech film festival/Milos Foreman
Just wanted to thank everyone that have posted birthday wishes to me on this blog, on my e mail and via text. I spent my birthday on a flight to London, on my way to Marrakech. Where I am on the jury of the film festival. The chairman of Jury is Milos Foreman, who has [...]
The builder
Came out from "Jazz by the Bay', a club in Mumbai, into Marine Drive. Called the 'Queens Necklace', this area is among the most desirable and expensive real estate in Mumbai. Was approached by a really old bent and gnarled woman begging for some money. I asked her where she came from. 'Sholapur' she said, [...]
Hollywood vs Bollywood ?
I took part in the NDTV debate and realized we were not talking about the same things. The medium and the technology may be the same, but the culture, both of viewing and of creating are completely different. Our films satisfy a completely different need from our audiences, Over the last 50 years they have [...]