Landed in Sydney today. Here to promote Golden Age and to make a keynote presentation at the upcoming Digital World event in Melbourne for the XMedia Labs. I seem to be getting a lot of attention in Australia. Probably because I have worked with so many Australians in the few films I have made in [...]
The nail biting
Thank you all for the great words of encouragement you have all sent to me. Now all I can do is sit and wait ! It's frustrating as from a state of "How am I going to finish all of this in time" panic, now I have nothing to do but wait. The mind and [...]
Ageing America
By 2050, an estimated 25 million people in the US will be over the age of 85, and expecting to live to a 100 at least. Will the US embrace these seniors as a source of wisdom or as a burden ? I guess it depends on their wealth.... ... Medical advances in the area [...]
Partition of India, the pain.
Just watching a documentary of an Asian Indian actor tracing her roots. And then the documentary talked about her Grand Uncle and his family being massacred on a train as they fled from the newly created Pakistan. She even met her great aunt who was on that train when she was 20, but somehow survived. [...]
the IIT conference
I was part of a series of forums at the IIT Alumni 2007 Global conference in the 'Silicon Valley". I am amazed at what the IIT Alumni has achieved and their incredible influence on the world and in India. I am proud and thankful to Jawahar Lal Nehru for his incredible foresight when he created [...]
The Zen of doing Nothing
Work, work, work. Play hard. Take a holiday. Go out. have you seen the latest ? And yet .... I crave to walk the mountains, not alone, but in solitude, allowing my mind to breathe, to listen to the quite whispers going on between me and my mind. Between my conscious and subconscious. Every day [...]
Buddhist Prayer flags
If you scroll down on the right, under the last of the 'Most popular' is the Category 'Zen Thoughts'......I love the philosophy of the Buddhist Prayer flag. Tie up a little coloured flag to a string, and every time it flutters in the wind, it says a prayer for you. And for everything. Whenever I [...]
London Explosive Device
Just landed in London from Malaysia and the news media is full of the 'potentially explosive device' found near Piccadilly Circus. The Londoners are faced with the inconvenience of traffic jams and how to get to work. Cant help thinking of how the people in Baghdad and in Beruit survive much much worse. Are the [...]
Crossroads of Freedom
where lies the identity of this realm called freedom ? which way do I point myself where are the signpost and which path do I take and not look back with regret ? where is the path in which each crunch of my footsteps is not a jarring calling of my own doubt ? freedom [...]
Pursuit of Happiness – Open Forum
Is excessive/compulsive consumerist behavior an attempt to compensate for the loss of a simple community life, where our basic social patterns were defined by simple rules. Where relationships had time to be more meaningful and where we had a greater, more mythic relationship with nature and the Earth. Is this loneliness driving us to compensate [...]