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Intuition

March 13, 2006 shekhar9 Comments

Raviswamy asked me “But then where does the idea of “intuition” figure in all this ? – is it “hard wired” into our genetic code that there are just some things you have to put your trust in, and sort of “know” even if you’ve never experienced them directly …??

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Posted in The search for the self

I am not the end game

March 10, 2006 shekhar15 Comments

Continuing with the wonderful discussions that followed my post ‘to do or not do’ .. sachin asked me a question. Why am I posing all this as question, when sometimes I exhibit to others that maybe I am spiritual.

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To do or not do ?

March 8, 2006 shekhar22 Comments

How much of what I do, directly results in what gets done. And how much of what I do actually becomes the impediment in what I desire to get done ? How do I know ?

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Posted in Ourselves

And the Oscar for the best film goes to ..

March 3, 2006 shekhar16 Comments

Turtles can Fly. Ever heard of it ? Probably not. Is it better than all the nominated films ? Definitely. Far better. So what do the Oscars mean ?

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Posted in Films

Civil War in Iraq

March 2, 2006 shekhar8 Comments

The Coalition of the Willing has finally reached it’s objectives in Iraq. It’s taken me a long time to figure out the logic behind the invasion of Iraq. It’s simple really. It’s what colonists have been doing for two centuries.

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Posted in Current Events

The Indian Budget : Playing for a Draw

March 1, 2006 shekhar4 Comments

The Finance Minister in his press conference said that in the Indian Government has to show that it’s heart is in the right place as well as it’s head. He needs to be congratulated for his heart.

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Posted in Current Events

The Story Teller

March 1, 2006 shekhar9 Comments

In my previous life I was a story teller.
Dragging myself from village to village,
where people would throw me some coins
to weave fantasy around their mundane lives

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Posted in Short Stories

Terrorism & masturbation

February 25, 2006 shekhar10 Comments

In today’s UK ‘s paper Guardian, an essay by Ian Buruma equates masturbation, repressed sexuality and homosexuality with acts of Terrorists and Fascists.
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1717676,00.html
This is typical of a society looking for simplistic and convenient answers to rather complex human behaviour. Driving a wedge between Them and Us.

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Posted in Current Events

My friend, the wanderer

February 24, 2006 shekhar32 Comments

I met him trekking to Amarnath up in the Himalayas many years ago. A Hindu place of worship, where legend says that the God Shiva met his consort Parvati.

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Posted in The search for the self

May the force be with you..

February 11, 2006 shekhar15 Comments

I apologise for the absence from my website, I am now in london in what is called prep for my next film, Golden Age..

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