While growing up, I'd never really considered how important it is to be imaginative. It's a childhood profession, you could say. It comes naturally. Then we hit an age when we're presented with a scantron of bubble-in options, a template for a CV that we need to create, and Excel. At that point, our [...]
Author: shekhar
Is Europe failing it’s Muslims? by Abdul Munim
Ah yes, this one is going to get really acrimonius given what just happened in Norway. But Abdul has raised some questions of 'awareness' and prejudice. I hope for an informative healthy debate here without people hurling abuse at each other : "Problems cannot be solved on the same level of awareness which created them [...]
I do not want mercy, I want you to join me.
Sunita Rajkumar sent me this and I was moved by what I read. So relevant to our times "The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my [...]
Corporate Slavery by Abdul Munim
Corporate Slaves:— I am Lost in the maze of regional rivalries. Exploring the current political and social situation of the world is like putting your head into a washing machine. A lot has been written and said on this subject, but none of it makes sense to me. Role of Media: In the midst of [...]
Who truly has the smart phone? by Esha Chhabra
He took out two phones, gently placed them on the table. One rang. He stepped away to answer it. In the meantime, the other one rang as well. He held the phone wrapped in his hand as he attended to the first call. Polite and professional, he explained in Urdu, the door-to-door campaign would start [...]
Anger : sent in by Abdul Munim
A father threw his 10-month-old son to his death from the 14th floor of an apartment block in Shanghai’s Minhang District yesterday, police said. Afterwards, the man, surnamed Zhu, tried to kill himself by cutting his wrists. He is recovering from his injuries in hospital. Neighbors said Zhu, 29, and his wife, Wang, 28, were [...]
I am that
I am nothing more but nothing less I am not who you think I am I am not who I think I am I am all that is and all that is not I am neither defined nor definable neither finite nor infinite I am that that was never born or ever died I am [...]
Tree of Life
Art often becomes a victim of it's own genre'. Of the very fashion or new trend it created. and then becomes resistant to change. Film does the same. For too many years it has been stuck in 'meaning'. While meaning is essential to the viewer, surely Art provokes the viewers to explore meanings for themselves. [...]
zero budget films
'How do I become a film maker, I've been struggling to do so for so long ?' How often have I been asked that question. "is that a Video you are running on your cell phone ?" "yes " "Do you have access to some form of editing system on your computer or on the [...]
The power of Mantra’s ?
Always wondered about Mantra's. When I was a child i was asked to recite the Gayatri Mantra every night with my parents. I thought it was a prayer more than combinations of sounds created in a rhythm designed to provoke the universe to give in to 'intention'. Well .. I guess that is what a [...]