born without questions about existence accepting that I just am but now i learn every moment who i am not before i know who i am and then, simply that i am not, we die as we are born
Cannes diary : Dining in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
It's very exciting to be on the Jury of the Cannes film festival. Especially when the Jury is headed by the man I affectionately (but also seriously) call 'the Salvador Dali of Cinema'. Tim Burton is a compassionate and gentle person that is so eager to learn about other people and cultures. He is also [...]
Just 5 days into the Water Crisis, and people of Mumbai are living in fear. And in thirst.
Death toll up to 7 in riot over water tanker in Malabar Hill, Mumbai The driver of the water tanker, Suresh Salve succumbed to his injuries in hospital, as the death toll in the 'water tanker riot' rose to 7. Harish Malvade, the guard who fired the first shot killing Pradeep Amre, the 11 year [...]
Did George Mallory ‘conquer’ The Mother Goddess of the World ? Everest.
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared a few hundred meters from the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924. In doing so they created the most enduring mysteries and myths of mountaineering. Did they get to the summit before the clouds covered them from the view of his comrades following them through binoculars from a [...]
IPL: greed caught up with everyone,
IPL was an easy target for the power hungry to swoop down on. It was perfect. There was no land laws or farmer's lands to forcibly acquire, no licenses for factories, no labour laws. Nothing but an escalating brand at a hyped values that seemed to have no limits. Hyped because the team owners are [...]
Shashi Tharoor and the politics of Disruption
Whenever change is coming, the people on top of the pile suddenly let go their own differences and unite against the forces of change. Does not matter where you are. People that have spent their life struggling to the top by fair or unfair means have such a strong investment in the existing system, that [...]
A hopeful view of experience: Paani
From Deepak R: Bijapur,I have lived in this dusty town, fought many college debates on water crisis here,spent many days of my life fetching water and storing it away, taken out protests with the local authorities. In many ways this small historic town has remained unchanged since 100 years. People in reality do not expect [...]
Green Zone the film and the truth about Iraq
I just saw Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, which says it is inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekharan"s " Imperial life in the Emerald City". Which is a terrific book. The film may have been inspired by something in the book, but Matt Damon's character was certainly inspired by the character in Bourne Identity. Cinematically brilliant (like the [...]
The Story of Paani
This came in from Bhaskara : "Today I was watching a local kannada news channel. There was a news that, people in Bijapur were furious over water supply. The reason was for weeks there was no water supplied to homes. When the public attacked the local water regulation body, they found out that there was [...]
The Yellow Shirt and Christoph Waltz
Suresh (he, the one that got kissed by Cate Blanchett) laid out my favourite shirt. It's a yellow shirt that does not fade, and crumples in a way that speaks of casualness and not shabbiness, and it's so loose that I can slump around anywhere and it will hide my body posture. Plus every time [...]