Happy Independence day everyone ! And while we celebrate, lets give a thought to the idea of 'equality of Independence'. Independence was the both the end and the beginning. The end of the rule of the foreign Colonial Masters, and the dawn of the responsibilities brought with Freedom. Each Independence day should we not evaluate [...]
Mumbai underworld set to take over distribution of Water ? ?
So the papers are full of news that the ground water table in northern India is being seriously depleted, and so it threatens destroy our agricultural output. Of course while the media may have just caught up with this story, common people have known this for 20 years now. Ever since the agricultural revolution was [...]
And I thought judging “India’s Got Talent’ would be easy !
I thought, hey ! this should be fun. Go in and sit on a chair and just say whether you liked an act or not, and get paid for it. I saw other directors do it and it looked pretty easy. Just shows how little I know myself. For all my writings on the search [...]
Why are private doctors not enabled to treat Swine Flu ?
While no one is sure how real a pandemic the H1N1 (swine flu) virus is, one thing is for sure. The government of India is completely unprepared to deal with what some experts are saying is about to happen. A dependency on government run hospitals, where sanitation conditions are such that infections abound is dangerous. [...]
Art or Commerce? Swarovski installation
Here is a short interview that I wanted to share that I did just before the opening of Sankalpa, the installation at the Swarovski Crystal Gallery.
Swarovski Installation : Sankalpa by Shekhar Kapur and David Adjaye
This is a picture of the installation that David Adjaye and I created based on the short film I made called Passage in Argentina. The still frame does not give a complete idea of the immersive experience of sound and moving picture that you get once you are in there. The idea is to sense [...]
And the sage said to me :
that there is no one definition of anything - that it is only the ego that desires to define that most pain is caused by the need to define something, which, like a whiff of a mist disappears when u try and catch it, that as long as we cannot accept the unknown, the uncertain, [...]
here and now
if the universe is infinite wherever it is and 'forever' does exist wherever it does then wherever you are you are forever and whenever you are you are here, and now and whoever you are I cannot find a better way to say I love you
Hope floats
Hi Shekhar, Its extremely moving to see how touched you are by many of the performances on the show that you are judging esp the ones by special children who have such an amazing spirit to overcome challenges despite their special needs. Given that you have made such real , heart wrenching films like Bandit [...]
Judgement and Prejudice on India’s Got Talent
Vishal asked "saw you on television ......just thinking 'at what point of time in a person's career or in learning cycle ....a person gets confident enough to judge others?' Never is the answer to that one Vishal, as there is a very thin line between judgment and prejudice. How can you judge anything except from [...]