Ok, so we tend to get a little patronizing about our own family members, especially when that person happens to be your younger sister. You kind of tend to pat them on their back and treat them like a child and then look back at your life and realize how utterly stupid that attitude was. [...]
Slum Dog kids to campaign for Congress, Jai Ho !!
Azhar and Rubina, both about 10 years old apparently have been asked to campaign for the congress party in the forthcoming elections. Plans are being worked out now. From everyone complaining about Slumdog Millionaire because it show cases poverty in slums, to our Parliament congratulating the film makers and the Media circus taking off on [...]
The inner voice
As I sit here as I often do waitng for the first blush of blue to lighten the dark of the sky a moment so traqnquill that God insists on teasing us with it snatching it away to remind us of the day ahead I wonder where is my inner voice does it lie in [...]
Happy Holi :”Once they had water to throw at each other”
Those are the first words in the Script for Paani. The film tells the story of a city divided into two. Those few that can afford water, and those that cannot and have to fight for it. And those that can afford it protect it with armed might. It tells the story of one year [...]
Who do Blogs really belong to ?
When I first started to blog, I saw it as a way to express myself. I enjoyed putting thoughts down first thing in the morning. And then as the blog caught on, it was like relating to a whole universe of people with diverse thoughts. I then discovered that people like to express themselves back [...]
like the drop
like the drop lost in the ocean searching for the Ocean like the wave imagining itself separate from it's own immensity before collapsing back into it we are divine beings existing in divinity and yet searching of it we are the created and the creator both, existing in the vast play of creativity
Did you hear a whisper ?
Did you hear the whisper that floated by that you thought was your mind playing games as usual ? consumed as you were by the noise inside your head did you hear the whisper ? that you tried to catch but wafted away even before you could listen ? did you hear the whisper like [...]
7 Oscars for Slumdog millionaire
As the media frenzy behind the Oscars hots up, and the contenders are exhausted by the publicity, marketing, partying, and hype enforced upon them, it is good to sit back and take a clear picture of what is really going on behind the scenes and the incredible hype of the Oscars. First the contenders who [...]
Is the current economic reccesion caused by a more equitable re alignment of wealth ?
Thsi is from Horst : When we have such pangs of bad conscience ( on my post on water) where do we go from there? The slum that you saw from the hotel window, as close as it appears to be, may as well be on the moon. That is the felt distance between the [...]
Waltz with Bashir
Probably the best film this year. If the film was in English, it would be a serious contender for the Oscar. It left me moved and shattered at the same time. It is psychological, political and mythical at the same time. And about our modern day politics. It is animation, but it draws you so [...]