The internet is rife with rumours that my next film is called Global Cool with Tony Blair and Sienna Miller in the lead. Actually 'Global Cool' is an organization that is dedicated to bringing the message of Global Warming to the youth. Hopefully we can make energy conservation, water conservation etc a fun thing to [...]
The spiraling dollar
Those of us that get paid in dollars but live in the most expensive city in the world watch in dismay as the dollar continues to spiral downwards. There must be a floor after which the dollar will begin to rise ? After all the US economy is still one of the most robust in [...]
And so my day begins at 3.30 am …
We are reeling in the throes of a very severe crisis of water, reports Ratna Rajaiah. In her extremely caustic article she talks about how the daily lives of people in Mysore is being dominated by the availability of Water. For those of us that live in large cities where water still runs through our [...]
A trail of ‘maybe’s”
I look back at the day and I see behind me a trail of 'maybe's. I look back at the year and i see a huge wake of 'maybe's. Indecisive ? A serious lack of commitment ? Negotiating space ? Or just looking for the potential and the possibility of the future evolving and emerging [...]
past, present, future
let go of the past to set the future free and leave the now to evaporate from my friend the astrophysicist
Buddha
to the the gates of absolute chaos did He prostrate himself before He passed through in the search for harmony
Wifi and depression – Open forum
A writer friend of mine was suddenly attacked by depression, and she traced it back to the time that she installed Wifi in her home/office. It may just be a combination of writer's block and all the news about the health dangers of Wifi. But most of us now work in WiFi enviorments, our homes [...]
The creative process
When asked by a studio head once how I would direct the film, I said, well ..... Ummmm ..... I would put some film in the camera ..... And umm .... I would find a nice place to put the camera and umm ..... Needless to say I did not get the job, nor would [...]
Temp Score and Real score
I am going through the last minute pains of Golden Age. As we edit the film we add what we call temp score to the edit - to impress people as the see the film in various stages of the edit. This this score is stolen from all over the place. Other movies mainly, but [...]
Open Forum ..TB infections in airlines
Scary. On the 29th December I had written for the Times of India, and blogged (look under current events) abut the 10 things that 2006 will be most remembered for. Amongst them was an almost missed bit of news from the WHO that a new, completely drug resistant strain of TB had developed. I predicted [...]