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Letting go

February 13, 2007 shekhar16 Comments

how wealthy can you be if
you are afraid to let go
of your wealth ?

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Posted in The search for the self

Masoom and Naseeruddin Shah

February 11, 2007 shekhar52 Comments

I have so may questions from people that remember Masoom. It was my first film and get surprised that people remember it so much. I must start blogging about my experiences from it. I picked up though, the following extract from a recent interview with Naseeruddin Shah which evoked old memories of old times, old friends ….

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Posted in My Films

Putin blasts the US

February 11, 2007 shekhar6 Comments

Just 2 days ago I had blogged about the US indulging in another arms race that will provoke Russia, and how the US now has to take cognizance of other world powers in the international power equation. Putin has made a similar statement yesterday at the Security Forum in Munich :

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Posted in Point of View

Global Warming and Al Gore

February 10, 2007 shekhar13 Comments

Yetserday I attended Al Gore’s stunning lecture on Global Warming. I have heard him before. 2 years ago in Puerto Rico. The lecture is different, and that’s what is frightening. So much more devastation has taken place in the last two years. Or atleast what we have learnt in the last two years about the devastation we have caused is frightening…

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Posted in Current Events

Babel and Paradise Now

February 9, 2007 shekhar31 Comments

Babel is a work of absolute genius, but still stands, in my view, the second best film of last year. The best film is a unquestioningly a Palestinian film called ‘Paradise Now’, which was not even recognized by any of the awards announced. That is why awards such as the Oscars will always be suspect..

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Posted in Films

US Missile bases in Eastern Europe. Another Cold War ?

February 9, 2007 shekhar2 Comments

So why has the US decided to acclerate tensions by deploying missile sites in the Czech Republic and in Poland ? Russia has already reacted sharply by increasing it’s defense budget, and do you think China will be far behind ?

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Posted in Current Events

letting go

February 7, 2007 shekhar47 Comments

It’s when love turns to need. Its when love becomes more desire than nurture and caring. Its when love turns in into possesion and then into obsession. It’s when you say ‘you belong to me’. It’s the beginings of ownership. It’s the beginings of the end of love…

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Posted in Love

Arjuna, you coward !

February 6, 2007 shekhar36 Comments

Arjuna,
you coward !
stop moralizing your
your own sense of fear

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Posted in Poems

farewell…

February 6, 2007 shekhar28 Comments

and
if my spirit
nurtured yours
as yours did mine

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Posted in Love, Poems

Queen

February 1, 2007 shekhar10 Comments

Heard on the grapevine that when the producers and distributors of the film ‘Queen’ saw the final product, they did not think the film good enough to release in the theatres, so initially decided to release the film straight to Video …..

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Posted in Current Events

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