I was told that they found my daughter's body. Not the whole body, just the legs, arms and severed head. The agony now ends. For a year I have been begging the police to help find her. They would humiliate us, and sneer. " She must have run away with a boy" they laughed. My [...]
A Riddle
I run towards a stationary man. I can measure the distance, my velocity and the time it takes for me to get to him. Conversely, the stationary man too, from his point of view percieves exactly the same time, velocity and passage of time as I do. We move in exactly the same space time [...]
Paani pictures
Sharing with all of you one of the pictures I took of the Dharavi slums in Mumbai slums during my visual research for Paani.
Ego ? A question or a statement
So what do u understand by Ego ? Often we all muddle up each other's words because language falls short. I personally find that when I write poetry, it evokes a far greater response than prose. Perhaps because poems pose questions and prose tries to unsuccesfully answer them. Yet the greats minds, or those we [...]
new year’s eve
moonshine, baby like polished silver i'm a skatin' on the sea... happy new year everyone ! hic !
Loving, Shiva and Krishna
Natasha's questions (comment posted under the Void), led to this play of thought: "Love for another being is not neccesarily the only way to search for your yourself, your consciousness. But 'LOVE" in itself is essential to find yourself. Love is the 'harmony' that embraces all the contradictory forces of our Universe, so only through [...]
2006 will be remembered for ….
10 years from now in 2016, here are the ten things that 2006 will be most remembered for ... 1. The Decline of the Big Brother.... It is the year that world over people lost their fear of the Western powers, represented mostly by the US and it's immediate Western allies. Financially, politically or economically. [...]
Amitabh vs Shahrukh
The newspapers are blazing with pages full of the supposed power struggle between the two stars. The power struggle apparently (if the papers are to be believed) is dividing the biggest political leaders, the biggest industrial icons in India. But can any one tell me what this power struggle is about, struggle for what ? [...]
Water Wars, the coming Urban Disaster
The next wars will be fought over water and not oil. As Global warming takes place, water will become the scarcest resource. Millions will die of thirst and countries will go to war to colonize the water resources. Or maybe not ? Will Nano technology bring a much more energy efficient way to distill sea [...]
Paani, the begining
So what is Paani about and what provokes me to want to make the film ? And if it provokes me so much, then why have I not made it so far ? I am going to talk about the germinating of the film, first as an idea, then into a script, and now into [...]