Anyone out there also not quite sure how to react to Borat ? Sure it's clever, and even funny. But it made me feel uncomfortable about ridiculing another culture in such an extreme way... But I guess I have seen our own Mehmood do the same take but much better for years in Hindi movie. [...]
Into the Void
u left plunging me into a void that grows so vast that with each moment i am afraid even you cannot now fill it yet your name is the mantra i whisper with each breath as i yearn to fall even deeper into the void shekhar shekhar
Water on Mars !
So we celebrate. The possibility that there may be life on Mars. Not sure whether we are more afraid that there may be other life forms out there that are far more evolved than us, or more afraid that we are the only ones around.... ... But don't you sometimes consider how arrogant our search [...]
India the next Super Power ?
Soemtimes I do not get it. India's GDP stands at US $774 Billion. US GDP is at US $12,486 Billion !. Even at a current growth rate of 9%, 3 times that of the US, it will be decades before we catch up. So what's the concept of a Super Power that we believe we [...]
Nanotechnolgy 2
This is a comment from Sasikanth, a Nanotechnologist at Cornell Unversity. It would be interesting to initiate a discussion on how this new technology will affect our daily iives in all spheres. Sasikant says "Sekhar, I am a nanotechnologist at Cornell University working on technologies. Being a nanotechnology researcher I think I have to comment [...]
Dhoom 2
To all those Bollywood fans out there, I finally managed to get tickets for Dhoom 2 in London. It's the only film in London other than Casino Royal that is consistently 'house full'. The film is a lot of fun in a charmingly silly way. But I think it is time to change the name [...]
Trial and Error
Apologies to thse that have ben visiting this site for the last month. We have been very busy in the edit room, and I guess we have been guilty of ignoring the site. Editing is a process that often is one of trial and error And of course it is not like filming, where so [...]
Nanotechnology
Just as we are getting used to the Digital Age, we are about to be overwhelmed by the 'Nano Age'. Often wondered how that will affect me as a story teller/film director. I look at a Camera, which is really a passive recording device that 'reads' light as refelected by the observed object. Nano technology [...]
Intellectual Property and Piracy
I have been both attending and speaking on conferences on the future of Media and Technology. I use the two terms together as more and more Technlogy and Entertainment/Media are converging to become the same bussiness. One thing that consistantly comes up is the question of Intellectual property and Piracy. I think the lawyers/Corporations have [...]
Coincidence (again)
Question inspired by Andrew's post : Do coincidences occur as events that we become startingly aware of, or do we subconciously manifest them ourselves ? And is there indeed any difference in the two statements? For if our Universe is an interconnected matrix of all time,space and existence, then it is difficult to seperate an [...]