blue !!

on my last monday at bangalore, dis is what i did, watched BLUE:)
quite a no-sense movie. till the end u feel that, the much expected treasure hunt will come.
n the moment it comes, its just like...is this what i was waiting for, treasure hunt seemed so easy a thing to do..
nothing captures one's interest. n here again, there is madam KAT...
the ever so predictable role she handles, poor zayed, she's akshay wife dude...!!!
yeh tho hona hi tha, right!!!
the underwater scenes are shot well infact mindblowing:)
Our earth is beautiful, nature lovers..thats something to cheer about.
other than that, hmmm, nothing at all.....

encountering the inevitable!!

 long time since i posted something....

the net arena in itself is growing so rapidly that, twitter n sorts are taking away the writing habits..

but for ppl like me, who feel writing makes or keeps me sane, i think i should not be carried away..

so, its october....and in a few days, october 23 would also arrive.

the day i cease to work and get paid for it:)

often wondered, about the choices that one makes in his/her life.

i made a choice sometime back, and here i m, executing it, or rather started to..

two years at office has been so fulfilling, yet why is it that i choose to leave?

sometimes, people are so bored of change, but i wanted a change.

not quite in there of starting to feel the void of not being with friends or anything...

aspirations to make it big ringing high....

really happy to have got a good pile of friends at office....they rock:)

anyways......the inevitable is just inevitable.....

Shell Shocked!!!

It was like one of those days in college. I left office early for a movie!
It was a Friday, but afraid to say, it started all!
I went to see The Reader. An Oscar acclaimed movie with some strong theme. That was all that I knew. But it turned out to be more than that.
I got to know about the Auschwitz. The Jews, the Germans and everything!
In the quest to know more about what the entire thing was all about, I searched through the Wikipedia. Coincidentally though, Schindler’s List also was based on the same theme and the actor in The Reader also had acted in it, Ralph Fiennes.
Schindler’s List was a movie which I had started some time before, but did not feel like progressing with.
But, this time, donno why, I was determined to persist through the movie. I wanted to know all about what happened with the Jews.
I was startled seeing the way they were treated. I had just started seeing the movie, but felt really really disturbed after seeing the first half itself.
The scenes where the Jews are taken to Krakow with their belongings left behind and the Germans sorting and weighing them to be sold thereafter, another scene where the Jews wrap the valuable belongings in bread and swallow it, the thankfulness that the one handed man shows to Oskar when he’s saved from the SS (he gets shot later), women getting separated from their husbands, the cries of the children, the German boy saving a Jewish mom and her kid, she says, “ an hour of life is still life”…oh god!!! They were all sooo touching.
I remember during my college days, friends talking about Auschwitz and the deep injustice that Jews had to undergo, but never did I realize that it was such deep.
The scene where a small girl hides below the cot trying to save herself from the crouching barbaric gun shooters was moving. The affection shown between Oskar and Stern is something rare, especially when Stern says out his gratitude, which is so unexpected of him.
I particularly liked the incident where Amon shoots a random person for stealing chicken and seeing that, a small boy moves forward sobbing. On questioning him, the small boy admits that he knew the person who did that, and points towards the dead man. That was so likely a gesture from a boy belonging to a community of highest IQ!
How relieved and horribly happy the daughter Perlman would have felt when she saw her parents walking into the Schindlers’ factory! I bet she would have danced with joy. Now, I call that joy, for it comes from heart, true and pure. In that moment, Oskar was her savior I would say, and her GOD!
Then comes Helen, who says to Schindler that there are no set of rules, which you believe that you obey and you are safe! How bad can the situation for a person be, when he/she is bereft of freedom, forget freedom, that does not seem to matter, but to be under the constant fear that one day, you are gonna be shot! Knowing not when, that’s deprivation. That’s what I term horrendous deprivation. It’s thousand times better to be one in the random lot, the suffering is so very less.
“Control is power! That’s power!”...Amon says.
“Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don’t! “ Oskar replies.
“The truth, Helen, is always the right answer”…Amon says. All these dialogues are so catchy and apt.
What I am wondering is that how can a whole lot of population be kept like this and made to work. What about each of their ambitions, their desires, what about them? Doesn’t that matter at all? How can so much injustice be inflicted upon a whole community? Where were all the human rights people? Dead or acting like they never existed? I wonder if there were any! With a caring heart at all!
The sight of the shrieking women when their children are taken out of the ghetto for (donno what?!), will never fade from my memory. Children hiding the shit galore! Oh good god.
The list is life….
Whoever saves one life saves the world entire!
I am sure; every one among them would have at least at some moment of their lives in the Nazi control, cursed themselves for being born a Jew. But that is not their choice either, isn’t it?
Thinking about all this, I feel very lucky to be born at this point of time, to be blessed with everything, at most with FREEDOM.

THAROOR and Politics----some ironies and expectations!

The stage is all set for Mr. Shashi Tharoor to enter state politics. He would be contesting on Congress ticket from the capital city of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. Having read many of his books and articles over the period of time, I have mixed feelings about this move from him.

The first question which comes to my mind is, why politics?

Has he run out of a job, a sense of purpose after losing to Ban-Ki-Moon in the UN Secretary General elections?

Is it the bid to complete his own ideology of filling in the gap of good educated politicians in the country compared to the US?

Or is it just another power monger in the fray?

I have seen Tharoor as a skilful writer with the right selection of words mixed with vibrant sarcasm and charishma. After working in the UN from the age of 22, I am also sure of the fact that he is a good diplomat too. After all he is the Global Leader of the world.(World Econimic Forum at Davos)

But, do one have to be the global leader to be a good leader in state politics. I feel it’s a totally different ball game. Let’s weigh them.

At this juncture where I am gonna vote for the first time, there are some qualities which I feel that the person whom I vote should have.

They are the sense of purpose, not to change the world all together, but to accept the things the way they are, yet trying their bit to make it a better place. He/she should know the people they represent. In fact truly REPRESENT them. Should be patient to listen to their pleas. Should be there for them. Should not disappear once they get elected to the Parliament and then never appear in their constituency! Should be knowledgeable of their constituencial problems atleast, forget solving them.  Should proudly voice our concerns in the House.

I feel as a voter, I have the right to expect these from them. For that’s their job and they should be doing that without getting malignant.

I understand the dilemma of the voters in TVM. On one side they would be happy that they are getting a choice to vote for one of the greatest diplomats from the contemprory stage. Yet they would be concerned for his inability with the mother tongue, his less experience in the state matters as such, although he has been a frequent visitor to the place.

What surprises me is his allegiance to Congress which he has so much criticised in his works. Was he just opting for the better among the lots? What was his preference criterion then? I am puzzled. I am sure the people of TVM would also be.

I remember during my college days, he had come to MASCOT (a 5 star hotel) to deliver a speech. But, TVM is not just MASCOT. As a politician he has bigger responsibilities to fulfill.

Is he ready to come out of the MASCOTS and the TAJ and plunge into the difficult world of state politics where fair deals are many a time rare. I am sure he would have got a pinch of it, with the youth wing of congress opposing his candidature. That’s just a beginning.

I am assuming that he is living his ideal of getting to serve his country which he is so very boastful in his works. No one who has read him can doubt his passion for India.

I just hope that the passion for his India and my India gets converted to the compassion for the needy. I hope that he becomes a fair politician.

I wish him all the very best!