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Give me some good news !!
Corruption, CWG, Jagan and the mining ministry. Bad politics and depressing news have become so common that they cease to be a sensation. I wish there was more joy, honesty and triumph to report, that watching news of death, calamities and human plight would not bring in feelings of deja vu.
Vuja De: The strange feeling that somehow, this has never happened before.
Peepli .. life .. goes .. on
If you have ever lived in a village with similar living situation’s as ‘Peepli’ , the movie ‘Peepli Live’ will entertain, engage and will also infuriate and sadden.
The central narration of the movie that follows the ‘suicide threat’ of an Indian farmer is important, serious and strong but the integration of other issues like the political blame game, TRP friendly journalism, the great urban rural divide, lack of materialistic emotions in the rural context and even the enterprising nature of the nations people make this a unique movie – almost like the movies of yesteryear that found comedy in the middle class plight.
The ‘emotionless’ approach to suicide for gaining money, visuals of the urban brigade departing leaving behind a pile of garbage and the ride from rural to the urban stopping for just a second at the billboard “More space, more luxury” are memorable and hard hitting shots.
Although, the issue of farmer suicide is no news for India, no real reform or relief seems to be in sight. Incidentally I had written about this very same topic in 2006 , the context and content of which are just as relevant 4 years hence.
Entertainment or serious cinema Peepli Live is a must watch, and I hardly ever say that.
Smells of …
The air smells of burning wood and dry pollen. Smells like wood cooked rice and drying cow dung from the streets.
Smells like my village, but in the middle of the high rise. Smells of my childhood, smells I like, smells of my country !!
She says..
“If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
We are what we choose – link to a speech by Jeff Bezos
“One day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
Read more: We are what we choose
Give me some spinach.
Transport me back in time
Fast forward to that bright bright place
Quick
It feels like I am running out of life
Nothing as it was in my mind
How can I be? Who I am ?