This is my World

There are three ways to make you do things. Make the thing, fun to do, force you into doing it or make sure you do it. Terrorism is no exception. Some of you might want to call it a protest, others would like revolution. Call it by any name, it is still the thing. In her latest book, "Listening to Grasshoppers", Arundathi Roy(one of my role models), chose to call it RESISTANCE. I am not going to comment on it. Two reasons, one I am no expert in human violence, two I have not read the book yet(I am eager to lay my hands on it soon). Whatever I know about the book is from a newspaper article. Let us hear the grasshoppers. First, let me make clear where I stand. A couple of years ago, when I was still in college, I had a soft corner for Communism. On books, It looked a great idea. Slowly, I learnt how irrelevant it has become to this modern World. The 20 th century saw Communism as a creature with gun in a hand and a cloth in another, the cloth to wipe off the blood the gun sp...

For sometime now, people have been yelling at me for writing a lot of sad stories in my blog. The wanted an article without words like tears, blood, heart, cry death, etc. So I decided to give them one, a funny one. But Life is not so much fun to write. It has deaths, it has cries. It spills blood. So I started searching for the thing, that is only fun. Movies. So let us talk movies. First things first. Story, the heart and brain of any movie. Well, these days you gotta search for this thing in a movie. I will not be surprised if movies introduces a trivia at the end "Find the story and win a lakh rupees!". As the 21st century is trying to crawl its way through the pages of history, both the brains of men and stories of movies has been hard to find. Story writing has become the easiest job with the story template readily available. "Hero is born into a wealthy family. When he was young, his father gets killed and all their wealth turns ash. The single mother does house ...

Sounds like an easy question, doesn't it ? Naive? Even dumb? I can hear your inner voices crying out the answer to me.  '24 hours, you knucklehead!'  I hear you. And I can also hear a few studious minds spell out the answer in a tone that can only be called dull.   ' 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds!'  That is the tone of a typical Robot. Boring ! Congratulations to those who answered. You can pass fifth grade without breaking a sweet(No offense intended here). But, let me also add that books that taught you these answers have corrupted your minds and imagination. And by books, I only mean the bad ones that instead of fueling your creativity puts it out. So let us throw such sloppy books and their schlocky ramblings out of our minds and lives to embark on a travel that men have only dreamed off.  Time is an intriguing concept. It is the only measure that is also a perspective. Perhaps that is the reason why life is measured in terms...

Immortality - A word that injects excitement into all our veins. Life without an end - Sounds both interesting and scary, at the same time. Men fear death and envy immortality. And let me tell you this is not the invention of 21st century men. This has been the dream of the first living thing on Earth. And it has since then been the only common desire of all living things. Men wished it were reality. Alchemists searched for ways to make it true. And thousands of myths have been floating the air throughout the documented history of mankind. Some cultures thought they needed a magic drink, others believed in God's boons, awarded for total dedication to the invisible man. But, none lives today to tell us that they have become immortals, or do they? The year was 2560 B.C. Civilization was taking birth in the central lands of Africa. Men were writing magical verses in Golden books to raise the dead, to live forever, when a man decided to do something different. He carved his immortality...