wonder guys of college!

The charmer guy: - swanky branded clothes, bike or some great car! The popular guy whenever would pass you by, you’ll be intoxicated and amused by the pungent smell of deodorant. This guy would date hottest girl, will be befriended by many. Their relationship status is for public display. They may or may not be dumb.(depending how much smitten are you ladies!)

PS:- these guys change girls like cloth  

The COOL guy: - noticed the guy who somehow makes appearances at every club meeting? Baggy shirt, calm expressions. This is the guy you wanna talk to before exams! There lame jokes will give you back your smile, soothe you beforehand! They might appear flippant at times, but c’mon…isn’t this their prerogative?

The serious guy: - dressed simply, buried in some geeky book, this guy might stare at you from the corner of eye, smiling occasionally. He would be frequently involved in class discussions, making you realize he does have voice. This guy may not be super brain, but hard work goes long way!

The lonely guy:- however impossible it may seem to spot them, they are not yet extinct species. In era of ‘hey what you doing?’ they might be disturbed by you trying to mope around their personal space, and certainly they won’t regret to show it. He might be an avid reader, guitarist or something he could easily show off! But Hell he won’t!  Associated with few friends only, this guy sure knows his interest areas and sticks well within it.

The drooling guy: - no one wants to hear this! He is like the voldemort! Girls he exists! Sorry….n guys c’mon you know a friend like this….don’t you? Right from weird smile to desperate texts… he is desperate to have a girlfriend! Consider yourself warned!

The mysterious guy: - also sometimes known as the back-bencher (middle bencher) he would most definitely be clouded with protective friends. Caring, responsible. He is well versed with etiquettes but don’t you mess with him! Sometimes mistakenly considered as bad boy, if his gothic tendencies boil out too often. Attracted to him? Make sure what are you getting into…

N last but not the least…

The intelligent guy: - rarely spotted, this creature is ‘Mr. know it all!’ he glides confidently, smiles cutely. He knows what he is doing; you might hold yourself tight when he winks at you. Don’t blush, he has a fan following n he knows it…be different! Awe is the reaction he snatches from you. He gives brilliant advice, wonderful listener, n hold your breath, he would never be rude to you, coz he thinks twice before he speaks. Well, the only problem is he won’t let you get inside his head. Beware of the mastermind guy…

Satyajit Ray

Very few Indian movies make it to the heart of international audience. Satayajit Ray’s Pather Panchali is one of the those movie, that not only bewails about the poverty stricken Bengal, but the very nuances of childhood, the simplicity of living under one roof, and difficulties of trying to make both ends meet in pre-independent India.

Satayajit Ray left a lucrative advertising job, to try his hand in filmmaking. But little do we know about the filmmaker who further inspired him, and believed to leave an everlasting impact on Satayajit Ray’s filmmaking. Jean Renoir came to India during 1949’s. The filmmaker was looking for shooting locations in India for his ambitious project THE RIVER. (trailer check must!) Meeting Renoir became one of the most important experience of Ray’s life. He not only accompanied Renoir to various locations in kolkata , Renoir became his first mentor in this craft.

Speaking fondly about Satayajit Ray , Renoir once said “I think he had it (film-making) in his blood, though he is very young, he is father of Indian cinema.”

But directing Pather Panchali was never easy for Ray. Mid way shooting the movie, funds dried up which he raised by his rare music albums and wife’s jewels. It was during these hustle a friend introduced him to chief minister of Bengal Dr Bhidhan Roy, who took the responsibility of financing the movie on his shoulder.

With a bunch of amateur actors, uncanny style of filmmaking Panther Panchali was made. It was the first major Indian movie to receive first New York premiere in 1955, consequently also making it to the winning list of Cannes film festival.

Panther Panchali was a rare movie, it wasn’t a Bollywood masala movie.(AKA commercial cinema)

Neither it had actors dancing and grooving to the latest tunes, nor was it even colored. Yet it was successful in depicting India the way it was; squalid, young, poverty-stricken and simple.

Hats off to Satayajit Ray! 

THE TRUTH

I love all my cousins, but he is someone simply too fantastic!

Through the years,

I have heard your voice,

Of a boy, then a men!

Well aware how you are traipsing through time,

You lean onto me for advice,

Wish I was Asclepius, with a slight touch, obviating your woes,

“Tell me nothing but the truth ”

How can I? I mull,

“Is it exigency of our bloodline,

To suffer, to burn inside?”

“no my dear, just play along!”

That’s my sober reply!

My guilt sniggers at me,

Isn’t this my duty to protect you?

Rebel inside you if ever is unleashed,

Might turn into a truculent sinner like me! 

Trust me I have tried,

You can’t encroach your wish,

And I love you far too much,

To share the truth.

searching for inspiration? look within!

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Amy Tan

Do you really need to be sad and melodramatically in pain to pen down lines that reflect your soul? My question is I have never seen a writer, of the past century the least, to be really happy with their life, enjoying success and writing wonderful sonnets!

Keats died young,

Tennyson best friend died a sudden tragic death,

Yeats was obsessed with a women who never reciprocated his love

Vladimir Nabokov’s father was assassinated ,  

Lets not talk about Leo Tolstoy

Ranbhir kapoor in Rockstar is told he needs to loose in love to really rise as a star! Viola that’s the formula! It’s pathetic and to a great extent true, perhaps for the craft of writing!

Elizabeth Gilbert on a TED event asserted how dangerous this phenomenon of being completely deteriorated from inside , only then you could be a real artist is!

No doubt pain is a crucial factor, it hauls us to speak, express in a never before way. But its not the only factor! All these poets and authors mentioned might have their huge set of problems, their tragic stories forced them to write, yet in their own way each of these loved the 'artmenship'. May be their writing saved them from going crazy!  

Inspiration comes from within, from passion to let go off everything and still hold yourself tight. No one in this world has to suffer to realize their huge dreams, sometimes a quiet introspection , wishful training, self motivation are just the required contents of a great work!

 so the next time i might wake up to lack of inspiration, i'll surf through all my memories, happy or sad, remembering how i stood by myself!

  

daddy on the radar

page 7

                                                                 after one year
"where the hell are you?" he shouted,
"i am in class, can you hear me?" i whispered clearly on the receiver while the sociology professor blabbered during the lecture.
Arnav kept calling me, insisting it was an important news.
"important!" he shouted again,
finally anger took the best of me,
"i am in bloody class" i said exhausted, realizing only few seconds later how my voice has elevated the suggested decibel level and entered the category of loud and clear shout!


i was suppose to meet him at Saket, he stood right across the Buddy's store, gulping flavored milk.
"what are you? two years old?"
"and hi to you too" he said taking another sip ignoring my comment for the millionths time in one year we had known each other.
"Are you nuts? you called me in middle of the class, i shouted and professor won't be seeing me for one week!"
running my eyes around while entering the select city walk i complained,
"anyways what was so important?"
just as we entered i saw Neha and Vishal approaching,
last one year we four became a sort of family, Neha and Arnav the shy innocent dedicated ones, while Vishal and i were wild child. Thanks to these two i haven't got drunk since the last catastrophe. In fact this time Neha and Arnav went with me for the final document submission day, which wasn't the last day for admissions at all!
"is this therapy again?"

note:- as a group of idiots, which officially we four are, we had a therapy thing in which any three would raise a sensitive topic and fourth one would be hauled to speak about it. Previous sessions were related to Amita, Vishal trying to quit smoking , Neha's not so friendly geek squad and yeah most were just about me.

"don't you guys have a life?"
"don't heed, she is trying to escape this!" neha interjected while holding my hand and dragging me to the coffee shop...
"your dad is in the town!" Arnav said while we slunk to the corner table...
"heyyyy!  ask for my hand in marriage...lucky for you, its the winter sale season!"
"seriously dude, she doesn't even want to...let this topic be skipped! "
Vishal said watching the frivolous display, i felt the burn again, i would rather choose to be made fun of then cry in front of these four and be pitied!
"nice suggestion, you ask!"
"we are talking and sketching a plan whether you like it or not!" Arnav looked straight to me, his voice had a scary firmness i dreaded...

weird collection day!

Five weird things you should totally have:- 

(Terms and condition apply)

v     An archaic pocket watch!

v     An old book gifted to someone else.

v     Spy cams (sorry taking a modern leap!)

v     Stamps, postcards!

v     An old trampled pair of cloth you shared with your best friend

Watching a women call the shoots onscreen is quite a treat, here are some brilliant series, genre:- women crime Thriller

5. Body of proof( two seasons as of now):- Megan hunt our very own Dana Delany aka ex desperate housewife is back with a bang. Being a screwed up neurosurgeon who lost her family to career, (divorce and then custody of her only daughter, eighteen hours working mom isn’t what the jury favors ) loses her career to the accident! She takes up the job of medical examiner. Communication has never been her forte but this time she is determined to speak for the dead! Crossing the barrier of her emotional coldness, it’s a journey of a medical examiner who tries to reestablish her relationship with her twelve year old daughter, learns friends can be made, connection can be felt!

 

4. Nikita (two seasons as of now):- escaping from the clutches of powerful agency division, who shelters and trains assassins , Maggie Q  is all set to bring justice! Take down the evil Percy (head of division). Also accompanying her in this deadly mission is Alex, as the season 1 progresses more and more secrets unravel. The one women mission causes quite a stir! Also there are some hot guys to keep you busy while Nikita gets some kick ass action!    

3. Rizzoli and isles(two seasons as of now ) :-  when I checked this one, I wondered two girls, no guy, how without a love angle will this show has anything to offer except boredom? I was 100% wrong! Jane Rizzoli is a Boston police homicide detective, accompanying her is brainy Maura, a total science geek medical examiner, who somehow never could let go her fascination with fashion!(always shows up in designer clothes!)  An unlikely pair works together! while Jane is the best ever character I have encountered yet, (including Beckett from castle and temperance from bones ) she is witty, sarcastic, caring, brave, outrageous and most of all ‘oh man! What sense of humor!’. Amazing and a promising show! 

2. Castle (four seasons as of now):- the story of the show began quite unlikely with ravaging killer murdering people all over new York city based on the book of Richard castle (best selling mystery writer) he accompanies NYPD, to solve the crime. While they find the killer, Richard castle is struck by the attractive lady cop, Kate Beckett, so much so, she becomes the muse for his next novel. This unlikely pair works to solve murder. The attraction, heated arguments and love being prominent part of the show! The relationship of castle with his daughter is one of the best part the show offers. Along with all twists, turns, and tragedy there’s the unsolved case of Beckett’s mother murder. MUST WATCH IF YOU LIKE CRIME FICTION SHOWS!

1. Bones (eight seasons as of now): - The papa and mummy of all medical examiners ever is the most sexy dedicated forensic anthropologist Temperance Brenan. While teamed with a super hot agent Sealy booth! Yet again there is palpable attraction, arguments and tensions and love and care and bla bla bla!  Unlike any other female lead, bones due to abandonment issues has learned to rationalize everything. She looks at society, people , her own feeling with an eye of alien, merely observing and breaking down into scientific anomaly, until booth turns more then just a partner for her!

Recently I had the chance of watching the movie based on the life of Sylvia Plath (any chance you interested you tube, nine to ten parts), those  who have no idea whom I am talking about (just remember once you read the poem ‘mirror’ in high school, that’s the poetess) …though how much neck deep the movie was in poetry, to me it failed to capture the essence of Sylvia Plath poetic beauty..

The one conclusion the movie directed the audience to, Sylvia committed suicide because her so called genius husband left her for other women…

She had depression as long as she remembered, intensifying after her father’s death…the reason she finally gave in to the temptation of dying was never his husband disloyalty…it was psychological condition, an illness she had.

what captured my attention though was a comment from random person, that sometimes you really can't fight depression, and its not worth it...no offence to anyone but if Sylvia would have lived a bit more she would have seen all her dreams align the way they are...yes, there was a very gloomy side to her, but there was an intellectual one too...when i read those i realize how much she wanted to live, more then she ever wanted to die! 

Bygone is bygone, what’s left behind are the most memorable words she scribbled in gloomy nights, apparently she was most productive when she was very close to death, here are some wonderful quotes,

‘I am too pure for you or anyone.’

‘Kiss me, and you will see how important I am’

‘Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.’

‘I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.’

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.