Rumbling Reflections

Watching the movie 'The Lunchbox', I was drawn into a different world sans all the clutter of modern day technology. The simplicity,the sensitivity and the pure emotions in the simple story of two strangers who get close to each other through exchanging of letters over the lunchbox was so delightful. It made me ponder over the complications that man has imposed on himself through his own intelligence. Technology was meant to make things easier for man,but the opposite is happening right now. We are moving into a complicated, insensitive world where people just do not bother about what's happening to others and relationships are getting more and more fragile by the day. There is a line in the movie "Most of the problems are not as bad as they seem"! Is this not so true? We find out ways to complicate every little thing and lose sleep over them. Most of the times,what we perceive as problems are just slight deviations from the routine and it's we who crea...

Oscar winning director Roman Polanski had said " Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater" and I have personally not seen many movies of such kind. The primary purpose of going to a cinema hall is to have some fun,munch popcorn, get entertained and the film would be forgotten ten minutes after walking out of the hall. But it is very rare for cine goers to come out thrilled at the end of a movie with a feeling "Wow,we just watched a terrific movie!". Such movies have a long enduring value and become the talk of the town for a long time. The Kannada flick Drishya was one such fabulous experience where I did forget that I was in a theater since the happenings on screen got me involved so deeply,and I am certain a majority who have watched it would also agree. There is nothing out of the world in the story,nothing that you would not have seen or heard before and yet the film managed to get into the viewer's psyche like no other recent film ha...

May 16th was a historic day in Indian politics,a day where a single man rewrote the records by defying all odds stacked against him. Though he was expected to get good numbers,the sort of thumping majority that he got in the end was expected by very few.Narendra Modi,the face of the BJP in the elections managed to get an overwhelming mandate from the people of India,the largest and most vibrant democracy in the world. Most of the opposition parties dismissed the Modi wave as mere media creation,but the results have made them eat humble pie,for it was not just a wave,but a literal tsunami and none was more affected than the congress party which had to settle for an embarrassing 43 seats,its worst ever poll returns. It was a strategically planned,clinical victory for the BJP and the major credit for it rests on Narendra Modi,who started vigorous campaigning almost 8 months ago itself. He toured the lengths and breadths of the country,provided new hope for the masses,used technology...

India is known to have possibly the world's oldest civilization,the Indus Valley civilization. It was a culture so refined,and advanced that it drawn praise from olden times. What made it so successful was the water tight system that was in place that ensured an orderly and smooth functioning of the administration for a very long time. What was thus a model state for every other part of the world slowly started dis-integrating  and once foreigners started attacking and vandalizing our nation, the collapse was faster and more evident. The British sucked out the confidence of the masses,made Indians their slaves and started dividing the people on the basis of religion. By the time they left the shores of India,they had firmly entrenched the thought of slavery and left behind a huge trail of passive energy which sabotaged India's chances of continuous and sustained growth. What was needed after independence was a strong and decisive administration which could harness the pot...

There are so many theories about the purpose of life and ways to lead it. So many scholars have researched on it,many self help gurus give some gyaan about it,books tell a myriad ways and every individual will have his own definition of it.Which one to accept is left to the discretion of each person and his thought process. What works for one might not work for another and so there is no particular way to lead a good life or a definition of a good life.I happened to watch the recent Hollywood release 'The secret life of Walter Mitty' starring Ben Stiller and though I went in with zero expectations and with a blank mind as I did not know anything about the movie,those 2 hours held my attention like no other recent film had done! More than the film,it was the story packed with subtle,yet profound messages which left a deep impression. The story is never in your face,but if analysed well,the deeper meanings that most scenes carried were efficacious.So,I present here the 14 thi...