Waking Up
In the dark
In Silence
Listening to your voice
Feeling good
without a reason
Just like that
Hoping
Starting afresh
A new day
And remembering
Frustrations forgotten
Laughing
Feeling churlish
The wasted emotions
The far yesterday
Btw who the hell is Cormac Mccarthy, he was leading the ladbrokers odd at winning the Oscar but lost to some spanish dude. And his books are priced, exorbitant and with no hope of finding them in the pirated market in fort.
This country is going to dogs, I am telling you. I just want a Canadian passport and like any crow loving fearing Parsi , jump ship and settle there.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Jisne Lahore na dekhyan
Jisne Lahore Na dekhya is a guilty play, with a little bit of thackeray in it. They make you stand at the end with the Indian National Anthem. A trifle of an irony for a play which is completely set in Lahore. I would have preferred the Pakistani national anthem.
The levels where I enjoyed it were the interplay of punjabi and Urdu. Somewhere I had read that Urdu was a normal language till just before freedom and was taught in schools just like Hindi and English are. But post Independence, it was systematically eliminated.
The interplay of images using a projector was also I believe wasted.
But I did like the stage, and the play with illumination/lighting.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Yeh Duniya maya ke bagula jivan mukti kar le
One of the challenges with being employed is that it takes away a lot of your time. Managing egos, timelines, travel etc. That one forgets what the game is all about. So here's another of my lists, enumerating what would I like to do along with being employed.
1. Get back into options, actively
2. Read at least 50 pages of prose everyday
Another habit, one cultivates in a job is , to live life on the weekends. Everything that one likes to do, gets pushed on the weekend. And when a weekend comes, after one has compensated for all the sleep lost, one does not have energy to organise things into a particular pattern and clear the backlog.
The heart again pings the brain, saying what is the fun in a weekend, if it follows a structure and is not random. So there is exactly where I stand
3 Download audio books and listen to them in your commute time
4. Continue daydreaming
5. Be active on linkedin. Coz Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner
Life is better than before. I sometimes think of HP and think, wouldn't my life be better fulfilled had I taken that up at 1/3rd of the price. The logic goes like this.
Whatever job I am doing, anybody can do that. But the job that needs to be done in HP, not everybody can do it, Very few can, and very very few are willing to do it, given the price point.
And then I confront that with what I want. To be able to execute your ideas, one should have absolute control. In a corporate life, where the structure is always political and beyond a point nobody gives anybody more than a fuck but keep waiting for a promotion or a pay raise every march, one has to develop this ability to influence people.
So either I have complete control, or I work i a bigger set up where I can get exposure to scales.
The risks in something in between is a tad too much. And the benefits, if someday, there are esops, then I can exit at good returns. But then would I really deserve that wealth. I don't know.
Again the final scene of Unbreakable comes here. Is my purpose to be an enabler or a creator or just a passer by.
The logic is pretty faulty and can be taken down easily, but for now, I will treat it as an absolute truth and believe in it.
1. Get back into options, actively
2. Read at least 50 pages of prose everyday
Another habit, one cultivates in a job is , to live life on the weekends. Everything that one likes to do, gets pushed on the weekend. And when a weekend comes, after one has compensated for all the sleep lost, one does not have energy to organise things into a particular pattern and clear the backlog.
The heart again pings the brain, saying what is the fun in a weekend, if it follows a structure and is not random. So there is exactly where I stand
3 Download audio books and listen to them in your commute time
4. Continue daydreaming
5. Be active on linkedin. Coz Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner
Life is better than before. I sometimes think of HP and think, wouldn't my life be better fulfilled had I taken that up at 1/3rd of the price. The logic goes like this.
Whatever job I am doing, anybody can do that. But the job that needs to be done in HP, not everybody can do it, Very few can, and very very few are willing to do it, given the price point.
And then I confront that with what I want. To be able to execute your ideas, one should have absolute control. In a corporate life, where the structure is always political and beyond a point nobody gives anybody more than a fuck but keep waiting for a promotion or a pay raise every march, one has to develop this ability to influence people.
So either I have complete control, or I work i a bigger set up where I can get exposure to scales.
The risks in something in between is a tad too much. And the benefits, if someday, there are esops, then I can exit at good returns. But then would I really deserve that wealth. I don't know.
Again the final scene of Unbreakable comes here. Is my purpose to be an enabler or a creator or just a passer by.
The logic is pretty faulty and can be taken down easily, but for now, I will treat it as an absolute truth and believe in it.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Gulaal : A review
Gulaal was not released for three years. I don't know why.
The soundtrack of gulaal is awesome. But it has to be discovered.
I enjoyed the character of Piyush Mishra the most. His poetry, rendition etc. When I was growing up, I read a few select books in every summer vacation. One was Bhagat Singh's biography and the other was Chandrashekhar Azad's. And I always picked Azad over Bhagat.
They had different styles. Bhagat Singh wanted to discuss and tell his views to everybody. He wanted discussion, reasoning and a broader understanding, and he chose a courtroom as his platform, albeit at the cost of his life.
Jab Maut ant hai nahin, to maut se bhi kyun daren, yeh ja ke aasman mai dahad do
Azad wasn't the type who cared about reasons. ( I am starting to include my bias at precisely this point). He just wanted to do a few things his way. He did them and left. I guess, since there is so less known and heard about his that the same cannot be rehashed again and again.
Yudh hi to veer ka praman hai
The movie exposes the concept of Rajputana and how IG with one stroke nationalized inherited wealth and planned to redistribute it equitably among other. I have no idea, how god was that execution. I hope it brought on some good.
But needless to say, an action as swift as this would produce resentment.
Movies can fall into genre, like crime, drama, comedy etc. But I like to classify them on the parameter of their objectives. A non exhaustive list on a variety of objectives can be :
1. Show a mirror to the society or a focus group. Delhi 6
2. Articulate an undercurrent and catch the pulse of people. Rang De Basanti
3.Give people 3 hours of break from their existence. The Yash Johar, Chopra kiln, risqué comedys.
4. etc.
Gulaal tries to capture the pulse and also present a mirror. (Now I am being ambitious here, trying to fist manufacture a classification and then putting a movie on a pedestal saying that it is a hybrid one)
Hell, but why does Anurag Kashyap make women in his movies so strong and practical.
Books update.
I liked Gulaal.
The soundtrack of gulaal is awesome. But it has to be discovered.
I enjoyed the character of Piyush Mishra the most. His poetry, rendition etc. When I was growing up, I read a few select books in every summer vacation. One was Bhagat Singh's biography and the other was Chandrashekhar Azad's. And I always picked Azad over Bhagat.
They had different styles. Bhagat Singh wanted to discuss and tell his views to everybody. He wanted discussion, reasoning and a broader understanding, and he chose a courtroom as his platform, albeit at the cost of his life.
Jab Maut ant hai nahin, to maut se bhi kyun daren, yeh ja ke aasman mai dahad do
Azad wasn't the type who cared about reasons. ( I am starting to include my bias at precisely this point). He just wanted to do a few things his way. He did them and left. I guess, since there is so less known and heard about his that the same cannot be rehashed again and again.
Yudh hi to veer ka praman hai
The movie exposes the concept of Rajputana and how IG with one stroke nationalized inherited wealth and planned to redistribute it equitably among other. I have no idea, how god was that execution. I hope it brought on some good.
But needless to say, an action as swift as this would produce resentment.
Movies can fall into genre, like crime, drama, comedy etc. But I like to classify them on the parameter of their objectives. A non exhaustive list on a variety of objectives can be :
1. Show a mirror to the society or a focus group. Delhi 6
2. Articulate an undercurrent and catch the pulse of people. Rang De Basanti
3.Give people 3 hours of break from their existence. The Yash Johar, Chopra kiln, risqué comedys.
4. etc.
Gulaal tries to capture the pulse and also present a mirror. (Now I am being ambitious here, trying to fist manufacture a classification and then putting a movie on a pedestal saying that it is a hybrid one)
Hell, but why does Anurag Kashyap make women in his movies so strong and practical.
Books update.
I liked Gulaal.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Federer
OK. There was a photo in papers which showed him holding his head by both his hands and looking down. Surely the editors of the paper did not think twice but choose that image over thousand others. It was melodramatic and kind of dense in the pseudo intellectual way.
Even in his post match press conference , the video of which can be accessed from Wimbledon's homepage, he said many things. But the copy of the article turned out as Federer blames injuries for his defeat.
In another context, somebody said that, I really like hearing to what the really rich people have to say. As they just don't have to bother about anything but just express their views.
RF is a pretty candid person and when asked a question gives his honest opinion. He also said a beautiful one liner, I made it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. People would die to do that. That, unfortunately did not get published.
My problem is I am not rich. Quite contrary actually. But my nature makes me quite candid, as much as I try to suppress my views. It still does. And that is hurting me now. Professionally. At least when looked from this moment backwards.
Another quote, What is the worse that can happen. stay calm.
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