This is an incident which changed my life. It made me non racist but I started to hate kids severely .
Once in the presumed great civil and courteous country of Canada, while I was walking home, pebbles were thrown at me by kids. It was night. I couldn't see their faces. They followed me while continuing to throw pebbles at me and I was too scared to do anything coz I had to soon apply for my Permanent Resident card and you can't do that if you have been beaten up by Canadian kids.
Then after about 500 meters of being hit, when I had had enough , I turned and walked towards them. Towards the racist kids. They didn't run. They wanted to fight me.
But then I stopped. I didn't get close enough coz I didn't want to see their faces . I stopped coz if I see them I will judge their behavior towards me on the basis of the color of their skin.
And so, I turned back and kept on walking and since then I cured my racism coz I didn't see their faces. I.e. if you want to cure your racism just don't see the color of your attacker's skin and hate the entire mankind instead, like I hate the entire kid-kind. Hail Mogambo.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Best way to explore Old Delhi
In my opinion, the best way to explore Old Delhi is to roam its streets.
As a person who has been born and brought up in Purani Dilli, I see roaming the
city’s streets the finest way to know the city or any old city, for that matter.
I am sure there are countless travelers who are aware of this age-old
wisdom, ‘To know a city, roam its streets, meet its people, eats its food, visit
its loos’ and Old Delhi is no exception to this rule.
I will begin my point saying that what I extremely dislike about the place,
pollution and overpopulation, is the thing which makes me like Old Delhi
(Delhi-6) even more. Old Delhi is like a dish which keeps on getting these new
ingredients and it tries to accommodate everybody and strives for making it
work.
Old Delhi doesn’t prefer a specific kind of people, a specific kind of
religion or caste or creed, or any specific kind of specific. It’s open like
the god’s green earth and so to experience its true magic, you need to not just
see but walk on its crowded footpath and witness the religious diversity of the
place where India’s biggest mosque Jama Masjid, a massive 300+ year old Digambar
Jain mandir, a devotee-favorite Gauri Shankar temple, the legendary Sis Ganj
gurudwara and the towering Fatehpuri church, are all standing in one line even
in these polarizing times.
When eating Old Delhi’s food like a regular tourist, you will surely
explore the narrow lanes of the famous Gali Paranthe-wali or taste the famous
faluda and chaat-papdis’ at their popular designated places but if you walk
around a while in the chaotic arteries of this old heart, you may find a vendor
selling mouth-watering chola-bhaturas, hidden in plain-sight, just at the Town
Hall entrance or dine like a king while paying the cheapest price possible at a
dhaba just opposite Fatehpuri church. Why a tourist isn’t able to find these
gems; in my opinion, it is just because we always rush, we always look but
never see and never roam or explore anymore.
As far as Old Delhi is concerned, I can strongly vouch that if you walk
the city, you are bound to discover wonderful places and meet wonderful people
and learn a bit about our history. They say, ‘History is our key-hole to the
future’.
Old Delhi is life at its most primal, demanding you to be the fittest to
survive but it is also a city where life is at its fullest. Old Delhi is
nothing without its people and it asks them to experience its glory by not
clicking photographs of the pin-pointed places but to really see them.
In my opinion the legendary monuments, the exquisite buildings, the
sumptuous food and the ancient knowledge of Old Delhi are all saying to its visitors,
‘Embrace me like your home and I will embrace you not as a passing traveler but
as my returning own.’
Sunday, October 16, 2016
5 things to do when the Metro accidently stops enroute
·
Call
your college buddies, say your name, ask how are you, and then say, you are in
the Metro, there is a network issue and disconnect; that way they can’t say
that you don’t ever call them
·
Peek
outside the glass and count the no. of trees on the ground (in day)/peek
outside the glass and count the no. of cars on the road (in night)
·
Take
out your phone, start talking loudly mentioning your upcoming/past encounters
with famous people in believable situations, i.e. when is the shoot with
Shahrukh; when is minister sahib coming, I heard he cancelled the trip to
discuss the border situation with the PM; Sania eats at my friend’s restaurant
every Friday, I will catch her there this time, so on and so forth
·
Walk
from one end of the Metro to another (if you are a male, please don’t enter the
ladies coach) while keeping your head down and blurting out ‘Excuse me(s)’ to
everyone
·
Ask
someone to let you use their mobile phone while also mentioning that they
shouldn’t be scared, you just look like a wannabe thief and anyway, you can’t
run with their phone as the metro is not moving
5 things to wonder about while you are stuck in a Delhi-NCR traffic jam
·
Wonder
what would be happening at that same moment on a European beach and in an
African jungle
·
Wonder
if humans stopped wearing clothes from tomorrow what will you do with your
wardrobe
·
Wonder
if there is no food and drinks available from tomorrow what kind of food and
drinks will you buy and store today
·
Wonder
if you were an Indian independence revolutionary with a family of six to feed
will you have given your life for the nation
·
Wonder
if you were not stuck in this jam and would have reached home/office/elsewhere,
would you be focusing on the work or would you be wondering what will happen
when I earn a lot more money and get a lot more fit
Earn a Thousand for us, Take home a Ten after a Sixteen-hour workday and a Smile: The motto of today’s corporate India
Today’s corporate India is getting greedier as
each financial year passes. This is true for the private multi-nationals both
which originated within India and outside and the government companies which
hire staff on contract since their permanent staff can’t be exploited as much.
I got a personal experience of this greedy
corporate world. I worked 16 hours a day, day after day handling a two person
full-time work while providing 24 X 7 availability. I had my reasons like many
employees of this world have theirs. And as expected, I had a meager salary for
the amount of business I was handling for my company.
Why didn’t I say no? Well, I am a middle-class
Indian male who has an engineering degree. There are a lot of people like me in
India.
These people know that they can’t just quit the
job of an engineer in a country where their whole life is built around it.
Their parents, relatives and the society respect
them because of this job; they got married because of this job; they got their
house and car loans because of this job. And so, these dependencies, read,
‘pre-requisites for living in middle-class India’ made one thing very clear for
a middle-class Indian male who has an engineering degree, ‘you can’t leave your
sixteen-hour workday job where you earn a negligible amount for the amount of
work you do.’
A major contributing factor to this on-going
blackmailing of corporate India is that 65% of India’s population is in the age
group of ‘Becomers’ i.e. 35 years of age or less and about 50% is under 25
years of age.[1]
This combined with the low vocational skills our
colleges give to the up and coming employees and entrepreneurs, the Indian
workforce is compelled to compete in a cut-throat world for jobs.
This weakness of India’s youth gives
extraordinary leeway to corporates to manipulate and exploit its workforce.
References
The Private Engineers: How the Govt. fooled our parents
You know, I liked science, I wanted to study it.
I studied it. I got the Engineering degree although I don’t consider myself an
engineer. I am currently in the Project dept. where I do simple numeric
calculations on excel-sheets and write emails all day. That’s not science, at
least, not for me. Even, the people in the Engineering dept. don’t do science.
They just read about it in manuals.
I work in a company who sells electrical bulbs to
people. We don’t manufacture electrical bulbs; we buy them. Our vendors who
manufacture these bulbs also don’t manufacture these bulbs, they just assemble
it. Most of the time, all the required parts for manufacturing the bulb are
imported from China, especially the technical one which requires all the
engineering, the chip.
So, what exactly is India’s countless private
college educated Electronics and Electrical Engineers’ doing in companies like
mine, you ask; they are doing simple numeric calculations on excel-sheets and
writing emails all day.
And, please don’t take me wrong, it is not as if
Indians are incapable of engineering and development. A sizeable no. of
developers and engineers in the west are of Indian origin or Indian expats. It
is that they got the opportunity to do something better with their careers and
so they got out of here.
In the headline I said that the Govt. fooled my
parents because after graduating from the 12th standard in 2003 most
of my classmates went on to study engineering. Some of them in public colleges
like the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Center/State recognized
government colleges, whereas, most of them, like me only got admission in the
private college.
I can tell you about my college a bit more
objectively now since it’s been nine years since I graduated. It was a waste.
Sure, I made some life-long friends but that was on my time. The college which
should have taught me engineering taught me to just mug-in all theory and
formulas and see what I can score.
Some teachers tried to teach us but what could
they have done when they had earned their degrees just from a college like
ours.
And that is why, I am mad at how the Govt. fooled
our parents. Yes, our parents because what good did we know at that age?
The Govt. told our parents that there is a huge
scope of job prospects in engineering especially Computers and IT, except in
2003, when Electronics and Communication was all the rage and our parents
bought it.
What really happened is that the Govt. gave
private colleges which offered sub-standard premises and below average
educators to have a free-run in handing out engineering degrees to
non-suspecting students. The Govt.’s justification, ‘The world says India needs
more engineers.’ The Govt.’s catch: ‘It means India needs more people with
engineering degrees’. [1] & [2]
So what really happened when the
privately-educated graduated from engineering colleges is that we had to study
again to get to a level where we can get a job in the real world and most of my
Electronics and Communication engineering (E.C.E.) classmates did get a job but
just not in their field.
After studying 4 years of E.C.E. engineering, my
classmates were studying Computer programming languages. Why?
Just because, that’s where the jobs were and to
get that job you just don’t have to compete with fellow E.C.E or Computer or IT
graduates, you have to also compete with Mechanical, Electrical, Civil,
Automobile, Biotechnology, Astronomical, Chemical, you name it graduates
because the I.T. sector is where the decent paying jobs were, as the Non-IT job
you would only fetch a privately-educated fresh engineer 50% of what an I.T.
engineer draws.
And even in the I.T. companies in India, most of
us were only doing the work which we would have learnt with a professional
vocational diploma certificate by spending 50% time and 50% money less than
what we spent in engineering.
For clarification, I got a job in a sector where
my work was dictated by a subject which was one of the 40 subjects I cleared
during college. 1 of 40!
My personal opinion is that the Govt. for their
own vested interests just fooled our parents into letting their children waste
their time and money on an engineering education based in a utopian world which
was a complete mismatch from the required academic standards and the job prospects
of the real world.
References:
Factors behind the supreme success of Marvel Cinematic Universe Films
Among the superhero-based feature
film universes, it won’t be wrong to say that Marvel Cinematic Universe’s films
has replicated their comic counterpart’s model of a thoroughly shared universe
on screen and in doing that Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has set an unparalleled
example for other studios producing similar films to follow.
MCU has released thirteen feature
films yet since May 2008 and plan to release nine more till May 2019 bringing
their total to 22 feature films in what they call is their first saga [1]. This saga is divided into three
phases.
Phase 1:
1.
Iron Man (2008)
2.
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
3.
Iron Man 2 (2010)
4.
Thor (2011)
5.
Captain America : The First Avenger (2011)
6.
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
Phase 2:
1.
Iron Man 3 (2013)
2.
Thor : The Dark World (2013)
3.
Captain America : The Winter Soldier
(2014)
4.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
5.
Avengers : Age of Ultron (2015)
6.
Ant-Man (2015)
Phase 3:
1.
Captain America : Civil War (2016)
2.
Doctor Strange (2016) *
3.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
*
4.
Spider-Man : Homecoming (2017) *
5.
Thor : Ragnarok (2017) *
6.
Black Panther (2018) *
7.
Avengers : Infinity War (2018) *
8.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) *
9.
Captain Marvel (2019) *
10. Untitled Avengers sequel (2019) *
* means Unreleased as of yet.
Other than the feature films,
the Marvel Cinematic Universe also consists of television series, short films,
comic books and a viral marketing show. Clearly, the scope of their shared
fictional universe is unprecedented.
Listed below are a few major
factors behind the success of MCU’s feature films which work time and again, both,
commercially (the released films’ revenue is of $ 10.2 billion on a budget of
$2.4 billion) and critically (the films have a combined 81% rating on review
aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes) [2]:
1.
Making sure the universe’s timeline
doesn’t contradict itself:
There’s no worse pay-off for a dedicated viewer
of such films than when he/she finds out that the event which happened a few
years back in that first film has been changed because of cast and crew
scheduling problems or money problems or creative control problems or any
problem whatsoever. Disregard of their own timeline by filmmakers makes viewers
cringe and think that if the filmmakers are themselves not serious and invested
in their films, why should they be?
However, MCU has up till now been able to sacredly
maintain their timeline retaining their viewers’ investment, thus, creating the
viewers’ craving to want for more. [3]
2.
Ability to rope in commercially
successful and critically acclaimed actors, writers and directors:
Actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, William
Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Jeff Bridges, Natalie Portman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brie
Larson (1 Academy Awards®
win each), Mark Ruffalo and Edward Norton (3 Academy Awards® nominations each), Robert Downey Jr.
and Jeremy Renner (2 Academy Awards® nominations each), Samuel L Jackson, Jeff Goldblum,
Josh Brolin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mickey Rourke, Don Cheadle and Terrence
Howard (1 Academy Awards®
nomination each), Tom Hiddleston and Guy Pearce (1 Emmy® win each), Idris Elba (5 Emmy® nominations), Scarlett Johansson and
Rebecca Hall (1 BAFTA®
win each), Paul Bettany (1 BAFTA®
nomination) are members of the lead and supporting cast of these films.
Writers and Directors such as Joe Johnston (1
Academy Awards® win),
Kenneth Branagh (4 Academy Awards® nomination), Joss Whedon and Taika Waititi (1 Academy
Awards® nomination), Alan Taylor, Anthony
Russo, Joseph V. Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (1
Emmy® win each) have lent their services to these films. [4],
[5], [6]
3.
Letting each movie have an independent
and distinct voice
One of the main reasons for MCU’s success is the
creative freedom they provide to each individual film unit for doing their own
thing as long as the films come from the same source material and they’ve got their
Marvel logo in front of them as per the producer/co-producer for each of the
above MCU films and President of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige [7].
Although notably, sometimes the creative
differences between the studios, producers and the film cast and crew have led
to such incidents as
·
Exit of actor Terrence Howard from portraying
James Rhodes
·
Exit of actor Edward Norton from
portraying Bruce Banner/The Hulk
·
Exit of director Edgar Wright as the
director of Ant-Man
·
The Likely Exit of actor Natalie
Portman (portraying Jane Foster) from Thor films [8]
However, when exploring uncharted territory,
there’s bound to be friction amongst the team but as they say ‘The show must go
on.’
And it seems Marvel has imbibed that philosophy
in their vision having managed to make creatively distinct and commercially successful
films while crafting a truly shared feature film universe.
References:
Attenborough and Gandhi
Richard Attenborough (a British) was trying to make a movie on Gandhi's life since 1962, we made a movie on the father of our nation in 1996 and people are pissed about the fact that Ben Kingsley (half Indian) played the role of Gandhi.'
I guess we Indian filmmakers should just fuck off....
I guess we Indian filmmakers should just fuck off....
OSCAR SELECTION COMMITTEE OF INDIA
I don't know what the fuck is OSCAR SELECTION COMMITTEE OF INDIA....
I can safely tell you people that there is no FILMFARE SELECTION COMMITTEE in USA....
I can safely tell you people that there is no FILMFARE SELECTION COMMITTEE in USA....
And also if Indian government thinks that Oscar is more prestigious than Filmfare, then don't fucking submit BURFI as your submission. It hurts you assholes, it hurts.....
And also don't fucking meddle with films "you-not-for-any-good" Indian government....
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