With a Pinch of Salt....

A walk down the memory lane to the time when fancy words like "actor" were not a part of my dictionary. When, fascination for Hindi films was blooming in the life of a four year old and in total awe of the word “hero” the little one failed to distinguish the line between reality and fiction. Then the customary "growing-up" happened where the realization that "actors" and "actresses" (After a prolonged usage of this term courtesy our Indian Angrezi Standards , I switched to a more refined term "female actor") play "characters" in films which don't happen for real but are mere stories was more baffling than appalling. How heartbreaking it was to learn that the constant confusion over the space crunch arising from "too many people" actually residing inside the TV Box was pointless and that there was an outside world   “The world of Bollywood”. (Back then who knew that Media and Entertainment Law would a...

(Excerpts from a conversation with one of my best friends). Me: I think I should smoke a joint. Does it help? Him: Haha. It sure does. But have it later in life Not now. For the uninitiated this might seem like an undistinguished conversation. But for the well versed this ain't a part of my quotidian chores and most certainly will be an unprecedented feat if I twirl my ways to spiral down to this track. It is about that point in life when every random thought floods your brains and even the contemplation of jumping out of your windows seems ordinary. "That point in life" is pretty much an exaggerated phrase, lets just keep it to "that phase" where those typical chores seem more mundane than ever and haunt you to the point where you begin to question your very purpose of life. You are caught in that constant struggle to re-establish the  peace of mind conveniently  wrecked by occasional havocs of no...

Things! People! Places! You say, THAT is mine, HE is mine, SHE is mine.. Mind you, "MINE" is "your" word. When I say, something is mine or someone is "mine" it comes with a "forever" clause and that is only when I am sure that the person or the thing is going to last for an eternity. But do they really? Because sometimes, the most permanent things perish at the bat of an eye-lid, leaving you wondering how did I let it go. The process of letting go, comes to you naturally, you don't have to make it happen. So, what is it with the "forever" clause?  You stamp people with the "mine" tag even if they don't want to. Your desire to have them forever, consumes you in a way nothing else does and your constant efforts to stick to them take different dimensions. People have INTOXICATING influences on your life, you may not have the same on theirs. On things that I do, someone always tells me " That's how yo...

“Life is like a multiple-choice question, its the choices that confuse you, not the questions”. It starts with opening your cupboard in the morning and deciding what to wear for the day and goes on till the time you go off to sleep only to re-surface the very next morning and every other morning for the REST OF YOUR LIFE!! Scary much, It better be :D As a matter of fact, going off to sleep is also a choice, I mean, you can choose to read a book, watch a movie, surf the internet among other million things. Sleep can wait! Life is too short right? Too many stories to script and write and everyday is just one chapter of that book called life, which is majorly governed by the so-called "choices" that we make in life. These little choices, what clothes to wear, what food to order in a restaurant, whether or not to go to work may seem to inconsequential but they do matter. For these everyday seemingly usual chores make us, shape us and that's how...

Do you hate people? I don't hate them…I just feel better when they're not around. -Charles Bukowski Don't we wish it were the same for all of us? Don't we wish solitude was the only bliss we could ever have? Sometimes we do coz the same people who mostly anchor our existence are the ones who drain us EMOTIONALLY! Blessed by this instinct to socialize, man cannot  possibly exist in isolation and this is where the problem begins. A large part of our lives involves the constant struggle  of trying to find the perfect set of people with the same compatibility as ours and an even larger part is spent trying to fit in. And as appalling as it may sound, more often than not this constant struggle meets with little success. The more we try to keep things together, the sooner they all apart. The more we try to stay close to people the sooner they leave. When I say leave, I don't mean they say goodbye, pack their stuff and promise us not to show us their faces agai...

  I seem to have lost count of the time when my romance with the "gentlemen's game" begun. As I switched sides from being an inquisitive child pondering over the basic nuances to an ardent follower who was well-versed with the intricate details of the game, this journey which ranges over a decade and half has been a jubilant joyride. And a walk down the memory lane reminds me how those men clad in white confined in and around the 22 yards managed to charm me with so much ease. Such effortless adulation from a 5 year old child  who probably couldn't even distinguish between the Test and ODI format of the game was a rare sight. But the love affair had begun and it was meant for an eternity. The fondness grew, the intensity escalated and Cricket wasn't just a game anymore. IT WAS A WAY OF LIFE. To having lived with the privilege of witnessing the exploits of some of the world's best cricketers. To those screams of delight at the dawn of new beginnings and...

Happy 2015 folks, although the new year isn't that new anymore. Celebrations have ceased and festivities faded and now most of us have got accustomed to writing 2015 instead of 2014 whenever we write dates! Oh yes! It was such a pain back in school when the writing "dates' on notebooks was mandatory. And upon failure of this formality, we were threatened with dire consequences. DATES!! Seriously.But then that's how schools in India are about. And with every new year coming the struggle was to replace the existing year with the current one in the "mention the date column. Quite a task it was. And then as they say, time flies and from writing dates we graduated to going on dates, not that we did NOT have to WRITE dates but yeah, the consequences were much less severe :P Anyways the point is with every new year comes a lot of responsibility, now that is entirely subject to our discretion, whether we want to take them up or not. We make resolutions, NEW YEAR ...