With a Pinch of Salt....

Bollywood isn’t just entertainment, it is a way of life. There is no better delight than watching a perfectly entertaining movie with the right life lesson.  Hindi Medium starring Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar was one such experience. It was pleasantly astonishing that despite the presence of a Pakistani Actor, Hindi medium managed a controversy-free release across the country. The fact that the theatres in a city like Ranchi were running a packed house on a weekday afternoon for an Irrfan Khan movie was even more remarkable. I believe it was all about the timing The regularity of debates on news channels entailing relentless bickering over Patriotism >> Art and Cinema was gradually subsiding. Hence the producers of this film were spared of the public flak coupled with onerous errand of getting a clearance from the authorities for the movie release. Also striking the iron when it is hot, the makers could not have had a better timing for a release considering th...

Home is my happy place.   Gone are the days of longing for a vacation away from Home. Now, coming back home is a vacation in itself. The otherwise constant cribbing about so much to do and so little time meets with a momentarily halt and benediction comes in the form where there is “nothing to do and all day to do it”. Almost 10 days into, what I would call the longest vacation of my college life (EIGHTY MIGHTY DAYS), I wish to reconcile with my productivity. Marking my beginning with a blog post. It took a while to come out of the trauma that the Eight Semester had in store.The occurrence of events prior to the foregone conclusion were nothing short of exhilarating but their culmination was predictably devastating.  Sometimes, home isn’t a just a place surrounded with walls, it is a feeling that comes with people around you. Finding home in a hopeless place (Read College) was certainly baffling but the obscurity faded as familiarity with the faces f...