tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-283681622012-01-28T08:41:32.623+05:30Bitten by the wanderlust, smitten with beauty, addicted to sex, good food and music and unashamedly attracted to the beauty of nature. Thats me in short.Fawkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00084869091452888528noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28368162.post-9190203102616689822011-11-14T19:33:00.004+05:302011-11-19T13:49:05.492+05:30

A love story beyond right-doing and wrong-doingSince Bollywood has been making love stories by the dozens every year for the past 100 odd years, one can be forgiven for thinking that Bollywood has explored all possible love stories within this period. There has been the obsessive love story (Darr), the incestuous love story (Lamhe), the teenage love story (Bobby), the adulterous love story (

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Himachal DiaryNestled between Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, is the state of Himachal Pradesh. It lies in the lap of the majestic Himalayas and is often called Dev Bhumi (land of the Gods). Characterized by pristine woods, majestic snow capped mountains, rapidly flowing mountain streams, and beautiful and hospitable people, Himachal has something for everyone. Blessed with some of the most

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The artistry of intolerance Finally the truth is out. And it was uncovered by the Commission for Racial Equality. After doing years of painstaking research into the causes of racial segregation, bigotry, intolerance, ghettoism and stereotyping people by their skin color, race, language, nationality, religion, the Commission discovered the real culprit. No, contrary to our initial suspicions, the

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The Boy who livedThis is the re-post of an article I had written long ago, but never published. I noticed this post, and another one on Tintin in drafts. That too will get published soon! In the interim 4+ years since this was written a lot of Harry Potter's intricacies have escaped my mind. Point out if I have made any obvious mistakes, and you will have my gratitude.21st of July, 2007 marked

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In defence of anarchyLet me tell you a story today - the story of a totally immoral, debauched, greedy and sectarian person. This is an opportunist, who breaks his promises at will, who changes the rules of the game unilaterally - to suit himself, and while he pretends to be a modern day Robin Hood, robbing from the rich to pay the poor, in actuality the poor never see the money that he collects

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Why this blog?I had created this blog last year and since then off and on I have been writing to it. My posts are sporadic. In fact compared to several other more prolific bloggers who update their blogs at least once a day, my average so far, has been one post in 2 months. Now that I think of it, another difference is, my posts tend to be much longer. Today, that I discovered some free time, I

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If you existed, but no one knew of your existence, would you still exist?

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When words fail Alone on a train aimless in wonderAn outdated map crumpled in my pocketBut I didn't care where I was going'Cause they're all different names for the same place.The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sunAnd I knew no words to share with anyoneThe boundaries of language I quietly cursedAnd all the different names for the same thing.How do you feel when you walk down a lonely

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The pitfalls of democracy, and the challenges facing modern governance Democracies worldwide suffer from some endemic problems. Democracies thrive on majority support and as such only those issues get raised and stand a chance of being addressed, which affect the interests of a sizeable section of the population. What about those issues which cannot be traced to a sizeable constituency, but are

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Love in the time of strife… It seems inapt to write a review of Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi now, more than a year since it was released and went largely unnoticed by the viewing public. True, there were some rave reviews, by respected critics, but those could not save the movie from its inevitable fate. However, I am publishing this review now because – a) it was an unusual movie and it certainly

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Elementary, my dear WatsonA Scottish doctor, having served as a surgeon on a ship, decided to turn writer, since his medical practice was floundering. The first story he wrote was The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley that was published in 1879. Several years later in 1886, he wrote a detective story inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s Monsieur Dupin, which he named “A Study in Scarlet”. The story was

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I think, therefore I am - Cogito ergo sumOne question that has perplexed man since the beginning of civilization is the nature of life. What is life? What happens when we die? Is there such a thing as soul and does it survive the death of the body? All these questions and our desperation in seeking their answers have led to the sham of organized religion. We still cannot say for certainty whether

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