The recent film Kuselan is very touching.It is a simple story touching the hearts at an elemental level- unlike many of Superstar Rajani's formula films.
Friends may come and go- but childhood friends- who can forget them- The story of this film revolves round this theme.
All of us have had friends when we were children, and as we grow older we meet more people and form new friends; But it is only with our childhood friends we can let our defences down and relive once again the warmth and innocence of our lost childhood- Even if we meet them after a gap of many years, the moment we meet, all the gap of years vanishes and we are transported to another time.
This film is literally an ode to this friendship.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
human fiend
A fiend in human shape
How inhuman can a human being become! Into how depths of degradation can a man plunge into! these questions are haunting my mind ever since I read about The Austrian fiend in human shape Fritzl who ill treated his daughter in such a depraved manner, keeping her in a dungeon for 24 years, fathering her children, and worse things! Nothing less than sentencing him to death should be his punishment. Human perversion at its height.
God forbid any person from getting such ideas in their heads.
How inhuman can a human being become! Into how depths of degradation can a man plunge into! these questions are haunting my mind ever since I read about The Austrian fiend in human shape Fritzl who ill treated his daughter in such a depraved manner, keeping her in a dungeon for 24 years, fathering her children, and worse things! Nothing less than sentencing him to death should be his punishment. Human perversion at its height.
God forbid any person from getting such ideas in their heads.
Monday, May 5, 2008
No? .... YES ...That's the way it is?
I always wonder how final the word 'No' is.
Even in saying it, the tongue touches the roof of the mouth, when the syllable is uttered.
On the other hand just remember how we say the word 'yes' the lips part, and the sybilant sound follows...
Yes... we are open. But in ' No' ....we are closing our selves...
don't you feel it that way?
Coming to ponder over this topic, in many languages, the word IS pronounced in such a manner, our tongues themselves make the blocking action, like, non, nahin, illai, etc.
Child psychologists have told, from 8 months onwards, infants can understand the meaning of the word 'no'.
and they have proved it with instances. So they suggest that mothers should say 'no' to kids if they do something that they are not supposed to do.
But what a lot of warmth The word 'yes' has! When you are talking to someone or vice versa, this word opens the speaker to you. He/she continues to open herself to you, and friendships are formed. 'Yes' is a feel good word.
They say 2 negatives make a positive. But when I say 'I did not know you did not like chocolates', I don't think it means 'I knew you liked chocolates'.Or does it really mean so? I wonder!
Of course when I say rhetorically, ' Do I not Know you like chocolates!' it means I know you like chocolates.
But when we say 'no', to someone who asks us for something, we can say It gracefully, in the manner in which we say it, or with some reason or excuse, above all in a way which does not make the person feel bad or insulted. That is human courtesy.
Which reminds me of Karna of Mahabharata who could never say no to anybody and that led to his downfall.
For those of you who do not know Karna: Karna is a character in the Indian epic Mahabharata. He is the Sun God's son, so he is powerful and has endowmentss due to which no one can defeat him. But he has a weakness. He is so generous that can never refuse anything to anyone . In the epic battle he is thrown on the side of the evil ones, and to bring about his downfall , the Gods carry out ruses that strip him of his invincible powers. So Practical living demands usto say no as and when required.
I remember in our schooldays, 'no' was a word used as an affirmation of our girlish talks: 'she is very sweet,no?' 'you are coming,no?' I am sure many of you will remember this type of talk,no?
Yes and No two simple words, but can make or change the lives for many of us every day .
Even in saying it, the tongue touches the roof of the mouth, when the syllable is uttered.
On the other hand just remember how we say the word 'yes' the lips part, and the sybilant sound follows...
Yes... we are open. But in ' No' ....we are closing our selves...
don't you feel it that way?
Coming to ponder over this topic, in many languages, the word IS pronounced in such a manner, our tongues themselves make the blocking action, like, non, nahin, illai, etc.
Child psychologists have told, from 8 months onwards, infants can understand the meaning of the word 'no'.
and they have proved it with instances. So they suggest that mothers should say 'no' to kids if they do something that they are not supposed to do.
But what a lot of warmth The word 'yes' has! When you are talking to someone or vice versa, this word opens the speaker to you. He/she continues to open herself to you, and friendships are formed. 'Yes' is a feel good word.
They say 2 negatives make a positive. But when I say 'I did not know you did not like chocolates', I don't think it means 'I knew you liked chocolates'.Or does it really mean so? I wonder!
Of course when I say rhetorically, ' Do I not Know you like chocolates!' it means I know you like chocolates.
But when we say 'no', to someone who asks us for something, we can say It gracefully, in the manner in which we say it, or with some reason or excuse, above all in a way which does not make the person feel bad or insulted. That is human courtesy.
Which reminds me of Karna of Mahabharata who could never say no to anybody and that led to his downfall.
For those of you who do not know Karna: Karna is a character in the Indian epic Mahabharata. He is the Sun God's son, so he is powerful and has endowmentss due to which no one can defeat him. But he has a weakness. He is so generous that can never refuse anything to anyone . In the epic battle he is thrown on the side of the evil ones, and to bring about his downfall , the Gods carry out ruses that strip him of his invincible powers. So Practical living demands usto say no as and when required.
I remember in our schooldays, 'no' was a word used as an affirmation of our girlish talks: 'she is very sweet,no?' 'you are coming,no?' I am sure many of you will remember this type of talk,no?
Yes and No two simple words, but can make or change the lives for many of us every day .
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The postman comes
Today in this world of emails and blogs and smses, in short,of fast and easy communications , I can not but remember the postman who was a common and popular figure in my childhood days.
The postman had, in the busy parts of the city, 3 rounds per day. He was a household figure, was witness to the happy and sad events of a family. He knew in which house a wedding was to take place and so was partcularly prompt in giving the letters there. And of course he was invited for the wedding.
The birth of a child was another joyous occasion.
He was also given Bhakshish for the various events that happened in all families.
I remember my father, waiting literally in the middle of the road, for the postman to bring my brother's letters, when he went out of our small town on getting his first job. And our postman also knew that the boy who he had seen grown up from a lad to an educated young man, had now gone out in to the big world out there.
Each are had 2 or 3 postmen and we were familiar with ours.
Another communications means was the telegram. Somehow a telegram had all our stomachs churning. We sensed and feared it was some bad news of death ...
Unless of course there was a wedding or a housewarming or some such function so that we guessed the telegrams were best wishes ones and there was no anxiety or fear.
Speaking of telegrams, who can indeed forget the telegram scenes in that most and ever popular film "Sound of Music"!
Gone are those days.
Today it is the click of the mouse on the computoror the flitting of the fingers on the mobile and instant messaging.
The postman had, in the busy parts of the city, 3 rounds per day. He was a household figure, was witness to the happy and sad events of a family. He knew in which house a wedding was to take place and so was partcularly prompt in giving the letters there. And of course he was invited for the wedding.
The birth of a child was another joyous occasion.
He was also given Bhakshish for the various events that happened in all families.
I remember my father, waiting literally in the middle of the road, for the postman to bring my brother's letters, when he went out of our small town on getting his first job. And our postman also knew that the boy who he had seen grown up from a lad to an educated young man, had now gone out in to the big world out there.
Each are had 2 or 3 postmen and we were familiar with ours.
Another communications means was the telegram. Somehow a telegram had all our stomachs churning. We sensed and feared it was some bad news of death ...
Unless of course there was a wedding or a housewarming or some such function so that we guessed the telegrams were best wishes ones and there was no anxiety or fear.
Speaking of telegrams, who can indeed forget the telegram scenes in that most and ever popular film "Sound of Music"!
Gone are those days.
Today it is the click of the mouse on the computoror the flitting of the fingers on the mobile and instant messaging.
Is rhe past always golden
Hi
I always wonder why we tend to think or reminiscence about the past as always 'golden' 'good old days', 'rosy past,' . whenever we speak to some one also it is always that we , except for negative folks, we picture whatever happened in the past as always, something happy, or pleasant.
Our mind blocks the bad things. our human nature strives for a happier frame. Maybe that is the reason. Man and for that matter woman also, we, are innately, beings woring towards happiness.
And the search for happiness and the hope that is the verey essence of our fabric make our lives and the daily grid of living endurable.
Each day as we get up, we are looking forward to a good day, and it is up tp us to avoid being downcast when the day closes and we had a lot of disappoinments etc.
And even if , when at the end of a bad day we are upset, the next dawn finds us filled with asn expectation of a better day.
And as time rolls by,the dad events of our lives are becoming more and nore blurred and the pAST is golden.
Isn't this oneof Nature's wonders?
I always wonder why we tend to think or reminiscence about the past as always 'golden' 'good old days', 'rosy past,' . whenever we speak to some one also it is always that we , except for negative folks, we picture whatever happened in the past as always, something happy, or pleasant.
Our mind blocks the bad things. our human nature strives for a happier frame. Maybe that is the reason. Man and for that matter woman also, we, are innately, beings woring towards happiness.
And the search for happiness and the hope that is the verey essence of our fabric make our lives and the daily grid of living endurable.
Each day as we get up, we are looking forward to a good day, and it is up tp us to avoid being downcast when the day closes and we had a lot of disappoinments etc.
And even if , when at the end of a bad day we are upset, the next dawn finds us filled with asn expectation of a better day.
And as time rolls by,the dad events of our lives are becoming more and nore blurred and the pAST is golden.
Isn't this oneof Nature's wonders?
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