India. Internet. Ideas.
Aamir Khan has a knack of awakening the collective conscience of a society too deeply smug and hypocritical. Lagaan, Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par and 3 Idiots are fabulous examples of the impact that a movie can have on an entire society. Lagaan was about team work, and what it means to be a good leader. Rang De Basanti went far in inculcating a patriotic fervor in our youth, which countless speeches by politicians and millions of DAVP advertisements could not do. Taare Zameen Par helped India rewalize how kids need to be treated and cared for, and educated. And 3 Idiots has famously blasted our obsession with IITs and IIMs. It truly has been a privilege to watch 3 idiots at the beginning of a new year; quite akin to the feeling of saluting the human spirit, which came by after watching Avatar on the last day of 2009. While Avatar, for me, was 2.5 hours of amazement, at what is capable of being achieved, of the achievement that singular, focused vision can attain, 3 Idiots was a salute to highlighting a issue i have always been aware of.
when trying a new software on a windows mobile, it always comes with its set of apprehensions…never sure how good it will actually turn to be…and when getting bored yest sitting in a meeting, i was trying out traveling blogger, which promised me to remove my boredom, allowing me to blog from my mobile, which would have traveled to my twitter and from there to facebook directly. alas, that didnt happen, and now i go back too google baba and try looking for another, and hopefully a better one which actually works!
I went to rediff.com after a long time, and was a bit surprised not to see the packed/claustrophobic layout we all had got accustomed to, over the last few years. What i found instead was a clean look, completely inspired by google.com, complete with an uncannily similar search box to google.com. And surprisingly, there is no advertising on the home page. With shrinking revenues, i am not sure if this new design is a good thing for rediff. perhaps, the next AGM alone can tell…
There was a time when railways used to serve fairly decent food. With enough variety in a plastic tray at a reasonable cost. Imagine my surprise when i asked for matar paneer and paratha combo in jammu mail, on my way back from pathankot to delhi. Some quick observations, which you can test for yourself from the image too:
1. Extremely oily matar paneer subzi. Every little piece of matar and paneer was floating in a sea of oil
2. 3 cold parathas wrapped in a glitzy silver gift wrapping paper, complete with a ribbon that held the paper together
3. paper plate, which i had thought had become extinct…hence you can imagine how it feels like to hold food on a flimsy paper plate, in a moving train
4. Disgusting taste, to say the least.
Just got back from a mini vacation to dalhousie and mcleodganj. And given my passion for clicking random images which bring about the idiocyncracies to india to the fore, i present a few from my latest trip! Hope you enjoy them!
i’m a bit surprised by the practice games currently on, in the icc world t20 tournament. should the teams try to give it their best, and expose their strengths and weaknesses? should they hide their best, in the hope of springing a surprise when the real fun begins? should they get strengthened or disheartened by wins and losses? is the idea to give enough practice so that rustiness can go away, and players come out blazing in the real matches? whatever the reason, these games are takign away all the fun…
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