tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88118887661034999052024-03-23T04:32:09.001-07:00writerspointShivesh Bhatiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271038705114396016noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811888766103499905.post-82332244183593863492013-06-04T12:24:00.001-07:002013-06-04T12:24:12.910-07:00THE HINDU<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Class 12th is keeping me on my toes. Because I am not being able to write new articles, I thought I should share my little article on suicides, which was published in The Hindu in 2012. </i><div>
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Suicide — a small word, but with an impact so strong that it can devastate lives, not one but many. Life is a gift we get only once from the supreme power and respecting it by ‘living’ it should be our agenda. This journey of life might be a bumpy road with difficulties and failures at every step, but giving up our lives does not end it there. It gives birth to a whole new set of miseries and sorrows, not to you but to those who love you.</div>
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Your life is not just yours, it has strings attached to lives of your family and your loved ones. Can you even imagine the magnitude of sorrow that hits a mother when she gets to know that her son, whom she brought up, has killed himself because he failed in his exam or because his girlfriend broke up with him ?If you are not brave enough to face hardships of life, why should your parents go through so much pain? Why should they suffer? Who gives you the right to ruin someone else’s life?If, anytime in life, you think you should kill all the hardships of life by killing yourself, STOP. </div>
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Stop and think about how life of your family would be after you are gone. Think about how your life has been and about those beautiful times in life when you were happy. And then you will realise no matter what the reason for you to commit suicide is, it is not worth the life you lived or the life you might live.The waves in the sea will settle down, the sun will rise and the spring will come but for that you will have to face the storm, live away the night and bear the winter.</div>
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Remember, you are special to many, there are people who love you, you can do wonders if you want to, all you need is a pinch of hope and courage. Challenge the God and surprise him by overcoming the obstacles and always remember if the winter has come, the spring won’t be far away.</div>
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<i>To read the article on The Hindu's website follow the <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/features/kids/stop-awhile-and-think/article3931604.ece">LINK</a></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday was yet another enchanting day at Spring Fever'13, with much loved authors Ruskin Bond and Sudha Murthy. Paro Anand started the session by narrating how she met Sudha Murthy for the first time. Paro Anand went on narrate a story from Sudha Murthy's book- 'The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk' about the young ticketless traveller who was hiding underneath her berth. The ticket collector caught her and threatened to throw her out on the next station. But Sudha Murthy thought it was not right to throw out a young girl on an unknown station, so she took the girl to her home. Now the girl- Chitra works in the U.S! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The session really became interesting as Ruskin Bond read out a poem from his collection- Hip Hop Nature Boy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before reciting the poem he said that publishers are usually not interested in publishing poetry so what he does is, he tells his publisher that he would write a story only if his poems are published!</span><span style="font-size: large;">As it was expected, the poem was absolutely delightful and humorous but what made it better was his style of reciting it. He read it out like a little child who was enjoying the funny poem!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"My favourite genre is short stories, because I am a lazy writer and they seem to keep getting shorter with age! When I run out of people, I write ghost stories."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"When a particular character becomes popular, people expect more stories about him or her. When you run out of stories you have to make them up. My uncle Ken is long gone, so he cannot sue me now!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">" When you are telling lies in your stories like me, you tend to get a writers block. Keep the script aside and come back to it later. You should be patient and draw the story in your mind properly so that you don't get stuck half way through."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"My landline was not working, so I asked my grand daughter- Dolly to get me a cellphone. I held it to my ear and she said- dada you are holding it up side down, then switch it on. But nothing happened. So she said go to the window. I went the window. Open the window, she said. So I opened the window but nothing happened. Lean out of the window. I leaned out of the window and I dropped it!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">I take two-three years to complete a novel. I like to share whether</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">it is my experience, my joy or my sorrow. So I like to share everything, except my husband! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Life has a larger canvas than imagination. Imagination has limit, life does not. When I started meeting different people- tribals, rich people, poor people, politicians- my canvas became larger</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">I want to write a children's novel and for that I want to understand today's children. Today children have a greater exposure than what they had say 50 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I was young, my grandfather asked me to promise him that when I have enough money, I should buy books for at least one library. And now, when I have made enough money I have bought books for fifty thousand libraries! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like children because they are un-biased and straight forward. Adults don't do that. When they tell me my book is good, it is very often followed by- we applied for a loan or something like that, because they mix my job in infosys and my job as writer. Once a little child told me- you write well but you do not read well. And that was the last time I read out my story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I attended the ongoing Spring Fever at IHC today and it was a delightful experience. Organised by Penguin Books, the Spring Fest has a great line up of eminent personalities for each day. After spectacular sessions by Shobha De and Gulzar on 15th and 16th respectively, today the genius film-maker Meera Nair graced the literary festival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before Salaam Bombay, my beginnings really come from theatre, when I was an actor. And the first inspiration for me as a kid growing up in Bhubaneswar was actually Habib Tanvir who brought logical theatre in the most radical way to the school fields of Bhubaneshwar. That made me feel that I could perhaps be a part of the “tamaasha” that he had shown me as a young girl. So that led me to join theatre. I was on stage most of the time. I always played the part of the “girlfriend's mother” or something un-sexy like that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was a part of Shakespeare society in St. Stephens College. I was cast as a very heavy weigh Cleopatra and to carry me on stage there was a bunch of slaves led by Amitav Ghosh in a langoti. Not really a pretty picture! And my Antony was Shashi Tharoor! I better behave, he is a minister!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">"I would say, come to India, I will send my elephant to pick you up from the airport"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made about four documentaries, all in India in the early 80s. It was interesting but I found frustration in not finding an audience. Here in India, there was no room for them. In America they would ask me dumb things like-“I saw running water in your movie. How come you have water running in India?” I would say- come to India, I will send my elephant to pick you up from the airport and they would not really get the joke!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">"The kid would dance and sing- I am a disco dancer!"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The idea of Salaam Bombay came from a documentary; I made, ‘India Cabaret’ about strippers. I lived with these girls, Rekha and Rosey. And every day at twelve in the morning this tea-boy used to come and this wonderful role- reversal used to take place where Rekha would say- "Nacho" to the boy and the kid would dance and sing " I am a disco dancer!" and they would drink tea like Nawabs’. That got me to look at a street kid- the tea boy. What was remarkable about kids in each street corner is that, on the surface they have absolutely nothing but inside they have such a will to live!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sooni Taraporevala, writer of the film (Salaam Bombay) and I found a bunch of rag pickers. At first they ran away from us but then we gradually befriended them and for four months just picked rags with them, went to the movies, waited at the weddings. After documenting it and writing down own version, I asked Barry Jones to come and we did a six-week workshop with nineteen children. The main thing we did in the workshop was to create discipline and focus in the children through either dance (weirdly enough, they would choose Madonna songs to dance on) or yoga.<br />
I met Raghubir Yadav, who played Chillam, yesterday after 25 years and he said- "main to saala cigarette bhi nahi peeta tha, main to bolta tha ki bas Mira Nair ne hi mujhe cigarette dia"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did not want to make an ‘arty-farty’ film. I wanted children to go to Liberty and watch it. These kids have no self-pity. My earliest images were of when I was shooting India Cabaret, being in a taxi in a traffic jam and one hand held on to my open window. I looked down and saw this kid- just the torso on a hand-made platform with wheels. The lights changed and with the velocity of my cab, he moved on and at the end it he just let himself go, did a piravid, held his hand up like a circus player. Even though no one was clapping, but for him that was his performance! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am currently directing the musical of Monsoon Wedding. We have recorded seven songs and have four more to go. We hope to open in May'14. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My son and I wanted to make a film in his school holidays, in the monsoon. I met Sabrina Dhawan and we both got along like a house on fire! She was like the hipper Delhi and I, the auntyji Delhi. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Once Naseer was cast, I started casting other people around him but many people, who said yes, did not turn up! I had to take many auntyjis’ from my area-Vasant Vihar and anyone who was for free was in monsoon wedding. The actor who was supposed to play the lover of the bride called me one day before shooting and said- Sorry for not being able to come, because he had been asked to compare Amitabh Bachchan's dinner! I called a young actor in London and asked him- Do you have a brother? Yes, I actually did that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was followed by questions from the audience. Later Mira Nair, signed copies of Salaam Bombay and The Reluctant Fundamentalist for the audience! It was a wonderful evening with the global story teller. Thank you Penguin Books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to India, where everybody is more interested in
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aunties who have a long list of questions ready, as soon as we step out of our
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<span style="font-size: large;">And when it comes to celebrities, we all get into the
inquisitive aunty avatar to dig out as much information about them as we can.
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know whom my Chinki didi married, but I know what
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guest list and the honeymoon destination. That is how I am and that is how we
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are so obsessed with them that we make their few extra
kilos a baby bump, a movie together means an affair and giving someone’s party a
miss is a dead sure rivalry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We want to know why Anushka Sharma wore a Masaba and not a
Sabyasachi. Is Twinkle Khanna pregnant again? Why Abhishek Bachchan and
Karishma Kapoor never got married? We are inquisitive aunties in true sense!</span><span style="font-size: large;">A swollen celebrity lip is a good enough news to become a headline here, followed by rumours of a lip job and sting operations on the surgeon who supposedly did that</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here a father might not be enlightened about how many tattoos her daughter has but we always keep ourselves updated on what Deepika Padukone is doing to her ‘RK’ tattoo. In India, we might not have a roof on our heads but hey, there is something as important as that- Sunny Leone is looking for a house in Mumbai! We are people who hesitate to donate money but when it comes to laying hands on a tissue paper an actress used to wipe off her make up, we are ready to spend more than anyone else. While many of us might not be able to handle our own relationships and marriages, we don’t mind keeping a track of celebrity love-birds and telling them to get married soon. Actually, we love it!</span></span></div>
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Gujarat, a Kajol to sell a toffee and an Amir Khan to tell people about
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Writing horoscopes of celebrities and predicting how their
next year will be is an all time favorite task of our tarot card readers there.
And yes, my friend might not give me a treat on her birthday, but I do get to
feast on cupcakes on Hritik Roshan’s birthday, he is her favorite actor after
all! In India, the most popular T.V show is Big Boss- watching celebrities
brush their teeth, cook food, wash utensils and doing make up- Ah bliss! Another popular show in this celebrity obsessed nation is 'Live my life'.
God bless the ones who conceptualized this show – fans get to step into shoes
of their favorite superstars and get to spend ‘ intimate moments with the Stars
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<span style="font-size: large;">They have crazy fans- who marry their photographs, who are
ready to pay them in crores for a two-minute performance and who buy whatever
they endorse. They can sell pictures of their babies for what ever they want
and yes, in India there’ll be thousands of people who desperately want to buy
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it doesn’t end here. We are much more generous than this
when it comes to our love for celebrities. We also make their children stars. Sridevi’s
daughter, Jhanvi Kapoor is a star at fifteen. Now don’t ask me why? I just told
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<span style="font-size: large;">We follow (read-stalk) celebrities. Their daily life is a
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As we turned the pages of the reports, we realised that after all the grassroots work by various well-meaning organisations, women in villages consider rape and violence a part of life which they have to tolerate no matter how painful.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">A lot has changed over the years. Thanks to activists and social workers and the handful of men and women who believed in change. But there are a majority who consider such change disastrous...to their hegemony, to their egos and to their personalities. It's here that the change is stuck. It's this filter that suspends change.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">It's no wonder then that we deep in our hearts we keep the lowest of low opinions about women and nurture lowest of low feelings about their characters. It's so fragile that we start doubting a woman's character without instigation. No? Consider this.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">How does the world react to a decked up woman waiting for her family in the middle of a market place on their way to a family function? We know what's the very first thing that hits people's minds!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">What does the world think about the woman walking late evening along a lonely footpath on her way back home from office? SUVs and sedans slow down to ask her what she'll charge for a night. A submissive woman may just be pulled into the car without even the courtesy asking her charges. Then, the next morning, we read about her raped, bleeding, abandoned body found in a jungle.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">What does the world think of a woman who mixes with men in offices or gyms or other places where she is a regular like any other man out there? That she is a nymphomaniac...that she's interested in men.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">What does the world think of a woman who is the female version of a Casanova? Err there's no female version of Casanova!! 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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Held over four days from February 7-10, UnBox Festival took place at Zorba, New Delhi this year. My first time at this annual event, it was truly an experience for me, where I had the opportunity to showcase my illustration work and collaborate with some amazing artists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: left;">UnBox Festival, being a celebration of different platforms of art, gave the artists as well as the participants a chance to fully discover and engage in the workshops, music performances and talks that took place over the four days. There were multiple stages, work rooms and open labs that were available to all of us, as well as all day bars and cafes that brought out a community atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Best part of the festival was that all of the events/workshops that were happening around Zorba gave everyone the opportunity to meet a lot of people who came from various backgrounds, be it from art and design to music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For a festival that calls itself the “greatest literary show on earth” it is not just about staid writers and sombre sessions. The Diggi Palace lawns, where the festival is held, has the air of an Indian mela, and has also acquired what some might call “Page 3” glamour with fashionable ladies and somewhat loud partying people making up the ambience. It also helps that the festival organizes musical evenings (this year shifted to the Amer area in the suburbs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The festival this year was less controversial than last year, when writer Salman Rushdie was prevented from coming by Muslim group protests. This year, protests erupted towards the end of the festival when sociologist Ashis Nandy mouthed a comment about corruption and backward/scheduled caste leaders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Alongside politics, the festival also sees a Bollywood touch. Lyricists Prasoon Joshi and Javed Akhtar and actress Sharmila Tagore were among the attendees this year, as was cricketer Rahul Dravid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, is literature about such glamorous figures? Clearly not. While these lent fodder for the news media, there is undeniably some depth in the festival from less fashionable sessions held in the large tents and halls outside of the front lawns and the “Char Bagh” front grounds where the bigger sessions occur.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I particularly enjoyed a session on books about music, featuring Vikram Sampath, author of “My Name is Gauhar Jaan” -- about a British colonial era courtesan. There was another serious session on books about India’s Maoist heartland and the Northeast. Yet another one discussed the life of the mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan.</span></div>
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<i><b>Writerspoint wishes all it's readers in India, a very happy Republic Day.<br />As we celebrate our 64th Republic Day we marvel at how farsighted our constitution makers were!<br />The brilliant political leaders made our constitution rigid enough to maintain its basic structures and philosophy of the country and at the same time flexible enough to incorporate changes that time demanded. Even after 64 years, we awe at the makers of the Indian constitution for drafting the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world so successfully!</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like everything around us, politics has also changed and continues to change rapidly. Today, when we look at politics, we cannot help but associate it with corruption and other mal-practises and eventually end up calling it 'dirty politics'. We no longer have political idols or political leaders, all that politics offer us today is ' politicians'. The youth today idolises actors and sportsmen, singers and dancers. Don't blame them, they </span>do not<span style="font-family: inherit;"> have much choice because India has lost the recipe to create idols in the field of politics. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Connect Asia Networks (C.A.N), a unique global platform dedicated to engage, enrich and empower through eduainment featured me as a <b>21st Century Change Maker</b> as a part of their<span style="color: #111111;"> initiative called 21st Century Change makers- Talk Less, Do More.</span></span><br />
This is a milestone for Writerspoint!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>SB:</strong> I am an eleventh grade student from India. I don’t like to keep my feelings buried. I prefer to share it with people around me. For this I take to words as they are powerful and can make or break our world, shape opinions and motivate minds. My tryst with writing began back in 2008, when I won a National Level Article writing competition. After that my articles began to get published in newspapers and I realized- I can write! Two years later, in 2010, I decided to create a forum where, I could share what I write. Writerspoint was born!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Kai: So Writerspoint – yeah I get it… Writer’s point without apostrophe and space <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.connectasianetworks.com/cms/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> .. tell me more!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> Writerspoint’s objective is to create and share ideas. It is not just about my ideas, but of others also who have something inspirational to share. This December, we completed a year. Eight experts from different field took to Writerspoint to share their inspirations. I believe; share happiness and it will double, share sorrows and they will divide, share ideas and they will multiply, and that is the agenda!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> Different people and different situations inspire me. There was a class-room discussion on ‘stereotyping Muslims’; which inspired me to write a story. When a friend shared her ballet class experiences; I was motivated to pen a dancer’s story. Each story evolves from a different inspiration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> Writerspoint is my child. Writerspoint gives me the joy of being able to share what I write. It has also given me recognition. At the end of the day, when you write something you want it to be read. Writerspoint has given me those readers!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB: </strong><span style="color: #111111;">Being a student, I have to manage Writerspoint with daily school, homework, projects, tests and exams. So, time is the biggest challenge. Especially during exams writing a blog post becomes impossible. After exams, I get depressed when I realize I have not written since some time!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>SB:</strong> Ranjit Lal, who has penned many fiction and non-fiction writing for children and adults talked about an ‘idea box’. He said you should observe people and your surroundings and maintain a box, where you put all the ideas you get. So whenever I get an idea I make a draft in my hand phone and when I get the time to write, I use these ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paro Anand, introduced me to this very interesting technique – Bum In Chair. You just have to sit on a chair, with an idea in your mind and a pen in your hand. A good story will come by itself. If you keep thinking of an idea and keep planning things in air, it will vanish within no time. So Whenever I have time, I take my pad and start writing. Sometimes I end up tearing couple of pages. After a while, I am actually able to write something good enough to post on Writerspoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>SB:</strong> I am very fortunate to have talented friends, who have always helped me not only with execution but ideation also. Manya Ahuja, who provided photographs for three blog posts, is so talented that her pictures speak 1000 words! She has arranged these images in the shortest deadlines and has never compromised on quality. Another friend, Mitul Lall did pictures for a feature by a published Indian author. The pictures she clicked were simply beautiful. Shweta Maheshwari who modeled for them also deserves special mention. Together they make a terrific team! The three of them have done so much for Writerspoint for absolutely nothing.Divya Mittal helped me to spread blog’s reach by taking it to more people. She also manages Writerspoint’s Facebook page. There are other friends like Ipsita Aggarawal, Kalash and Kanagana Pandya who have been true pillars of support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Besides them, I owe Writerspoint’s success to all those who read the blog and appreciate it. All the love not only makes us feel good but also encourages us to do better.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Kai: What is your New year vision and where do you see Writerspoint 5 years from now?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> Writerspoint has grown from a personal blog to a platform where number of people work hard to give readers an amazing reading experience. We have had around 6000 page views and audience from 10 countries! Within a year, renowned authors like Paro Anand and Ranjit Lal have given us interviews. Other professionals, authors, illustrators and actors have written for us. It is a matter of great pride and we wish to take it further. I also plan to start taking articles from other student writers because as I said, the ideas will multiply. 5 years from now, I hope to see Writerspoint as a developed website with a huge number of writers and a lot more readers.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Kai: Wow, you are inspiring! One big advice to CAN young-ones and grownups</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> To the youth my advice is to develop the talent/ interest you have. All of us have hidden skills, try and discover it. Don’t hesitate to do what you want to. Remember, no one is going to make your dreams come true for you. It is your job to get up every day and work towards it. What is important is to enjoy every step of the journey.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">To the grownups: When a child is young, parents make him/her join all kind of art, music and dance classes to develop ‘interest’ but when it comes to actually pursuing an interest, they are the first ones to disapprove. Most parents don’t want their children to become artists, whether dancer, actor or musician. I want them to realize that your child will be happy in true sense only when he/she gets to do what he/she likes. You should support or at least consider their decision with an open mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Kai: I wish I could talk to you forever but I GTG…Any parting thoughts you like to share?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="color: #111111;">SB:</strong><span style="color: #111111;"> Recently we have collaborated with different people and organizations. We officially covered Bookaroo Festival’ 12 and interviewed many authors there. We also collaborated with a talented group of illustrators called Kuchh Macchli and they launched their short film “Odyssey” on Writerspoint. The main objective behind this is to grow. The idea is – Don’t tell us sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon. I hope we are headed in the right direction!</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Kai 5- BIG 5 Take Home’s from Shivesh:</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take 1: Having a dream is not enough! I need to wake up and work towards making it a reality!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take 2: Chair the bum and box the ideas! (Focus without forgetting!)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take 3: Friends are blessing in disguise (i love my friends any way!!)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take 4: Having a vision helps me see the future without a crystal ball</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Kai’s Favourite </strong><strong>Take 5:</strong> <strong>Don’t tell us sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon</strong></span><br />
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always some madness in love, which makes you read the eyes of your love before
even he utters a word. Shweta knew the answer before even Sushant asked.
Sushant had come with lovely flowers and teddies just to propose Shweta for the
wedding. He took a prettiest rose in his hand along with all the teddies and
asked her “Will you marry me”. She couldn’t have found a better mate, so
gorgeous, caring and easygoing. He had become her best friend in a shorter span
of time and she knew in her heart that she loved him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">“Yes” She
nodded positively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">A way of
relief washed over his face, which followed with a long passionate kiss. The
date of marriage was set on 10<sup>th</sup> October. Shweta started to pick out
cards for her marriage and the memories immediately flooded her heart. This was
not the first time she was getting married. 2 years ago her first fiancé Rohit
had died in a car accident only 2 months prior to her wedding date. She
wondered if she would ever heal from that loss. She was merely 23 when this
tragedy happened and her family and friends expected her to move on and date
others, which she did. But marriage?</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;"> For days, she kept thinking whether Rohit,
the angel, would feel bad for her decision to marry someone else. Though he was
not alive, they had shared a true bonding of love. She had once promised to be
his one and only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">She removed
a letter of Rohit from the shelf. With watery eyes, she started reading it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">I will trust you, nurture you
and do all I can to make you content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">I will be there for you my
sexy wife till the end of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext;">I will always be yours until
Death separates us apart. </span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">Tired of
crying she slept. However, she had taken a decision not just for her better
life but also for her family, her friends and her well-wishers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">In morning prayers,
she prayed, “Dear God please tell Rohit that you needed him and hence I have
found a man who is caring and treats me wonderfully. Please tell him to forgive
me. Tell him to forgive me for not keeping the promise. Tell him that somewhere
in my heart, I still love him and he will be with me forever. But I need to
move on.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">Days passed
and she gradually started getting involved in Sushant who treated her like an
angel. Her smile was back. Her life was back. Everyone around was happy as the
marriage day approached nearer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">Just before
the day of marriage, Shweta and Sushant decide to go for a late night drive without
informing anyone. They decided to go in Shweta’s car. As the car smoothed away
on the road, Sushant pushed his seat behind to relax his body. He looked down
to find something strange. He bent down and took the shining thing in his hand.
He found a necklace besides the sit. Shweta looked at him expressionless as she
realized that the necklace was her birthday present from Rohit 2 years back.
She had searched it everywhere but was unable to find. It was here in the car
and now in the hands of Sushant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">“Wow this
is beautiful, why don’t you wear it?” Sushant tenderly fastened the necklace
given by Rohit around Shweta’s neck. She felt uncomfortable and explained who
had given her the necklace. For a moment, Sushant just stared at the necklace. Shweta
feared rejection and felt that her marriage would be broken one more time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">“You mind
me wearing it?” Shweta whispered with a low tone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">“No. Now
you can think that is a present from both of us.” He smiles. He indeed loved
her truly and understood her situation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: large;">She knew
that her prayer to hear from Rohit had been answered. She believed Rohit
somewhere in heaven had accepted the relationship of hers with Sushant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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4 years for their marriage now, she still wears the necklace, and Sushant still
loves her the same way he used to 4 years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shivesh Bhatiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271038705114396016noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811888766103499905.post-65583416381635179162012-12-28T03:42:00.004-08:002013-02-05T23:18:43.501-08:00GB-7 INSPIRATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inspiration is one side of an equation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friends, teachers, family, famous personalities sometimes even books and knowledge about the great men who have walked this planet inspire us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But inspiration is just half of the conquest. Half of the effort. Inspiration needs to form the complete circle... Where you find the reason behind everything you do.Everything you stand for or believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other side of the equation is finding "THAT" creative force in you. Which by itself inspires you, motivates you to achieve.Not just to succeed in what you strive for but.motivates you beyond reason to find the "Truth behind this illusion of life"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this striving to seek by itself. Is a deep calling of your soul to unite with the great consciousness "GOD" unleash your creative self.Start Believing in yourself! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The night had just passed me by. I was covered in a warm blanket then., waiting for the sun to smile upon the earth once more so I could start my day once again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">How is it that I wait patiently for the next day to enjoy my freedom and at the same time let my vulnerable self get moved by other humans thought patterns? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Is it because I view myself with limitations of a human existence even tho</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">ugh I know beyond belief that I am more than just a human form!<br /><br />As we walk this earth and interact with others.Let not the mortal form take command of your being. But your immortal true self be in the drivers seat.<br /><br />For your immortal self will never give into the lower aspects of life but on the contrary it will paint your canvas of vision with purity to enjoy every moment Of your time here!<br /><br />So welcome your higher self each day. To bring the desired change as for certain..You know more than what you do!</span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Staring at the night sky watching the billions of stars gaze down at me,<br /><br />The light from them which has taken billions of years to reach the earth to reach me for this moment Just for this moment. So I can't help but question this expanse., this infinite, this creation...<br /><br />I have asked and ask again.Where did it all begin? Why did it all begin?<br /><br />Neither my intelligence, neith<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">er my beliefs and neither my borrowed knowledge from another can truly convince me of the answer.<br /><br />The spirituality embedded in this grand design are like fancy jewels which you still have not been able to put a value to it.<br /><br />Therefore I close my eyes and surrender to deep slumber.And dream a dream.<br /><br />With this great satisfaction that I too am a jewel and the reason I live is cause of the WILL of this great expanse!</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Fable</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">BY RITU LALIT,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> author</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">It was war time; the
earth was in turmoil. The air smelt of sulphur fumes. Strange vile-
coloured smoke billowed up to the sky. It was a long time ago, the earth
was young, and there were as yet no gods or demons – no </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">devataas<i> or </i>daanavas<i>.
The two warring armies were equally matched.
Some called them forces of light and dark, to others they were creative
and destructive forces. No side had won
conclusively, and powers and names had not been acquired or assimilated.
An uneasy armistice prevailed. It was whispered that the warriors were
churning the ocean, using a huge turtle as base and a mountain as pivot. </i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">No one wanted to go
near the beach, but the fourteen-year-old girl had no option. She was a
slave, and had been ordered to get turtle eggs and scorpion claw for her
mistress, a renowned medicine woman. She approached the beach, terrified
for her safety and the life of her baby. The sound of the giant churners
was deafening, and no one noticed as she got closer. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The girl hid behind
some upright stones, and watched the scene wide-eyed. It was true; these
strange people were using what looked like a serpent to churn Tethys
Ocean! She crept closer, inching bit by bit to hide near a small boat
tied nearby, and watched. She shook her head decisively and murmured to
the baby strapped on her back, “No, it can’t be a serpent. They would
have torn it apart if it were a serpent. It’s just some thick rope made
of something stronger than hemp. Now don’t make a sound.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">She sat down in the
sand to watch, slipping a piece of cotton dipped in honey into the mouth of her
son to keep him quiet and gazed at the frantic activity. The dull sound
of stone grinding and the panting gasps of the warriors churning the waters
drowned out any other sound. The sound of grinding intensified in a few
minutes to a deafening roar. There was a flash of unnatural lightning as
the waters churned harder. A man arose in the choppy waves and he looked
as though he was riding on a monstrously huge turtle. The girl’s eyes
widened. She vaguely registered that the man on the waves was carrying
something in his hands, but she could not get her eyes off the turtle.
Her baby stirred and she hushed it. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">There was a grinding
crash as the mountain broke into bits, the trees rooted on it falling on each
other and bursting into flames. The waters turned murky; there was debris
and the carcasses of animals floating on it. The smoke darkened the sky,
the mood of the warriors turned angry. The uneasy truce broke. She
looked around for a safe way to retreat from what seemed to be turning into a
war zone but could not. There were skirmishes all around the shore.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">She panicked, and
wanted to flee, even endure another whipping from her mistress for not doing
her bidding. Just then, she saw a richly-dressed dark man run, chased by
two taller and fairer men. One of the pursuers threw a shiny disc-shaped
weapon that decapitated the dark man. She cowered, unable to tear her
eyes off the head rolling in the sand and the blood. All around her she
could hear the ominous sound of metal against metal. Trembling, she
climbed into the boat, covering her baby and herself with her robes. She
lay there, still as a corpse, hoping that she would escape notice and live
through the fight.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">All around there
were cries of pain, yells of blood lust, the groans and shrieks of the mortally
wounded. Her senses were assaulted by the sounds of metal clashing, the
sickening crunch of bones being broken, the smell of burnt flesh, blood and dead
things. She desperately put her baby to her breast and willed it to keep
quiet. The fight was coming closer to her hiding place.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Creeping closer to
the rope that was holding the boat in place, she took out a small knife from
her pocket and cut the boat free with trembling hands. The Tethys Ocean
had just endured a lot of churning. The currents were strong. The
boat got whipped by the peripheral current and bore the girl and her infant son
far away from the place of her birth and her slave mistress.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">26th December'12- Writerspoint completes an year ! This journey has been a learning process and an attempt to discover my self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joining our celebrations for our first birthday, Secret Diary Of a Kitchen Girl decided to bake us cake. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">This month on Secret Diary we are
celebrating our friends at Writerspoint’s first Birthday. We want to
congratulate them on their hard work and dedication to getting this far, and
look forward to their future material.
To celebrate Writerspoint we have baked a Red Velvet Cake with Mascarpone
Frosting. It’s a beautiful and colourful cake perfect; a guilty pleasure for
all those sweet tooths out there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">I hope you enjoy it as much as we do here
at <b><i>Secret
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">My story on rediscovering joy, and finding art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Have you ever wondered why Lewis Caroll woke Alice up from her dream? Or why we ever stopped believing in fairy tales, that happily ever after, that we painted vivid pictures of when we were growing up. What did becoming a teenager have to do with losing sight of happiness in it’s simple form? Today at 28 after a 3 year journey I’ve rediscovered joy! Does that give me the authority to say ‘this is the answer to beautiful art’, probably not. But let’s face it somewhere in this journey of becoming an artist, I thought, ‘I want to inspire’. So that brings me to putting pen to paper today.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Illustration by Kalyani Ganapathy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 115%;">As I stare into the horizon
from the gigantic window in my studio, I find myself thinking aloud. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 115%;">Where does
my imagination live, have I had it all along? Have I really? </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">If you asked me
this a few years ago, when I was completely ignorant about what I could do with
a paint brush and 3 colours, I would have retorted with a ‘no’. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Many life
changing experiences later, too many dark mornings later, and after much
skepticism 28 year old ‘me’ picked up a paintbrush with the enthusiasm of a 5
year old and guess what, I discovered I could paint.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">What changed, one
simple fact, I was joyous! Joy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> Why joy, when for hundreds of years artists
like Van Gogh sold post-humously because of their tragic love sagas? What’s
with me and joy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Joy gives me a reason to believe, joy means a brighter day, joy means I dream, Joy means I am that I am. It means I express, I love, I care, I love my life, just the way it is, this moment in time, I am present! That ladies and gentlemen, is the power of joy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Love what you do, do
what you love! An hour a day, a day a week, a week a month, a month a year an
then all year long. What makes you joyous? Is it </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">candy floss</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> on the beach, the
monsoon rain tapping at your window, the red nail polish on your fingers, the
hum of your Enfield, the golden Labrador at your feet? Take a deep breath,
visualize, feel the joy, and dab a brush in any paint you want and paint the
town red.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Joy is in every moment we live, every cup of tea,
every drop of rain and you can choose to see it. The simplest moments make it
to my canvas. Some days are tough, and I see those too, and I sulk, and I cry,
and I wish life had better things in store. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">On that very gloomy day I find that
little part of me that sees jeweled fish swimming in green seas, cats that
talk, and foxes that fall in love! It’s in that little box called my
imagination, and like me only you have the key to unlock yours and travel on a
magical journey somewhere far away that puts a smile on your face.</span></div>
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<b style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">My personal mantra ‘we are
all creative, it’s my choice to choose to unfold my creative journey’. You and
I both deserve joy, and as long as there is joy, I will be, I will draw and I
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Shivesh Bhatiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271038705114396016noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811888766103499905.post-9604407873403650672012-12-24T02:59:00.003-08:002013-02-05T23:23:41.816-08:00GB-3 OF NEWSPAPER AND POSITIVITY <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">BY MINI SHIVAKUMAR MENON, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">language and youth leadership trainer</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Last month, we were on vacation in India. I happened to pick up one of the more popular vernacular newspapers lying on the coffee table, purely because there was nothing else to read. The front page proudly presented one high-level conspiracy/corruption at the Centre, a local rape and murder, a gruesome accident and an ominous prediction about the effects of climate change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To the average citizen, newspapers are still the first event of the day. I imagined an entire state waking up to its daily morning fix of corruption, murder, rape, abuse, death, fear and mayhem. What a way to start the day! This is what Citizen X – including children and young adults – carries with him/her through the day. Is it any wonder that our crime rates are increasing? Is it any wonder that our children are growing up world-weary and cynical? The mass media, whether it is newspaper or television, gives so much coverage to all things negative that there’s no more room for the positive in the real world. Not even in the unreal world, as most of the television series that are being aired seem to tell us in no uncertain terms. What are we teaching our kids?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why aren’t we telling them that ‘yes, there is all this in the world, but there is also something else’? Why aren’t we telling them more about the Abdul Kalams of this world who refuse to compromise on their principles? Why aren’t we taking the time to tell them about the Sunita Krishnans of the world who turned their tragedy around to help victims of rape and abuse? Let’s encourage them to contribute their efforts to Greenpeace instead of scaring them with a dark future. Let’s teach them the value of human life over that of passing the medical entrance test. Let’s make them understand the real meaning of duality – that for every bad, there is a good; for every night, there’s a day; for every problem, there is a solution. That their glass, which everyone tells them is already half-empty, is actually half-full yet, and if they want to, they can still make it full.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My friend Jithu begins and ends his day by going through at a Powerpoint presentation he has made for himself. In there are his prayers, dreams and aspirations, along with some motivational quotes and calming pictures. He says it gives him a great start and end to the day. I have to believe him because he is one of the most positive and happy people I have come across.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> From being a typical hypertension-cholesterol-obesity-ridden executive, he has evolved into a happy and healthy entrepreneur who deals in gems and jewelry, his long-time dream. His positivity has obviously percolated down to his wife and daughter as well. They look at life with their torch shining, and everyone around is benefitted. I learned a lot from that family in the few hours I spent with them. Mainly that it is possible to choose happiness, goodness and serenity over everything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Newspapers and television glorify ‘badness’ because we accept it unquestioningly. They claim that there are fewer takers for happiness and positivity. If that is true, then it is incredibly sad. Have we become so used to darkness and negativity that we cannot accept anything better? What will happen if, one day, we hold a morcha against sensational journalism and ‘yellow’ writing? How would it be if we go on a hunger strike against all those ‘saas-bahu’ (and other) TV serials that insult collective human intelligence? Maybe then the media moguls will stop dishing it out to us and we can start our day the way Jithu does!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We crossed 100,000 signatures on the petition, asking the Prime Minister to protect our forests in Central India from coal mining. A lot has happened since we started the petition, three months ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once the coal scam became public, thousands of us occupied social media and made junglistan.org the most tweeted link in the country that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We added to the existing pressure on the government. They ordered an investigation into the scam and cancelled some, but not enough, of the coal block allocations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Around the same time, I set out to spend a whole month in the forest of Padmapur, which is threatened by coal mining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">MTV aired my journey to the forests and made a new group of people aware of the threat forests in Central India face from coal mining. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I was in the forests, two activists occupied trees outside the Coal Ministry’s office in Delhi. They asked the minister to end his greed for coal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A forest area right next to where I was living was saved from coal mining. Last month, the Adani group’s proposed coal project in the Lohara forests, in Chandrapur, was rejected by the Maharashtra Forest Department. This was a victory for the local groups, who have been fighting to save the forests in Chandrapur from coal mining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I left the forests, the petition to save them crossed 100,000 signatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am back from the forests and my next task is to hand over these petitions to the PM. The next few weeks will be tremendously important in our fight to save our forests. </span></div>
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<o:p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> BY ROHIT GORE</span>,</span> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Author of 'CIRCLE OF THREE', 'FOCUS, SAM' and 'A DARKER DAWN'</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">T</span><span style="text-align: left;">he journal survived. Like a pearl inside a shelled mollusk.
Everything else destroyed by the roiling, angry sea. He raged when he saw the
dry crisp pages of the journal. Seventy
three people on the ocean liner. Seventy two dead. One survivor on the desolate island. And his journal. The endless horizon, as
though God’s smile, mocking him. The sound of waves His laughter. He laughed too. It sounded like a hideous
cry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He opened a random page. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1<sup>st</sup> January : ‘Kissed
her for the first time!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He smiled. She was beautiful, his
wife. She was dead. He tore and ate the page. A memory good enough to eat. He ate
all the pages with her name on it. Almost fifty. He retched the whole night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He buried twenty two bodies. Then
gave up. The island was a giant grave.
The pile of dead flesh. Marinated by the salty sea water. Good enough to
eat? He pressed his fists on his eyes and cried for hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">29<sup>th</sup> September: ‘Got a promotion today. Party planned!’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He read the menu of the party.
‘Chicken biryani’, ‘Mutton Roganjosh’. ‘Paneer Hyderabadi’ ‘Casatta ice-cream’.
He licked the ink for a long time. A tasty meal. He found all the pages with
the mention of parties. He ate them all. He did not throw up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He looked at the bodies. Lined up
like a buffet. His mouth drooling like a hungry dog. He wondered if he <i>was</i> a dog. Whether all the things that
happened before were a dog’s dream? <i>A dog
can eat any flesh</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He clutched the journal to his chest. The touch of the
paper to his chafed skin was soothing. There were many pages left in the
journal. He was yet to become a dog. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5<sup>th</sup> December: “Our new
house!” Did he own a house? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He closed
his eyes and saw a corner. A corner adorned by his guitar. His favorite corner.
He searched for it in the journal entry. He cried for a long time when he saw
it. It was his house. He tore the page and ate it. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Days (Months? Years?) later only
a few pages remained. The sad memories. Entries where he wrote about his
father’s death. His lament about not writing a novel. His depression after
being ignored for the position of the Vice President. He wondered what would
taste worse. The days (months? years?) old human flesh or ancient uncertain sad
memories? He ate the pages after a long time. He would not become a dog. Those
memories in the journal were that of a man. He would die a man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rescue boat found him. A
brown skeleton. Barely breathing. A tattered journal cover wedged between his
hands and chest. The rescuers saw the rotting carcasses on the sand and
understood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They fed him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“How did you survive?” they
asked, fearing the answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“On my memories”, he said. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Lucida Grande;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>WATCH ODYSSEY NOW -</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>please leave the feed back in comments</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>And the interviews-</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Raghav Arumugam</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;">, writer -director</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Q1)
What is Odyssey for you?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Odyssey
is a very personal project that we wrote specifically for the actress, Khyati
Trehan. It’s about a journey. </span>The basic idea is taken from one of the
many Hindu stories of creationism, which is that the whole world is a dream of
Vishnu, which is why everything around us is an illusion, or Maya.<br />
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Thus, Everything is nothing, And the Beginning is the End. And that is tale of
the Odyssey.<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Q2)
How is Odyssey different from any other film?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well,
it doesn’t make sense. What I mean by that, is this film is a very open ended
project, it gives the viewer a basic idea of the world and those who inhabit
it, but the meaning is up to you to decide, there are many levels in this film,
some people watch it and take away one level of understanding and some people
will take away 42. It’s different because it doesn’t tell you what the story
is, it lets you discover the story for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Q3)
What was more difficult to be- a director or a writer ?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
don’t find either to be difficult, since I truly enjoy making films. Being your
own Writer/director allows you a whole lot of freedom you wouldn’t normally get
when working for someone else. Of course, having said that, there is a whole
lot of pressure of taking the responsibility for the entire film on my own
shoulders, it’s my vision and my own execution, so if the film turns out to be
total trash and I’m unable to visually communicate my intentions, I cant blame
the writers or producers or anyone else but me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What kind of challenges did you face as a director?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a
film like this, where the story is about an idea, an emotion, its difficult to
find tangible objects and locations that will successfully communicate that.
There are a lot of sets and backgrounds that we created completely out of
scratch on the computer because we simply couldn’t find real locations that
would fit our requirements. That was a big challenge, to make the CGI so
seamless with the real so that it communicates the same level of emotion we are
trying to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also
the special effects in this film are some that we haven’t ever tried before, so
doing those took a good amount of my time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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How long did it take you to complete the entire movie ? After all the hardwork
and efforts, you expectations ?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
wrote, planned and set up everything within a week and filmed in the following
week. This was in the summer. Then the film fell to the back burner because the
special effects were becoming more and more complicated as we started working
on it in post production. We shot the title sequence in four different ways
until we got the one that we used in the final film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
sort of let the project sleep for a while and worked on other things, built our
abilities to the level that we needed for this film and then returned to it
last month. By then we were confident we knew what we wanted to do with this
film and then we just sat down and pumped the whole thing out. It’s been a long
journey, but I’m happy with what we have, and this will be a stepping stone to
bigger and more ambitious films in the future.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Who came up with the abstract idea of Odyssey and how did you put it to words?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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didn’t really put it into words, it was Raghav’s idea to start with a face
painting video. He’s done one before called Happy Faces and he wanted to do another. We sat down over the phone for an hour and a half
just talking about it, working out a story from an elemental and creationist
point of view. We had a whole different story in the beginning, with a bunch of
various characters and complicated but beautiful story, the thing with that
story was that it had no basis, we felt like we needed to create the world the
story inhabits first, so we ended up heavily simplifying it and the plot fell
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you’re keeping a sort of distance from the world and having an existential
premise, you have to count on basic elements and emotions and one strong
feeling of omnipotence, there was no question of a story. It was an awesome
exercise for us to bring it out. It has to be simple enough to create a world,
and have her interact with things that are two steps above primeordeal. <br />
What was tough was to get past the ideation point, at the ideation point we
came up with everything she goes through, all the emotions and ideas we wanted
to express. The problems arose when finding locations and sets and visuals
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a chronicle of emotions of the mortal versus the omnipotent. The lack of
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to creation, the juxtaposition of what the omnipotent otherworldly person
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beyond that to a dreamlike existence, creating a world, making it beautiful,
then turning it into a nightmare, and then snapping out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This movie is different, has a fresh air around it and is sure to come across as a blissful to all.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So there we were at the Arjangarh metro station, from where the Bookaroo shuttle bus took us to the most beautiful venue. The place was so green and clean that you feel you are in a new world all together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was passion in air, enthusiasm in eyes of all and love for literature was evident! Its going to be a great day, I was sure !</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Unfortunately, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Ruskin Bond could not make it to the festival due to health issues. But the organisers compensated it well enough. The event 'hot seat' which was </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> to be done by Ruskin initially, was done by not one but five other authors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All the authors first introduced themselves to the listeners and then the children shot at them questions that were very interesting! Some questions were so hilarious and the witty replies made everyone laugh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Penny Dolan gave out a very interesting tip while giving the answer to How do you get ideas? She advised the little boy to maintain an 'idea box' where he should put chit of ideas whenever he gets one. She said he should go out observe people and make chits!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When someone asked Ranjit Lal, How to become a writer? He said write whatever comes to your mind, just write. Later edit it, and it will do the job! Another very interesting thing he said was - " I take revenge from people by making them insects in my stories and killing them."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His expressions and the way of interacting with little ones, kept the children glued to their places as they laughed their hearts out.What I loved the most about his session was that children were an intrinsic part of his story telling. After the session, they all got a 'jaadu ki jhappi' from the stuff elephant Neeraj brought with himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Another session that really engrossed the children was the <b>Creative Writing Workshop by Asha Nehemiah</b>. She was very professional in her approach and yet the kids were very comfortable with her. The atmosphere they created at The Think Tank was unbelievable. She gave out techniques like 'Dive into Technique' and 'X-ray Technique' and explained them in a way that made it all so easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There was everything- creating a buzz at the spelling bee, be a whiz at quiz, write a rhyme and book reading. And what more ? There were prizes! There is nothing more a kid can ask for! I think it was the best decorated area, nicely done up with flags and banners of book covers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">" I love writing books for children. I write books on my experiences an books for children take me back to my childhood. I find ancient Urdu literature very inspiring. "</span></div>
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believe you live in an imperfect world, just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="font-size: large;"> like me and your mother. You have
grown up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="font-size: large;"> in a society, where colour of your skin is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="font-size: large;">considered a better indicator
of your beauty </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> and what you always carry with yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">what you are and
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and you will die with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he hot evening silence was broken by the creaking sound of
an old rusty gate. A lady of about sixty stepped out and tied her hair in an
untidy bun. She looked to the sky, the
sun melted a part of her neck into sweat which she wiped off with her
handkerchief.</div>
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She was lucky that day, a rickshaw stood right in front of
her house. She pushed up her golden rimmed glasses up her nose bone and woke
the dark rickshaw waala, who was surprisingly basking under the ridiculously
hot sun. </div>
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“Bhiya, A.P market chaloge” </div>
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“Betho” he replied in an uninterested voice.</div>
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“kitne loge”</div>
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“25 lagenge”</div>
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And this, predictably led to an argument that lasted
forever, but then the old woman gave up. Holding the nicely painted red rod,
she managed to climb up the rickshaw with a great difficulty.</div>
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The hot loo hit her wrinkled face as the rickshaw waala
peddled as slowly as he could. Twenty five rupees was not reasonable at all and
she was not someone who would not care. She was certainly angry, a cold frown
on her criss-crossed face drip disgruntlement.<br />
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The rickshaw stopped at her destination. The lady slowly
brought her thin feet down to the ground. She turned to the Rickshaw waala and
handed him two notes, of ten rupees each. </div>
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He looked at them and then her, his eyes were enough to tell
her that he wanted five more rupees. For the lady, it was not just about money,
it was about what was moral. Like every elderly person, she had a lot “good
things” to tell the rickshaw walaa, which she did but then the whole thing
ended with a five rupee coin!</div>
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She looked around the market to find ‘Sharma Dental Clinic’
where she had an appointment for a root canal. </div>
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While the dentist did his job, the clouds outside wrapped the sun in
them and a cool breeze set out for a walk. </div>
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The lady came out of the market to look for a rickshaw. For
it was a lucky day, she spotted one near the nariyal pani waala. She raised her
arm to call him but then she suddenly stooped. </div>
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She re fixed her spectacles. That man’s head had a Taqiyah,
his chin was covered with a bushy beard. He was a Muslim! By no means was the
old lady going to travel in a rickshaw of a Muslim!</div>
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For fifteen minutes she waited for another rickshaw to come
and then she spotted one on the other side of the road. To catch it before
another lady walking towards it, she tried to walk a little faster but the poor
old lady twisted her ankle!</div>
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And now she had no option. She buried her ego and strict
anti- Muslim sentiments deep inside her and quietly took a seat. He looked at
her and asked where she wanted to go. She pursed her lips and precisely told him. Not a word more than
that! How could she talk to a Muslim? She started planning a good bath and a
prayer after she reaches home to get rid of all the ‘impurities’. She fished
out twenty five rupees out of her little purse. She did not want to argue with
a Muslim for five rupees! </div>
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When her house was in sight she asked him to stop, she got
down and in haste handed him the money from a distance. She turned around to
pace towards her house when a decent voice stopped her. It was the rickshaw
waala. Her feet stopped but she did not turn. </div>
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“Aapne 5 rupe zyaada de die” </div>
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She was stumped. She turned around and within that span of
two seconds, all her negative opinions about Muslims ascended out of her into
the endless skies. She was too moved to say anything. Taking that little coin,
which transformed a strong headed woman, she walked away.</div>
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This time, the old rusty gate stood there to welcome a new
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We all have a soul and a heart, we just look different. We
all believe in a supreme power, we have just given it different names. We all
love, live, smile and cry, we just have different names.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>hat was a bad morning. I was woken up by the squeaky voice of my maid, who wanted to make my bed.<br />
Before I could tell her not to disturb me, she pulled away my sheet and started jerking it so hard, that I had to wake up.<br />
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A bad start to my day usually turns me off. But then it started raining and rain always make me feel happy, ALWAYS !<br />
I pulled up the blinds of my window. The roads were all silent, but there was a blissful bitter batter of falling raindrops. Everybody had taken to some shelter, except a girl in a red dress and a few other girls. She was neither dancing in the rain nor taking shelter.<br />
I reached for my glasses on the side table, so that I could see more clearly.<br />
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She was a short, young dusky girl with a basket of bright yellow flowers in her hands. She was not pretty, rather she was very shabby but her eyes were beautiful. She was selling those flowers. The next thing I remember is that she started singing to attract people to buy her basket of flowers. Her voice was enchanting, though I could not understand what the song actually was. The language was unknown to me.<br />
It rained for long that day, but she kept standing right there with undying hope. Her clothes were dripping water and her hair were all wet. But the yellow flowers were washed and bright!<br />
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My maid pushed me aside to the sweep near the window. She would never let me live in peace! After it was dry, I came back to the window. The rain had stopped and the roads that were deserted a few minutes back were flooded with cars and scooters. The girl in red dress would have been lost in the hustle bustle of the city, but my eyes found her. A middle aged lady with curly salt-pepper hair was buying flowers from her. I noted that she bought the whole basket. The flower seller was pleased, so much so that her dry lips parted for once to flash her teeth. She smiled for the first time since I had been observing her.<br />
A long truck obstructed the view for a minute. From beneath the truck, I could see her bare feet making way for themselves. She suddenly tripped and fell. A few kind people helped her get up, and then I realized -<br />
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She was Blind !<br />
I felt so sorry for her. The eyes that kept me captivated for half an hour could not see, see the world around her, the blossoms she was selling and the vibrancy of her red dress.<br />
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Next evening, I watered the money plant near my table and opened the window to find her right there, yet again, in the very same red dress. It was a marriage in the colony that day, so the streets were decorated.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> This time, her left </span><span style="background-color: white;">cheek had a big cut. The blood was dry </span><span style="background-color: white;">though</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white;"> I am sure it would have been </span><span style="background-color: white;">hurting</span><span style="background-color: white;"> her. That day I saw her talking, for the first time, to a balloon seller standing by the lamp post next to her. They became friends, I think,as they chatted for long.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">She was there everyday for the next one week. Listening to her songs and waiting for her to pack, gelled into my routine and became a part of my everyday.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Out of curiosity one day, I couldn't stop my self from asking her name, but I got no answer, just a faint smile.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I bought a bunch of flowers from her. She was trying to hunt for change from her little bag, but I told her to keep it with herself.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I tried communicating with her after that, but maybe I was too shy.</span><br />
But now I regret that because she never came back with her basket of flowers after that. She just vanished.<br />
I did not know anything about her. Who she actually was? And maybe I will never get my answer.<br />
I remember those days when I observed this girl whose name I never knew, with a sigh.<br />
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For me she is ' That Girl in a Red dress'<br />
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