tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205557219268596182024-03-13T03:03:42.730-07:00Lost in Thought...My sun shines here..Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-22900109925812792922020-09-19T02:14:00.003-07:002021-08-10T06:50:12.349-07:00Musings...Dedicated to my daughter...<p>In the last post I discussed how I happened to know about Warren Buffet. Unlike many, my encounter with Buffet was ambiguous. I didn't know what to make out of the sudden splurge of simple but emotionally 'tough to implement' very enriching wisdom. I was elated I got to know about one of the most richest and humble human beings on the planet. I was disappointed to know that he bought his first stock when we was eleven, read every book on finance in the public library by the time he was seventeen, was very clear about his destination and having done everything at such an young age, STILL regret that he didn't start early. </p><p>I felt disheartened. I couldn't be young again. The best thing I could do was read about him to the extent possible at the earliest and try to emulate his teaching. I had no other option. I decided I wouldn't be requiring fiction any more and dedicated the next few years to Buffet and his recommendations. Book after book, I read all the books about him, made a mental note of his recommendations and tried to read all he recommended. I got introduced to his boss, teacher and mentor Benjamin Graham, his friend and partner Charlie Munger and few other investing legends. Walter Schloss, Irving Kahn, Howard Marks, John C Bogle, Seth Klarman, Peter lynch, Mohnish Pobrai, Joel Greeblatt and many more. I read almost all the books recommended by Buffet and read everything I could remotely connected to the themes referred by him like the effects of compounding, the need for being patient etc.</p><p>My brain started heating up and I got a feeling that it would explode someday. There was so much to read and improve. The feeling never went away. Why didn't I start early? Why didn't some one tell me about Buffet or these legends quite early in my life? </p><p>I thought it shouldn't happen to someone young in my vicinity and most importantly my daughter Meadow. With the kind of diseases around, I was also not sure I would be there by the time my daughter would be earning and making a financial impact in her life. I thought I need to let her know and decided to create a platform. </p><p>Just after her birth, I started writing personal emails to her. I and my wife created an email id for her and started sharing what we felt and how she happened to change our lives. Most of the intimate moments (how I met her mother, how we got married, the pains her mother faced as a pregnant, sacrifices she had to do, the changes in us) were captured and emailed to her hoping that would raise humane emotions in her and she would appreciate them when she learns about them. But now, as she started approaching two and started talking and playing, the frequency of photo clicks decreased. Though I'm still emailing her some personal content related to the family, majority of the content I want to share tended to be more generic now. So I thought of continuing my blog with a renewed look, morphed more into my learnings, reflections, finances, investments and exploring my own leanings and adventures with Mr Market. </p><p>As a teenager, I was touched by the letters Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to the young Indira Gandhi. Glimpses of World History was one of my favorite books as a teenager. I thought of simulating something like that and thought blogging would be ideal. I hope to introduce some books and reputed and inspirational figures to my daughter in an interesting manner (I sincerely pray I succeed) hoping it would benefit her at the right time unlike my own case where I had to start everything after turning thrity (Not that I have given up trying the fruits bestowed by Buffet). </p><p>I'm not an investment expert. Not a professional investor. I'm not trained in the field. This is not my domain. I'm just an aspiring investor with a curious business mind. My musings are just a platform to make my child more curious, more knowledgeable, more lovable and more humane. Nothing more. I just want to be a good dad and do not want to leave this place without letting my thoughts known to my daughter. I sincerely thank my wife for doing her part by providing me everything else and making my life easier for me to read and educate myself so that I aspire to become the best teacher to my child. </p><p>I dedicate all the future blogs to my daughter MEADOW. </p><p><br /></p>Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-51169407664026364242020-09-06T23:12:00.010-07:002021-08-10T06:55:35.296-07:00Metamorphosis...Knowing Buffet...Hi, <div><br /></div><div>It's been so much time since I last wrote my blog. I feel I have changed quite a bit. I'm aged 33 now. Married. Have an understanding wife and a beautiful girl child named Meadow. My mother and brother lives with us. </div><div><br /></div><div>As a teenager, I was somehow not OK with the world. I tried to restrict myself to books. I read fiction mostly assuming world was bad; there were no inspirational figures in the realistic world and thought marrying and raising children was a waste of time. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka doses added to them. I tried to enforce the idea with very few of my friends. They now laugh at me when we discuss that renaissance period.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, everything changed when I was around 28. My dad expired due to a heart attack amidst the Swine flu crisis in the city. It happened right before me and my brother. It was so sudden and it shook our family. A very realistic jolt struck. Things were all of a sudden not the same. Reality struck me. Fiction didn't help. Sticking to myself in my own room with book in hand avoiding everything else made matters worse. </div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone around reminded me I was the eldest son and was supposed to take over the reins of the family. I did not have the emotional maturity. I tried to find solace from people who had experienced this kind of feeling. My mom was alone. Most of the time crying. I'm not the one who can soothe people and make them comfortable. Suddenly it struck me. We are not sent to this world to be lone. Some of the lives are affected by ours and ours affect some. There's a limit to individuality. There's more pleasure in sacrifice for near and dear. Slowly, the thought of getting married was born. I convinced myself stating it was not a bad idea. I wanted simple down to earth girl who could set me straight, lift the mood of my family and balance everything out like the invisible fluid. My school mate, trusted friend and would be wife was all over my mind. Despite my short comings, she liked me. We convinced our families and got married. All happened in a flash. Very very quickly my daughter Meadow was born. Since then I was not the same person. With her came more joy, responsibilities, apprehensions, fear, sacrifices and the need for mentoring.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finances added to my woes though I was not like bankrupt or something like that. I though it was a mess and need some shake up. Getting rich was never my agenda. I somehow wanted to sail smooth. I didn't have a clue about finance. Difference between Mutual Fund and a bond. I approached people well versed with finances. Their inputs confused me. They made sound finance very tough. It was clear I was becoming restless.</div><div><br /></div><div>Trained an Engineer, I thought it shouldn't be difficult to learn on my own but I didn't know where to start. My old habits helped me. When choosing a book or a film, I had the habit of directly exploring the masters minds (The minds which created greatest inspirational characters for me as a teenager). Satyajit Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Tolstoy, Ayn Rand etc leaving the middle men aside. I never realised this old habit would be of such a great help with finance. In one stroke, at the age of 30, I met WARREN BUFFET. </div>Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-18415729272868091682014-04-02T04:11:00.003-07:002014-04-03T01:09:02.211-07:00Kafka and Dostoevsky as "Blood Relatives"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kafka's private library, unfortunately recorded a decade after his death, contained Dostoevsky's "Letters", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment", and a one volume collection of shorter works with the title "The Gambler". (4) In 1914 a German translation of Dostoevsky's "Complete Works" had become available. On thebasis of Kafka's Letters and Diaries we know that he read many other works besides those in his library, including Nina Hoffmann's Dostoevsky biography and Strachov's introductory essay to Dostoevsky's "Collected Works". Further it will become obvious that, although unmentioned, Kafka was familiar with "The Double". As early as 1913, in a letter to his fiance Kafka wrote: "the four men, Grillparzer, Dostoevsky, Kleist and Flaubert, I consider to be my true blood-relations". (5) This statement expresses not only his affinity with those men as writers, but also an identification with their existential complexion. In the one case, Kafka might have had in mind Dostoevsky's epilepsy, paralleled in his own life by tuberculosis and, perhaps even more so, the complex and ambiguous relationship with their respective fathers. In their writings this culminated for Dostoevsky in "The Brothers Karamazov", for Kafka in "The Judgment" and the notorious "Letter to His Father". As for their illness, both viewed it as release and punishment, both were aware of the complex and secret workings of mind and body, both cursing and blessing it at the same time. </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Roman S. Struc, The University of Calgary</span></div>
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Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-50734372621449632322014-02-01T08:16:00.002-08:002020-09-05T06:38:56.204-07:00Book Review: Animal Farm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Animal Farm is a satirical novel by George Orwell targeting the dictatorship built-up on a cult of personality. He brings out the fact that the socialism as an ideology sticks only on paper but when implemented, the practical realities of hero worship leading to dictator ship are inevitable.</i></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>He projects the circumstances leading to the rise of dictatorship, censorship of free speech and the unrealistic ambitions achieved by the dictatorship Governments in the name of fake patriotism. This probably is the best satirical book I have read after Candide by Voltaire. As George Orwell himself said, with full consciousness he fused political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole with Animal farm.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lastly, the ending was superb where the animals look from esteemed pigs to humans, and realize they can no longer distinguish between the two. And finally there was only one commandment.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> All animals are equal but some are more equal than others</span></span></div>
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Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-81119998944047831052013-12-07T23:49:00.002-08:002020-09-05T06:43:20.792-07:00Book Review: Catcher in the Rye <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN">'The Catcher in the Rye'</span></i><span lang="EN"> is a novel by 'J D Salinger' which has become more popular
with adolescent readers across the world. The story is about 'Holden', who is
expelled from a private school as a result of which alienates from the rest of
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alienation as the protagonist wanders from the college to various places to
finally visit him home and his sister Phoebe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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list and has become reader’s top choice. Given below are some of the
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN">1. </span><span lang="EN">Simple language<o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN">2. </span><span lang="EN">Themes of teenage angst and alienation<o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></span></div>
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book was banned. It is such a nice study of the way people (especially the
youth) isolates from the society.</span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">On the whole, I can summarize the
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Protagonist, himself being a
victim, is depressed with the way society evaluates the achievements of an
individual. As the novel proceeds, his efforts to isolate from the society are
very much visible from the pessimistic but funny narration. His intention to
save other children from this tragic experience can be noted in the ‘Catcher in
the Rye’ drama. Unable to escape from this tragic experience himself, he finds
solace in the small but obvious playful and innocent deeds of his sister with
whom he wishes to be with his whole heart.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a
lover of betterment of human condition, I’m bound to love the book for the
enormous effect it had up on the society’s attitude towards human condition by having
a critical look at the problems facing the youth trying to escape the society. What
I liked most is the story is strongly emotional without being
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I know you believe it but If you have got any problem with the above sentence, here is the novel to convince you. Great characters, very powerful and inspiring words, mind blowing details, great expression and very relevant themes. Was very impressed with the way it started. Felt like Roark is the man the world needs. <br /><br />As the story progressed, got more insight about Roark and Peter Keating. Roark became a bit predictive but was never boring. It was Peter Keating's character that impressed me very much. The way he doubted his eligibility, status as a famous architect and the way he got destabilized in the presence of Roark was very impressive. I had come across many Roarks and Keatings during my IIT days; Keatings who assumed the best positions in the world’s best firms and Roark's who were struggling their part in their 'hopeful' world. It was very good to read similar characters in print.<br /></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was Dominique who was extremely mysterious. Her character in general and behavior in particular with Roark is awesome. Roark's character which seemed pretty straight forward took a sudden interesting turn with her entry in to his life. However, in the end, Dominique ended up as a hate figure for all the feminists in view of her extreme sub-ordinance to Roark and psychological domination of Roark. Toohey's role grew in importance as the novel proceeded and together with Dominique does amazing things that surely has got many dramatic consequences which entertains the reader immensely. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Characters that stay with you for the rest of our life. <br /><br />2. Excellent narration and gripping plot. <br /><br />3. Inspiring and at times philosophical which makes the reader introspect. <br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Focus was mainly to highlight the hero Roark that other characters were made to pay homage Roark.<br /></span></div>
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movies I had watched and a few books I had read which dealt with independence
struggle and revolutions in various countries that were very inspirational and
motivational. But unfortunately I couldn’t find one, though there are many
books available in the market that gives an account of India’s Struggle for
Independence. Most of the academic books also gave a dull narration of the most
inspiring story thus leaving the potential of the great struggle story yet to
be unleashed.</span></i><br />
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the nonfiction segment and was written mainly for academic purpose, what sets
this book (India's Struggle for Independence), written and edited by five
expert authors, apart from the crowd is the most exhaustive and precise account
it lays before for the reader. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1857 revolt, the back ground and the reasons; Formation of
Congress; clarity in the myth surrounding its formation, Struggle with in the
Congress, Split of the congress in to moderates and the extremists, civil
rebellions and the peasant movements, the noncooperation movement, the civil
disobedience movement, the quit India movement and most importantly opinion and
views aboutleaders in the process like MangalPandey, Rani Lakshmi Bai,
Perozshah Mehta, LalaLajpatRai, Madan Mohan Malivya, BalGandadharTilak, Motilal
Nehru,Bhagat Singh, Subash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and
lengthy account of nonviolent but result yielding powerful tactics of Mahatma
Gandhi’s famous civil disobedience and non-cooperation movement, to the final
victory in 1947 when the British Raj finally came to an end.<i><span style="font-style: normal;">The simple language,
sentences that make the drama appear before your eyes when reading it and the
critique/opinion on the leaders that had set stage for the Independence makes
it a unique read.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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to appreciate<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1020555721926859618" name="_GoBack"></a> the Indian Independence Struggle in an
inspiring manner. No doubt you would want to be more Indian after reading the
book.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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subject to venture into unless there is a right source to guide you. Here is
one such good guide especially beneficial for people interested in getting
introduced to Philosophy.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Written in a simple and lucid language giving a
challenging look at the great thinkers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
Hume, Hegel, Marx, Sartre etc) who has shaped Human civilization, the book is
capable of arousing one’s interest in philosophy and philosophical way of
looking at things. What makes the book special to read is the emphasis on the
Historical back-ground and the prevailing intellectual and political mood during
the philosopher’s time that made the philosophies possible, at the same time
offering an in-depth analysis of the above mentioned thinker’s philosophy and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The book completely ignores
Arthur Schopenhauer and for the name sake mentions <span lang="EN">Nietzsche and Voltaire which I feel is not
appropriate in-view of their massive contribution to Philosophy and their
influences up on great no of philosophers, scientists and writers. This apart,
at times, you feel the book over simplifies and ignores the intended underlying
philosophies especially in the segments of Descartes and Hegel (I may be wrong
here. It’s just a feeling and not an academic criticism). On the whole, a great
book to know all about Philosophy in a simple manner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: justify;">Glimpses of World History, a book written by Jawaharlal
Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India)when he was in jail,to his daughter,
IndiraPriyadarshini in the form of letters,is a panoramic sweep of the history
of humankind. There are many books available in the market with the same theme.
What then is so special about this book? What makes every reader of this book
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">As mentioned before, the book is a collection of letters written
by father (Nehru) to his young daughter Indira as a birthday present to hern
(As he wanted to present something he could “afford”). This gives the reader a
chance to imagine how Indira’s mind could have been shaped by this book. The
book in the similar vein has got the potential to shape every reader’s mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">Love and concern for humanity; account of rise and fall
of great civilizations, empires, emperors and kings; Birth of religions, its
effects on State and the individual; Industrial Revolution and some of the
outstanding Scientific achievements; Shaping of modern world,elaborating all
the “ISMS” like communism, fascism, socialism; Special discussion about his
favorite leaders, towering figures, writers, philosophers, travelers and
scientists; Harsh criticism of slavery, religion, imperialism and colonialism; The
book is an ocean of great thoughts is all I can say. A definite read for every
person with intellectual curiosity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the history of humanity is a treat for eyes to read.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some say it is not an accurate account of the World
happenings but who cares when the Letters are written to a 13 year old child
(and millions of other children whom he cares for) and the boring History is
made so interesting and realistic to read giving a real feel of the most important
events of the World History.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Assume it to be an attempt of a rich son (Jawaharlal) to
prove his abilities and eligibility to assume a responsible position for the
country, or be it the wish of a father to educate his daughter (and million
other children) in a special but most impressive manner. Whatever the reason
might be, the book is a gift to mankind and it reflects the world view of Nehru
and his grasp of History. Written in a lucid language and making history very
interesting to read, at the same time educating the reader to such an extent
which is sure enough to create clash of Ideasin his/her fertile mind, this book
I feel is a must read for everyone willing to know the world better. One drawback
is that the book ends with the events during Nehru’s life in Prison and was
never updated. Hope the book gets updated, hopefully from a politician ready to
prove his worthiness with a real vision and desire to benefit the mankind. Is there
any?<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1020555721926859618" name="_GoBack"></a> I doubt but still I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“As I told you before, I started to paint to kill my boredom. I painted pretty normal pictures initially. One day, I happened to see the painting of the Tower of Babel. I soon learnt about the legend behind the painting. It was really wonderful and I was spell bound by just looking at it. I couldn’t sleep that day. It really impressed me very much and I couldn’t get it out of my mind for weeks after that day.“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It is one of the wonderful biblical concepts and that painting creates goose bumps in me whenever I see it. As the story goes, there was a great flood after which all the people on the earth came to the land Shinar, found a plain land there and started to dwell there. The whole earth had only one language and only one form of speech then.The people of the earth became extremely skilled and decided to compete with God. They decided to build a city with a tower whose top would reach heaven. By erecting such a tower, they wanted to make a name for themselves. God came to see their city and the tower they were erecting to ascend to his throne. After seeing that, what God did was something really amazing. He noted the powerful force with a purpose in the unity of people. He realized that nothing could stop them, as all the people are one; they all spoke one language and had one common purpose. So he decided to come down and break their unity by confusing them. First he decided to make people speak different languages thereby splitting them on the linguistic lines so that they would not understand each other. And then, God scattered the people of the city all over the face of the earth.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Are you listening to me?” She asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes! It sounds very interesting. Please continue it Priya.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“That was the start of all the commotion around the world we have now. God initially introduced innumerable languages into the world to split the people so that they would not be able to understand each other. See how beautifully the Tower of Babel explains the origin of multiplicity of languages and the current wide split in the humanity. The story might not be true. It doesn’t matter to me. All that matters to me is the beautiful concept and the implications that we can derive from them. Even God is vulnerable if all men on earth unite themselves with a common purpose. The beauty of the theme wonderfully captured in the painting hit me hard.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes, and for that matter it could be anyone who wanted to sway control over us. God noted the powerful force within our unity of purpose and hence created languages. To confuse us, separate us and control us. What are we doing now? Apart from language, we have created more and more barriers to unity. Religion, region, caste, race, color and what not! We want a separate region for the slightest deviation in language. We break our heads in the name of religion. We dare not touch our fellow human beings in the name of caste and we laugh at the color of the fellow being who worked with us for the tower. What’s happening to us? Why are we craving to be in separate groups? Why are we looking for every opportunity to separate from one another? When will we understand that we are becoming weaker and weaker?” </span></div>
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I was sitting in the classroom on the bench beside the window. It was a cloudy morning. The sun hadn’t woken up and must have become lazy due to the cool breeze that flowed across it. The clouds which were quite certain that the sun wouldn’t come soon were moving slowly towards me. They seemed like an ambassador sent from heaven carrying a beautiful message to me that would greatly delight me. The cloud motion was slow, sluggish and dull but was very romantic.</div>
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The shape of the clouds was random but when looked at carefully, one could make out an angel out of the randomness. She was an angel ambassador. The cloud cover was not consistent all over and wherever it wasn’t there it appeared as a void; something like a hole on a leaf or a mole on a cheek. There were 2 big round eyes that were formed due to the non-existence of the clouds there and a long thin nose which almost touched her lips. Her neck was thin and the breasts spread. The waist was slim but there was no navel. It then expanded in to a big frock. The color of the frock was not clear. The blue and white fought with each other, one overshadowing the other and it looked as if she wore white frock sometimes and light blue at other times. She had no legs and it appeared as if she was hauled by the air and was moving towards me to tell me something special. The clouds were spreading more at her lips and it looked as if she was smiling as she approached me. The transition was very slow and I could visualize her smile right from the time it started. She also seemed greatly delighted to come to me.</div>
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A passage from the novel <a href="http://ravirenus.blogspot.in/p/the-little-hearts-my-2nd-novel.html">THE LITTLE HEARTS</a> authored by me...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crime and Punishment first of the </span>Dostoyevsky<span style="font-size: small;"> Novels I have read. What an experience it was reading the great novel. Flow of
Art is all I can say right from the page1. </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It essentially, is
the tale of a person ‘Raskolnikov”, an impoverished ex student who comes to an
understanding that some people are naturally capable of breaking the conventional
societal boundaries in the pursuit of a higher purpose during their time to
grow big and then be idolized by his future generations. </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">He justifies his
action by connecting himself mentally with Napolean. He thereby formulates a
plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. He argues that he can
perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime committed at the same time
getting rid of a worthless vermin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">RESULTS: He kills as
per the plan only to realize that he can never be one like Napolean. The mental
anguish, moral dilemma and the guilt he experiences soon after the murder in a
way exposing the punishment he has imposed on himself is beautifully brought
out. Unbearable magnification of the psychological effect by the clever
detective and the soothing effect he receives from a prostitute called Sonyaa,
a Christ like figure for him is a must
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">A beautiful study of unemployment,
poverty and the consequent ‘ideological intoxication’ that go in impoverished
educated youth’s mind. All we can say is Dostoyevsky is a psychologist in Art. In
the novel, dreams and other symbolic statement play a major part in expressing
the psychological trauma experienced by the character. Raskolnikov's dreams
especially (mare being whipped) which gives great insight in to the psyche of the
dreamer are one of the most realistic dreams ever used in fiction or for that
matter I have read. Similarly, Sonya giving a cross in a way to symbolize the
burden he must bear in view of the sin committed is a strong statement that
exemplifies their relationship and the changes that is going to make to him. A
must read is all I can say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dexter is about a blood spatter pattern analyst working for the fictional Miami Police Department who also leads life as a serial killer. This serial killer has a definite code with which he struggles, questions and complies through out the series which occasionally interferes with his personal (he has got one that excludes everyone<b> </b>else in the universe), married and official life. Though the aesthetic effects you get differ with every season (which will be detailed below), it surely is one of the best TV series, I have seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First of all who is Deter? What's he like? Well, Orphaned at the age of three due to the
murder of his mother, Dexter is adopted by Miami police officer Harry
Morgan.
After discovering that young Dexter has been killing neighborhood pets
for several years, Harry tells Dexter that he believes the need to kill
"got into" him at too early an age, and that he believes Dexter's need
to kill will only grow. To keep Dexter from killing innocent people,
Harry begins teaching 'The Code' to Dexter which becomes a part and parcel of his life: The code</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1)Dexter's victims must be
killers themselves who have killed someone without justifiable cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2)Dexter must also always be sure that his
target is guilty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3)Dexter must
never get caught. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With this back ground, we are in a position to review the seasons now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being at the age of 3 when his mother was murdered, Dexter grows up not knowing about his brother (Brian) who was also present at his mother's murder crime scene. Brian who also becomes a serial killer later famously known as the ICE TRUCK Killer appears all of a sudden in Dexter's life. The difference between both the killers is Brian doesn't have a code. Brian who is the only one who knows Dexter and accepts him as it is has two tasks left. First to remind Dexter with his serial killings that he is his brother. Second, to destroy the code (in a way Harry and Deb) and embrace Dexter as his True Brother. Dexter, though it's a tough decision, decides what he needs the most. The code (Debra, Harry) or his brother Brain.</span><br />
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Extremely interesting plot, apt diologues, wonderful music and breath taking suspense. The way Brian makes Dex remember his childhood is simply superb. Parallel love track with Rita who seems to be the perfect match for Dexter is great. Dexter (leading 2 extremely contrasting lives), though in a negative role has the capability of becoming the role model in view of the character's struggle with his conscience which in a way reminds one's own dark passenger (various addictions and the need to maintain it) with whom he/she would be struggling all through his/her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bodies of Dexter's victim's are uncovered and investigation is launched. Dexter who realises the impending danger upon him has to find a wayout of the situation. This problems apart, he has to deal with the Psychotic Lover Lila.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The extent to which one (infact Dexter) should rely on friendship. The focus of this season is the friendship between Dexter and Miguel Prado, brother of a guy whom Dexter accidentally kills. Friendship blossoms to such an extent that it starts messing up with Dexter's code. Very soon, it is the Clash of the titans and Dexter lands up killing his so called best friend. Intelligent plot, flow is good where mind game and manipulation assumes center stage. I didnt know why but right from the start, I didn't want the friendship to blossom.I wanted Dexter to do his deeds himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This season focuses on another serial killer famously called The Trinity Killer who kills in a very specific interesting sequence. Agent Lundy arrives in search of the killer. Rita gives birth to Harrison and Dexter finds it difficult to manage family and his killing urges together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trinity killer's character was shown in a very intriguing manner initially. The way he reconciles his family life with his killing urges, at the same time being a very social person attracts Dexter also towards him. However, very soon it disappoints you (Reconciling family life and killing urges is not a small thing. Atleast I was very eager to see how he could manage but soon he too was found to be a psychopath). The family is not happy but act so. His past is dramatically not so interesting. Everything ultimately boils down to Rita's death as a result of Dexter's messing with him. Rita's death surprised and moved me greatly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over all, a nice glimpse in to the fate of serial killer's lives and the effects on their families. It definitely lives up to the expectations though for me it's not as interesting as the 1st season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shocked and Guilt Dexter (Due to Rita's death), helps Lumen Pierce one of the rape victims find peace by helping her kill all the rapists who assaulted her. Quinn on the other hand becomes suspicious of Dexter (Yeah, it is Quinn..Strange right?) and seeks help of a fellow police officer to investigate Deter. And he tracks down Dexter and Lumen finally concluding that Dexter is a criminal but Dexter takes care by killing him thereby burying the truth with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This season focuses mainly on two characters known as the Doomsday Killers, Professor Gellar & his student Travis who seek to bring about the end of the world through killings based on the Book of Revelation. There is also Brother Sam (interesting character), a former drug addict and murderer, a changed person now whom Deter befriends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not very interesting plot. For the first time, Dexter might bore you. Debra must probably know Dexter's dark passenger and that probably is what drove this season (that probably is the reason why Dexter goes for killing Travis in the church with out covering up. Sounds very much unlike Dexter right?). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">OMG! Deb now knows who Dexter really is. Dexter, as usual is cool, confident and impressive. My favorite character Hannah, a serial killer assumes greater role in Dexter's life. So far, Hannah is the only character who seemed to have the ability to compete with Dexter. What an amazing role she has been given :-). The season focuses the best thing that can happen between Deb and Dexter. Much of the things going on in this episode can only be discussed after the next season.</span></div>
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<i>Some characters except say Masuka are conflicting. I could never understand why the world is so small and connected in Dexter's Miami. </i><i><i>The attorney whom Miguel kills turns out to be a friend of Laguerta. Career minded </i>Laguerta who seems to be so obsessed with the results of the department and who stops Deb from investigating cases which doesn't belong to dept, investigates Dexter's case at the expense of everything else. The soul less creature all of a sudden appears so soulful for Doakes. </i><i><i>This apart, Laguerta alone (so intelligent??) solves Dexter's case, a case which FBI couldn't solve. </i>Some character like Lundy should have been used for this purpose. That would have made more sense. The same Laguerta fires Quinn when he assumes Dexter for Kyle Butler.</i></span></div>
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<i>Extremely honest and sincere Angel becomes a ploy in case of Lila only for the purpose of showing her extreme possessiveness for Dexter. Quinn who also seems to be so irresponsible becomes very sincere and honest officer occasionally (though he doesn't get extra money for that) especially with Kyle Butler i.e Trinity Killer case and recruits someone else to investigate Dexter. </i></span></div>
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<i>Dexter who seems to be so lonely (and supposedly be activated only by very few characters like Rita & Deb) get moved/touched/affected by many characters. "She is the one who understands me and accepts me as Iam" is very often heard. It was very logical incase of his brother. It again continues with Laila, Miguel, Lumen etc.. With this, all the special attributes he has got seemed meaningless.</i></span></div>
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the importance of each and every character has got. These minor issues apart, Dexter is no doubt one of the best TV series created. The thrill is maintained and the characters are so lovable. Special mention about Masuka's character is required. Masuka and his awesome pervert one liners rock :D</i></span></div>
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Ravi kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15425469209043565045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020555721926859618.post-40623729594666512662013-01-16T07:39:00.007-08:002020-09-05T06:49:11.433-07:00A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - Review and Interpretation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sheep Chase,</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (probably) </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">a thriller blended in mythology or history? Don’t know
for sure. Same question after reading Murakami again. What is it about..?? Struggle
to understand LIFE better or helplessness with the ambitiously interwoven WORLD
where you have got no control on your own life or the need for every individual
to chase his own mysterious SHEEP or a metaphor and an allegory of human race
extremely busy with its wild chase, leaving everything behind without any
fruitful result or as I had pointed our earlier; is it merely the musings of an
author who doesn't seem to belong to this world anymore? I couldn't make out
what it really is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">This is my
third Murakami novel, the first being Norwegian Wood and the second being After
Dark (also read some of his short stories). Reading Murakami was pretty easy in
these 2 novels; at least the flow was smooth and there was always a connection
with the reader. However, A Wild Sheep Case seemed a bit different. It was
difficult to read, you tend to lose the connection and you feel like giving up
on it many times. Or maybe it’s just too deep for me. I am being pretty frank
should I say I haven’t understood a thing about the work. Let me reveal what
got in to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">It begins
simply enough: A twenty plus advertising executive receives a mysterious
(Normal in Murakami’s works) postcard from a friend(named rat) and inadvertently
uses it as an image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t
realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on
its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of
a man in black (associate of a right wing pawn broker) who offers a menacing
ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and
elaborate quest that takes our protagonist from the urban haunts of Tokyo to
the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only
the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep
within himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">What does
the sheep with a star shaped mark on its back, a girl with supernaturally
dazzling ears and an unnatural sixth sense, right wing pawn broker and his
associate, a dwarf in a sheep outfit (the sheep man), the sheep professor and
the wild sheep chase signify? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The novel
according to me is a modern story told in the form of a fairy tale thereby
creating the opportunities to question the working of the modern world methods.
Like in a fairy tale, where mermaids or supernatural beings guide the human hero
in achieving the final task, the girl with the mysterious ears and an unnatural
sixth sense accompanies the hero to achieve his task and disappears abruptly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">What hero
witnesses is the modern ‘questy’ adventure and the intended theme of the novel.
The sheep enters people’s bodies and brings about a drastic change in them.
What are the changes as we understand them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The BOSS was
a mediocre right wing youth until he was “possessed” by the sheep whilst in
prison (so already a bad guy). As a result of this possession, he emerges
a new charismatic man who builds a “powerful underground kingdom” that controls
practically all sorts of things you could never dream of (Probably a metaphor for
the “Dollar” obsession of many people) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The second one,
a Sheep Professor with an unusual passion for agricultural administration who
is possessed by the sheep. The sheep then abandons him, leaving him
“sheepless”, thereby making him a
filthy, embittered, old man ; in a word practically useless (Probably a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Then there’s
an unnamed Ainu youth, who helps (sacrificing his blood and sweat) a band of
Japanese settlers survive the harsh conditions in Hokkaido, and establish
Junitaki-cho, a town central to the plot. He takes a Japanese wife and
name, and becomes a shepherd after he is gifted sheep by the government.
Unknown to him, the sheep are intended to produce thermal wool for soldiers in
the Russo-Japanese war. Irony being, his eldest son is killed in that
same war (Probably a metaphor for the way Govt is capable of treating its
subjects in the disguised form..Yeah Murakami must he hitting at the Public servants).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The novel
thus mainly concentrated on various types of people who had possessed (symbolic
representation of the transition or mutation in the individual thru inspiration
or ambition) the sheep they had aspired to become which essentially generalized
the main categories in to which people fall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">And finally
there is our confused hero (probably one like Murakami) who is in search of his
own sheep. He witnesses the various sheep tales but unfortunately hadn’t found
his own sheep (or probably found). Most important thing to be noted is, after
the sheep is gone, the un-possessed soul is frustrated, tortured and is almost
dead for any practical purpose. So, be it any category you belong to,
frustration is all you would be left with. This is what I could make out from
the work. I don’t know whether my analysis is right or wrong. Even if it’s
right, I won’t feel proud for that. Want
to add my own philosophy here (sorry critics who loved the work. Frankly I hadn’t
found anything else other than the BIG name.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><i>Why am I
analyzing this..? Is it worthy? What am I doing? Do I really need to do this? Whatever
it may be. I didnot like the way the story was narrated or the point was
intended to tell. Allegory, metaphor, magical realism (or whatever that is not
pretty straight forward) employed in its truest spirit can fetch wonderful effects
and results. But this one I don’t think it does. There are some comparisons of
this work with Kafka’s. But I feel Kafka is pretty straight forward. Intended
point is pretty clear and he employs his tools in the most efficient manner to
bring the right effect. Length being small, spending greater amount of time on
each word is possible and the rewards for the time spent are huge. You end up
learning something pretty useful. But this one doesn’t. The length of the novel
doesn’t cooperate. Researching each and every page is also not possible. Or May
be my literary vocab is very limited. I don’t know. Mukrakami is not a small
name and I am yet to read many of his other masterpieces to know him more. Probably
there is more buried in A Wild Sheep Chase which Iam not yet sure of. May be, I
will have to reread it again and see whether what I wrote in this review matters
then or not.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crazy and weird ideas, nice action and superb dialogue delivery, funny one liners and occasionally some mind blowing stuff. This is how you can describe Woody Allen. I havent watched all his movies yet. Been getting some time to view movies and so decided to view all Allen films one by one. Let us see hw our views change with each movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A satire on Russian literature, life style, patriotism and probably highly sentimental feelings too. A great achievement. Wonderful dialogues, music, taking and acting. Diane Keaton and Allen were simply mind blowing. If you read the classics of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky & probably few others(I'm not aware of as of now) there is no doubt you enjoy each and every frame in the film.Don't know the fate of viewers for whom the Russian classics are an alien. I enjoyed the 1st part immensely though the plot to assassinate Napoleon in the end might bore you.</span></div>
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4) <u>Annie Hall</u> (1977)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A guys (not a normal guy as Allen himself stars in the film :D) attempt to understand the reasons for the failure of his relationship with Annie, his girl friend. Pretty normal theme about the making and breaking of a good relationship but the way it is narrated makes the difference and pulls it apart from the herd. Good dialogues, screen play, techniques and memorable acting. Very beautifully presented. A Study in Relationships is all I can say. The flow is so natural and keeps you so immersed that you land up wondering how beautiful and complicated a relationship can be. No doubt he desperately tries to understand the reasons for the failure of the relationship. ANNIE HALL is that wonderful (Though the point of view is Allen's, we end up loving Annie thought the theme is a relationship breakup..Great achievement right..). May not be one of the best films ever but definitely one of Allen's best films.</span></div>
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5) <u>Interiors</u> (1978) </span></h3>
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Parents separation and the resulting psychological effects on the grown up 'career' oriented children. The atmospheric effect (mostly the result of the stubborn mother who feels pretty confident about herself) preys up on pretty normal ones too which is clearly evident with the entry of another woman (Fathers lover) in to the house. The woman who seemed to have embraced happiness all her life feels helpless in the new atmosphere. Resulting frustration, effect on others, effect on their careers not to mention the psychological trauma the children undergo are very beautifully shown. Slow, silent and definitely very artistic. Altogether a very different Allen so far.</div>
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6) <u>Stardust Memories</u> (1980)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is about the life of a director who achieved success with the films but hasn't had found any success in his search for the perfect partner for him. Inline with this is the folly of present day fans and media that pissess of the Great Director. Probably a satire on the workings of filmy media, critics and the fans. Reminded me of Fellini's 8 1/2 though it is more personal over here. Don't know why some of the critics lauded it as one of the best films. I felt I needed some break for viewing Allen films after this particular film.</span></div>
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7) <span dir="auto"><u>A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy</u><i> </i>(1982)</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span dir="auto">A Distinguished philosopher and
his much younger fiance goes to spend a weekend
in the country with his cousin and her
crackpot inventor husband (very very funny Allen). Also on the guest list is womanizing doctor and his latest girlfriend,
a free-thinking nurse. Over the course of the weekend,
old romances reignite, new romances develop, and everyone ends up
sneaking off behind everyone else's backs.</span><span dir="auto"> Right opportunity and a Pleasant atmosphere and everyone would be breaking the code probably. I feel this is what the movie conveys. Made me think about the success of institution of marriage for a while. Is it merely because of the desire control, compromise and control? What if everyone happens to get an opportunity one hasn't anticipated. Overall, a decent film.</span></span></div>
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ability to take on the characteristics of personalities around him. He soon
gains international fame as a “human chaleleon”. Experiments made by a female
psychiatrist make him develop a personality which is violently intolerant of
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is one of the most fascinating Allen’s films I have watched so far. A great
film which I have thoroughly enjoyed watching. Apart from being funny, like
Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” it has got a strong undercurrent theme which when analyzed
gives psychological glimpse in to the human behavior. Though to a smaller
extent, don’t we change our behavior suiting the atmosphere we are at?</span></span></div>
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<span dir="auto" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8) <u>The Purple Rose of Cairo</u> (1985)</span></h3>
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Purple Rose of Cairo, set during the Great Depression</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is the tale of a waitress who very often goes to movies to
escape her loveless, abusive married life. Very strangely, film character (Tom)
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her. Things become more complicated when real Tom also appears stating that he
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<span dir="auto" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8) <u>Hannah and Her Sister</u> (1986)</span></h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An adulterous romance with Sister (Hanna)’s husband and the consequences. Feelings
of the victim (Hanna) are easily known as the sisters discuss the issues often.
That’s a great feedback which makes them think. But what if the situation is in
such a way that the feelings of the victim are not known to the culprit? And
what if the secrets which are supposed be buried with the partners gets exposed
somewhere else?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Very intelligent plot about the intertwined
and a bit complicated relationships of an extended family over a period of time.
Relationship study being Allen's favorite subject, he guides you extremely well as a
director. At the same time acting in a funny role dealing with existential
crisis and religious conversion, Allen entertains you to the maximum extent. Definitely,
a worth watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
9. <u>Radio Days</u> (1987) </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Radio Days,</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> a film that looks back on an
American family's life during the Golden age of Radio Days and the way Radio
influenced their lives.</span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Plot though seemed to be interesting but I got
bored watching it. I wanted to exit the film but managed to watch it completely
just for the sake of completing it. Nothing special about the film except
probably the concept of Good Old Days which might make you remember something
of your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As soon as you complete reading it, the novel is capable of
making you ponder whether you have really read a good work or have wasted your
time. That much is pretty sure. A bit of
thought and you will soon be rewarded with the fruits for investing your time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This is my first of Julian’s works. If I had read his other
works, it would have given me an idea (or at least hinted) of what he really
wants or might be aiming at. I don’t have a clue about his previous works and
so I had my own limitations. Assuming that every word and sentence in the novel
was written with a purpose, I write this essay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> With the above assumption, we can safely assume that the
title must have been very well thought of. Otherwise there is no point in further
discussion as most of the sentences in the novel are ‘reversible’ or has got
multiple meanings which have the strength to make the reader land up with a
completely different perspective. So we ought to be careful enough to not miss
the intended point when reading it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> “The Sense of an
Ending”. So, with the title, author
hints that it is not the correct/factual/realistic end but “the sense” of an
Ending as perceived/interpreted/framed by the protagonist’s psyche to suit his
needs. The 1<sup>st</sup> person narrative justifies “the sense”. All we have
to do is understand his psyche to land up with the realistic/factual story (‘<i>Some approximate memories which time has
deformed in to certainty. If I can’t be sure of the actual events anymore, I
can at least be true to the impressions those feels left. That’s the best I can
manage’ Page No 4</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Here goes my understanding. Tony and Veronica love each
other and the child is theirs (Tony is not aware of that). But owing to their
respective weakness (veronica doesn’t express. Tony is insecure. Adrian’s entry
into their life complicates it further), the relationship comes to an abrupt
end. Veronica’s dad is a drunkard and
must have shaped Veronica’s mom’s character. Adrian has an affair or probably
is in good terms with Veronica’s mother. Adrian is so influenced with his own suicidal
philosophy that he had to go for a real experience to feel it close. Below is
my explanation for these conclusions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The novel is divided in to 2 parts, both in the first person
narrative. Part 1 doesn’t involve any facts (letter, mail etc) and is merely a
narration by Tony in a way he remembers it. Part 2 hints at other side of
Tony’s character (in a way real) with factual information (mail, letter, dairy
etc) which inevitably shocks Tony equally like the reader. Some sentences occasionally
are stressed probably as a hint for the reader. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let us explore it further. The following may clearly be
observed from the 1<sup>st</sup> part (from his psyche). </span></div>
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<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tony
is very insecure. It is more so when it is the case with Veronica (her high
class family and high class taste). </span></li>
<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tony
is impressed, influenced and at the same time is jealous of Adrian. Adrian is
what Tony wishes to be. (Almost all his
childhood memories included Adrian. Never was the stress on his other two
friends.)</span></li>
<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tony
feels extremely jealous whenever Veronica is comfortable with another guy
(Adrian’s case is pretty evident).</span></li>
<li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adrian’s
admission to Veronica’s brother’s college (clearly a ‘high class’ gateway to
strengthen Veronica’s and Adrian’s bond further in Tony’s mind fuelled already
by insecurity.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">All
his friends are impressed with Veronica but Tony’s mind is more interested in
Ardian’s impression. This is the starting point for sowing the seeds of love
between Adrian and Veronica in Tony’s mind from which he would never be able to
come out till the end. In Tony’s psychic creation, Veronica’s sexual resistance
(which probably is because of his lack of high class status according to Tony)
is the main reason to attribute her to Adrian as he feels she finds in Adrian
all the features lacking in him.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From both the parts, we can safely
predict that Veronica is genuinely in love with Tony. (Justified from the
frequently occurring sentence “<i>You still
don't get it. You never did, and you never will. So stop even trying</i>.” Repetition
of the sentence is also a hint that it truly must have happened but is not a
creation by Tony). So, do Tony is in love with Veronica. Otherwise why would he
be so jealous? On the other hand, her sexual
resistance hurts his male ego and makes him feel insecure which in turn makes
him assume that she is trading him for a better guy Adrian. Thus Veronica had
to sound so bad in the novel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Veronica’s comfort with Adrian
(during the meeting with his friends) coupled with his weekend experience at
her home (lower class scum) makes him feel more insecure. Soon, a psychic
creation develops which sows the seeds of love between Adrian and Veronica. (The
high class tastes of Veronica and Adrian). He assumes that Adrian is a better
match for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Veronica’s behavior on the other
hand may be attributed to her own definition of True Love and its relationship
with virginity. (Novel gives some clues in the form of her alcoholic dad, her
mother sheltering young men though she is not in need of money. Her mother is
definitely up to something. She seduced Tony and must definitely have had a
relationship with Adrian). So, conditions at her own house may have frustrated Veronica
and so she must have been in search of a meaningful relationship which tends to
focus less on the core aspects of sex. However, Tony owing to his jealousy must
have acted weirdly with her either knowingly or unknowingly (He is surely
capable of. Remember the hatred letter he wrote. He is peaceable, understanding
in the 1<sup>st</sup> part as he feels him so and remembers him so but he is not.
This apart most of the faults in the narration are with the other characters
particularly Veronica). These changes might have been noticed by Veronica who
must have assumed that she would be going to lose him if she doesn’t sleep with
him. Tony on the other hand, misunderstands the sex after breakup assuming it
to be a pretext to get close to Adrian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We do not know much about Adrian’s
back ground except that his mother had left his dad. This back ground must have forced him or
motivated him to be with Veronica’s mother (His missing mother relation) who
had been waiting for it. All we can speculate about his relationship with
Veronica is that he must have been impressed with Veronica in his first meet
with her. Later on he had been a frequent visitor to her house (Veronica’s
brother is now his senior at college) and must had been a friend of her family.
Tony’s ugly letter must have had given him glimpses of the other side of
Sarah’s character and he must have been in a relationship with her. Sarah also
must have been soothed very much by Adrian’s presence and must have felt very
thankful to Tony. Adrian who had the ability to foresee the events as they had
happened must have told Sarah about Tony and Veronica. And hence the “blood
money” to Tony in her will (dairy is also obvious now). All the human equations
(V for veronica, b for baby, a1 for Adrian, a1 for Anthony etc) are
philosophical speculations of Adrian which may give us some clue about various
relationships but can be ignored from the story point of view as we are more
concerned with the letter’s effect on Tony (We need to know Adrian more if we
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Judgment” <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> The novel is definitely capable of giving you
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document etc in the novel). You are sure to experience the master mind behind
the narration. Personally, I liked the novel for making the protagonist sound negative.
1<sup>st</sup> person narrative rarely makes the protagonist appear bad. I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Got a bunch of reviews from readers for the novel "Unrecognised Potential" authored by me. Some good, some bad and a few very bad. Most of them were about the need of the author to improve his vocab and grammar. I agree with most of them with the exception of one from an aspiring Bollywood Director who only seemed to have wanted to hate the work. The reviews, very good they were, I am trying to work on each and every recommendation made. But everyone mentioned about the freshness and uniqueness of the theme which is very welcoming.</span></div>
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Akanksha like abuse of girl child and rich-poor divide. Villages are the back
bone of India they say but the present day pathetic situation is nothing but a
mockery of sorts which is evident from the experiences the friends face in the
village where <u>huge potential has been thrown into gutters</u> due to lack of recognition
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support from a Swetha by transforming a Surya. It is this recognition which led
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Been reading 'The Fountain Head' by Ayn Rand from quite some time. Very powerful words, mind blowing details, great expression and very relevant themes. Was very impressed with the way it started. Felt like Roark is the man the world needed. As the story progressed, got more insight about Roark and Peter Keating. Roark became a bit predictive but was never boring. It was Peter Keating's character that impressed me very much. The way he doubted his eligibility, status as a famous architect and the way he got destabilized in the presence of Roark was very impressive. I had come across many Roarks and Keatings during my IIT days; Keatings who assumed the best positions in the worlds best firms and Roark's who were struggling their part in their 'hopeful' world. It was very good to read similar characters in print.</span></div>
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A month passes and Jack’s writing project goes nowhere. He becomes increasingly frustrated, starts acting strangely and becomes prone to violent outbursts which frighten Wendy, his wife and Danny his son. The mind transition in all the characters in the backdrop of room no 237 (where the murder by the previous care taker supposedly had taken place) in the lonely, isolated hotel would then assume centre stage and would pave way for a wonderful horror drama (where Jack gets convinced that he should get rid of his wife). These scenes and the implications as perceived by me are explained below.</div>
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As mentioned, earlier, Jack’s violent outbursts frighten Wendy and Danny. Danny requests his dad to not hurt his mom and him (haunting images and the ‘cannibalism’ must have been in his mind). Danny’s curiosity increases when he observes Room 237’s door open. Later, he would be shown injured and visibly traumatized (Danny injured himself unknowingly carried away by all his pre conceived notions about the hotel and the room). Wendy (who would be observing the changes in Jack and who never forgets the injury Jack causes Danny when he was drunk) accuses Jack of abusing Danny. </div>
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Wendy suggests Jack that Danny should be removed from the hotel. (Jack comes to the conclusion that Wendy is using this to create rift between him and his son(remember Danny’s request) and doesn’t want his writing projects to move ahead. Moreover, Jack frequent references to Wendy about his promise to hotel manager ('I gave my word’) that he would take care of the hotel also tells us that he is assuming that Wendy is determined to dishonor his name. </div>
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Both of them argue and furious Jack returns to the bar room, now filled with ghosts having a costume party. Here, he meets the ghost of the previous caretaker who tells Jack that he must "correct" his wife and child (this ghost is once again the creation by Jack for convincing himself to ‘correct’/kill his wife). Jack is now ready for his final deed. What then happens is the tragic end where Jack attempts to murder his wife and his son.</div>
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What one can observe from the film is the effect of loneliness in an individual and the way it magnifies and contributes to the ‘thought’ process. Jack has come across the thought of the bar tender killing his wife. His mind is ready now to find the reasons to murder his own wife. This epic picture by Kubrick where the camera and the facial expressions is the language has to be viewed again and again to appreciate the artistic content left behind by Kubrick. The film strikes an extraordinary balance between the psychological and the supernatural in such a way as to lead you to think that the supernatural would eventually be explained by the psychological. The novel with the same name was concerned more about the supernatural aspects. Go for it to understand Kubrick better and yourself better.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Both of you are ‘you’ because of your respective fathers. Let me tell you about me. I am ‘Surya’ because of my mother. When I was in my stomach, sorry, my mother’s stomach, she saw super star Rajnikanth’s film Dalapathi. Rajnikanth’s name in that film is Surya. As your fathers had their respective influences, my mother had an influence of Rajnikanth’s character and instantly decided that the child’s name would be Surya if it was a boy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black;">“Teri maaki, then it is not even half the story. It’s just </span>one third,” said Imran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black;">“Okay, one third as you said. Listen to the remaining two third. It’s quite interesting and you will know more about India. I too was thrilled when I came to know about </span>it for the first time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black;">“My mom told her Akanksha i.e. desire,” saying this, he turned towards Akanksha, raising his eyebrows with pride that he has used her name in his talk and said, “my </span>mom told her desire of naming me as Surya. But as you know, my dad always had plans for me. This time too, he had plans even though I didn’t enter the world then. The twist in the story is, the plans are not for me but for him. He wants to be out of the birth and death pain cycle.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black;">“Yeah, it is about God, as you said,” continued Surya, “according to Hinduism, there is a continuous chain of births and deaths that everyone has to go through. I don’t know the exact number, but to put it simply, our form changes many times like we change our clothes, but here, it is in a larger time-scale. There is nothing like eternal death. ‘For one who is born, death is certain, for one who dies, birth is certain,’ said Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagawad Gita, as Arjuna was not willing to kill his own family members in the battle. The next life will be based on your present karma.</span><span style="color: black;">If you like swimming a lot and swim most of the time, there are high chances that you become a fish in the next life. If you want to romance always, you will be born as a pigeon since it rarely does other work. If you have various interests, you will take the form which has the mixed effects of all the karmas. If you work very hard, you become a donkey. This is the way it goes. In the next life, as far as my prediction </span>goes, Akanksha becomes a shopping mall owner. If you are like Imran, you will be born as a buffalo,” and as Imran started hitting him, he moved aside and said, “Buffalo, since buffalo always keeps eating something. Like this, you have to take some lakhs of births, birth after death and death after birth. One important thing one needs to keep in mind is that human life is obtained because of the noble deeds in the previous life and is the only chance to get out of this birth and death cycle.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> “All this is a suffering, according to my dad and to get out of this chain of birth and death, there is only one remedy. Apart from Karma, the thing that is there in your mind during the last moment of your death is also very important. If you remember God, you will go to God and if you remember work, you will become a donkey. Now my father is aiming to get out of this chain and he wants to use me in the process. You might have seen in the old movies when the parent is about to die, he wants to see his son or daughter and, so, calls their name. In the same way, my father, when he is about to die, intends to call my name Narayana as Narayana is the name of God. In turn, God Narayana would think that he is calling Him, break his birth-death chain and take my dad with Him. This is my dad’s plan. For me to break the chain, I have to name my children after Gods or Goddesses. Had there been just one God, there might have been a confusion. So we have around 300 million Gods. That’s why almost all the Indian names are Gods’ names. Some of our elders go to the Himalayas and say Krishna or Rama for practicing this when they are about to die and thus break the chain. My grandmother is sure to break the chain since for every step she walks, she utters the word Krishna.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Now I understood why your father calls you as Narayana, but your mother as Surya,” said Swetha lifting her eyebrows proudly. Imran said, “Teri maaki, tell me again that I become a buffalo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Teri maaki kir kiri is not a recent clause, beta. It is the most famous clause in the whole world. It is an age-old interaction between different people from different countries that has formed it. It started as something else, crossed all the great lands like Iraq, Iran and Turkey, embracing the style and slang there, came here, reacted with our own language and has finally taken this shape.It was inherited by us long time back. Preserving it is now in our hands. One day, I was in England and you might have known that the British had ruled us. During their rule, we used this clause maaki kir kiri out of our frustration and they, in turn, used it to remove their own frustration caused by us, though the way they pronounced it was different. Nevertheless, it served the purpose. Those were the days of conversations. In one of my conversations in England recently, I uttered teri maaki. Then, the people there immediately realized that I am an Indian. After sometime, I uttered teri maaki kir kiri and they have realized that I am a Hyderabadi and received me warmly. We had discussions about the Nizam and our Charminar. To say in a single word, it is the sentence which makes you a Hyderabadi,” said Swetha in the most dramatic way, trying to imitate Imran and Ismail Bhai as much as she could, adding value to the story that has already been told many times in the same café.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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