tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32819356551049559412024-02-21T05:10:41.103-08:00The world owes you nothing You owe it to yourselfUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-68005943701085427652017-01-14T23:05:00.000-08:002017-01-14T23:05:21.390-08:00Winds of Change <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Didn’t we see it coming? They were around the corner! They blow and they stir up things! Let’s embrace them with dignity and much needed rational attitude. There are going to be the usual naysayers… let’s hear them out… in their resistance may lie our strength… in their arguments may lie their answers… the earlier we realize, the better.</div>
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The unprecedented support this new wave of change achieved at the Navsari Anjuman could just be the beginning. Let’s not allow it to wane in the shadows of mud-slinging. Let us not leave the turn of events to chance. Let us take this as an opportunity to turn the sails to our advantage. Let us look into our scriptures the very connoisseurs who claim that such steps are “Against our religion” and with due respect let it be known to them that even if it maybe so, change is inevitable. They are far less in numbers but they are the ones whose voices are heard. This time around let our sounds be heard … let the pitch be low but the motive be clear.</div>
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It is not about who is right and who isn’t. It is about what is the right thing to do henceforth. Let the community not be divided on this issue, instead let us try and convince them, the ones trying to move against the winds… it’s for a larger good. If they don’t in spite of our efforts, never mind. They will come around, but for now let us move ahead, in the direction of the winds of change.</div>
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Lord Ahuramazda is the ‘Wise Lord’, and we being followers of His faith, it’s high time to prove our wisdom. The Law of Mazda cleanses the faithful from every evil thought, word and deed, as swift-rushing, mighty wind cleanses the plain. Let this wind of change that has begun to blow from Navsari do the same for us. As a simple, fairly knowledgeable mortal, I quote Socrates, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-57118554308906482712017-01-07T07:04:00.001-08:002017-01-07T07:07:21.552-08:00The lure of Bollywood <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The lure of Bollywood.<br />
I am a die hard fan of Hindi Film Industry, Shabanaji insists we refer to it as that. I agree, Bollywood sounds too sold out.<br />
Having watched Lunchbox I realised as a viewer, such simple heartfelt stories can be told and can be sold. Of course it needed the backing of a couple of well known Production Companies to get it to viewers in India.<br />
As a film maker it enticed me that this is my kind of cinema and yes there are many who want to tell stories like these.<br />
I just can't get over Lunchbox. I just can't get over the fact that Irrfan Khan is such a fine actor. I cannot get over the fact that Nawazuddin Siddiqui was so cutely irritating with his "Sir Sir Sir". I can't get over the fact that that Nimrat Kaur could be so naturally beautiful in her rendition of the role of a housewife. And of course how could I get over the fact that there could be a character in the film which is only a voice.<br />
I was privileged to have a personal encounter with Ritesh Batra at the " Politic License" which was his endeavour to revive the Parsi - Irani restaurants in Mumbai.<br />
Having observed him and heard him speak of his ideas and sharing his journey about The Lunchbox , I wondered if he too would be lured by the Dazzle of Bollywood.<br />
I repeat I have nothing against it...in fact I love it ... it's like in my veins. But glad Ritesh Moved on and comes up with "The sense of an ending" based on Julian Barnes's book with the same title.<br />
Glad he didn't stick around to make a Romcom or a Muti-starrer family drama. Glad he picked a story that is as unique as Lunch box and that I as a viewer want to see.<br />
( I may have to wait for that ... since it doesn't release in India, not very soon)<br />
As a film maker I am glad he chooses to tell a story he wants to and not what shall sell.<br />
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Here's wishing a great Journey to Ritesh Batra for<a href="https://youtu.be/pYLNTQGpNQ0" target="_blank"> "The Sense of an ending"</a> ...success lies in the beauty of his creation, anyways.<br />
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Nozzer Pardiwala<br />
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*This is my heartfelt view after having watched the trailer of the film.<br />
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Karan, wake up and smell your own coffee...please...!<br />
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It is getting cold, stale and dull!<br />
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It's time when gen next, the likes of Alia, Arjun, Ranveer and Shraddha would prefer a chai ka tappri and not hide their true selves behind layers of expensive velvet.<br />
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They are the ones who don't shy away from posting a pic just awake from sleep... they need no candyfloss...<br />
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If they are dating, they are dating! They don't consider it gossip any more...<br />
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So Karan what we want to see is the real Alia, the real Arjun, the real Shraddha that they are all the times...and they don't mind it...<br />
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As for SRK we have never known his true self...there is always a facade...and this comes from a true fan, Yours Humbly...!<br />
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It is that facade that came glaring in the first episode when SRK was oscillating between being a protective father to Alia and being the Charming Star SRK who the females love (proclaimed repeatedly by himself)...<br />
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The high point was when Karan praised SRK for FAN...how gratifying is that...<br />
SRK tried competing like a newbie...he didn't have to... we your true fans love you for what you are...stop trying too hard... we love your brash witty charisma...don't try to ape who idolise you ...<br />
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Coz if you are trying to ape the new gen, know that they are what they are...<br />
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SRK has told Karan that Alia is too good too fast... To which Alia was surely a bit uneasy and had no qualms in hiding her response but the editing table did the job...<br />
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According to SRK she hasn't got <i>Adaygi</i> as yet... which put in simple words by himself later, was to overact...<br />
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SRK, you guys were lucky to get away with a<i>daygi, </i>coz we the consumers were fed with nothing else and were too blind to see beyond... (we, to some extent are the reason for downfall of your box office collections which you yourself confessed on the show) We pampered you then...<br />
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The gen next has very less time, a very competitive spirit and they know their craft well like Alia does and if they don't know it they learn fast like Ranveer did... So it's not too good too fast... its simply that they know they won't have so many chances like you'll did...<br />
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Karan I still would watch KWK for a few more episodes, maybe the brew gets better... as for the first one, it was a complete down slider...<br />
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And please why cant you accept a successful, talented actress Like Alia being single...<br />
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No fodder for TRP...<br />
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As for now I am "demotional" emotional but detached...???<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-40802761178941167962016-10-24T03:52:00.001-07:002016-10-24T06:18:04.974-07:00From Turkey... with Love ... Fatmagul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week of June ... and somewhere ... this name <a href="http://www.ozee.com/shows/fatmagul" target="_blank">FATMAGUL</a> flirtingly feathered my ears... it was probably a Television commercial or a radio ad ... I don't recollect ... but something resonated ...</div>
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30th June ... We came back from work and I announced to my family ... FATMAGUL is starting tonight ... for my family it wasn't a surprise coz I am totally filmy and a television buff... </div>
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Episode after episode ... Fatmagul has become a part of our Family ... Kerim ... Mustafa ... Muqadas... Rehmi are all a part of our lives now. <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Meryem</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> - Ebe Nine and her herbal concoctions ... everytime she would say ' Abhi chai banake laati hu... tumhe acha lagega..." we too are ready with our glass of herbal tea ... without milk ... Turkish style.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Having watched so much of television, one thing that confuses me is... HOW on earth can a television serial of this magnitude be so grounded, so natural, so true to its story ... and so very relatable. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The production is high class .... and if they are showing you a bungalow ... it's a bungalow and not a card board set ... If it's a car scene ... it is a car scene ... and not some novice chroma screen goofa ...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The best part about the characters is that even the supposedly bad guys have their weak humanly moments and the good guys too have their grey shades ... every one including </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Reşat Yaşaran,</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Selim, Munir, Vural, </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Erdoğan</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and Mustafa are so real characters... so when they are reigning their cruelty ... you hate them... and when in their weak moments ... they repent ... you don't go ... "They deserve it." ... you feel their guilt. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Muqadas is one lovable sweet heart ... you actually don't know ... should you hate her or.... should you like her ... coz that's what her character is. </span></div>
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Meryem ... the matured, wise, motherly figure ... who not only helps FATMAGUL to overcome her and handle her past but also is carrying the burden of a past that she has just revealed to Kerim ... so when he sulks and is angry with her ... she lets him be for a while .... and at the same time her mellow motherly feelings reach out to FATMAGUL and confess ... " Main use aise nahin dekh sakti ..." She is so real ... you need to see her impromptu interactions with Muqadas Madam ... and you shall know what acting is ...</div>
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But the heart of FATMAGUL is <b><i>FATMAGUL and KAREM'S Love Story </i></b>.... and the heart beat is ... FATMAGUL ... </div>
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The subtle transition of a small village girl of Turkey to a girl who has faced it all and come a long way to recognize her real love ... she is fem extraordinaire ... you cannot but LOVE her for she is a woman not just of substance but with dignity and infinite love ... which she would pour out to Karem eventually ... we know ... but it"s not going to be easy for them ... coz she has and he has ... shadows of their past to fight and they both are together at it ... </div>
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Karem with his Turkish countryside charm<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEUJvX1UD0MWo-iLADhQXElgR2WIYrl41w8m2whE6v3y1KfrsJi55NxOlTar8DX8aSFDRxGFofifl13lkDqYXldYshiTCsJHNl_op-3_l5tS9hY-inPSVP5rX4QkJz5ML8m7tO6L2l1E/s1600/karem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEUJvX1UD0MWo-iLADhQXElgR2WIYrl41w8m2whE6v3y1KfrsJi55NxOlTar8DX8aSFDRxGFofifl13lkDqYXldYshiTCsJHNl_op-3_l5tS9hY-inPSVP5rX4QkJz5ML8m7tO6L2l1E/s320/karem.jpg" width="320" /></a> ... is not the typical hero ... flawless ... but he is in all respect ... a man who stood by FATMAGUL''s side and proclaimed loud and clear ... " Main tumhara saath kabhi nahin chodunga" and he doesn't and neither does she ... their Romance is lingering ... divine ... true .... and has passed through immense pain which they both have overcome and finally ... the three words ... I LOVE YOU... FATMAGUL confesses ... while he pretends to be sleeping after a tough night of cold and bad health ... The sunlight peeps through and kisses his face while she blushes and coyly runs away into her room ... only to dress up in a vibrant red colored top ... in which she looks astonishingly beautiful ...</div>
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FATMAGUL, technically, emotionally, artistically is a marvel and I so much wish and yearn to watch it every day like my daily dose ... the best part is I can comfortably watch it with my wife and two sons, who equally love it and eagerly wait for it... So on Sundays, we all are actually a little gloomy coz that's when sunshine called FATMAGUL wouldn't be beaming through our television sets. </div>
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I belong to the generation<br />that by virtue of birth were served with Doordarshan and All India Radio<br />for entertainment</div>
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I belong to the generation<br />that saw the inevitable satellite television invasion</div>
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In a way, I belong to a generation<br />which has been fortunate enough to have witnessed, best of both worlds</div>
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I grew up watching Aamchi maati Aamchi Maansa, Ramayan<br />Humlog, Telly match, Buniyaad, Chayaageet, The Lucy Show, NUKKAD<br />and for me like many of my generation<br />morning was synonym to the Akashwani and Doordarshan tune</div>
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Badhki was a part of my family,<br />Lajoji, Basesarram, RAJNI, GURU, Swami, RAJA<br />are SOME OF THE MANY names that are etched on my psyhche</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-84694349983734262382016-06-22T05:10:00.002-07:002016-06-22T05:42:48.096-07:00Shirish Kunder Resurrects from the shadows of his past Creations with a new #KRITI <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And you need to see... to believe... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">what Director/Writer/ Editor <b>Shirish Kunder</b> has created. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To start with ... lets not talk about ... his past endeavours ... Though, I personally Loved JAANEMAN and its creatively commercial storytelling. The other creation ... lets just give it a miss. One mistake you can always overlook. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Before coming to #Kriti we need to know its creator ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Shirish Kunder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This man has to his credit ... a number of films as EDITOR, he is a director, writer, he has composed music and backgroud score and has been credited with sound editing, promo designing, sound editor, music director, lyricist and of course as being a producer. So firstly we need to look beyond ... JOKER to understand this bundle of talent. OOPS we weren't going to talk of the past... so lets move ahead ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With #kriti Shirish Kunder ... <b><i>resurrects</i></b> himself from the shadows of his past creations and actually comes out a winner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To put it short for twitter : GRITTY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER #kriti @ShirishKunder hits a bull's eye </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But to elaborate, I personally feel Shirish cleverly returns back with a medium of short film which allows him to experiment and showcase his craft with not too much at stake ... and he does impress from frame one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He is an amazing editor and who better than a good editor can tell a story in just about 19 minutes. It's like he has already edited the movie at the script level and he dishes out to you a crisp to the point psychological thriller ... and he does it in style. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Art Direction is apt. The casting is just right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But what I can't stopping raving about is the use of the background score, that's where the MAN's talent, as an editor first, comes in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Radhika Apte is profoundly talented but here Shirish makes her look Glamorous as well. Without doubt she could now be crowned the Empress of Short Films. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Neha Sharma and Manoj Rishi do their job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But <b><i>Manoj Vajpayee</i></b> needs to be applauded not only for his role in #kriti but also for his role in bringing to viewers a platform like <a href="http://www.muvizz.com/" target="_blank">muvizz.com </a>with Piyush Singh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Together with #kriti the entire team brings the much deserved platform and a place of respect to SHORT FILMS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The best part being ... in just the past one hour I have watched it twice ... which doesn't happen with suspense thrillers ... #kriti entices you with its <b>seductive background score</b> and real performances to watch it again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What are you waiting for just watch it now ... It's just a few clicks away only on <a href="http://muvizz.com/">muvizz.com</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-55994383904552585542016-04-21T23:17:00.000-07:002016-04-21T23:17:04.395-07:00Aap Superstar SIR … aur main …. MAIN AAPKA FAN.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear Shahrukh Khan “SIR”…
that’s what probably your blindfolded devotees or shall we say followers in the
industry would refer to you as. You have earned it SIR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meet myself, I, your fan! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bigger than Gaurav Channa … in
fact… if I would say in typical filmy manner…
“<i>Wohji main aapka sabse bada FAN
hun</i>!” Because my first book starts
with the song from your film <b>Yes Boss</b>…
‘<i>Chand tare tod lau …’</i> I was so
besotted by you then … I have dedicated one full paragraph on you …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My blog is titled <i>Chand tare tod lau </i>… The very blog this
blogpost comes to you from. (You could check the url… just above) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In times of BOUGHT tweets and
Pompous self-promotions it is but obvious your latest movie FAN garnered great
responses, like any other Khan movie. (Just a little surprised one Mr. Other
Khan “SIR” didn’t come out crying seeing the preview like he generally does
these days… age probably has made him very emotional) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being your FAN, <i>sabse bada wala</i>, it was natural that I
see this movie. But after having hated CHENNAI EXPRESS (my children loved it
the first time though) and after disliking Happy New Year (That too my kids
loved to watch) Dilwale was the last chance I had given myself, knowing very
well it was a Rohit Shetty Movie. It was another disaster. The views here about
the movie has nothing to do with BOX OFFICE collections it’s just the
CONNECTION … <i>wifi Bluetooth se bhi jyada
wala connection</i> … As a FAN. I repeat, sabse bada wala, I still don’t give
up on you and go take a risk … to watch FAN … which according to Arjun Kapoor …
is a Game Changer … His twitter … his views… No issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since I was seeing it on a
weekday, that is, much after all the reviews were out … with …one common link
in all… First half is realistic and second half is unrealistic …but Shahrukh
SIR’s acting is good. I walk into the cinema ghar with at least that hope …
that after a long time I get to see your acting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chennai Express, SIR, you over
did it. What Shahrukh SIR can Govinda cannot… and what Govinda can SHAHRUKH SIR
cannot… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Happy New Year … didn’t need
acting at all… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dilwale I felt you were in an
extended cameo … (Like you once said for your role in Shubhash Ghai’s <i>Pardesh</i>… (You looked amazing and acted
amazing in that movie SIR… I almost worshiped you then) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cinema Ghar had rows from
A to S but only rows from A to D were intermittently occupied and we sat on the
“I” row. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SIR before I forget … let me
tell you this… THIS isn’t a review (by some well-known critic) or a paid post
(by some Sid Kapoor)… It is a FAN’s disappointment pouring out in form of
words… which may be hurtful but true… Since it appears that very few around you
have the courage to tell you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For once I so much agree with
one MR. KRK (I don’t endorse him) only this man had the courage to tell a
VHAYAAT movie a VHAYAAT movie … all other awe struck loyalist seem to be in
eternal slumber.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a very self-gratifying
pompous attempt at proving oneself, ones worth. The scene where Gaurav tries to
act like Aryan and imitates his dance moves and dialogues … as a FAN I was
heart-broken “SIR” I almost felt pity … It appeared as if you were trying to
prove yourself to yourself.<b> I can still
do it …see!</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have no idea what was
Maneesh Sharma a director who once directed Band Bajaa Baarat doing as a
Director … (I agree with KRK on that as well … Sarcastically he refers to him
as GREAT director Maneesh Sharma) Probably you didn’t have much choice when you
are directing THE BADSHAH of Bolywood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First you try to woo Shahrukh
SIR’s fans by showing his old clippings from Aap ki adalat, Filmfare awards and
other such snippets …easily available on the internet. .. So you want us to believe that Aryan Khanna is actually not Aryan Khanna it is Shahrukh SIR and then you give
Aryan Khanna means who we know is Sharukh SIR superman like powers to fly and run on roof tops of a foreign
locale. Why would you do such a thing … having known that Band Baaja Baarat, Shudh Desi Romance were so grounded to its core and so real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Habib Faisal and Sharat Katariya
are credited with screenplay and dialogues which is quite unbelievable seeing
their past work. Why would a writer of Sharat Katariya’s calibre (Dum lagake
Haisha) write a dialogue … “<i>World’s best
actor Aryan Khanna”</i> … So it’s like Shahrukh Khan SIR dressed as Gaurav
Channa is mouthing this dialogue referring to Aryan Khanna who also happens to
be Shahrukh SIR and we know that actually he is referring to Shahrukh SIR … in
the sense … Shahrukh SIR is referring to himself as BEST ACTOR OF THE WORLD…
extraordinarily POMPOUS. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In one of the scenes Gaurav is
mouthing a dialogue … referring to one Mr. Sid Kapoor … <i>“Tere jaise bahut aye aur gaye”</i> … in another he tells Sid … <i>“Ab kar apni ghatiya wali acting …</i>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shahrukh
SIR you don’t need to do this… not even if it’s a YRF film. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Sunny Deol chased you in
Darr, the impact was as much as of your running ahead, as much as Sunny paajis
running behind you. You cannot run behind yourself and try to recreate such
epic scenes …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shahrukh
SIR you don’t need to do this not even if people around you may convince “SIR
kya lagega scene, sir, aap apne hi peeche bhaag rahe ho” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What Gaurav did was absolutely
wrong, agreed, but you telling him, <i>MAIN
TUMHE APNE PAANCH MIUTE KYON DOON</i>… was atrocious … at least for me … kyonki SIR I gave you my three hours … but
then you would justify … <i>MAINE TOH TUMSE
NAHIN KAHA THA… </i>and then I would say <i>Rehndo
tum nahin samjhoge. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why would Habib Faisal or
Sharat Kattariya write a dialogue … where Gaurav tells “<i>Yeh toh saare Double standard wale facebook type fans hain</i>” SIR you
actually read this dialogue and Mouthed it … You are classifying your own FANS
… I know your justification would be … You are just playing a part of Gaurav
but again the position you are in… don’t you have the Command to reject such
dialogues or is it the other way round … the writers don’t….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It seems, in the film, that
you are too fed up with your own existence as a star … and are putting down or
almost humiliating everything around you… <i>“Script
itni acchi thi …ki … padhte padhte hi so gaya”</i> Aryan says in one scene…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did the same happen to you SIR
when you were reading the script of FAN?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You even are not pleased with
the Madame Tussauds wax statue … “<i>Iski
Naakh badi hai”</i> SIR it’s a fact … but I adore you with all your flaws. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SIR you don’t need to do this not even for creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Prosthetics are done by
some well-known Hollywood guy … frankly in India … I don’t care … coz anyways
with or without </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 21.4667px;">prosthetic</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">… you looked the same. It was almost like that the
poor Hollywood guy gave a number of options and then he was told </span></span><i style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Dekho Gaurav bilkul Aryan Khanna jaisa
lagna chaiye… Make Shahrukh SIR look like Shahrukh SIR…”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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SIR you don’t need to do this … a Raj Kumar Rao or a Vicky Kaushal could have
done it … without prosthetic. … <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
am your FAN and shall always remain so SIR</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> because I admire you
more for your hard-work like Gaurav’s mother says in one of the the limited lines
she was given. So I still searched for the high points in this Mish Mash called
a film. The scene where you cut the cake for Aryan all by yourself … I searched
for my Shahrukh (no SIR) in those expressive eyes… I found a Glimpse … It’s
still there SIR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The other scene … where Gaurav
just replies to the TC … <i>Main uska FAN </i>…
I saw it again The <i>Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa </i>waala
sincerity … I saw it twice SIR… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While I type these words that
hurt me more than you … the FAN twitter handle is pleading to buy tickets … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s not easy to be a #FAN.
Watch @iamsrk’s transformation to a never before avatar – Gaurav.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">on a Tuesday evening… it’s
been only four days since the movie released … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I agree… IT’S NOT EASY TO BE A
FAN! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The inherent flaws like … The
police /Gaurav never-seen-before kind of MONKEY jump chase … the question is …
WHY? Two of them could have waited down … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Police back in India
already were aware of an </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 21.4667px;">impostor</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> incident, though there wasn’t any FIR, still
when Aryan asks for intervention… the Police seems to be of no help. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How did SUPER SITARA
competition guys manage to get Western Union as their sponsors! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Hyundai sponsor board
shines bright loud and clear when Aryan‘s secretary has already announced that
all sponsors and audience have backed off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the wedding sequence the
CCTV footage of impostor Gaurav and Aryan in two different places was available
… why Aryan’s Legal team never used it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the Gaurav Aryan chase
in the foreign locale there seem to be no law enforcement agency around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such inherent flaws are an
inevitable part of bollywood films and we so much love to hate them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But a film like FAN … <b>Shahrukh SIR you don’t need to do this not
even for weekend collection records. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hope you don’t react like
Aryan coz I am no Gaurav Channa … I am simply a disappointed FAN… sabse bada
wala …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Raees is around the corner and
seeing your look the die-hard …dying FAN in me somewhere tells me … Raees shall
be truly a GOOD Shahrukh Film… I just hope so … till then I shall watch Kabhi
Haan Kabhi Na and other such gems which made me your FAN … on DVD…till of
course … a Chak De happens again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aap Superstar SIR … aur main ….
MAIN AAPKA FAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-75285561282364377962016-03-15T02:32:00.004-07:002016-03-15T02:32:51.864-07:00M.S.DHONI the wait is over...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Two reasons I am keen to watch MS Dhoni- The untold story. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Firstly, I am from an era of having grown up to watching Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Roger Binny, Shrikkanth and the sorts. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I was as fanatic about cricket and these God's of cricket as much as almost major part of Indian's were then. But with the shadows of Betting and the format changing to Derby like fiesta I lost complete touch with this game. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">What remained were memories of the World Cup win at Lords and Ravi Shashtri's Audi. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">And of course in pretending to be "once a fan of cricket" to my children I often sit passively watching this new transformed Game called Cricket. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">One man in particular I was intrigued by was Dhoni. But having lost interest in the game the man didn't seem interesting to me to make that effort to read more about him. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Whatever little here and there I saw of this man made me realize, he wasn't the usual types. He was different. Calm, composed and focused in the most difficult matches. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">As a captain I haven't seen a better composed man other than him. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But that's that ...I know only that much of him and that makes me wait eagerly for the movie M.S. Dhoni -the untold story. I am keen to know that <b>untold story</b> and being a movie buff I would not mind waiting patiently to it to unfold on celluloid rather than browse through aunt Google.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The second reason I wait eagerly for this movie is Sushant Singh Rajput! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I suppose he could have been The Sharukh of the 21st century what with the leap from being popular on TV to some big banner movies. But something has been stopping this man from being as successful as the king himself. What is amazing is this man continues to woe producers to trust him with large projects and with this one in particular his got to prove them right before the trade pundits and producers turn their heads to another television wonder boy. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I loved him in All his movies , Byomkesh I never saw, did anyone? And one common thing I find in this man with the role He plays in M.S. Dhoni is... he is equally calm composed and focused.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">What probably Sushant Singh needs is some amount of nervous energy to jolt him out of his comfort zone. I may have lost hope on cricket as a game but I haven't on you... Sushant . </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>M.S. Dhoni biopic may just prove to be your DDLJ. </b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Teaser releases today ..</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> and I am waiting for it eagerly ... who knows the movie may drive me into watching cricket as a game in totally a new light.... and Sushant Singh you may get your much deserving... a little delayed glory... as a STAR. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-32968721906130131172016-02-10T21:05:00.003-08:002016-02-10T22:04:15.130-08:00Hey! It is Valentines, I wanna Fall in LOVE!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white;">Sujoy told his boy gang while walking through the college campus –<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Kamna told her bestie Suzzane, seeing red heart shaped balloons being sold at the traffic signal – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">So when you hear your bestie wickedly saying ‘He proposed me today’… you instantly want to kill her… but instead… you smile and hug her and say ‘I am so happy for you’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The truth is… you are extremely unhappy and you so much want to be in her place. In simple words… you too want to fall in love. </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Years of conditioning has gone into building your low self-esteem. So much so that… you feel you are not worth being loved and so you have even stopped bothering to love yourself. </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">So next time your bestie says ‘He proposed me’ think deeply… he proposed her with flowers he bought from his dad's hard earned money… he took her out for a date by bunking college. A guy who would really know what love is would have the courage to propose her without a single penny spent that he hasn't earned. A guy who knows what love is would never let her bunk college and take her out for a date. </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This may sound weird at this point of time in life, almost like one of the sermons your parents give you. But at a later point in life... these are the qualities you will try to search in your partner… that is… “If” your love story ever culminates into marriage. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Have you ever heard that any of your friend’s boyfriend came like the knight in shining armour on a white horse? Fairy tales and Hindi films have messed up our lives for life. </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Come out of it and smell the coffee dear. Love is not about popup musical cards or pink roses or run away dates or long, past mid-night WhatsApp chats … or flaunting FB statuses, alone ....love is much more than these hollow gestures born out of the unfulfilled wish of being loved. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">You are day in and day out bruising your long lasting relations for a relation which has not even the gall to last more than one Valentine season.</span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Years you waste now in searching for your "true" love will never return.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So dear gals n guys don't be sad if on this valentine’s day you don't have a bf or gf ...don't sigh on seeing romantic couples out on a date flaunting their new found love for each other ...don't be jealous of your girlie friend’s “Pink teddy bear” she got as a valentines gift from, you know who. Don't shrink on seeing those infinite selfies on insta of your friend with his date. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Coz in loving ourselves do we discover Love… “True”? Guess so…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Fill the reservoir till the brim, so when it overflows it spreads over to others.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The world will not change overnight for you but you shall surely notice a smile on your face, a genuine one, probably better than the one your friend had when she showed you her valentine’s cards. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love shall help you sail through all of that and more ...</span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> "true" LOVE <a href="http://chandtaretodlau.blogspot.in/p/chapisodes.html">http://chandtaretodlau.blogspot.in/p/chapisodes.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Village </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Puthanangadi,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Poojaveli East Road </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kerala<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This holiday began six days ago …On 17<sup>th</sup> November 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So there I was, a month back, browsing through resorts in Kerala and after going through the usual ones, I give into my temptation to type <b><i>Homestays in Kerala</i></b> on my Google search bar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After browsing through some options, I come across a YouTube video of this place called <b><a href="http://lovedalelakesidehomestay.com/" target="_blank">LOVEDALE Lakeside Homestay</a></b>. The name resonates, for obvious reasons. My second book launched a few months back… guess what it’s called… <b>LOVEDALE ~Married to Life</b>. Reason enough for me to research more about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why homestays need research, is to know exactly if it’s truly a homestay or a hotel projecting itself as a homestay, to get benefits attached to it. And believe me, <b><a href="http://lovedalelakesidehomestay.com/" target="_blank">LOVEDALE Lakeside Homestay</a></b> is a Homestay to the core. Far from commercialisation and truly could be your home away from home… to such an extent that for the first time ever none of <b>us</b> felt homesick. <b>Us</b>, that’s me and my better half and our two kids…and we aren’t the sight-seeing types... So I booked a room for six days at the same place… </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>LOVEDALE</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We decided to skip the customary, suggested destinations by travel-tourism websites, like Munnar and Thekkady. Instead, we had this no-long-travel, no-futile-sight-seeing clause in our vacation this time around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The excitement of reaching our destination is enough for us to not mind that extra minutes at the airport, which I must say looks stunningly amazing. After a queued up take off we are gazing out at God made creation from a man-made creation.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymzKWGU8AcjcQRI_YcfQiW722oiXgk-8jOCAZb5L6N32bJtDCVu6tYYla7eZ8dtI5o9RRzvvglXcE3eqImR89hdNyUmNdQVdDJu041UF3HmUbRv3pLtPwadxNeUkLlubkKn0tJdDBLAI/s1600/P1000569.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymzKWGU8AcjcQRI_YcfQiW722oiXgk-8jOCAZb5L6N32bJtDCVu6tYYla7eZ8dtI5o9RRzvvglXcE3eqImR89hdNyUmNdQVdDJu041UF3HmUbRv3pLtPwadxNeUkLlubkKn0tJdDBLAI/s200/P1000569.JPG" width="200" /><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgvOThQcZFUv7eLkwb07dScAsqnitHuIZMj-LtJnHRUHFKSmZXrWFFQfp-tHW86afCmEqsBiE5QW8GZ0yywqgmS_MtBQI4Z4SXFgU7D4HC2JW-h5BOYgVBg40TnpFgThHuV2V2NcSOyE/s320/P1000571.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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Within two hours and a smooth ride, Lenin has dropped us at our destination…where I am so glad to read a small flex banner “LOVEDALE”… and our hosts <b>Anshad </b>and <b>Amina</b> are waiting with smiles to receive us. They <span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">welcome us into their home which is going to be ours, as well, for the coming week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The best part of this vacation was we weren’t going from one destination to another, we weren’t changing hotels, nor were we travelling long distances every morning to reach another destination. We were simply stationed at this quaintly serene Abode. So the plan for each day was …that we didn’t have any plan. We just took each day as it came silently soaking us into the pace of this nature kissed bounty. Gradually our body and souls paced down to match it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTAqXDmEOJ1DM7BxV17jqxAAuy2AYpIE2ZgVBvgZQLaAIaP3tyzF4Yh11EeY-vvSZmpYZJqko61oYs8-zidjhF7mMF1k7vGWwnboILBe9hJK3eoNZTAbLU2__ulI_xX_MmUy7NN7287I/s1600/IMG_20151122_194449.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTAqXDmEOJ1DM7BxV17jqxAAuy2AYpIE2ZgVBvgZQLaAIaP3tyzF4Yh11EeY-vvSZmpYZJqko61oYs8-zidjhF7mMF1k7vGWwnboILBe9hJK3eoNZTAbLU2__ulI_xX_MmUy7NN7287I/s320/IMG_20151122_194449.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are all foodies and made it very clear we had had enough poultry back there at home and would love to have fish all six days. Anshad and Amina took care of that. Almost, each day, a new variety of fish....the <b>prawn curry</b> being the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anshad, is one man who seems to have never learnt the word “NO” and he will make sure he will fulfil, almost all, his guest's request. So there we were getting a <b>Kerala massage</b> on the very first evening... It was the best way to start our week at Lovedale. </span><br />
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The stillness and calm I would try and freeze at times with my camera and at times envelop around my body mind and soul. I knew I couldn’t be there forever but that thought didn’t cross my mind till I wrote these words. For that moment... It was … as if I belonged there.</div>
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So, mornings we would observe the villagers floating on Vembanad on their Canoes moving for their day’s work. Not so far would be houseboats sailing through, birds which would come fishing or simply hover, and very close by weeds playing to the tune of the gentle breeze.<br />
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If you are in Kerala you just cannot miss the houseboat ride …<br />
after a lot of deliberation we decided we wouldn’t be sailing overnight so our trip was from 12 noon to 6 in the evening with lunch and evening tea.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being at Lovedale was like reliving my childhood in many ways. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I belong here... where I am... A part of me lingering somewhere in Lovedale</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For not only am I leaving something of me behind but so am I taking a litlle bit of each day spent at Lovedale.... this tiny emerald of Allapuzah -Kerala</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">PRDP affirms my belief of not getting lured by Bhaijaan's movies. Here the lure was Sooraj Barjatiya and for me Sonam Kapoor (I m a die hard fan).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">PRDP is <b>predictable</b> same <i>old wine in same old bottle</i>. <i>Bol Radha bol </i>and many such movies have tried n tested this formula over and over again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The endorsements in the movie are so prominent at times they are literally thrown into the scenes and on our face like Croma, Pigeon, Canon, PNG Jewelers And best is Haldiram. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">PRDP is nothing but a poor replica of 1990's Subhash Ghai movie. But what Sjubhasji can do Sooraj Babu you cannot. So you should have stuck to extended marriage album which is truly your forte and no one does it better than you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I just wish from the bottom of my heart that the amount of money that has been spent on creating the cardboard sets and flowers and ensemble cast could have been utilised to feed 1000 or more starved people this Diwali ...more so... I could have done the same with the money I spent on buying tickets for this manipulative self proclaimed successful commodity called PRDP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sooraj Babu I loved <i>Maine Pyaar Kiya</i> I loved <i>Hum Aapke Hai Kaun</i> I loved <i>Hum Saath Saath Hai</i> so as your ardent admirer and as a consumer of your product I assert ...DO not make such expensive mistakes they may be a money spinning module for you but for a layman it could be her/his <i>pasine ka kamai. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Everybody who knows something or nothing or everything is writing an open letter these days. </div>
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Sometimes to insignificant people who after the letter being picked by STORY ENHANCING SEARCH ENGINES become significant. </div>
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At times, to significant people who even reply back with an open letter. WOW! </div>
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Joining the bandwagon ... I am starting a series of OPEN LETTER to ... I don't know ... maybe ... significant ... maybe insignificant persons ... </div>
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WHY... just for the sake of FUN! </div>
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So, I thought I would begin with RIMI SEN ... it took me some time to search on Google what exactly is her name and is she the RAIMA SEN or RIMI SEN or REEMA SEN... or ... any which ways, I realsied ... they all were kinda the Insignificant types ... forget mileage ... even they wouldn't bother to read the OPEN LETTER themselves. </div>
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Rimi Sen was the one I was looking for. Why I thought she would be the best one to start the series of the OPEN LETTER was... her TELEVISION SCREEN DEBUT ... in BIGG BOSS 9</div>
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I happened to catch up yesterday's episode and made sense of how Rimi was wanting desperately to be out of BIGG BOSS house ... she wasn't expecting this! </div>
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I am sure she hasn't watched any season of Bigg Boss! If she would have even watched a glimpse of KRK (another insignificant person who became self-professed significant due to social media) in BIGG BOSS she would have known what to expect or for that matter Imam Siddique in another season ... She would have known not to sign the contract. BUT... watching her antics yesterday ... I have my doubts ... is she really wanting to be out ... is she playing a game no one ever in BIGG BOSS has played... in her sweet Bengali tinged Hindi she kept taking potshots at the MAN HIMSELF ... BIGG BOSS ...</div>
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Her interviews before entering the BIGG BOSS house clearly hints at the fact that she has a PLAN ... she has come with an intention and I am sure it shall be clear by the time this weeks eliminations are announced by BHAIJAAN ... Also noteworthy thing was while she was making her displeasure about BIGG BOSS and his voice ... BIGG BOSS not for once reprimanded her or stopped her from doing so. Let's wait and watch what BHAIJAAN has to say to her. </div>
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So though the lure to write an OPEN LETTER to RIMI SEN was strong enough for me but I feel let us keep it for the coming weeks ... you never know this bong beauty who was once a part of SUPER HIT franchises of DHOOM and GOLMAAL ... and many a significant and Insignificant multi-starer pot boilers may become the new face of REALITY TELEVISION. </div>
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I begin with someone I hated initially ... little later I started kind of noticing ... and today as I write this OPEN LETTER ... have just about come to admiring him...</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">OPEN LETTER TO <i>YO YO HONEY SINGH </i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Honey, the idea of writing a letter to you gives me tickles ... no no not for any strange reasons but ... the reason is in the salutation of the letter... imagine i have to address you as Dear HONEY. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first time I ever heard your song was on TEACHER'S Day. My students ranging from class four to class ten, boys and girls, in unison were crooning the lyrics ... BLUE EYES HYPNOTISE... Imagine DEAR HONEY ... kids of the age of nine to fifteen years were singing BOMB LAGTI MENNU in front of their TEACHER... Unabashed ... but i must admit they all were in tune and not a single one missed a beat or word... I also wondered what happens to these kids when they have to learn brief answers of the same length of your song. Maybe NCERT should consider you to convert the entire syllabus into RAP songs ... I am sure kids who sang those lyrics with all the same attitude you display while singing would love to learn Geography and History that way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was curious and I wanted to know ... who the hell has sung this song... YO YO HONEY SINGH they said ...in unison, again, almost with the same Vigour once we use to say "Bharat Maata Ki Jai" after the assembly in school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"YO YO what?" ... I asked? "HONEY SINGH" they replied. Your name sounded as weird as your song. What exactly is it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Later, on various occasions I heard a number of your concoctions Like CHAAR BOTTLE VODKA ... I wondered what were you actually thinking while writing those lyrics and at the same time I also wondered what would GULZAAR SAHAAB and JAVED SAHAAB think about it .... But then... common ... I said to myself ... GOLI MARON BHEJE MAIN BHEJA SHOR KARTA HAI... and EK DO TEEN CHAAR PAANCH CHE SAATH AATH... were super hits written by these Stalwarts ... so what's so wrong about four bottles of vodka. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear YO YO, (that sounds hilarious but better than Dear Honey)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hadn't realised then, but, I was actually trying to justify your creation to myself. Some time later you did it on COMEDY NIGHTS WITH KAPIL ... remember Dear Yo Yo... there is almost a swing and bling to your name .... I am starting to even notice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just recently i was so angry with my teenage son who was playing DHEERE DHEERE SE ... on his cell phone and pissed off i asked ... "Who the hell has messed up with this beautiful KUMAR SHANU song?" ... I should have known ... he just looked at me and said ..." HONEY SINGHAaa .... Dad! "</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Mr. Singh ... you must know this ... that on my insistence my son even downloaded the original version of the song and he said ...."It's not bad either!" I very enthusiastically told him it was sung by Kumar Shanu. To that he asked ...."Is he the same guy who made a cameo in DUM JAGAA KE HAISHA" </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Honey, (It doesn't sound all that bad after all) that's the precise moment I realised and started to admire your craft ... you are the new generation and you have the zeal to do same old things in new ways and </span><span style="font-size: large;">new things in newer ways </span><span style="font-size: large;">... you are a complete package ... your website says it all... the way you dress, the way you carry your weirdest of weirdest hairdos, the way you unabashedly carry your style, talent and attitude is something that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD2hj6zJEc" target="_blank">DHEERE DHEERE</a> stands for ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe there is a song in HINDI FILMS for every possible human emotion and nothing soothes more than music. It's a gift you are born with ...so as your newborn ardent fan now ... I would say ... thank you for bringing back those melodies for us (the generation gone by) but also for YOUR_LIKES (the gen-nex) dearest HIRDESH SINGH. </span></div>
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The biggest corruption in our country is and was, always, <b>Education Corruption</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It could be called the MOTHER of all corruption....you have spent so much on education today for your kids <b><i>SUNHERA KAL</i></b> …tomorrow… your kids shall have no choice… but to reclaim that back. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s not even delve into the medical and engineering seats being sold with exorbitant price tags over and above the insane percentage cut offs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s start from the time when parents walk into a school to take admission for their <b><i>GHAR KA CHIRAG</i></b> or maybe <b><i>GHAR KI LAXMI</i></b> … they don’t have the slightest idea that the <b><i>Chirag</i></b> is going to need a lot of fuel to burn and that <b><i>Laxmi</i></b> is only going to flow unidirectional outwards … in an expectation to come back many fold someday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe some parents know well, what they are getting into and are more than willing to spend that extra <b><i>Laxmi</i></b> for imparting their children KNOWLEDGE which at the end of more than a decade is simply equivalent to a mark-sheet or a percentile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Parents walk into this plush five star hotel like schools, which have sales rep like hostesses who are going to refer to you as SIR and MADAM more number of times than the receptionist at same hotel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Parents are surely going to be floored by the décor of the school and the sugar coated sweetness of the hostess and then… they are handed over a fee chart. Admission fee, computer lab charges, stationery charges, term fee, tuition fee and blah blah blah. Books and uniform and activities and field trips and annual day costume will arise as and when. Now the main component of your fee chart is the <b>CAPITATION FEES</b>. Yes! Though capitation fees, you may believe is not legally chargeable, MANY schools are charging it BUT you shall not read the term CAPITATION FEES because it is tagged as <b>DEVELOPMENT CHARGES </b>or <b>SCHOOL BUILDING CHARGES</b> or <b>DEPOSIT</b> or some FANCY NAME. It could be anything from ten thousand to forty thousand. At least, as a parent, as many schools I visited for my kids this is a confirmed range. If you know more you could add here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the <b>root</b> of <b>EDUCATION CORRUPTION</b> in our country and it simply grows from here. How can any governing body stop this? No they cannot! UNLESS… you let them know it…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are you willing to…? <b>Citizen reporting</b> and <b>Vigilant Citizen awareness</b> can herald a massive cleanliness drive in our country. To start with…. Suppose you are a parent who has been handed the FEE STRUCTURE … highlight the <b>CAPITATION FEE COMPONENT</b>…. put technology to good use …immediately click a PICTURE of it and Tweet it asking if all the charges mentioned are LEGAL? Who should you tweet to? You are clever make sense of it! Share it with your whatsapp contacts! Party and picnic picture <b><i>bahut lagga diye</i></b> Facebook <b><i>pe,</i></b> now put it up as your status? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>WILL YOU DO IT?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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MOST chances are no! You shall forward umpteen numbers of forwarded senseless messages on whatsapp. But not this! WHY? Because … <b><i>Chalta hai … aisa hi hota ayaa hai apne desh main</i></b>…. This <b>Chalta hai</b> attitude has nurtured CORRUPTION in our country. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s take and average of <b>500 students</b> in a school which has <b>3 branches</b> so that makes <b>1500 students</b> multiplied by a capitation fee (which may be named differently but nevertheless it is CAPITATION FEES) of say minimum <b>Rs. 10000</b> that makes <b>Rs. 15000000</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Do I see your tongues out? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now say for example even if it is a so called DEPOSIT it’s not rocket science to calculate the interest component on a sum of one and half crores for an average of ten years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now drive your imaginations and calculate this same math for the school your child is already in or you are planning to. There are some schools which are having more than 10 branches all over the country and remember we took a minimum of 500 students only per branch and a minimum of Rs. 10000 only as capitation fee. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What happens to this money? Where does it go? What is it really used for?</b> These are some questions, as parents, we shouldn’t even bother to probe into. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Simply question <b>WHY DEPOSIT? WHY DEVELOPMENT FEE? WHY BUILDING DEVELOPMENT CHARGES? WHY?</b> This one WHY can unearth the roots of EDUCATION CORRUPTION in our country and the tremors of the tree being uprooted will eventually reach the people who enjoy the fruits of this HUGE TREE OF EDUCATION CORRUPTION.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Are you willing to ask WHY? Are you willing to shake the apple cart? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Think of this … we as parents by accepting this fee structure and willingly paying for it from our hard earned money are being a party to the biggest CORRUPTION in our country. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>We are as much CORRUPT, as the CORRUPT themselves</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We in a way are training our kids to take those tiny first steps … into what we call <b><i>GYAN KA MANDIR</i></b> by paying a BRIBE and making that pure soul a part of this wrongdoing. We are in many ways trying to tell our children … <b><i>Aise hi hota hai …aagey chalke tumhe bhi toh yahin karnna hai… <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b>Are you willing to change? Are you willing to bring about a change? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Pick up your POWER TOOL in your hand your MOBILE PHONE …click the picture of the FEE CHART tweet it …. Asking is this LEGAL? <o:p></o:p></div>
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To start with, as a parent, I am taking this step to let you know that my kids were in an International Board for a few years and then in a National board school. And both schools charged a fee over and above the tuition fee, term fee, computer fee and blah blah blah. Both schools had fancy names for it. I choose to name it CAPITATION FEES. #isitlegal<o:p></o:p></div>
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*this is a heartfelt blog from a Parent, not an endorsement or tent pole advertising of any product so share this blog only if you truly believe in its content. <o:p></o:p></div>
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it all started one day ... with a blogpost ... about an episode of SONY television's BHARAT KA VEER PUTRA - Maharana Pratap ... it was Faisal Khan the LITTLE BUNDLE OF TALENT who had already won heart's with his winning performances in Dance India Dance...<br />
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.... but this book which truly is a treasure for any fan ... has over three hundred coloured pics and of course the MAGIC of the AUTHOR Sonnal Pardiwala's articulate language ... PRICELESS.</div>
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TITLE WAVES Bandra and pick your copy TODAY.... of course till the Stocks last ... </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By and large most of
us men are never so eager to have kids. Probably we men do not want to take on
responsibilities of raising a child… and today in times of nuclear families
where the responsibilities are equally shared by man and woman, that’s even scarier
for a man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Will I be able to
care for a child, change nappies, attend the baby’s open house, will I be able
to handle the baby’s tantrums, will I be able to sing lullaby: such and more
questions haunt a man till finally the child is born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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feeling it is to see your child just delivered and those tiny fingers pointing
nowhere; you hold them with yours and that soft gentle touch vanishes all those
innumerable doubts of your <i>being father</i>….
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You start taking
delight in the inputs from a dozen relatives and friends, trying to guess who
the baby resembles… Eyes are like grandpa, nose is like aunt … and you smile
looking at that little angel, taking pride in the fact that it is so very much like
you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You change nappies,
sing lullabies and give bath to this new found meaning of life. No traces of
doubts in the mind of <i>being father</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You select toys for your
baby and play with it too, you watch cartoons and enjoy it too, never thought
it would be so much fun … being father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You make a list of
your baby’s friends, arrange a party for them, attend the open house regularly,
you surprise yourself…it’s a delight…<i>being
father.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You see your bundle
of joy in pain and you are in tears, your baby cannot sleep and you are
restless too. The baby wakes up the next morning, smiles and kisses your closed
tired eyes, what a revelation it is … <i>being
father.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When my little prince
was born, I remember, my wife telling me “Sweet heart, the child’s open house
and the child’s visit to the doctor are two places we should always go together.”
Thanks to my wife for sharing this wonderful feeling of raising a child with me
and relishing the joy of … <i>being father.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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when on one of the teacher’s day I was called at his school to attend his
everyday class. I was so very excited and very stupidly thinking I would be the
only father attending this unusual event.
As I drove towards the school my son briefed me some instructions… “Say
please may I come in teacher, before you enter…remove the shoes outside the
class …have you carried your tiffin box?” and so on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I reached there and
to my surprise there were four other fathers already present before me. Thanks
to this day which made fathers feel as important a part in parenting as mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the annual day seeing
all those lovely cycles my son kept asking me, “Is that cycle for me?” I said, “No baby; your attendance has not been
hundred percent but mom and dad’s attendance, at the open house, has been
hundred percent, surely we shall win something for you today…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And there you are;
you win the <i>Parents of the Year</i> award…
truly it is so rewarding…. <i>Being Father<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Over the weeks I
was wondering what could be my first blog post for 2015 and I came across this
BOOK titled </span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FAN FOR THE FIRST TIME.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></div>
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assumed that it would be some star struck fan writing about her love for the star,
at the same time the words </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>FOR THE FIRST TIME</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b>rang a bell urging me to pick
up the book. The action paid off well, cause what I held in my hand was not a
STAR STRUCK fans monologue of love for the star but something totally unique. I
knew, I had got my first blog post for 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to be as different as the book itself, so I decided to have a conversation with
the author and know more about her, the book, and the journey of creating this
ONE OF ITS KIND creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt;">Sonnal Pardiwala -</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> The Author</b></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Signing the book for FAISAL KHAN </td></tr>
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Counselling Psychologist by profession, the author initially ventured
out into a full time counselling practice. Has written articles for My Doctor
magazine and gradually meandered into teaching and training Holistic Healing
modalities to students of varied age groups worldwide, personally as well as
Online.<br />
She has been an avid blogger and writes on a spectrum of topics ranging from
spirituality to home-schooling.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">She is going to
surprise herself, her readers and students with her stint as a Fanfic writer.
Her blog posts about <b>SET India's teleseries - Bharat Ka Veer Putra ~Maharana
Pratap</b>, Created by <b>Abhimanyu Singh Contiloe Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.</b> garnered
tremendous readership and fans of the show actually eagerly waited for her blog
posts.<br />
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with a bouquet of pursuits up her sleeves she proves that there isn't any age
for becoming a FAN ... especially when one is a <b>FAN </b>for the <b>FIRST </b>time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Conversation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me:</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> What was that precise moment when you started
writing the first blog post?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sonnal:</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> For that, a little
tour requires to be taken, to my personal turmoil I was going through in the
month of May 2014. Yes I was hooked to the series and the Little Man (read
Faisal Khan). There was a moment in those vacations when I was completely
depressed and Hurt! No!!!My Husband and Kids adore me completely. It was
rejection from my Parents and siblings that had got me plunged into deep dark
hole of self-destruction. I looked at my perfect world and felt “I AM NOT
NEEDED ANYMORE.” My kids were Big enough to take care of themselves ( so I
thought) My husband will do just fine without me (How utterly foolish I was)
and on 29<sup>th</sup> May 2014, I
decided to pull plug on my life!!! However I was not left alone that day to
carry forth that idiotic notion!!! And those days the track of this little Man
putting up his best Acting skills was on and my son noticed that the only time
mother dear is speaking is when she is watching this show. I had expressed the
fact that I would so love to see these episodes again. I did not know about this
wonder called YouTube and that show is telecasted again. So, came a day when I
was contemplating calling life off. All planned…Hubby n kids were going out for
an errand and it seemed like a perfect time to end life silently!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">My son opened YouTube and the previous
day’s Episode and told me “Mom see this while we are gone, you wanted to see
naa?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Without much enthusiasm I sat. I knew
what I was about to do. But well I did…and in the digital medium the output of
every expression of this show came through. I sat and gazed…the famous quote of
William Wordsworth fit so perfectly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I gazed and gazed but little thought<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">What wealth the show to me had brought…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">What clicked, I do not know but I
thought why not see that episode? Why not see that track again? And it went on…</span></div>
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">I found my Healing in the expressions, this
Little Man gave in every scene. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every day now became a delight for
after my chores of daily life, I had something to savour and enrich my life. On
my loneliest Day, My birthday, on June first, I viewed the episodes on YouTube from afternoon till
morning hours of next day. I cried in many tracks and I was enthralled by
others. That day the writer took over and decided I need to pen down what this
show and specially, this young man has done for me.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">What hours of meditation could not do,
watching this show did!<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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this book up, especially the words... FOR THE FIRST TIME? Please elaborate…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sonnal:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Because that is what I literally am of this Wonder guy. All my young
life as a teenager not a single film persona had held my attention! Maybe I
liked a movie but well…it was soon forgotten. I never felt the rage of what
people declared for film or cricket personas. Collect their pics. I was amused
when my friends wasted their precious pocket money in buying their pictures. Why would they want to gaze at every photograph…grab every news item on them. Check
tit bits on their lives. Till June I had no idea there was a fan page of this
show or of this young man. But when I did log in the net world... Holy God!!! It
is a madness out there. So many fan pages so much of information...so many
claiming to know him…SBB segments
telling about upcoming tracks and sharing the rapport of this young man with
his co-stars. All through I realised I kept staring and tuning into every bit
of Expressions I could behold. I realised it was becoming my Healing energy. It
filled me with so much happiness and inner Joy. <b>For the first time </b>in life I began to smile Genuinely! I gave up
any pretense of hiding my adoration for this young One. My sons and husband
were simply happy to get this new lively happy person back. Then I wrote my
first blog on Kunwarji-Faisal Khan. Penning down every single thing I adored him for. And
I put it up on as many Fan pages I could. The response I got was over whelming
to say the least. So many wrote back and inboxed to say, I reflected what they
felt about this little Man. I suddenly had so many friends who wanted to talk
about the show and discuss our <b><i>Fangiri,</i></b> for this Young Man. So there
I was <b><i>Fan for the first time </i></b>of anyone ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me:</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> The big QUESTION? Why Faisal ?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sonnal:</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Why Faisal? For
that you may have to see the show! I mean this guy changes expression as
naturally as day changes to night. He can smile shyly and you find yourself shy
and smiling. He could jump in front of soldiers with an open sword and actually
make you believe he would cut down the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When he looked at his Mother your
eyes may brim with tears and you could actually feel the Reverence one has for
the parent and the high ideals that traditionally characterised an Indian Son
were reflected so perfectly. At the same time he could convince you how he is
falling in love with a damsel…the restraint…the oozing of love back n forth…he
weaves a web with a different expression each time. He can actually cut your
heart up with his agony filled eyes…Ohhhh… you have to see him…I tried
explaining …hope I succeeded…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me:</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> What made you convert the blogposts into a BOOK?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sonnal:</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> That is a long
story now. When I began writing these blogs I connected with some amazing
people across the globe who felt the same about the show and this Little Man…It
did become popular read and I had thousands of page reads. It was phenomenal. It has crossed ten thousand plus page views. Requests poured in to cover this segment or that…I enjoyed writing on him. I
wanted the whole world to know what a tremendous Acting potential this young
Guy has. He had inadvertently played a Pivotal role in my life. Then came a
funny Need …in this tech connected world I wanted that Faisal Khan himself
should read what is written for him. Now that is what Bloggers do. When
<i>Naseeruddin Shah</i> Came up with his book <i>And Then One day</i>…my husband who is an
avid fan of his, wrote a book review and tweeted him...Nasirji tweeted right
back with a <i>Thank you Beta!</i> When the Movie <i>Finding Fanny</i> was released. My 14
year old wrote a film Review and tweeted the link to <i>Homi Adajania</i> and he retweeted right away. Encouraged by these sophisticated appreciation, well, I
thought I would get my hero to read my appreciation too. I had some hard
lessons to learn and I had to face some equally discouraging moments. For this
immensely talented man’s identity on media is the most misused!! All those
Handles that sort of were his, I gave my links, only to be disappointed …no one
had a clue as to where this young guy is. I got stories…he does not know
English!!! (A guy in English medium in Mumbai?? I mean seriously???) He has no
time…(granted and agreed…)He does not appreciate written word …hmmm…now that as
a writer I had trouble digesting. Everyone would love praise written on
them…now who would not. And of course with each track the blogs kept increasing
in popularity. But my dream that my Hero should read about him was elusive. Then
Came in my Magician Husband and Son with their super suggestion…Why not Convert
all this material of blogs into a Book and let it reach wider audience. Maybe I
could give him as a birthday Gift in January. They took over from there. Once
the book was ready we gifted it first to <b>Contiloe CEO MR ABHIMANYU SINGH. </b>He for
sure was thrilled to get the feedback and <b>BLESS HIS SOUL,</b> he fulfilled my dream
to give a Copy to MY DEAR LITTLE MAN. He agreed despite the busy schedule of
both himself and Faisal Khan to meet briefly in his Office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me: </span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I have this privilege to unravel the book COVER. Could
you tell us significance of the book COVER.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqOJbAtBk8EpvKL26TDIG9gqlBdNkxudXTdn7jbrhlxrnP3gI57LlEWUAwasixjXCahYZKTQyd5_8HUQYrYEPs7wi9oJOAPFRakBLyDqbeLx3SQ4ApF9HOmc3PqF9Fqps5M4ZKU5qqr8/s1600/book+cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="fanforthefirsttimethebook" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqOJbAtBk8EpvKL26TDIG9gqlBdNkxudXTdn7jbrhlxrnP3gI57LlEWUAwasixjXCahYZKTQyd5_8HUQYrYEPs7wi9oJOAPFRakBLyDqbeLx3SQ4ApF9HOmc3PqF9Fqps5M4ZKU5qqr8/s1600/book+cover.png" height="266" title="FAN FOR THE FIRST TIME" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE BOOK COVER </td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sonnal:</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I believe this, that When you love
someone, raise the person so high that when they see your STAR through your
eyes, He appears like a <b>Rising Sun</b>
to them! I absolutely adore this Little Man whom I also feel is a Destiny’s
child. To symbolise that the Cover page has the Image of a Rising Sun. He too
is a Rising Sun whose brilliance is going to increase and spread far and wide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I do wish good luck to this immortal
character he made alive. I wish good luck to this natural actor in him to grow
and shine ever more in his brilliance. I request his fans to be dignified in
all the encounters they make on the behalf of this decent guy and help his
persona in media to reach tumultuous heights. I will treasure every single
close up that I have captured in the book and cherish every word I have written
on him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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minutes specially ordained by my Angels and higher folks. They fulfilled the
Dream of meeting him respectfully. I am a Mother of two and a perfectly happy
wife. I did not wish to go and meet him like a desperate screaming Fan. That
moment deserved every respect that I have for him. It is not lust...or sense of
control. He is a Star…he and his immense talent belongs to everyone who admires
him the same way I do. I wanted the world to know him as a Sensitive and Smart
and Suave Persona. By giving him the book as gift it was also to raise his
Image …in the media. He is not a Mediocre Guy...he is humble, cute. He was at
first a little wary when he entered …he confessed that he thought there will be
a pamphlet or sling book waiting…Indeed he was surprised to see such a massive
book on him. I am surprised too at what I have created. </span></div>
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RELATED TO THE BOOK HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN AND ITS OWN DESTINY.</b> </span></div>
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there when he entered the room. This was My little man so breath takingly
handsome. He was reading the first blog I wrote on him fluently in English…and
a little uncomfortable of course and understandably. I told him how I began
writing on him...how I tried to reach him ...how out of anger I Deleted three
blogs of his…we talked about how he plans to get good grades in Boards. He
actually could not believe. He asked “Will people read a book written on me??”
I had to look into his eyes and tell him “Sweetheart, thousands of people have
already read the blogposts! You are reading it today” He explained how his
privacy has been impinged upon daily. I assured him that we respect his privacy
and this in all probability was our last meet ever. We gifted him with a box of
chocolates for his birthday!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prayers but I shall not hound him like a Crazy Fan. I hope he remembers our
thirty minutes in a special way all his life and understands what he means to
me and my life forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to make this book a success, which will answer his query “Will someone read a
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<span style="font-size: large;">On 28th March a Book Signing event was held to celebrate FANDOM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Fans with this unique special edition Coffee Table Book </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Faisal Khan </b>and the <b>Author Sonnal Pardiwala </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Chapter
Twelve </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Pain
in Paradise.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">This is absolutely a piece of LOVE FICTION and names used are completely fictional and do not represent any person.....</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"><b>PROLOGUE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><i>Once upon a time in wonderland named ‘Love-dale’ lived an average looking metro-sexual man named Adam and a voluptuous very good- looking woman called Eve. They had never met before, but the moment they met they fell…FELL in for the most sort after emotion called LOVE. It was almost disaster at the first sight. They were attracted to each other as if they were two unlike poles of a magnet, they met and met again, inseparable, entwined they made it made it to each other's core. She blushed and he blushed even more they were blissfully unaware what was to follow… </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"><b>Adam decided to write a BLOG about LOVE... for which he started an online interactive group.... <u>L</u>INGERING <u>O</u>CEANS <u>V</u>IA <u>E</u>MOTIONS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua, serif;">Here are some excerpts from his blog.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua, serif;"> ~Chapisode 12~</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Baji Udvadia, the
reluctant person that he was, which was evident from his blog posts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> ‘It’s been such a long
time back, I hardly remember it clearly now. You plan out your honeymoon or
sometimes others do it for you and sometimes somebody gifts you your honeymoon.
Neither of these happened to us. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meher and I married when I was thirty nine and
she was thirty-six. We had lost all curiosity for what is called honeymoon so
we just chose to be at home. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We went for our first honeymoon officially after
our first child was born. If at all, it can be called a honeymoon. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we were
at home we were naturally surrounded by people; my mom, my dad, my sister and my
dog. Thankfully we were rich enough to have a big house and we had the privilege
of a room to ourselves. Fortunately also there was just one bathroom in such a
big house. It opened into the hall as well as from my room. Architecturally
what it signified I never knew but romantically it was a blessing in disguise.
Mostly I and Meher met in the bathroom. I entered it from the door in the hall
and Meher joined me from the one inside our room. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My mom always shouted, ‘Why
is it taking you so much time to take bath these days.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To that my dad teased
her by saying, ‘It’s very rewarding to take bath for thirty nine minutes I read
in one of your numerology books.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My dad was retired and only work he was left
with is to tease my mom and in return get humiliated by her. ‘Shut up and read
your damn newspaper and then better go and get some mutton I have to make
mutton dhansak tomorrow.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">While they battered we made best of the time in the
bathroom. The <i>shahabadi</i> stone on bathroom floor were hard and uneven but then
the bathroom was really big. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once we both were in the bathroom, when
suddenly my mom knocked on the door. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She said, ‘Your wife is not in the room,
has she ran away with someone else.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was on the floor and Meher above me, when
these words reached our ears. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I wish they wouldn’t have. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meher pulled herself
away wore her towel and barged out straight from the door which opened into the
hall where my mom stood knocking still. By that time, I had managed to fetch a
towel for myself and was panting. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meher came straight in front of my mom and
looked into her eyes and said, ‘Here I am sleeping with your son not with
anyone else.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My dad hid his head into the newspaper and I didn’t even have
that option. My towel was loosely tied and my heart was still beating fast. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘So
this is what has been going on for so many days. Behram I told you your son is
taking too much time in the bathroom.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘So, what’s wrong
in that.’ Meher wouldn’t relent. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘You wouldn’t let your dear son go for a
honeymoon without you. Isn’t it? So what’s wrong if we have a little fun
together? Your son has married me, not bought me, I am his legally wedded wife
not a ****’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My dad was almost inside the paper deep, deep inside. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I wore my
shirt and tightened the towel. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mom was not going to take it lying. ‘Look at
this girl, talking to me in front of her father in law and husband that too
naked. Your parents have given you very good values.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I knew my mom had had it
now. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Dare not, get my parents in this! They have given us all the correct
values and have brought us up like human beings not pets.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This was going to go
too far. The newspaper was falling short of my dad’s size. So he decided to
keep it aside and try to act peace maker. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Freny let it be now. They were just
taking a bath together. They need privacy.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To that Meher said, ‘Thank God! At least there is one sensible man in this house.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now the whole
conversation had taken a stray turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Women are so quick
in understanding these tricky words. I hardly understood or bothered to
understand but my mom made sure she interprets it for me. ‘See Baj she is
calling you a fool.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘I am not calling
him a fool, I am complementing your husband.’ Meher clarified. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My eyes just
moved like a pendulum, following one after the other the one who spoke. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Behram,
see she is complementing you, finally somebody has done that to you.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘This! This is the
problem with you. Do you treat all men like that or it’s just that you like to
insult both, the most important men in your life.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was admiring the courage, Meher displayed one in handling my mom and other in handling her towel. She was
still in it as she argued. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My mom was like that from the time I had known her.
But Meher was equivalent. I knew now I had a bigger task of handling not one, but two such women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That morning Meher
didn’t allow me to go to work and I agreed as I knew it wouldn’t be safe to
leave those two volatile women, all by themselves, one fragile dad and one
harmless puppy. She closed the door and changed into a flimsy silk nighty. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We
spoke for a while and then continued what we had left midway. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Rexy, my harmless puppy, came barking at our room door, hearing the shouts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Reluctantly and in puzzles though, but Baji
completed his blog post, kind of, last. Last because after that he suddenly disappeared
only to resurface again after few months. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Baji’s revelations were neither
complete nor exactly rapturous. But they definitely had an opening for Adam’s
well designed program which was now taking its own course. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><i>Bring Back The Touch</i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For years, it had been, as if, the
cold winter night had never seen the warmth of summer. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For years, it had been,
as if strangers had lived in a caravan, drifting with the direction of the dry
coarse blowing sand. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For years, it had been, as if N and S had lived in the same
rooms like camatose, dead furniture; until that day, when S's three petite
fingers brushed past N's palm, while they exchanged the cauliflower. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On being
touched by a sensation so known but forgotten, both dropped the cauliflower
which lied on the kitchen floor, staring at two strangers who were once best of
friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They looked into each others eyes, all
most, like having met for the first time as they stood fidgeting till the
short-lived spell was broken by reality which made them both bend for the cauliflower, lying on the floor, happily enjoying viewing the ice melt.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As they inadequately moved downwards, both their hands, reaching for the cauliflower, their heads almost dashed into one
another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N trying to comfort her and S trying
to soothe him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cauliflower on the cold kitchen
tile, which wasn't all that cold anymore, started to feel GLOBAL WARMING as a reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N had his hand on her tresses while
hers, she took away coyly: when both smiled, in a manner they had known,
eons of years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Twenty years back; when N, had never
known Cauliflower as he knew it now and S, being almost a self proclaimed
tomboy had never bothered to know the difference between cabbage and
cauliflower, were walking towards the church near their college. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N and S were
only college friends, in double inverted commas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">S had promised N to take him to the
church besides which was her taekwon-do</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14.5600004196167px;"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">class. N was shy, timid, self-prosecuted
recluse. S was everything N wasn't.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They walked back from the church; when
S held N's hand as if she owned him. He shyly looked around for piercing eyes
of by standers as they walked passed crowded lanes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cauliflower happily placed on the
kitchen table now gazed as N and S sank into their past, reliving that blissful moment. Those moments, which they so much relished once but in
the drift and drags of humdrum lives, were frozen to death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The touch melted some of it but the
icicles of routine, stubbornly refused. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N raised the knife about to cut the
poor ice breaker when S held his hand in a manner known to them, and said "Its
my turn today!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N's hold on the knife diminished while
S's grip on his, magnified. Sweating, the cauliflower felt blessed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">S was stubborn, N knew but he resisted, knowingly. While she dared him to try and snatch the cauliflower from her hand.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now it was a game and the vegii a part, a major part of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Like twenty years back the Mumbai
local, in which N and S traveled in the gents compartment, was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">S was standing by the door, wind
forcing its way through, blowing her long tresses which were a part of her equally long
mane. N protectively stood like a barrier forming an arc of his muscular arm. N
watched her tresses dance to the tune of the the blow while the mischief in S's
eyes played havoc on N's almost untapped libido.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Twenty five minutes they passed as in
every moment it beheld was a lifetime in it. Without a touch, N touched her in
places and S melted, playfully, asking for more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cauliflower was not only happy, for
it was to live more, but also for having discovered a new unspoken language of Love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The knife in N's hand and the witness
of this love play in S's possession; they both hooked to the same game, years back, they had learnt to play. Rules, they made as they played; scores, they didn't
bother to keep, as no one ever lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They played along. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The tresses weren't as long as then, neither did they blow. His arms sagging. But the gaze they realised was the
same.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They touched each other, almost burning the cauliflower alive... but only with their eyes again. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They melted
like before and the warm sunlight peeped from somewhere to end the wrath of the
frost. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sandstorm relented and they met at the oasis once again like they
had known each other since more than a lifetime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While from the background to their
immune eardrums fell a voice which said something like this; "Mom... dad. Can someone
open the door... i am in the loo., it must be the maid."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It took some time for them to deport
themselves from where they had been, even if just for a while. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cauliflower which had almost
thought it was born immortal lay on the lunch table, warm with coldness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sacrifice of the mortal veggi
hadn't gone waste. . . .since the ICE had melted for ever. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Beneath the table, away from the prying
eyes of J, and cauliflower; N and S started a new game almost resembling
football. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At times, with your fingers; at times, with your hands; at times, with your entire being; you have touched me upon: but
your eyes do wonders still and touch me in places I had never known. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lost in a
maze of their small little fantasy world which they discovered that day on, within
their huge mammoth reality, sometimes they mouth these words and sometimes they
just know without even vocally spelling them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Language of love, probably, only
they had known or may be, even the . . ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Martyrs of Social
Media… <i>a true love story.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was visiting a counselling
psychologist for the first time. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I never made sense, why one needs to pay someone
for talking. I could do that with any of my friends....? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I have many . . . but
. . . they are not real . . . in the sense they are all my virtual friends. Messenger maybe...? Whatsapp...? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Could I speak to
them . . . no how could I . . .they are all strangers... facebook names them as my
friends. . .but then the psychologist is also a stranger to me. . .how could I
pour out to her? I reasoned before entering the cabin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">You are suffering from acute case of LMD- Like Me Disorder</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> . . . The Psychologist announced, even
before starting the session, on the basis of symptoms fed to her by my parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I wondered if
there was any such disorder, at all . . .but then I also knew, any human behavior,
difficult to comprehend, is mostly termed as a new disorder and I was glad I
was the first specimen diagnosed with this unique syndrome. . .not till long. .
.when the psycho . . .I mean, the psychologist announced. . .<i>it is common these days</i>. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was disappointed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The mobile beeped .
. . the session was just about to begin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">She told me to shut
it off . . . it took me some time to follow her instruction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">It had been a while
I had committed such a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">My fingers
dwindled ...that, one last tweet I wanted to check . . . before I could start
the session. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The session was
over. . thank God for it. . .</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I don't
know if I gained any insight into my problem but I am sure in that one and half
hours of precious, virtual time; I had lost loads of news feed, obscene number
of status updates from my friends, great number of tweets, pics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">God! How she could
be so cruel? I cursed the psycho . . . logist!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">How could she have
the audacity, to put me away from my cell for ninety DAMN minutes? My poor soul!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">More than me the psycho
needed a session, I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Like Me Disorder</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> a soft voice wafted. I rubbished it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">But, how can u say
no to your parents? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">They had noticed,
like they worded it, some remarkably unusual symptoms of psychological
disturbance in me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Symptom one: I was
always typing something on my cell. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">S 2: I took it to the bathroom, the Loo, to
bed, everywhere with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">S 3: It always
beeped when I sat to eat or they had something important to discuss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">S 4: I was always
talking to someone on my cell when my father walked in from office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">S 5: (I accept it
was a little weird) I hugged my Laptop while sleeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">They considered
the most normal behavior displayed by majority of mankind of these times as unusual.
Bless them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Session two was forced
on me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The only thing I
wanted to do in the session was; kill the psych-o-logist…for being so cruel to
me. . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was waiting for
her to say. . <i>Shut the device</i>! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Instead, she said.
. <i>It’s
OK, just keep it silent.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I thought, some smart move from her homework in psycho therapy books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Forgiving her, I sustained
the session. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">With every flash of
the cell, my heart pounced, for I knew, I was missing on so much of virtual
action… after all, I had just posted a
selfie of mine with the bus conductor.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">You can see it now... </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">She said, peeping at my possession. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I eagerly checked for
the likes and comments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">OMG! </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I shouted with enthusiasm.<i> Seventy-five
comments! And a hundred and twenty four likes! </i>I hugged the psycho with
excitement<i>. </i>Obviously, it was the max
I had ever got. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I felt like a
celebrity. . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Like Me Disorder</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> …those three words wafted into my ears
from nowhere, again, this time louder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I simply ignored
it; and started replying to the comments.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Ma and dad were
glad that I was going for the sessions. They even unrealistically believed it was
working. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Session three...<i>You could keep it on</i>. She said<i>. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I knew, one of her therapy tricks again, she was trying out on me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was more than happy,
I wouldn't miss the action. After all,
five thousand four hundred seconds are enough time for my inbox to overflow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Every time it beeped,
I checked the mail, the tweet, the like, the comment, the pic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">It was the best
session of all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">She had read all
the posts with me, we even posted a selfie...titled <b><i>with my Psycho. </i><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Like Me Disorder</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> the words wafted again, loud and clear. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">She confirmed of
hearing it too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Before I reached
home, she had sent me a friend request which I reluctantly accepted. . . I had to; after all, our pic together had got
a hundred and twenty five likes, one more than the conductor selfie. And, of course, she was my thousandth friend. It was time to celebrate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">#Like Me Disorder</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> …was trending topic for the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">With one more
martyr in our brigade, I was happy I had found my love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">My true love! Social
Media…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">And the Psycho …she
found hers…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">V r d brigade<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">V r d force<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">V cud die 4 it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">V r d true MARTYRS of SOCIAL MEDIA…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">hail social media</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3281935655104955941.post-54297154322370477112014-10-09T09:03:00.002-07:002014-10-09T09:08:57.281-07:00a welcome change...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The first time I ever came to know about this meet was
through an email, which was quite some time back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I was sure, after the <a href="http://chandtaretodlau.blogspot.in/2014/06/life-re-plugged-zindagi-has-just-begun.html" target="_blank">Zee <i>Zindagi</i></a> meet, I wanted to attend something more informative; but
finally when this meet was announced, I didn't find any seats left. It left me
disheartened. Not as much for me, but for my teenage son who could have
benefited tremendously from it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Thanks to Sujata Tawde, a co-blogger, who assured that
if there would be some cancellations we would be able to register. And we did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">It
was the sweetest thing that could have happened to me....<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt;">...the
<a href="https://www.indiblogger.in/" target="_blank">IndiBlogger</a> <a href="http://www.bigrock.in/" target="_blank">Big Rock</a> WordUp Meet!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Sweetest, not only for having received the bag of goodies;
but Sweetest for the simple reason that I had the pleasure of attending this meet
with my thirteen year old son <a href="http://www.shahensworld.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Shahen Pardiwala</a> an <i>IndiBlogger</i> too. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We reached almost before time and were happily
clicking our selfies, when my eyes glided to this colorful persona in astonishing
extra-ordinary attire, Firoze Shakir Sahab. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 21pt;">This gentleman, almost always with a camera in his hands,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Further inspired, I moved on for the registration,
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Nihaal, preparing for the rock performance I thought it would be some
amateurish try. But I was proved wrong, the band rocked and how! </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 21pt;">I have to admit here, it was my first. So, I may not be the best
judge of their stint but I thoroughly enjoyed, simply letting my hair down,
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writing, be it my articles in newspapers or my book or blog, I was never keen
to know or learn about SEO or analytics or whatever you may name it, in short,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Amit Agarwal~ Amazing and to the point. I have taken <i>your</i> word seriously and am upgrading to
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this was a great initiative by <b><i>IndiBlogger </i></b>and such informative, interactive
meets should happen quite often so the new bloggers on the block, like Shahen,can benefit from the stalwarts and the mostly creative kinds like me, start
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Chapter One `Those unfinished words...</div>
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In the early winter of 1994 the disillusioned Zygote sat to</div>
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pen down his frustrations of choosing and passing out from</div>
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a stream which he never intended to choose. The Zygote</div>
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(Started: January 27, 1994)</div>
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What you ought to be… to be a graduate.</div>
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Preface</div>
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I have already been to college for five years and am a</div>
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graduate now. Currently I am busy and hardly get time for</div>
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any other activity. Sleeping is the biggest task I perform</div>
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now-a-days, followed by a long go through of the</div>
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newspaper. Than the breakfast, lunch and dinner take so</div>
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much of my time that I am unable to do any justice to my</div>
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favorite television program. Since I am so busy I decided</div>
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to write, but it’s my personal request and also a stern</div>
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warning that this piece of work is for graduates and no</div>
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undergraduate should attempt to read it. However, if by</div>
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any chance an undergraduate gives a glance to it please do</div>
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not follow any of the unintelligent advices or tips given.</div>
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I only intend to share the adventures and experiences of</div>
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my college days! Any suggestions or remarks regarding this</div>
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work of mine will in no case be appreciated.</div>
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At last, but not the least, I thank my weird sense of</div>
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humor for having made it possible to create this junk.</div>
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Nozzer Pardiwala Bachelor of Commerce</div>
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Chapter 1 Introduction</div>
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It’s very hard to believe that you have already finished</div>
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your graduation, till the people congratulate you, if you</div>
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have scored excellent marks or sympathize with you if it’s</div>
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the other way round. Than alas! You get your degree, with</div>
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all respect to the mark sheet, by paying a handsome</div>
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amount of only a hundred and fifty. It takes time to gulp</div>
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down the fact that a piece of paper with some scribbling</div>
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on it costs you your pocket money.</div>
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Anyway, you wouldn’t mind to part with that huge sum</div>
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coz, you expect good returns out of it and of course, how</div>
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happy you would be to see it is laminated.</div>
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But believe it or not, the film Walla’s are absolutely right</div>
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in this matter, at least. You find yourself in the same place</div>
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as any Raj Kapoor or Sanjay Dutt would be in any of</div>
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their fairly social films searching for a job. The only</div>
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difference would be you would not be singing a song on</div>
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unemployment as any of these filmy unemployed do.</div>
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And do you know what it takes to reach this highly</div>
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frustrating state.</div>
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I simply mean do you know what you ought to be …to be</div>
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a graduate.</div>
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Chapter 2 `You need to reach college.</div>
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Firstly, you ought to be a wonderful body builder or at</div>
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least an athlete, coz to be a graduate you need to learn</div>
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something and to learn something you need to go to college</div>
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and to go to college you need to reach there somehow and</div>
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to reach there you need to travel.</div>
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You are lucky enough if you are a localite, yes lucky</div>
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enough to reach in time as well as to score 10% less at</div>
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school and still get your admission. However if you are not</div>
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a localite you need to face the misfortune of travelling in</div>
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the local train. But please don’t be discouraged you can</div>
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always buy a first class pass and travel standing with</div>
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ease.</div>
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It’s not all that difficult as it seems to be, to travel in a</div>
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local train. It’ just that you need to be a little smart,</div>
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smart in the sense, never let go of an empty seat as the</div>
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moment you are taking an important decision of whether</div>
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to be seated or to stand? It’s too late. Some smart traveler</div>
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has already decided to squeeze in.</div>
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Also, be smart enough not to get up from your seat or to</div>
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adjust yourself, your neighbor would be fast enough to</div>
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grab even a scratch of place left between the two of you.</div>
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Once you are seated everything is cool and comfortable,</div>
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keeping aside a rare case of someone throwing his head on</div>
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to you as he compensates for the lost sleep.</div>
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Getting out is not much difficult you just need to leave</div>
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yourself loose amidst the crowd. The other moment you</div>
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find yourself in or out, as the force may be.</div>
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So see how easy or could we say automatic all this is, if</div>
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only you are a little smart.</div>
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And as the days pass by you become one of the many smart</div>
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travelers in town and could even compete with the others.</div>
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You could also learn some new skills from them and show</div>
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them some of yours.</div>
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Travelling by the bus could be equally easy. Only, if it’s a</div>
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double decker you need to worry. You need to have an</div>
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excellent balance. Else, you could opt to be at the lower</div>
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deck.</div>
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Also, if you are fortunate enough to own a vehicle it’s the</div>
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best way to reach college. Only be sure you have a safe</div>
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driver or have a true license. A twenty or fifty rupee note</div>
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in your pocket could be very helpful to do away with any</div>
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of your flaws against driving rules.</div>
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That’s it you have reached college in one single piece. Only</div>
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thing, never make a mistake of wearing ironed clothes.</div>
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Chapter 3 A Xerox machine would be handy.</div>
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The word sounds peculiar and by the time you graduate,</div>
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it’s like ice to the Eskimos. Right from that day you got</div>
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your S.S.C. examination hall ticket, you feel the need of an</div>
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efficient Xerox machine. And it’s not all that it does, it</div>
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can also help support your other expenses. You could very</div>
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well set an example of self-employment, with your Xerox</div>
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machine and yes of course the need increases as the exams</div>
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come near. If you are a regular student I mean if you</div>
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really do enter your class room every day, then before the</div>
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exams you would be busy Xeroxing question papers. You</div>
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solve them or not but you do Xerox them. And if you are a</div>
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canteen product that is a regular at the canteen, you are</div>
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busy Xeroxing notes.</div>
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Also you may come across some extra ordinary persons</div>
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who have not bought their text books as yet and plan to</div>
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Xerox one of yours. This very moment you realize the</div>
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waste of time you have been indulging in. But now it is</div>
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too late. Only thing that can be done is go asking help</div>
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from your friends as your faces may be alien to professors</div>
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and you would hardly know who teaches you what</div>
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subject.</div>
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However, all this would be a scene of the later years. At</div>
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least, for the first year I presume most of you would be</div>
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fairly regular and attend your class with all respect for</div>
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your professors. Any ways the Xerox machine shall be</div>
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handy throughout the college days.</div>
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Chapter 4 `You need to have perseverance.</div>
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I would be glad to define the word ‘queue’ for you. But I</div>
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believe firmly that being a part of the second largest</div>
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populated country you would be quite familiar with the</div>
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word and need no further explanation.</div>
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Since every one of you must have travelled by buses or</div>
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trains not alone but at least with your parents by now. It</div>
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would be nothing surprising if you come across a long</div>
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queue of people waiting for their number to come.</div>
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The queue at the college campus is no different, be it for</div>
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your first id card or be it for your railway concession. It is</div>
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here that you learn what democracy actually is. A person</div>
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scoring a distinction would be last in the queue or to your</div>
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surprise you may notice that the person heading the queue</div>
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bears only a second class and you may be with a first class</div>
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somewhere in the middle.</div>
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Whatever may be the purpose waiting in the queue for the</div>
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first one or two times would be quite boring. But as your</div>
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acquaintances increase and as these slowly develop into</div>
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friendship you feel standing in the queue far more exciting.</div>
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In fact, at times it is rather more active job to stand in the</div>
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corridor in a queue rather than sitting passively in the</div>
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dusty class rooms with unenthusiastic classmates and over</div>
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enthusiastic professors.</div>
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Chapter 5 `You need to choose the right apple.</div>
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Most important of all, you need to be choosy. Choosy</div>
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about the right lot of persons which eventually become</div>
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your acquaintances and later on some may even become</div>
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your great friends. You ought to be choosy in this matter</div>
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as choosy as you are in selecting the right outfit for the</div>
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right occasion. Because if you do not succeed, after a time</div>
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you would surely support the age old proverb,</div>
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‘A rotten apple in the basket spoils the whole lot.’</div>
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Here I would not coat my words sugary sweet and make</div>
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you feel that everything is easy and straight. In fact here</div>
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is where you learn about yourself in an attempt to learn</div>
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about others.</div>
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Firstly, you would soon discover a particular lot of people</div>
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amidst whom you feel like an unintelligent, timid, ugly</div>
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little fool. There may be others amidst whom you may feel</div>
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like an intelligent, brave, smart little prince. And there</div>
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may be another lot of people amidst whom you would feel</div>
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like yourself.</div>
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And believe me this is a better place to be in. Yes, better</div>
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and not the best. Just because here too, everything is not</div>
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as comfortable as it seems to be. As you know, of course</div>
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you ought to know it. Where two minds meet either a life</div>
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-saving drug is invented or it’s the beginning of a lifelong</div>
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argument.</div>
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(Left incomplete: February, 1994)</div>
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Though it may appear to be a juvenile effort at writing at</div>
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the first instance, with a little more effort time and devotion</div>
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it could have been polished to turn into one.</div>
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back, I must have been around sixteen, as I walked through narrow by-lanes of a
wholesale market in a small city then, of Madhya Pradesh. . . glad, I would
get all my music cassettes (those were the days of cassettes) at almost half
the price. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The acquaintance walking
along with me, on reaching the shop; which presumably was of his very good
friend, asked, “Which ones?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">He looked at me,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I continued . . .
“<i>Kaagaz Ke Phool, Mr. and Mrs. 55</i>”,
so did the astonishment on his face. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Probably, he wasn't expecting a teenager to
ask for those, far forgotten cult classics. I don't know why, but, master
pieces always, more than often, get classified as cult classics, long after
they had been made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">To his amusement
and also to the the vendor's , I collected quite a number of cassettes, the sum
total in comparison to today's time, amounting to nothing at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">It was my
inclination towards seclusion or sadness or art, I can’t make sense of it, even
today, but I was always drawn towards these kinds of movies and I had begun to
feel that those kinds of movies weren't made anymore. Till; I stumbled upon
this vast ocean, of what was by then called; the art movies or parallel cinema.
<i>Manthan</i>, <i>Aakrosh</i>,<i> Jaane Bhi Do Yarron,</i>
<i>Bhavni Bhavai, Sparsh, Katha… </i>just to
name a few. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was simply
amazed, that there could be such simple movies made in the simplest of
locations, there could be an actor looking as simple as me and be so good at
his art, for that matter even get work in films. I feel, exposure to those
movies, must have been the primary reason I ever thought of making films.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">This man was so
ordinary looking, in terms of the actors around him, it made me believe I had a
fair chance, if not acting but at least may be directing such amazing actor.
But it’s not about me, it’s about this magician who I wanted to know so much .
. . I wanted to touch him and know if he was real, as real as his portrayals in
the new wave cinema. . . .I waited for years till <b>one day</b>, when I was browsing
through the net reading about <i>Finding Fanny</i>,
just doing ground work for my article on <i><a href="http://chandtaretodlau.blogspot.in/2014/09/being-cyrus-to-finding-homi.html" target="_blank">HomiAdajania</a></i>, I stumbled upon this title of the book . . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One Day</b> . . . the title, kind of resonated and maybe some connect, I knew it
was. . . .Naseeruddin Shah’s memoir! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The last time I
picked a book up, apart from my own, was <i>Chetan
Bhagat's- Five Point Someone</i> and much before that <i>Making Friends by Andrew Matthews</i> and much before, <i>The Dale Carnegie, Wayne Dyer</i> self- help
types. That sums up that I am not an avid reader and theses books have
sometimes taken me a month or at times an entire year to complete or sometimes
even abandon reading some of them, mid-way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">So it was almost a
revelation that I pre-ordered the book, which arrived on Sunday 14<sup>th</sup>
September through flipkart, and back from <i>Finding
Fanny</i> afternoon show, almost mesmerized by Nasseruddin Shah’s performance,
I started reading this tome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To my own
disbelief, I completed by Tuesday night, and after having read it, turning the
last leaf over, I was lost… for a while, in the magic of the words and this
man's honesty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The only comment I
ever got for my self-published book, from any one, apart from family, that too
quite a genuine one, was from a Facebook friend from the homeschooling
community. The person had told me of liking certain parts but it had failed to be
stripped open in some. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I was happy, that
at least someone had taken the pains to read a book, which not more people than
its number of pages had read, and even taken the extra effort to write a
feedback. But I didn't quite understand the view then. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">After
having read Naseeruddin Shah’s Memoir, I realized, what it means to split wide
open. In His memoir he just does that. . .if you are in love with him for his persona
on screen or stage, at times, his confessions may drive you to discomfort, but,
if like me, you wanted to ever know the real Naseeruddin; you are going to have
almost nearing a feeling of <b>having
touched him</b>. I did! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all due credit to Ramachandra Guha, the language is articulate and at times you don't
want to bother about the exact meaning of those eloquent words and just move
on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">It
could be sacred scripture for young aspirants with starry dreams, smitten by
the gloss of filmdom and for the more lost like me, could be an eye opener in
discovering the difference between, being truly talented and merely thinking
that one is talented. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">On viewing, the
unusual, <i>Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, one</i>
would wonder, why was he cast in a two scene role… but when he reciprocates to <i>Abhay Deols</i>; <i>Meri family ka construction business hain</i>, with , <i>Ohho Koi baat nahin Galti harek se ho jaati
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his dry kind of humour, lingers over his use of words in his book as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his outrageously open in using some, names, sometimes even biggies, with an
attitude of frankness and his repeated use of, <i>I</i> <i>daresay,</i> tells you he
cares a damn about what they shall comprehend of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">He
gently holds your attention with his witty and mostly endearing narration
taking you through, a journey of his childhood, so rare in itself for a film
personality to share, with complete righteousness. You can actually feel the
strain between him and his father, you can trace his frustrations of wanting to
get into the depth of his art but failing to find only superficial sources, you
can connect as he rips open his most vulnerable human side, be it his marriage
at an age not generally conducive, or his confession of having deserted his first
child. He bares open in front of you, the Naseeruddin he is and not what you revere
on screen or stage; even at the cost of losing little respect from some shallow
admirers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">But
I daresay, he does it not for the sake of making it a USP of the book (He isn't
even promoting it, as much as promotional rampage goes in times of twitter and
facebook) he does it for, I presume, the sheer joy of sharing with, some- many
-few, who would relate. I am sure <b>Sir</b>;
there are plenty as you and me. The book shall choose them, if they don’t, like
he writes in the final chapter, <b><i>I claim no credit for choosing that kind of
cinema – it chose me</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only, Ramachandra Guha may have convinced him to write a little more than this .
. . but I am sure he may have tried and failed like telling him to refrain from
using cuss and not being successful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Having tried my
odd bit, of catching a train to Pune and trying to get into FTII, having walked
till the doorstep of Roshan Taneja’s acting institute at Juhu and being handed
a pamphlet by the man at the door, having got the opportunity to be tapped on
the back by Vishal Bharadwaj giving his number during his Satya days, having
worked as an extra on sets of <i>Police
Officer,</i> <i>Khel </i>and some more
debacles, having always being bit by what they call the film bug …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">I
believe, having read this book, that it’s not only Talent that gets you work
but the talent of knowing to sell your wares does. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The true teacher being somewhere within you, there
isn't anything that anyone can teach you that you so much can learn on your own
. . . and more.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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have simple regret that the memoir touches upon his life only till thirty- two
and not beyond . . . maybe intentionally, for not letting more worms out…but I
daresay; this man would not have bothered to consider this as reason enough.
Maybe a part two…. Maybe…just that much… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weekend holiday, to South East Asian destinations, always. (So much ever we may dream to). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looking out for a reasonably, not completely inexpensive holiday, close to Mumbai
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.naturetrails.in/Durshet.html" target="_blank">Durshet Forest Lodge</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> by <a href="http://www.naturetrails.in/" target="_blank">Nature Trails Resorts. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This was to be our
camp site destination, for years and believe me it’s the best in that variety.
But this time around we tried it out as a family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dear Sayali, (hope I have got her name right) very welcoming sales person at nature trails, very frank and never
will she proclaim anything, they cannot serve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the cocoon room, which are minimally done, but with air condition, a small, very small, in fact, sit- out which mostly opens up to thick foliage of trees in
the foreground and mist kissing mountains beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frenzied about too much of cleanliness and are not finicky about every minute
detail and are willing to take it like a camping holiday it’s the place you
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<i>Ganesh Chaturthi</i> weekend, thinking that not many would venture out but our
assumption was incorrect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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journey, with blessings from <i>Bappa</i> and decided to break somewhere for lunch.
The drive was super cool, since there was absolutely not a trace of traffic, at
any of the expected places. (Two hours exactly with the blessing of freeway)</span></div>
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heavy one and if the showers weren’t, than the thick dark clouds
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was so dreamy, I never stopped, no one did mind (They didn’t have any choice,
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until of course we left the Expressway at the
Kopoli exit (AFTER KHALAPUR TOLL NAKA, not THE ONE BEFORE IT… remember this bit
of information while driving) ...<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We came across a
small nook where I could see Samosas, yelling for attention, from under the net
and piping steam from the frayed, reused, vessel of tea. I knew I had found my
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Samosas and tea, I don’t know why but can fascinate me at any point of
time, anywhere. And the fascination didn’t just remain at that, it was indeed
worth the break.</span><br />
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along with some <i>kanda bhaji</i> (The best I have had in long time),
served with two types of local chutney and ketchup, just in case we would be the
city snob types. Tea to compliment the weather, as well as the sumptuous,
roadside meal!<br />
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mostly while travelling, be it south or north or any of the weekend get- away, I
am inevitably drawn to these… it’s nothing monetary though…! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> We moved on, the others happy, that at last
I had kept my promise. For the bladders that were bursting … we had to wait for
another twenty minutes or so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Through the lush
green blanket of grasses and trees we reached <a href="http://www.naturetrails.in/Durshet.html" target="_blank">Durshet Forest Lodge</a>. The frayed
but visible board caught our sight.</span></div>
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made his presence known here too. <o:p></o:p><br />
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the Cocoon room and I presume it’s named aptly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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around a bit and checking out the room, which didn’t take time for obvious reasons, we moved to
have tea and snacks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After which we
decided to walk down to the riverside for kayaking, which we never did through
the stay, but it was raining heavily and so we decided to stay put in a shed
which had doubled up as a games room. The kids played and we intermittently
joined them and soaked in the weather of the place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">None of the Nature Trails resorts have a Television Set in the room, I guess not even in the
office, so in a way you are left with no choice but to either enjoy the
opportunity or sink into your gadgets. We decided to sink into the moistly, cool monsoon night, in the miniscule sit out, singing away to glory, old and new songs until
we ran out of songs or maybe steam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adventure, you are going to love the walk through the forest uphill, if you
aren’t the rough it out kind, avoid and stay put in your room, or maybe walk
down the nearby village. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of both, but definitely the adventure types in majority; so we decided to join
the host of other groups and families on the trail which takes you through
adventurous (Sometimes even childish) activities lined up till you reach your
final destination… the water fall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amazing and to let you out a secret… you don’t have to go through that entire
route again. The walk back is almost even and non- adventurous. Though the
activities don’t end there, in fact it gets exciting for some. You decide what
gives you pleasure; sitting under the cool, heavily gushing waterfall or
rappelling down it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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activities, all that one needs, is a sumptuous meal. I reiterate, the meals here are
elaborate but don’t expect THREE-FIVE STAR treatment, (We were served juice for breakfast though) remember we are on
camping kind of holiday. (Nevertheless at times, I have witnessed worse
services in so called THREE-Five Stars… I never made sense, what the stars stand
for). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decide to go kayaking, but the river was overflowing and not a very suitable
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We walked down to the riverside, the walk itself being exciting in itself, this
time not very adventurous though. It was pouring, as we walked down the stone-
made steps, mud pedaling beneath our feet, with gushing water. <o:p></o:p><br />
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river was amazing, but as warned we witnessed its swift glory from far. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoying the sight, I received the news (On the cell phone) that my article had
appeared in our <a href="http://img.theparsifamily.commutree.com/Publications/Parsi%20Times/20140830.pdf" target="_blank">Community Weekly newspaper</a>. I barely managed to operate the
mobile with my wet hands, pouring rain and umbrella tilting in wind. But
overjoyed I thanked the ethers and stood in disbelief for a while; that it had
actually happened and amused at the fact that the news didn’t reach me on Saturday, as expected and reached me only on that day, that too at such a location. </span></div>
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could feel that connection, as if the heavens were showering their love on me, I
accepted in grace with open arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the level of the river was rising rapidly and we were all by ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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room, evening tea and snacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the evening in the little balcony trying out our vocal cords. We managed
quite well, I assume, no one was around to appreciate or complain; the birds,
trees, leaves, wind, raindrops lost in their own melody. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Early dinner and it
was time for snooze …since the activities had exhausted us and yes…television
wasn’t there for the rescue. We city
dwellers are so bloody addicted to this device. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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itself can prove very therapeutic …its huge and so at any point of time you
never feel that it’s crowded. There were a number of families big, small,
nuclear, joint …also there was a huge group of students, who were set up in the
dorm, far from the cocoon rooms. </span></div>
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tea is another common aspect of these Nature Trail resorts…you have it or not,
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(We even had company of a big fat Cock all
along), discussing <i>Amish Tripathi’s Immortal of Meluha </i>and my good old
trecking days; we drank almost the entire flask of tea between the two of us. <o:p></o:p><br />
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way back, that my son shares the same kind of feeling that as a child I always
had when the vacation would come to an end. </span></div>
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the grind, rejuvenated so that you can earn those bucks and have a bigger better
and happier time again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Among their other properties... <a href="http://chandtaretodlau.blogspot.in/2013/05/trails-of-calm-serenity-and-nature.html" target="_blank">Sajan </a>Ofcourse is my all time favourite and <a href="http://www.naturetrails.in/Kundalika.html" target="_blank">Kundalik</a>a is what I am waiting eagerly to visit.</span></i></h3>
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Being Cyrus to Finding Homi !<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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about Finding Fanny. . .it’s about finding him… Finding Homi Adajania! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This droll, laid-
back, scuba –diver, talented, Director... who I so much admired, not so much for
his guts to make an English film with a main stream stylish actor, Saif in the lead (way back in 2005) but for
his sheer art of story –telling on celluloid, without wasting valuable screen
time.(83 minutes) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first in a film festival Nov 2005. later released in India in March 2006 and we in India know well, what to expect from a movie that has made rounds to
film fest abroad… but it was not only just a welcome change but a well appreciated movie
and has gone into becoming a cult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make more movies after Being Cyrus, until of course the commercial bug bit him
and he was drawn to make a Cocktail (2012) literally! </span></div>
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like the movie but only if its credit rolls didn't have----- Directed by Homi Adajania.
For the simple reason, it was like any other rom-com being churned out from the
big banners with zero risk, 100 % romance, 100% comedy, dash of drama,
heartbreak, sacrifice, friendship and of course super hit sound track. (Which
Being Cyrus was completely devoid of.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had read somewhere in an article, just
around the time of its release, that Homi actually had to be brought back and
cajoled into making Cocktail … It was evident!!!</span></div>
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commercial success we probably lost him and so did, maybe I presume, he lost
himself! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I knew, this time for
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This Talented,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">With the Shake your butiya </span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-5oqaPCv9M?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for publicity, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, at their usual best and Deepika and Arjun raw with Talent ... this time around Homi has got his cocktail just right. </span></div>
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in our country come to a pause, once she steps into motherhood? <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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aspirations in our country blessed to have a self- assured man like Onler? <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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core questions that the movie Mary Kom, subtly, touches upon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thankfully the movies
run-time is 2 hours 4 minutes. Thankfully, because parking slots in malls charge
more, after initial 3 hours. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Secondly, because the movie grips you into the
life of Mary Kom without being sluggish, like biopics sometimes do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am not sure,
what the role of a creative director is in making a film of this scale, but I
had my doubts; when I saw those candles lit up in the church in one of the scenes and Mary Kom getting
herself hit by a street-fighter to get the cow back for her brother in another; that SLB
definitely has some role to play apart from being the producer. </span></div>
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undermine Omung Kumar’s directorial capabilities. Who very cleverly has not
woven a story around a story but said it with simplistic crisp narrative.
Though at times it may appear like quick jump cuts but it keeps the plot to the
point and doesn't drift into cinematic liberty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not someone to be named here at all, because she slips into Mary Kom and you
kind of start liking her … Mary Kom… for her aggression. </span></div>
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would have spent enough time with Mary Kom for having able to emote her exact feelings,
body language and language. Or simply let's be kind to her this time and accept
it, that Miss Chopra has truly grown as an actor and she is not going to leave the
rink before proving her mettle; because in the industry
seldom do actresses find their footing back after enjoying marital bliss.... like Mary did in Boxing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said that he is the true hero of the film, what he probably meant was; Onler
is!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When Mary is
moving towards the airport leaving the kids behind, he simply holds her hand, understanding her dilemma and letting her know without words, that he is there!
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He is truly, in
that sense, the hero of Mary Kom not because he, being a man, encourages her
into following her dreams but simply because never does he proclaim that…. That
one nuance; is what I really appreciate in this narrative which separates the
urban metro-sexual man from being a self- assured Onler. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Just one regret,
the movie hardly captures the beauty of the place where Mary Mom comes from. In
all probability, to get our focus on the fact that for us city dwellers these
places may appear like wonderful vacations but for people living there, its
hardship!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Miss Chopra doesn't
mind at all, the narrative starting with her being pregnant and having two
babies, wearing a frayed vest, repeating boxer shorts and vests in certain
scenes, to stick to reality. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She brings out the aggression required by
this sport, with her uncontrolled brawl with the roadside Romeo. At the same time,
she highlights the control one needs to keep that aggression in check, with the
getting bald scene. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Nothing is over
played, not even the sensitive issues of the Place and if you are looking out for
typical filmy boxing with slo -mo spit splashing action, you are in the wrong theater.
In that respect it truly sticks to the title, and makes Mary appear human and not a superficial character. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">If not for the
songs, than Mary Mom could easily pass of for a text book chapter on Mary Mom
with beautiful crisp screenplay which ends at a time when you can see the pride
in Mary’s eyes when the Indian Flag is being raised and we are requested to stand
for the National Anthem. You realize the movie has come to an end, leaving us
asking for more. Google could help.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The scene where
the girl and her father fail to even recognize Mary Kom, brings to light the fact;
how short lived fame stories in our country are and you are as famous as your
PR machinery makes you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">With A very well-
known sports-man having just retired and his endorsement contracts almost
vanishing from television, you actually believe it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Fame comes at a price and many of us are
willing to become famous but seldom are prepared to pay that price . . . like
when Mary’s father asks her to choose between boxing and him, she chooses
boxing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But as a mother
when it comes to making the choice, the mother wins or maybe the societal norm
of our long standing belief that man are supposed to be bread -winners and
women the bread -makers. It takes a <b><i>PERSON</i></b> like Onler to make her choose
boxing again. . .where he so sweetly says, <i>agar
koi mera mazak udae toh parvah nahi, par tumhara majak nahi udna chahiye </i>.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Just in case there
would be a little more Onlers, we would have many Priyankas and
many more Marys in our country. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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