Tuesday, December 27, 2011
LET ALL THE BOOKS OF THE WORLD, BE MY COMPANIONS
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Deeper than the Deepest Ocean
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Confessions of an Egotist- How America enabled the Indian-ness in me.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
AVERAGE- THE NEW BRAND
Sunday, December 7, 2008
A LION FELL IN LOVE WITH A LAMB ( in a love mural called TWILIGHT)

Bella , the Arizona( here the state reflects her dry nature) presents her isolated, boring kinda attached to herself look from the beginning which would definitely not make you like her. Instead you will notice that this character of hers would make you love her at the end of the movie because you will appreciate her, when her solitude and her charming innocent character with a subtle smile decieves you the audience, when she falls in love with a totally ironic wild guy called the Vampire. I feel that this character makes the understatement that love is totally blind in the way that you would love a person who is totally not "you".
Her initial tryst with the collins family happens in the college dining room. The collins family as she would have learnt were like her, isolated and to themselves. " I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful."Love at first sight is when she humanely stares the yet to be known vampire Edward Collins. She instanly connects to him as she says " As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.For an instant, I felt a thrill of genuine fear, raising the hair on my arms. The look only lasted a second, but it chilled me more than the freezing wind.".
Edward collins distinctively has this whitish make up and red lips which suggestively indicates that he is a vampire to the audience. You will appreciate his dark yet pleasant character in the movie. There is something which makes you watch this scene again and again. It ideally defines the objective of Love at first sight in a different way, because its the ironical love between a human and a vampire.
Bella's dad is this usual protective cop who always insists on her carrying a pepper spray just in case. The relationship betwen Bella and her dad is portrayed with the fact that regaining long lost love makes anyone being overprotective which makes the loved ones " revelling in the aloneness instead of being lonely" Her feelings are justified in the book from which the story of the movie is adapted from. " When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.".
There are these thrilling scenes of the valor of Edward Collins where in they have actually tried to define Edward as the ideal hero of a teenage girl breaking the shell of a typically define d vampire who just keeps biting people. His characteristics of being a vampire like speed, strength , immortality , changing eye colour , not aging, pale white skin are shot distinctly.
I especially love the scene where in he stops a speeding car with his bare hands from hitting Bella. "Just before I heard the shattering crunch of the van folding around the truck bed, something hit me, hard, but not from the direction I was expecting." describes the reaction of bella to this.
As bella gets attracted to edward the movie continues to define two kinds of vampires the good and the bad ones. The good ones which collins belongs to is the non human eating group and the bad ones are the human eating group. The good vampires group is according to me an unbelievable ethical symbol where the vampires of the collins family have dared to be different, controlled their uncivilised behaviours and lead a life, simple and humble irrespective of the powers they possess.
There are unexplicably beautiful scenes where bella comes to know that he is a vampire and yet trusts edward even after he explains that there is this dominant part of him which makes him hard to control his desire for bella's blood. I can never forget the scene where in he lifts her off her feet literally using his powers to take here on the tallest treetop shot beautifly among the evergreen forest of Portland. This was beautiful to me because he was realising the fantasies of any romantic girl's mind, i mean who would not want to go there be the one amongst nature and imagine soaring high eventhough you could see the reality called ground.
There is this scene where in collins tries to kiss bella and suddenly realises his dominant part and stops himself just not to lose her.
The collins family also reflects just any other happy family but with a difference because it accepts Bella the human, an outsider.
The rest of the story is predictable. The bad vampires group wants to kill bella when the collins family defend her and defeat the bad group. Edward risks by activating the dominant part of him by sucking out the injected venom in Bella. Bella is saved and they live together happily ever after.
How can i not mention the background score which is titallating to your senses all through out and the amazing camera work which shows you the beautiful evergreen forest of Portland.
The final scene is captivating and moving where in even though Bella decides to be a vampire just to live with collins ever after Collins says no which signifies respecting the individuality of a person in a relationship yet sacrificing enough to make them happy.
Some interesting quotes from the book
That’s the beautiful thing about being human. Things change.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.478
It’s possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.475
I’ll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical… a man and woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.473
Some things are more certain than others… like the weather. People are harder. I only see the course they’re on while they’re on it. Once they change their minds — make a new decision, no matter how small — the whole future shifts.
Alice Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 22, p.435
I sketched inattentively along the margins of my homework. After a few minutes, I suddenly realized I’d drawn five pairs of dark eyes staring out of the page at me. I scrubbed them out with the eraser.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 7, p.142
The more familiar someone’s… ‘voice’ is, the farther away I can hear them.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
ps: Go watch the movie,
I actually like an another vampire girl in the movie called Alice. She is cute....
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It is worse to want to die and not be able to. Death is difficult!!

If the title of this blog reflects absolute pessimism in me don’t blame me, blame the circumstantial evidence!! This fateful morning my close friend received a call about her previous employer’s health. She had been diagnosed with brain hemorrhage and her condition was getting worse in the hospital she was admitted to. Even though I don’t know this person personally enough to sympathize, a sudden indifference of life called death questioned the very object of my own existence. She had been a boon to all the Indian students as she had been the first employer on campus to provide an opportunity for the students to earn their own piece of bread at the Child Development Center where she had been instrumental in bringing up young kids. What can be more blessing than a job where you bring up kids , observe their burgeoning skilled abilities of mastering the mundane acts of life like walking, talking or crawling and what can be more ironical than death of a person who has led her life seeing the very essence of life in kids!!!
Death had never been a fear factor for me. Now it is when I am seeing the routine world with matured intellect and aging mind. I know, to most of the people death is intimidating and there are a few lively souls out there whose jobs demand staring death in its eyes every minute. I know I can’t fit into the second category but mom I wish I could learn not to fear death. Chuck Palahnuik an American novelist once quoted “If death meant leaving the stage long enough to change costume and comeback as a new character, would you slow down? Or Speed Up? “. I don’t know how my soul would react to this. Let me tell you guys that I am neither trying to instill the fear of death in you nor marketing pessimism. Its been a long time since the process of introspection has happened. I have sincerely realized that as long as I exist, death is not here. And when it does I no longer exist!! I want that transition from life to death to be amazing and glorified. I know death is ordinary because it happens all the time. Let me stop my repeated pessimism and take you to the hospital where I went to see the immortal soul. To be frank, I have always avoided the places of death ( I don’t know how to term them!!) because I am too incapable to face people on deathbeds. But today I wanted to know how it is for people who die in this country. As I reached the critical care unit I could see a large gathering of people. I don’t care if you consider me a momentary sadist , I measure a person’s popularity or success by the number of people who turn up for the death ceremony. The situation looked gloomy enough but trust me there were no tear wet faces or loud cries. Its not that I hate these symbolic acts of celebrating death, they are too pessimistic and sad. Upholding the eternal truth that Americans have clarity in everything her brother took us to a dark corner of the room( or it seemed so) and explained every minute detail of her last moments of life. I was dumbstruck at the two facts he gave out. Known for her extreme sense of independency she opened the back door of her house to let the doctors in( she had called them) even when she was experiencing the biggest headache of her life after which she fell face down on the floor. Trust me you can never understand the definition of independency in her terms. All the while he talked to us he never uttered the word death. There is this statement he made which will make me yearn for something more out of life always!!
“Come join us in celebrating her life (With a smile)!!!” Don’t you think we all need to develop this sense of maturity of facing the death of a person with the lives of the people around him. This day has been quite emotional for me. I realized that death is nothing, to live defeated and inglorious is to die, to die daily. I don’t want to face a situation where in three days after a person’s death his hair and finger nails continue to grow but phone calls taper off!! I want to live deeply having no fear of death. I want every moment to be satisfactory, fun filled and glorious. I want to be as humble as always, as simple as needed, as successful as one can be, as self sufficient as life demands and as indifferent as death lives. I have decided to conquer all my fears starting with fear of heights. So I want to skydive (Don’t worry mom I will call you before I do that). Ok mom I promise you and myself to live life indifferent to death.



