Point to Ponder

I saw X – Men Origins last week.
The 4th X men movie & prequel to the earlier three X – Men movies.
In the break saw prmos of Ice Age -3 & Terminator Salvation.
All very successful & popular movie series.
There are many more such series that Hollywood could boast of.

How many such series do we (Bollywood) have?
None excepting Krish & Dhoom & these too have been in the last 10 years.

Are Indians poor storytellers?
The amount of blatant plagiarism, lack of original story ideas & none noteworthy sequels / trilogies do point towards the same.

Guess we should include Story Writing as a subject, encourage children to let their imagination flow & write.
This rather than just reading , comprehending , memorizing & mastering theories , poems ,stories formulas already written by masters on various subject, which is what our current education system does.
How about Story Telling/Writing as a subject in the K-12 curriculum

I am Sorry

Last week, India crashed out of the 20-20 Cricket World cup, disappointing many.
Indian team looked jaded & faded, a far cry from what it was a few weeks back.
Personally, no issues, you can’t win all the time. Am sure team will bounce back.

As expected, the judgment brigade was out with TV channels, newspapers & all sundry, jumping over one another in trying to do a post mortem on team India & Captain MSD, which is expected for a cricket crazy & idol starved country like India.

In this commotion, many missed or choose to miss Dhoni’s apolgy to the nation.
Can’t remember how many Indians have apologized to the nation (excepting Jawahar Lal Nehru, after the 1962 Indo- China War), for their acts or for their inability to perform the role / duty that they were expected to perform.

Politicians & almost all public office holders in India are known to err often, but never apologise.
Terrorist attacks , deluge , train & air accidents killing hundreds, judiciary failing to give justice on time ,robberies, thefts & murders and police failing to provide safety, bad roads, poor power supply etc etc.

List is endless, but never has any minister, beaureacart or official apologized to the nation for a duty not done.
Incidents have been big as well as trivial, but we always shift the blame & never own up to an apology.

Reasons can be many. Ranging from a system that has been created in away that accountability is never on one individual, to the way we are educated & brought up.
Education has a key role to play in developing the collective conscience of any society. But our education system, as well know, focuses on building skills & hardly on building character or values.

I was never a very huge MSD fan and always though him to be bit too lucky for the results he got.
But this one incident has changed my opinion. This guy has the Character

Go ahead captain courageous.
Hope you never have to say " I am sorry " again.

Easy Questions, Tough Answers

Don’t know if this applies to all, but I surely find very tough answering some of the easiest questions.
Though this has been happening since long I realized the same last week.
Wife out for a late night dinner, I had to fetch dinner for self.
I found it very tough answering this one simple innocent question,

What is it that I want to eat if I can order anything I want to?

It was then that I thought & realized that it is this & many such very simple question that are toughest for me to answer.
Is this applicable to all or I am the chosen one…….I don’t know.

Some samples:
What is your favorite dish / meal?
What is your favorite past time.
One place that you are dying to go for a holiday?
Do you like traveling? Answer is yes I do, but then why do you travel so less. so do you traveling ??If you likes you would have done better in the end score..
Favorite film (that’s tough since a lot of us have many)
Rephrase it as genre of films…So what’s the genre of films that I like to watch???
Favorite music and I get more lost…..Like movies it varies far & wide.

Is this the case with all, or I am confused.
Are all others clear or all contradict themselves like I do often.

Hope all do ……Pls write, but who, I am yet to have my first visitors.
Still waiting for the chosen one.

Guess I should announce a bumper draw, early bird prize etc.

I didn’t know that it is not only writing on the laptop (ppl who know me are aware how much I enjoy that ) and getting online & working thru the maze of usernames & passwords & options & fonts etc , and then hosting your thoughts, but POPULARISING it also .

Now how do I do this??