its been a harsh day..i got up in the morning with all the energy of a beaten up horse...
man! this migraine thing is killing me..if only they would research some medicine for migraine rather than burning brain fuel over clones and stem cells!
why...pray why i ask...is it necessary to have clones?? i mean anyway...one person is enough to bore the hell out of people around him,...we don want more of 'em sticking around...
bah! so then i thought...let me switch on this TV which i haven't seen in ages.
ages=a week by the way, and 10 minutes into watching it...i found myself annoyed already so i thought to myself..I'm better off without this...
as i was browsing through Sunday times the past weekend..i realised that they had removed the quotable quotes section from the paper...i looked around frantically ...trying to find it somewhere....on some page..but all my eyes met with were dumb portrayals of supposedly happening news...and all the crime shit! there was a full length article by shobha de..on how bipasha basu had got a boob job done!!!
do we wanna read this?? isn't 'Delhi times' a bigger pest already! what a pain...
let me explain this ....
a few years ago..the times of India used to be my object of affection....just ..for the simple reason that it was so innovative and so creative...i just had to -had to read it before i even brushed! then the catastrophic makeover happened...."he & she" [the Sunday magazine] changed to "times life!" which is nothing but a shitty glossy advertisement- filled magazine ! i hated it, but i remained calm!
those of u who were avid readers would recollect...that earlier the mind over matter section used to have short stories from across the world..by great acknowledged authors as well as worthy readers who were even more worthy contributors....they were enlightening and delightful reads...then came Mr. deepak chopra!!! boom! it all became a commercialised zen page!! they call THAT zen????
does that guy even know what being un materialistic is all about?? he ruined it! deepak chopra = evil devil.
i survived that too.i mean i still had speaking tree and swaminomics.
recently when shashi tharoor started his column...i was beyond myself with glee.
i love this guy! and getting to read his thoughts and expressions on a weekly basis..cudnt have been better! i exclaimed:
"right! so finally someone knocked some sense into these people! wow!"
but then that was just a momentary phase of being sensible i guess...
they removed quotable quotes this weekend!!!
I'm sure its some commercial gimmick by that deepak-moron-chopra! he must be starting another "interactive " column! bullshit!
i long for the days when Sunday times used to be so enthralling and pious! i never liked the weekday papers anyway...but the Sunday one was like worth keeping for years..i still have torn articles from teh wise and soulful yesteryears[so i would like to call them]. now its just money -fortune-commercialisation.
why is 'sinking into mediocrity' not a concern for them? why cant they realise that writing is one aspect of art which, if gets over shadowed by commercial gains...gets destroyed...or for that matter..all realms of art.
you have to conserve the sanctity of it....its something like the innocence of a 12 year old girl...if its lost ..its lost forever...
if i could just make myself audible to these jackasses...i would make them understand what they're losing ...for starters..I'm not reading it now.
I'm just not.I'm just so done with it.
art ain't art if it loses its soul.only if they would listen.
*sigh*
i also made an important discovery today....the b block park in my sector where i haven't been before is like a paradise found! its like the garden in the movie notting hill! the benches call on me...they beckon me to come and read there...i have always had a fascination with park benches...the wrought iron ones with the smooth curved edges or the wooden ones with the carved sides...they have always meant serenity to me...something about them is just so attractive..they are so still and have been like that for years...have had old people rest on them...homeless beggars sleep on them...tired joggers relax on them love lorn idiots wait on them[ right okay..love lorn sweethearts..okay now?] ...
i have decided that whenever i get time..I'm gonna take a book and curl up on one of those beauties and pause for a moment to absorb all the stillness of the place..
taking it all and not- missing- a -moment!
"the object of my affection"
this is why i love lance armstrong:
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
(photo courtesy:anna)
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The way i see it...
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a quite likeable post towards the end... but the mourning and shouting over the heinous destruction of sunday times didn't strike a chord with me...
ur attack on deepak chopra, well, maybe a little jumping the gun, so to say... the guy passed out from aiims, settled in america and has written over 40 books...he deserves some credit...
yeah... i've been pissed off with the frivolous news for quite some time too... imagine Mid-Day had made it front page news, with the headline going as "Bipasha Busted!"...giving details of the operation and the amount it cost... i mean, wtf!
yeah...gardens, especially those spanning a large area, with all trees surrounding it make for a fabulous retreat...
regarding what u said about losing innocence, i couldn't agree more, albeit in a slightly different context.
i don't really understand art the way some ppl do, so i dunno what 'sancitity' ur trying to describe, but no worries!
like i keep saying... keep writing so that i can recall some of those wonderful thoughts that i thought about some time back, but which escape me at the moment...(*sigh*)... the signs of old age...lol!
really like this one. :) doesnt seem like u tried too hard. which tho not a bad thing, becomes obvious.
the end is the best part.
read the hindu.
fantastic paper.
oh and, anothe rhting about newspapers- the ads get more imp than the content...
cant be helped.
@ udit: just becz someone has passed out of aiims and has written 40 books doesnt mean hes worthy of all teh hype..hes trash to me and i don give a damm if everyone in the world thinks he;s some zen god! fakester!
no offence to u mate!
n ill keep writin..don u worry :)
@aqseer: i dint try too hard..ure right...actually if u try too hard..u lose ur feel...its all abt art and its purity u see.
regarding the ads gettin more space....its runing it! and its runing it big time!
After looking at all the long comments, I decided this post doesn't deserve the kind of puny comment I was about to give it.
Instead, it deserves an excuse on why I didn't give it a comment.
axe is right, read hindu.
is the most intelligent & bestest paper ever.
if you can make it through their crossword - you're amazing :P
otherwise i can relate to the feeling of disappointment & frustration at reading endless newsprint of celeb's private lives which i am NOT interested in at all. shobha de should really get a life. oh & if you read magazines stick to outlook rather than india today (they tend to be a lil' biased towards the congress party), its refreshing & honest.
:P
dude... you will now commence to hate me or be excessively annoyed- but READ FOUNTAINHEAD... i swear. just do it... the banner, a major newspaper in the book, is based on commercialism and appealing to the masses and has no soul- YOU need to READ THAT BOOK. NOW>
It is not just TOI, it is HT as well. And it's not just those small sections, it's the overall quality of the news as well ...
Thank god for Reader's digest :) You still find great stuff (quotes included) there.
@rohit: well..in da end ...that WAS a comment :P
@nitsy: i have raed outlook..find it too bland...guess ramit is right...RD is the best as of now.
@shirin: i know!! i HAVE to read that book..considerin too many ppl say that the female protaganist is my blood clone! and i don hate u. peace! :)
@ramit:HT sucks more than TOI does. and rd rules ! hell yeah!
Henna! I SO SO remember that mind over matter short stories part! STUPID DEEPAK chopra
I HATE THAT CRAP. What is even lame-er is that stupid item girls and weird people who seem so UN GODLY to me talk about what god is to them on the side.. check it out if you have the courage to pick up that darned newspaper.
I've switched to Hindustan times, which is WAY better. Instead of throwing the crime and other ads on your face to make you feel miserable every morning, they analyse the news and stuff..Very nice I must say. Also, I read what Udit wrote, i agree deepak chopra might be an aiimms kid, with 40 self written books to his credit, but whatever I've read in his column is like forcibly DOUSED with dont hate anyone love everyone crap. TOO OM NAMAH SHIVAH for me. and I cant believe people chose to share their problems with a newspaper rather tahn their close ones.
But what I really really want to say is, I HATE it when people use god to get what they want. I mean kill people if yuou want,crash buildings in america, but dont blame it all on god. Come on sanskar and all and sell people hashish in medicine bottles, BUT DONT say its god guaranteed. Its sick. If we love god so much, why do we give him the credit of our wrong doings?
Okay lol.Im on a completely diff tangent.
And I dont know if this is a compliment, but you really make me think.
Thank you.
Also, you're SO LUCKY to have those cute benches in that park! Where I live once cant peacefully sit in a park without weird strangers passing glances and stalkers staring and acting all weird. So you should be one happy girl!
Oh Oh and if you can get the hindu.. NOTHING like it. I havent subscribed to it, but my dad gets it often from office.
And nitya's so right about outlook and india today. Outlook is way better.
Also cause it recently said that nift delhi has beat nid! =) we're the no.1 design college in india! NID is second best! =)
1. jugular vein is the best column ever.
2. newspapers in the south, the english ones atleast, seem better.
3. @ rg : neat excuse for not commenting.
4. about rand, she was rebelling against her childhood in communist USSR. Her policy of self-service is not the best thing to model urself on.
4.i hope to god you are nothing like dominique francon. dagny taggart ok, but not francon please.
@keerti:
u kiddin me? thats teh best compliment i ever got!
and i have those gawky eyed losers here too..guess somethings cant ever be helped!
@feludii:
i hope to god i aint liek that too...
but what IS it ...thats so horrible abt her anyway??
the way i see it, dagny taggart is very good at what she does, running a railroad, and her work is paramount with her. She is smart, dedicated, gifted and appreciative of art, culture and stuff.
dominique francon is messed up. you'll know what i'm saying when you read the book.
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