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On "Water"

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When I looked at the title I thought this movies theme may be portraying the scarcity of water and the repurcurssions of it in the future world.There was a movie getting scripted on the lines, when water turns more expensive to Gold and other Jewellery and people may end up killing for water. May be that one is still in scripting stages meanwhile, this water is all about defining the need of submerging the fake rituals in the flowing water. The movie is so much spell bounding from the very first shot to the last, that it leaves one hooked throughout. Its based on a lives of widows living at Haridwar or Varanasi ghats, and the portayal of the movie seems so close to reality. Its invokes a kind of sadness that the world around us is still not as thoughtful, as it should have been. That inspite of proclaimed moderness of today's world there still stays a part of India, who yet believes in the rotten traditions, taking them as a "scriptured version" of our old vedas/upanishad

Lemme Jazz it up again

Its been really long since I posted, sometimes when I don't write for a long time the craving becomes a little more stronger. I had been busy for a new assignment which came in and that gave me a big excuse to stay back for a while till I got the grasp of how am I going to plan it out ! Meanwhile I didn't drop on my other activities though. I finished a book which I was dying to write a review for. This one is Deception point by Dan Brown, an amazing page turner it was. This one starts off with a political rivalry for the most solicited position of the strongest nation of the world, when both the peers are fighting hard on the issue of NASA funding. And as the story unfolds it goes in depth to what NASA can really do and how it uses the enormous funds it gets. It takes the understanding to a new depth and if all Dan's books are compared they are so well researched that it may seem like he is an encyclopedia himself ! It takes the understanding of Extra terrestrial life, Und