HOW FAR CAN ONE GO???

Saw this movie unthinkable and it shook me up to such an extent that i could not stop myself from blogging about it.Released in nov 2009 starring Samuel L. Jackson,Michael Sheen and Carrie-Anne Moss.This film
is about an american muslim man yusuf who claims to have nuclear bombs planted in 3 U.S. cities.He gets
himself arrested deliberately and what follows is the tortorous interrogation by Henry Harold Humphries aka 'H',(samuel).Also involved is Special Agent Helen Brody of the FBI who initially strongly disapproves of the
methods 'H' uses. At the same time, Broody's team tries to determine the locations of the bombs using other
information.H resorts to completely gross and inhumane methods to make yusuf speak.He straps him to
a chair and chops off his finger.This makes agent broody question his barbaric methods but he has the
approval of higher authority.Broody on the other hand tries to take yosuf into confidence by reminding him
how his wife and children would suffer because of his misdeeds.yusuf is adamant and says he is prepared
and would do anything in the name of jihad.On further torture yosuf misleads broody which leads to detonation of a bomb at a shopping mall killing 53 people.Agent Brody, angry with the incident, takes a knife
and cuts Yusuf's chest. He is disgusted by this act and starts crying over Agent Broody that why she cares of
those 53 people and doesn't care of those 53 that Americans kill in Iraq everyday.Now H brings in yusuf's wife and makes her question him.Still incapable of getting any information from yusuf, H slashes yusuf's wife's throat in front of yusuf.Even now yusuf is not willing to cooperate so H does the unthinkable.He brings in yusuf's children but promises not to harm them.yusuf is made to believe otherwise so he gives up and gives the exact location of the bombs.This however does not stop H he advances to harm the children coz he believes there is a fourth bomb.Other officials stop him from doing so.Out of frustration H releases yusuf.yusuf then catches hold of a gun and shoots himself.The FBI agents then disarm the bombs but the camera then pans to reveal a fourth bomb in the same warehouse as it counts down to the time it is set to explode.This movie made me wonder at the intricacies of the human mind.I hated H when he tormented yusuf with his unthinkable tactics but then all of this seemed just and right when it is shown that yusuf is adamant and can kill in the name of allah.Jihad essentially means striving to live a moral and virtuous life and defending
Islam as well as fighting injustice and oppression.This does not entitle anyone to kill people in the name of jihad but this is what we see happening today.young minds are being indoctrinated with this concept leading to warfare.When agent broody tries to comfort yusuf with a soft voice and makes him understand that he is commiting a sin and not any kind of religeous duty it seems as if yusuf wud now speak instead he misleads her and then feels relieved on hearing that 53 people were killed as he believes he has sought revenge of the 53 islamic people that americans killed everyday.Now when H again resorts to the unthinkable and tortures yusuf's wife and children without even a hint of hesitation on his face i was shaken.how far can the interragators go in tormenting the accused(they are human beings afterall).Now when yusuf reveals the location and kills himself it made me think how far can the terrorists go killing innocent people,watching their wives and children getting tormented and then killing themselves.Atlast when the camera pans to show the fourth bomb all i could do was gape.I was dumbfounded at how cruel can a human being be.Eventhough it was just a film the current scenario is very much similar to the story.All these warfares in the name of religion and justice result in nothing but innumerable innocents being killed.It is said love alone rules everything then why this hatred.

We need to learn to love people and let peace prevail...

Bucket list

I was thinking a little too much about what to write in my next blog.I can not always go on with the philosophical stuff and my own life has just become a wee bit monotonous and drab.So i can't post
anything about my own personal life(considering the fact that i am still in need of few more followers).
Then I started making a list of what possibly could be the potential issues that i can blog about.While i was making this silly little list my mind wandered towards the number of movies made on making lists,
Bucket list,10 items or less and bollywood's own Dasvidaniya.All these movies were really great and inspirational.So i thought why not make my own set of lists.You know how people always make a list of the items they need before going to the groccery store just so that they don't forget to get any item.In the bigger picture of life all of us have innumerable passionate,burning,and sometimes completely crazy desires.Not all of us get a chance to fulfill all our desires.Some get too busy with their responsibilities and duties.Few others try but fail but many of us don't even give it a try and there are others who don't even have a clear idea of what they want from their lives(i kinda fall in this category).So voila!! here i am blogging about my own bucket list coz when you have a list of what you want from life,you have a vision which will constantly drive you towards achieving your goals and fulfilling all your dreams and desires.




Ten things that i simply love


1.Music(i can like any kind of music depending on my mood and music definitely lifts up my mood)




2.Movies(some movies inspire me,some make me laugh,some make me cry,once in a while comes out a movie that i just fall in love with)




3.Books(i am not talking about textbooks here i love books that you can't just put down once you start reading.Books teach a lot.People say diamonds are a girl's best friend.Well i am a girl and books are my best friend)

4.Good food(it has to be spicy!!!)


5.chocolate(if it's the food of the god,i am a mere mortal chocolate surely is divine for me)


6.a starry sky with a full moon(there can't be anything more romantic than this)


7.snowfall(although i am yet to witness one myself i love it when they show snowfall in the movies)


8.rainfall(There's nothing like the first downpour and the way the earth smells when it rains for the first time after the scorching summer)


9.a child's laughter(when we are infants we are ignorant of the ways of the world there is nothing that we know and this innocence when i see in a child's laughter makes me wanna become a child all over again)


10.Humour(laughing is the best therapy and i love it when somone makes me laugh with good,witty,humour)


p.s. i didn't include family,friends etc coz they are not things they are an inseparable part of our lives






Ten things i hate the most


1.Hypocrites(for me these kind of people are worse than the biggest criminals or sinners)


2.Terrorism(i am no preacher but i know any religion doesn't teach to kill in order to attain salvation)


3.Arrogance(i hate people who have an air of self importance around themselves and demean everyone else around them)


4.Backstabbing(yes it hurts a lot when people you once trusted stab you in the back)


5.Infidelity(for some people its a culture,a way of life for me this is unacceptable when you love someone you are supposed to be loyal to them)


6.people who have a habit of making a mountain out of a molehill(i got to say this more than people its the news channel that are doing this these days i mean we have so many issues to deal with and all that they are showing is celebrity break ups and hook ups)


7.over the top movies with baseless scripts(yes i cant tolerate such movies which actually make me think come on i could have written a better script than this piece of mindless drama)






8.smokers(they are killing themselves and they are killing us since even passive smoking is highly injurious)






9.Drug peddlers(addicts need to go to rehab but before that these people need to go behind the bars)






10.people throwing stones and kicking the stray dogs(like they don't have anything better to do i mean go get a life,coz the dogs they do have a life)




now this is the ultimate one my own bucket list it gets real crazy now but then our heart's deepest desires are meant to be like that




10 things i want to do before i die






1.learn to play the guitar maybe even the piano(i always wanted to learn to play a musical instrument its the best way to unwind oneself)


2.publish my own book(i would even love to pursue writing as a part time career)


3.go sky diving,bungee jumping(the thrill and rush that it gives is amazing)


4.visit the 7 wonders of the world and many more places(practically the whole world)


5.serenade the one i would fall in love with(yes i always have these romantic ideas at the back of my mind and this is partly the reason i want to learn to play the guitar wish i had a great voice to back it up)




6.go scuba diving(the world beneath the ocean is wonderful)




7.learn to do the waltz(i have got two left feet and i think this is the only danceform i can manage if someone taught me how to do it and it is very romantic as well)


8.fly in a hot air ballon(i never felt like flying whenever i travelled by aeroplane i mean you cant even take your hands out the damn windows)


9.Do something for the needy and the homeless(these people need our love not our pity)


10.Learn a foreign language preferrably french(i find this utterly romantic as well)


Now that i have made my own list atleast i know what i want from my life and i am raring to go.

The cheerfulness in the smile

of a child i see

The happiness i experience on

seeing a blooming flower

and the contentment of watching

the rain shower

The elation of walking on

the wet grass

and seeing dewdrops on glass

The euphoria of sitting in solitude

and eating your favourite muffin

truly can be compared to nothing

The tranquility of watching the

sunset and sunrise

somehow makes me a little more wise

The joy of giving

to the people who have to

beg for a living

The enchantment of gazing at

the starry sky and the still moon

and the gladness of being able to

catch that much needed siesta in the afternoon

The affection in the wagging

of my dog's tail makes me

pat him without fail

often i wonder how these simple

pleasures of life

truly make it worthwhile

People in this dog-eat-dog world are getting entangled in the cobwebs of responsibilities and duties.

We are constantly trying to keep up with the so called norms of the society.Students face peer pressure and feel their world will come to an end if they don't get the new gadget that their friend just bought.

Young girls starve themselves to death to acquire that hourglass figure of models on glossy cover of fashion magazines.They make it a point to add every new gucci bag,jimmy choo shoe and prada dress in the stores to their wardrobe before everyone else.

People at work face stiff competition and slog 24*7 in their suffocating cubicles.

In this hustle and bustle of keeping up we forget to give some time to our own jaded mind and restless soul.

How many of us actually spend the early morning with just a hot cuppa of freshly brewed coffee in our hands with nothing else to do and nothing else to worry about.I am sure there would be very few,if any who can say that they do this.

We either switch on the television to catch the morning news or the repeat telecast of the daily soap that we missed the night before or flip through the newspaper worrying about the falling stock shares,inflation,increasing crime rate in the city so on and so forth.

I dont deny that these are issues to be pondered upon but i do feel the first few minutes in the morning should be just for one's own self to enrich our own mind.

There was a time when people enjoyed walking on wet grass the distance of the journey hardly bothered them the sheer pleasure of holding hands and walking kept them on the go.

Now they drive their car to the nearest grocery store which is just a few steps away.I find this very ironical when people first drive to the nearest park and then get down on their foot for a morning jog.

We have forgotten the warmth of a sweet,lingerging,real conversation with a friend instead we choose to spend hours on facebook,orkut,twitter and other such social networking sites within the comforts of the four walls of our house.

when was the last time you gazed at the sky filled with zillions of stars,stared at the ever romantic moon and thought about your beloved(i am damn sure not in this century).

we have forgotten to enjoy the relief and pleasure of that first downpour and the smell of the wet earth instead we choose to snuggle up within a blanket and waste a rainy day sleeping.

What i see these days is the death of romanticism and it disappoints me a lot.

If people start enjoying these simple pleasures of life from time to time they would be much more happy.

So people give importance to your work and duties but do not forget to take a few escapades,do a waltz in the rain,freak out and as they say just take a chill pill.

Happiness-a state of mind

what better way to start my blog with,the greatest feeling in the universe happiness.Hapiness holds different meanings to different people.For the poor its little money that can buy them food.For the rich well,it's more money.For some its the love that they find in their beloved's arms for others its the affection they see in their mother's eyes.As for me i am a staunch believer of the saying happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it the more it will elude you,i know it sounds cliched but its true.Afer watching a lot of movies relating to this and reading a lot of self-help books(yeah i do that!!) i came to realise that happiness is nothing but a state of mind.We are as happy or as sad as we think ourselves to be.people with no money can still try to be happy and thank god for they are alive and can work towards earning money.For god helps those who help themselves.Even people who go on cribbing about the lack of love in their lives and claim that they are lonely can be happy.As a moment spent in solitude and self contemplation gives more happiness than a lifetime spent with bad company.Its all about what goes on in your mind.Numerous thoughts flow through our mind each and every second.Its the quality of these thoughts that determine our state of being.The bookThe Monk who sold his ferrari taught me a lot in this regard(Its a great book and i strongly reccomend it to those who have not read it)Mr.Robin Sharma rightly says that enlightenment comes through the consistent cultivation of your mind,body and soul and as written in the book not just happiness but everything that we feel and do has a direct connection with our mind.Even the feeling of exhaustion can be linked to our mind.We are as exhausted or as energetic as we think.We can choose to be the masters or slaves to our mind.The choice is in our hands so lets resolve to master our own minds and make every moment of our life joyful and worth living.