WHY SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION IS BETTER THAN GREEN MILE

Shawshank Redemption is a movie which has crept into my mind ever since I watched it. Some movies wither out of our memories days after we have watched it. But this movie has remained fresh in my mind and all the scenes pass through my mind very clearly. Based on a true story, a viewer can't predict the direction in which the movie goes. The small nuances that the movie contains is worthwhile as these nuances will later take the movie to a different level. A rhythmic movie right from the start changes its gears at the last one hour which provides an awesome experience for a movie lover. It has every element that a viewer expects in a movie.

Green Mile is a supernatural crime drama plot.  Why I think that Shawshank Redemption is better than Green Mile is that the story of the latter movie is quite predictable. John Coffey is on a death row and has supernatural powers. He is tried for a crime that he hasn't committed. He finds that ''Wild Bill'' Wharton is responsible for the crime for which John is on a death row. He takes back the sickness in Hal's wife and passes intro Percy, who is then unable to talk and shoots down ''Wild Bill". Having seen all these I expected a bit of twist at the tail but the movie finishes in a haste at the end. Tom Hanks once again gave a splendid performance. The plot didn't had that suspense as the former movie had. Rising from the unexpected took the former to a higher state.

REVOLUTION FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

                                       

When I looked through the netted window, I saw the grim street light through it, flickering as if it was shivering due to fear. Dark hooded creatures hovered around it passing negative vibrations into me. Stuck with a frozen mind, I walked slowly towards the balcony more closer to the grim light, which was feeling helpless on how to fight against them. Night after night passed by, but the lamp kept on struggling against them. But that night, the monotony broke. Breaking apart into pieces, the light scattered around and pierced through their hoods, dislodging the dark and once again reinstating the light of hope inside me.

Lines about a True Friend

Like when the Sun rises, we welcome it with half closed eyes unclear of what all we are seeing

Like when the Sun gives all the light and we start enjoying our day with a joyful mood

Like when our energies start increasing so as the Sun, as the day progresses

Entering into the evening mode, where we all use our left over energy in a full-on mode, having a slight disappointment thinking about the time when the Sun is going to set

Thus comes the time, when we all have to face the sun set in front of our eyes, with all the memories which this wonderful Ball of Fire gave us

We cherish our memories at the night time, when that Crazy Ball is on the other side of the globe, but we strongly get the sensation that the ball is weeping inside thinking of all the memories spent with us during the day

Waiting for the next morning and so the Crazy Ball !!

Point Blank shot on the Indian farmer's head

Yes, indeed this is a point blank shot on the farmers of India, as the Government has made provisions to snatch away the farmer's land without their consent. Farmers of our country can now make in their mind that they are only temporary owners of their land, and at any point of time they will be robbed off. 

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, popularly known as Land bill, was adopted by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.  Once again the corporate world has proved that they have the upper hand in every matter in our country. Public consent in a developmental process plays a huge role in a democratic setup such as India, and this vital point has been excluded from this so called Land Bill. Present Land bill is the amended form of the LARR act, 2013, in which consent of 80% of land owners was required for Private companies and consent of 70% of land owners was required for PPP projects. Also the new bill has amended the sentence " land acquisition for Private companies" to "land acquisition for Private entities, which includes companies, corporations, non-profit organisations, thus making the farmer more susceptible of the danger of losing his land. Farmers have once again been sidelined by the Government and the Government-Corporate bond has tightened its grip.  

Farmers have always been on the receiving end, be it a natural calamity or man made disasters. The issue was very strongly opposed in both the houses at the Parliament, but the passing of the bill in the lower house has sent messages, that India is not an agrarian friendly economy. A farmer who has, in his whole life, dedicated everything to make his land cultivable has been slapped tightly. Development is not limited to infrastructure, it should also develop the standard of living of the poor. What will a farmer do with the compensation given to him, if he does not know any other occupation? Will the Government buy him a new land, so that he can continue to cultivate. The meaning of development has taken a very wrong shape in the past three decades. It has restricted the development only to the infrastructure side. Will all these development reach the rural poor of our country, where majority of Indian population, or more precisely, the true India resides. 

At the end of the day, every citizen needs food and for that there should be something left for cultivation. India is good market for most of the goods and indeed it will become a prime importer of agricultural goods. This present Land Bill, is no different, from the pre-independence British laws, in which the Indian  poor was badly tortured. Where have we gained independence from the British? We are still following the almost same laws. If it was the East India Company before independence, now it is the combined corporate giants (or monsters) ruling the country. If it was the British Rule Part-I before independence, now it is the sequel of the Part-I.  

Colonialists have gone, but they have passed on the colonialism to us, which has been practiced with our own people for the past 67 years. We can only overthrow this anarchic rule, if we understand the correct meaning of "Development". 

NEW BUDGET: AND WHERE ARE THE ACHHE DIN????

Right from campaigning mode, the BJP has been banking on the word "Achhe Din". Even after the Lok Sabha elections victory, these Achhe Din were the most used word to fool people, but nobody has seen those "Din". Now comes the present Government's first full year railway budget, which once again has very little to do for "The People". 

Present railway budget has proposed no new trains and despite the lowering of oil prices in the global market the fares have not been lowered. On the other hand installation of WiFi facility at 400 stations will not do any good to the poor. Once again the government has forgotten the poor. Even after these many years, the poor still travel in the same filthy unreserved compartments and that too in these compartments are overcrowded. The inhumane conditions of these compartments has gone unnoticed once again. Once again rhetoricism was the primary weapon used in the budget, and if we seriously look into it, it is hollow from inside.

Instead of proposing and making promises, the budget should have laid more stress on the planning of making such promises into reality. Years after Years, the plight of Indian Railways remains the same, with every people only see promises but no practical implementation.

SUPPRESSING THE VOICES

                             

After Dabholkar, now its Govind Pansare. Maharashtra has witnessed the killings of two progressive personalities in a short span of 18 months, yet the government has been unsuccessful to do anything. The increasing attacks on the rationalists has created a hostile atmosphere for those who think rationally and fearlessly raise voice against the wrongs in the society. Right wing extremism has been reaching heights ever since the present government has come to power. With the politics being decided by the media, the Left wing has been constantly victimized by the media for the past few years. Maharashtra, which had seen a trade union upsurge in the 1960s is now in the hands of the pro-corporates and has seen a complete shift from the Left to the Right. RSS has been marching through the whole of India in the past few years and it seems to be alarming that this cancer which is growing in India will make the upcoming youth more impotent towards rational thinking and will be injected with strong fundamentalism from their childhood itself. The Adanis and Ambanis will enjoy more power and constant suppressing of voices like Dabholkar and Pansare will make the common people more prone to the unending autocratic rule of the Right. Growing number of Shakhas is the evidence for that. An era will come when people will fear to even think (leave aside the guts to speak) in their own way unafraid. Fascicm is growing everywhere in India and who knows India might witness another Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler. 

Times are not far when the masses will come to streets to overthrow the fascists and India will come under the leadership of rational voices. 

COSMIC CALENDAR

The fact that Humans are presently at the helm of all the species in terms of its thinking capacity is true, but in terms of our experience with our universe it seems to be that we are all just new born babies who are born just a few seconds ago.  Yes, it is not surprising that, compared to the age of the origin of universe 13.8 billion years ago (bya), modern humans which have come to existence about 2 lakh years ago are just new born babies.

The concept of "Cosmic Calendar" was popularized by Carl Sagan in his book " The Dragons of Edens" in which he compressed the vast history of universe into one year. Starting with January 1 ,with the Big Bang, the calendar ends on December 31, the present era.

The whole concept of Cosmic Calendar also puts light on the fact that all the religion and concepts of Gods were formed at the last phase of the final 8 minutes of the calendar. This shows that, all these concepts are just minutes older and does not have any significance with the time before that.

Humans boast that they are superior, but truly speaking, they still do not have the slightest knowledge of the laws of the universe. The universe which was ever changing before us, the universe which paved way for our germination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar

AAP SWEEPS DELHI!!! BROOM WORKS OUT!!!.......................

                              
It was a dramatic turnaround, as we all saw a flamboyant victory by the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi. One of the elections which could decide the fate of Indian politics is come to a dramatic climax, as the AAP was untouched by its opponents. feeling very relieved by the verdict as this time the people didn't choose a party which was riding on the success of some big names. 2014 Lok Sabha elections was the sort of election in which the people were driven by a wave which was only a gimmick. That election was only won because the people were fed up with the UPA-II regime. BJP got only 31% of the nation's vote share. But BJP took the 2014 Lok Sabha elections victory, as if they were liked by the people of India. But this was not the case. The dislike towards the Congress benefited the BJP. With not even half the voters voting for BJP, how can they say that they were the favourites.

The so-called Modi wave may have worked during the Lok Sabha elections, but it decreased from their onwards. Each state elections saw a decrease, as the people soon realized that the BJP has only been making promises and not fulfilling it. This became evident from the Delhi elections results as the Broom swept the Lotus away ( not mentioning the Hand as it was diminished from the scene one year ago itself).

Waiting for the AAP's policies and their decision making in the near future, as the whole nation looks on with some hopes........

New year resolutions

Another New Year, Another set of resolutions, with an intent to start everything fresh and do things in a much more organised way.
Every year, I take new resolutions, with no guarantee that I 'll follow all of them, but with a guarantee that I will be taking some effort to follow them. These resolutions are in a way an ideal target to achieve something. Ideal in the sense that, I will be reaching close to making those resolutions true but will never reach perfectly towards that resolution. That is the truth. Anyways, I am really happy and satisfied with the start to this new year, with no initial hiccups. Lots of exams are on the fore and I am looking forward for a good performance. I think that this year is a crucial one, as it might help me shape my career. But, don't know, how and what will happen.

With a positive energy in me to give my 100 % to every duty, I sign off from this post on a positive note.