Monday, April 25, 2005
posted by Anamika Anyone at 5:38 pm
Finally!

Isawblackisawblackisawblack!And,I must say,i was not let down!

From the past 3 months or so,I'd been hearing accounts of my friends and relatives who saw the movie.All of them agreed on one point;The movie is mind blowing.At last,I got to see the movie.After all that praise,it seems cliched to say that the movie was out of the world,but you gotta say what you gotta say.

To imagine a world of darkness for life was scary,but what was more scary was the point where Amitabh Bachchan starts forgetting simple things,like the way back to his house.Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has done a great job.I'm sooooooooooo glad Rani Mukherjee played the main protagonist.Aishwarya Rai wouldn't have been able to do justice to the role.

Here's a summary of the story;

This is the tender story of two soul mates: eight-year-old Michelle McNally, born to an Anglo-Indian family and deaf-blind after an illness at the age of eighteen months; and 48-year-old Debraj Sahai, an eccentric alcoholic and teacher to the deaf-blind. Debraj takes on the task of teaching the bright but violent Michelle. His unorthodox approach eventually succeeds, but he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease just when he is beginning to make progress with his student. Now, the roles are reversed, and it is Michelle who must help Debraj fight the devastating effects of Alzheimer's.
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
posted by Anamika Anyone at 6:59 pm
There's nothing quite like Bangalore,really!


The International Tech Park
 
posted by Anamika Anyone at 6:58 pm

The Bangalore high court
 
posted by Anamika Anyone at 6:58 pm

MG road
 
posted by Anamika Anyone at 6:57 pm

The Vidhana Soudha
 
Sunday, April 17, 2005
posted by Anamika Anyone at 10:10 am
In India,while being the most spoken language in the metros,English is still kind of a stranger to us.Listening to different people speak English here is a very interesting activity.There are so many accents and grammatical styles that you can no longer tell which one is correct.The other day,our engineering electromagnetics professor,while explaining to us the concept of electric flux,announced majestically;"The morer the charge,the morer the flux".

We had an English lecturer in our Pre-university college,who used to speak impeccable British english and didn't tolerate mistakes in grammar.We students, coming from differwent educational backgrounds,were an unruly lot who didn't care two hoots for "precisely spoken" language.For us,slang was the norm,be it any language.We used to drive the poor lecturer up the wall.He didn't take our class in the second year.(He used to scold us in pure English using long, complicated-sounding words.I'm not sure if all of my classmates understood that he was reprimanding us. :-))
 
Sunday, April 10, 2005
posted by Anamika Anyone at 12:50 pm

Thats me,when I was two and a half,taken by my father.
 
Saturday, April 09, 2005
posted by Anamika Anyone at 10:09 am

The tranquil blue waters of the Dal lake in Kashmir

Yesterdays headlines read;Srinagar-Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus crosses, blurs Kashmir divide; when Kashmir meets Kashmir; Bus pioneers breach Kashmir's 'Berlin wall'….

The argument between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir valley is a long standing one; too long, I feel…57 years…

It all started when Mohommed Ali Jinnah asked for a separate country called Pakistan for Muslims; he felt his fellowmen would get a raw deal in India where Hindus were the majority. His insecurity is justified; anybody would have felt that way in his position.

But,but,but…why are the Kasmiris suffering in this? What have they done to live in positive terror all their lives? I’ve never been to Kashmir (not a very safe tourist destination; until now, I hope) but I hear it’s breathtaking and was even better in the earlier days.

I’m really glad things are working out with them and us. I’d love to visit Kashmir sometime; I’ve been quite taken with it ever since I came to know my ancestors (centuries ago) were from Kashmir.

Three cheers for the bus to Muz!