While I didn’t participate in the #MeToo movement on social media, for personal reasons, I am privileged to live in the time where it happened. I lament about all things going wrong in our time, but one must witness some things that will be… Continue Reading “Confidence and self esteem: learn’ings’ from TV”
Category: Books, Cinema, Entertainment, I think.., Philosophy, Politics, UncategorizedTags: #MeToo, Activism, British TV shows, Corfu, female lawyer, feminism, feminist movements, Habeas corpus, Indian TV, Indian women, inspiration, Keeley Hawes, love, Martha Costello, Maxine Peake, Melania Trump, midlife crisis, old love, QC, romance, Silk, The Durrells in Corfu, TV shows, universal suffrage, Women's issues
Posted on November 17, 2015
by neuroticphilosopher
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In my dreams I see you all again like yesterday when yesterday was nineteen ninety two We haven’t aged, Tho’ our eyes have changed Our world is torn in two. It could be more, say, three or four? Who knows for sure… Continue Reading “Sing my dreams”
Category: I think.., Poetry, UncategorizedTags: age, distance, dreams, friends, friendship, hope, life, loss, love, stories, Youth
What if it is also the one thing that can destroy you? Reeks of love. Yes. The kind of love a thief would feel for a princess? And the kind of love the princess feels for the thief? Yes to both. Lootera, a name… Continue Reading “If there was one thing in life you could do right, what would it be? ‘Lootera’ (Movie review)”
Category: Cinema, Entertainment, I think.., World CultureTags: actor, Bengali culture, Bollywood, Director, entertainment, India, Lootera, love, love story, Movie review, O henry, Powerful, Ranveer Singh, romance, Short story adaptation, Sonakshi Sinha, the last leaf, Vikramaditya Motwane, Zamindari
‘Love’, with all its mystical powers to make us soar, have butterflies in our stomach, skipping and pacing our heartbeats to its own rhythm, provide a hormonal rush (also called swooning). Ending, if requited, with the feeling of being complete and replete and in… Continue Reading “Take two on the underdog- the thing called true love and the actor who deals in it- Kunal Karan Kapoor”
Category: Entertainment, I think.., World CultureTags: Aakansha Singh, acting, actor, India, Indian TV, Kunal Karan Kapoor, love, Mohan Bhatnagar, NA bole tum na maine kuch kaha, NBTNMKK, TV show
Why is it that people want different things and yet follow a typical pattern? Why is it more accepted to want what everyone wants? We are likely to have a genetic composition that predisposes us towards wanting social approval, or society can’t have evolved… Continue Reading “Acceptable life”
Category: Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Uncategorized, World CultureTags: altruism, death, fanaticism, growing up, hate, hope, inspiration, life, love, mediocre life, mediocrity, motivation, parenting, poverty, religion, solace, story, war