>http://www.sumedhas.org/With all the new year wishes poring in – I renewed my respect for the sheer positive energy we have around us. We seem to be in a hurry to get over with whatever is unpleasant in life and make it as happy and cheerful as possible .Somehow the cynic in me worries about it.. as it also worries about a very important topic that I would like some more opinions on this… When I see the deluge of hate and violence in this world – it takes me by surprise. No matter how often it happens – it still shocks me. Like all of us – I try to see what happens in the micro-world that I inhibit – are there some seeds of the same phenomenan that creates such madness? I see that seed . I see it everywhere. That seed is insensitivity. It is sowed in every human being and colors all our behavioural patterns by the
No Name
>Aparajito by Ray
>just finished watching Aparajito by Satyajit Ray. It is the 2nd part of a trilogy by him, from a novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. Felt very moved while watching. It is a simple story of a small family of a husband, wife and a son. The story is told in a non judgemental way from the point of view of the little boy under the age of ten. He grows up amidst fondness and love of his parents who are surrounded by deprivation, illness, uncertainty, death and hardship. Surprisingly the boy’s curiosity and innocence remain refreshingly intact. As he grows up and moves away from home, his apparent lack of any close emotional ties with his surviving and slowly ailing mother or with anyone does feel like a very natural flow emanating from a character like that. while i was watching the movie, i was also thinking that although the storyline is based almost eighty or ninety years ago, it still
Sarbari's Blog 