Thursday, January 31, 2019

In which movies did the villain actually have a point?


I think Merovingian (also known as 'The Frenchman') from Matrix hasn't been appreciated for his intellect.

Trinity: I don't have time for this shit.
[fight ensues and she puts a gun to the Merovingian's head]
Trinity: You wanna make a deal? How about this? You give me Neo or we all die, right here, right now.
Merovingian: Interesting deal. You are really ready to die for this man?
Trinity: [cocks gun] Believe it.
Persephone: She'll do it. If she has to, she'll kill every one of us. She's in love.
MerovingianIt is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

The dialogue is  a gem and even more impactful in Hindi dubbing

"प्यार हो या पागलपन | दोनों में ही इन्सान दीवाना हो जाता है | " 

The anger in my soul

The anger in my soul on realizing people don't love you the same when you are poor

The anger in my soul on realizing people don't care about what you say, they just want to have their way

The anger in my soul on realizing people destroy relationships just to mask their mistakes

The anger in my soul on realizing people are not just, so How can it be a just world?

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Pariksha pe Charcha - Credits: Darshan Mondkar

Keeping the ongoing season of Pareeksha pe charcha to help students face the exam pressure cheerfully. Darshan Mondkar has provided a set of tips















Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Answer to a common question on Modi

 How can India ever have an uncorrupt and hardworking prime minister like Narendra Modi for 20+ years with 1/4th Muslim population voting in block for corrupt parties like the SP, BSP, RJD, and the Congress?

Your question has following assumptions
1. Narendra Modi is not corrupt.
2. Narendra Modi is hard working
3. Muslim votes in block
4. SP, BSP, RJD, Congress are corrupt parties. BJP’s name is missing from the list.

The assumptions are not substantiated, further there are evidences to the contrary in public domain
Assumption 1: Rafale Deal was championed by Shri Modi ji and there is no justification tabled in public for the 2.5 times price increase being paid out to Rafale.

Assumption 2: Narendra Modi has been also been leading campaign for BJP spending more time than predecessor. His foreign visits have not much to show for unless You subscribe to whatsapp University in that case Modi is controlling oil prices by discussing with Saudi Sheikh.

Assumption 3: There is no verification of this argument. It is often used to try to exhort Hindus to vote in a block for Hindu party.

Assumption 4: All political parties run on opaque funds including BJP. Missing BJPs name in the list is surprising.

To answer your question despite flawed assumptions - Modi would need to win 4 elections in a row and be choice of majority of MPs to be PM for 4 terms. The rhetoric of “Congress ko 60 saal diye, mujhe bhi do” is covered by liberal freedom of speech in politics but doesn’t translate to any guarantee by constitution.

Congress was democratically elected for 60 years and got a drubbing for imposing emergency. BJP will also have to face the same challenges , Congress did to remain in power. The dialogue does tug at heart strings of many people though as if we were all eating roots and shoots till Modi ji came along.