Ramblings

“Love is a painful, poignant, touching attempt by two flawed individuals to try and meet each other’s needs in situations of gross uncertainty and ignorance about who they are and who the other person is.” -  Alain de Botton

Kindly stop smoking so that the theatres stop playing those horrible "no smoking" ads before the movie.  Thank You.

Sometimes, a song conveys what you are feeling at the very moment.  Amit Trivedi's new song "Zinda" from the upcoming movie Lootera is one such song.  Have been listening to Lootera and Raanjhanaa on loop recently. Pretty good songs in it. Also, the song Ambarsariya from Fukrey is beautiful.

INNOVATION - One word which does manage to irritate me when I hear it being bandied by all and sundry in our industry. The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun. The Wright brothers weren't trying to build an airline, they were saying, "Holy shit, do you think we could fly?" The first kids who made snowboards, they just glued skis together and said, "Let’s try this!" With the web, none of us thought there was money in it. People said, "This document came from halfway around the world.  How awesome is that! "                                     -  Tim O’Reilly A couple of good links on innovation. http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2012/05/please_can_we_all_just_stop_innovating.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304791704577418250902309914.html

Read some beautiful lines wrote by the recently deceased Roger Ebert .     “‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs,” he wrote, at the end of his memoirs. “No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

Read this on twitter and think it is very apt. It is true; almost every one is a stranger; we should realize it. Even the few we see frequently, so frequently that from this frequency we draw the right to call them friends, even these become strangers again and again. Life changes, and they change with life, every one in his own way, every one in a different way, for life is multiform and things are multivalent. How life is going to treat us, we cannot say; where it is going to hit us is unknown. Only the effects of the change become apparent; but then it is too late, since the process of the change cannot be reversed, not with the other person nor with ourselves. - J.H. van den Berg The Changing Nature of Man, 1961