Set in the turbulence of 1930 British India, Bedabrata Pain's film Chittagong is an inspiring version of Ashutosh Gowariker's dud Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. It corrects the crucial narrative and stylistic lacunae of Gowariker’s film. Read more
Thoughts, desires, perceptions, ideations, cognition, reasoning, discrimination and decision are the products of mind. Sensations of sense organs are conveyed through nerves to the mind. Mind on receipt of sensation makes sense of these by comparing and evaluating with past impressions or past experiences or past knowledge and thus perception, cognition, thoughts, desires take place. Read more
When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the heart, it becomes wisdom
When that wisdom is integrated with life and issues out in action, it becomes devotion
Knowledge which has become mature is spoken of as devotion
-- C.Rajagopalachari
It is customary for the commentators of Bhagwad Gita to speak of the three-fold paths to salvation laid out for us, namely,
Path of Action, Path of Devotion and Path of Knowledge in an exclusive and self-enclosing fashion
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English Vinglish Review -- Ignore the cliches of the Mind Your Language-type institute and try looking at life through a woman's eyes for a change. Sridevi's English Vinglish is refreshing, to say the least. Read more
Umesh Shukla's Oh My God! based on his own successful play Kanji Viruddh Kanji, which in turn was inspired by the Australian film The Man who Sued God (for once the makers acknowledge their source) isn't interested in any serious engagement with the question of god's existence or the purpose of human suffering. Read more
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance - Benjamin Disraeli
Karma theory, the theory of cause and effect determining rebirth of an individual is well-founded and is in harmony with the universal belief about God being the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Read more
Massive injection of stimulus by world's largest central banks is one of the biggest highlights of this week. Earlier this month, the European Central Bank pledged to buy debt from Eurozone countries to contain borrowing costs. Read more
Thy right is in work only not in the fruits at any time. Let not the fruits of action be the motive - Gita
The message of Bhagvad Gita is not addressed merely at Arjuna. Like Arjuna who became despondent and confused at a crucial juncture of his life, there comes many a times when all of us face such crucial moments when we have to decide between two competing and confusing choices presented before us. Read more
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine is another nail in the coffin––while you've been thinking there's no space left to hammer more nails! And it probably isn't the last one either. Read more
We are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night
-- Mathew Arnold, British poet and cultural critic of the Victorian era Read more
