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There has been a big gap in good Hindi movie releases this year: earlier in the year due to the IPL season and thereafter just due to a lack of any good movies around! Kites is the first big release after a long long time... and there is such a huge hype regarding this movie, its really overwhelming. There are many reasons for that: the hot new Mexican actress, Barbara Mori making her debut; the rumours of the affair between Hritik and Barbara (which have been circulating for over a year now!); the shooting of the movie in foreign locales; the new international film-making methods that have apparently been used etc etc. The list is long and Kites has been all over the news and tv channels for the last month or two. It's just everywhere, haven't seen so much hype for sometime...... And the movie, though better than most of the stuff we see usually fails to live up to all the hype created around it! Pros of the movie are many. Beautiful locales and even more beautiful cinemat...

After the recent attack by the Naxals on civilians, I was eagerly waiting for the comments of the Naxal supporters of our country on the incident. Would they condemn it? Or would they in some warbled way, still support it?? And the answer is here . Arundhati Roy blames the security forces for exposing the civilians to the Naxal threat by using the same public transport as the civilians use!! Well said Ms. Roy, the security forces should not do that at all. They should travel in transport filled 100% with security people, to give the Naxalites the most efficient targets to blow up. Yes, that is what they should do...!!

Here are some beautiful photos of the Kabul of today on the BBC site. Is heartening to see that there is positiveness around... Beautiful photos, especially the first one.. Isn't it, or at least wasn't it a beautiful city once? If you've been following the events in the country, am sure the photos will touch your heart somewhere... and hats off to the human spirit.. taking birth again after what all they have gone through in the past decades....

Here is an interesting take by Rajdeep Sardesai on the new educated politicians we have on their block and how their careers have been/will be!

A superb line by Chetan Bhagat: " The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death,is the extra work u did,that u should not have done " I am not sure if I agree with this or not, but surely an interesting way of looking at life:). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An interesting quote from a book I read recently: " More often than not, truth loses out to reality" Its very very interesting and something we fail to see many times in life.. truth is not everything, truth does not win everytime.. reality does.. and that truth and reality are not the same, though we may mistake them for each other sometimes.. one is more stronger than the other... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A quote on travel, which I can sometimes relate to (unfortunately!)..." No matter how much you try, you will never be truly home as a part of you will remain...

India is a land of festivals, we've all known that since ages. But the realization that these festivals are celebrated differently in different regions of the country is a completely separate discovery, as I did in my recent stay at Mumbai. Some interesting aspects of this, would like to share with you all.. Janamashtami During Janamashtami, the matkis setup everywhere in the city make for interesting viewing. Somehow I had never ever seen Janamashtami being celebrated before, so it was a new discovery for me anyways...Groups of matki-phods traverse the city in trucks, breaking matkis and pocketing the prize money. The earlier you start, the more matkis you can break and the more you earn:). Also during the day, the unconquered matkis are lowered as the day progresses so that breaking it becomes more achievable. The speed with which the matkis are broken is surprising too, you blink and the matki would be gone. Just as a warning, during the day, be careful of th...

IPL is over.. phew.. !! Though obviously the aftermath isn't yet:). Once the Shoaib-Sania daily updates finished, started the Modi saga, giving enough work to the Indian media.. This latest saga will continue to give us many more 'manu-ranjan ka baap' moments for sometime.. but we still need to wait and watch for the end to this.. Anyways, this article is more about the IPL stadium experience again. Most of the earlier IPL league matches that I saw were in Braborne stadium (of which I have already written before in detail ). They were fun to watch and so I kept going again and again to see those matches. Saw the IPL final in the DY Patil Stadium however and it was a different experience. Not sure if I would want to go there often though! The stadium is beautiful! Very well constructed: its huge and there are no columns blocking your view at any location. Any seat you sit on, you get a complete view of the ground (and this was quite different from Braborne). The sound a...