‘A Wednesday' : A thought

I just finished watching the movie “A Wednesday” yesterday and I must say I was impressed. You see its not everyday that you get to see some sensible and impactful film-making and this was surely welcome. When I first heard the title I felt that this was some kind of sequel to the similarly titled and pretty recently released “Sunday”, which I must mention garnered pathetic reviews from critics everywhere. As a result, I obviously decided against applying my valuable time and thinking (oh yes watching movies does require thinking!!!!) on this piece. But after there was an unanimous positive review from all the four wings of my hostel (Yes, they are my most respected and trusted critics :P), coupled with the fact that boredom was killing me, I went ahead to watch it. Anyone who is reading this and has NOT watched the movie yet, STOP right now and come back after watching the movie. I feel this would make more sense to you then as compared to now.

So what I am writing here isn’t a review on the movie, you’ll find too many of those. Rather I want to throw open a question which I pose to each and every movie that I spend time on.

COULD ALL THIS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE??

Simple enough, isn’t it?? After all the movies are a reflection of what is going on in the real world ( or that’s what I believe). So after watching it, this particular question is pretty interesting. Everyone (here I am assuming that you DID heed my advice and have watched the movie) simply loved the speech at the end of the movie delivered immaculately, courtesy Naseeruddin Shah. Let us ponder over what all he said about the whole operation.

The common man is fed up of terrorism. TRUE. I couldn’t agree more, ask yourself, when was the last time a news item on a bomb blast seemed sensational or striking to you. The recent event of 17 blasts occurring in just about an hour in a city makes bomb blasts sound like some mundane event.

The common man is scared of boarding a bus or train or going shopping. HMMMM.  Now I don’t expect many to agree with this viewpoint or rather I say NO. But think back to that moment when you first heard of the blast and I am sure that, maybe just for a fleeting moment, your heart did agree with this sentiment. It is but natural. That is the reason that governments across the globe have stepped up anti-terror measures ten-fold.

Now, here comes the real question. So should the common man take law unto his own hands?? This is what essentially the character in the movie has done, though in a pretty ingenious manner. I feel it is possible. Well the motivation is there. There is no progress in getting judgments on the criminals who are responsible and before you know there might be another Kandahar and the criminals walk away scot-free.

But again, it involves a lot of effort and time coupled with devotion to something which is purely destructive. I mean, the character attained a sense of mental satisfaction by carrying out his plan and not any material gain. Today, people simply cannot find the time for such actions. (DISCLAIMER:I am not encouraging ne1!!!!!!) A similar issue was raised by another movie though that was under the notion of corruption rather than terror. Yes, I am talking about the now a cult movie: RDB. The actions taken by the “common man” were pretty different in that case and somehow it appealed to me more realistically. Maybe it was because it was a brash move (attributed to youth) and seems a likely course of action for someone in pain and agony. But the case presented here was one of subdued pain and anger, something which I am pretty sure each and every Indian does relate to, and when it does come out-it comes out big.

So, to sum it up I’ll say that though the situation presented isn’t grossly impossible, it still doesn’t convince me completely to be a portrayal of how events would occur in real life but here is where I throw this open to you, the reader.

Do let me know…………………..

PS: Kudos to the movie makers…..i thoroughly enjoyed it and oh this is my first post so I urge the critiques to have some mercy :)

Theory Of Indi-Joe

So finally the first exams of the new session are over. Somehow my last exam reminded me of the news we were hearing about the big bang experiment all day :P It indeed, was something out of Pandora's Box or should i say Dr. Rawat's box. Kudos Computer Networks! 

But somehow my mind, on this auspicious day, after the noble holocaust of computer networks, rewinds back to the 23rd of March, 8 days after the ides of March(The day when Julius Caesar was assassinated by fellow Romans). It was yet another 4 credit course, yet another unpredictable pandora's box! The only difference was that we, instead of studying hard for our exam on the 24th, decided to party!

The exam as many of you would have guessed was Theory of Computation and the venue for the party was Indi-Joe City Center!

It all started in a rather haphazard way. It was supposed to be a party by 2 of our senior vayuites - Avinash Shukla and Saladi Rahul(cheers guys.. you Rock!!)! We had been planning to go for a treat ever since the ides of March. But somehow it all came down to the 23rd, a day before the end sems, when we finally decided to venture out, not thinking of the Context Free Grammers and the Turing Machines.

But the plans sure had an element of incompleteness! It was still undecidable whether we would be able to fair well in the ToC paper next day or not. But all we could see was a beautiful wet weather and an exciting treat. 

So we decided to meet up at OBH. Me, Anurag, Ankush, Kinshul, Himanshu(CR), Saladi, Shukla, Addhyan and Parikshit! All were there on time except for our sports cap Ankush! The most sincere guy you will ever see in your life somehow gets deadlocked when it comes to deciding on what to wear and what not to wear! And he miraculously ran up 3 times to his room from our rendezvous in OBH, to change his dress. Finally after a hattrick of trials he settled down to a dress. And then we started off. 

And so did the rains!! But we moved on like Sinbad the sailor on our mission to Indi-Joe! We reached our destination at about 2:30 pm. The pleasing part of our journey was the time we spent in the auto pulling every other individual's leg. Any guesses as to who was the epicenter of our blitzkrieg???? :P :P :P

There was more to come. 

We got into the restaurant. And settled down on our seats after overflowing our plates with whatever we could get. We had everything, right from chocolate fountains to tongue licking pastries to mouth watering sweets to intricately prepared delicacies and to top it all ---> exciting talks :) We decided to talk about our love affairs and embarrassing moments. After all it was to be a treat of our endearing seniors and we wanted to make it as memorable as we could make! So it started with Shukla. He was a bit shy initially. So he didn't start off with his love safari but started telling us about his embarrassing moments in the college. And sure there were many right from his cell ringing while he was performing on stage to his dance at Cult Night last year :P It truly was amazing. And we all know how extrovert and outspoken shukla is. He told us some incidences of his so called outspoken-"ness" as well... but these are somethings i wont like to mention in my blog over here :P

We then came to my personal favourite senior.. Saladi. He was very shy i must say. And he seemed to have a nice connection with Tayal :P :P :P But anyways he was too shy to start off himself. So ankush volunteered to start off with his part of the story.You know he has a very peculiar smile and You know what when he wears on that particular smile you shouldn't let him talk :P :P But he started off with his theories of christianity and baptism and....(somethings are not to be mentioned over here :P)

It was tayal's turn next. And i must say it was the most exciting story i ever heard my entire life. I won't reveal anything over here but those who know anurag will be knowing everything about why am i calling this story exciting and spicy. Waise had it not been for his mom it would have lost half its spice :P :P

Saladi had geared himself up for his side of the story. And believe me it was a beautiful story one cannot miss. It had things you could learn from. Things that must be said and done when you are dating someone and things that must not be done when you are dating some one :P It truly was fascinating to hear the story of a simple down to earth and shy guy. And I must say that that Anurag was listening with great interest :P And i must also add that CR was at his very best, pulling saladi's leg everytime with chants of "ahem ahem" when something excting used to come up.

Anyways while this discussion was going on over a cup of Koffee and a plate of Indi-Joe it had started raining torrentially. But this sure was even more exciting. More so because everyone had forgotten about the ToC exam and everyone wanted to take a dip in the torrential rains :P 

And yeah we did it. We did it without caring for the fact that we had a tough week of exams ahead of us in the toughest semester of them all... the 4th sem. We did it without caring for the fact that we could fall miserably ill. We did it without caring for the fact The Pandora's Box could prop up some unusually surprising elements the day after. Yeah we did it. And it indeed was the one of the most exciting days in my life.

No the story dosen't end over here. There were still more spicy elements and more lip licking talks. But this is what i have got to offer and this is what i can offer at the max. But it sure was one helluva day. It had everything right from spicy love stories to funky pics(ohh did i forget to tell u about the naughty pics we took in the City Center :P Koi na i ll do so in one of my next posts) to torrential rains to the tensions of ToC exam to the experiences of everyone. It sure was a day we were "Mortified, Petrified, Confused, Smitten, Bewildered..." ... to say it one word...

"Indi-JoeD" :)

Chrome - Review

Chrome is the latest release from Google . A new browser ; there has been a lot of discussion in our wing about the neccesity of a new browser . Well I think , it doesn't harms anyone .

Talking about the features :

Features :

1. Has a JS - Console !! OMG . I never thought that i would be seeing a console (javascript) on a browser . A godly gift to developers .

2. Looks f**kin cool .

3. Creates different processes for tabs . So if you are a noob and have 10-20 tabs open on your browser , then it is good for you . My expert brothers ( with 50 tabs or above ) , stick to good old firefox .

4. It is made on the Gecko Apple Webkit engine (same as that of Firefox) , since we all know Google sponsors Mozilla Foundation . So probably we could expect add-ons and themes for this too .

5. Supports most of the shortcuts like Alt+(arrow keys) and new shortcuts from FF3 . But doesn't supports Ctrl+G (for Transliteration) and some other shortcuts too .

6. Goes with pop-up blockers , prevents phishing , bookmarks , profiling , Quick Bookmarking etc ..

7. You can create Application shortcuts for your net favourites :) . Now that is a thing i have been craving for like 6 years . ( Back then I used IE4 / sometimes Netscape too :P ) .

8 . There is a new thing called incognito window i.e. the sites you will visit , will not appear in your history ( I think it greatly helps the pron noob searchers ) .

I suffered alot at home due to this . Once my sister accidently opened the history and saw all the names of the websites I used to see :( . It was the most embarassing moment of my life . I dumped IE after that .

9. The Page Inspector , it's Awesome . Shows you all the elements along with a nice click nd explore interface and highlights a particular element ( I Hail to Google ) .

10. Has a task manager , to show the memory usage and all the tabs open . Has all the stats like Virtual Memory and PID ( Shift + Esc )

11. Shows the most frequently used webpages and shows you everytime you open a new tab ( can be switched off ) .

12. It has prefetching too ( it has been popular in theory for quite sometime ) , but the new FF3 already got that feature .

All in all a good browser for checking mails and searching short things . Since Old firefox provides most of these features in add-ons , so if you are a pro user and don't pay much attention to the looks , then stick to firefox .

P.S. - My fellow Bloggers , wake up ..

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