Happy New Year !!

Well this year has witnessed quite a number of things from an Indian perspective ... The Beijing Olympics failure with respect to India since we could manage only 4 medals in all despite India having the talent to win many medals this time.. The Indian Cricket Team did quite well this year , their losses notwithstanding. It was a good team effort on behalf of team India which managed to outplay the Australians in their own den i.e the WACA Perth ground which was a terrific performance after the Sydney fiasco.. I would say that the other teams gathered confidence from this win that the Australian team isn't INVINCIBLE.. Team South Africa being the example.
Then their were many bomb blasts rocking different Indian cities which managed to show the incompetency of our intelligence and security agencies..
This came very much to the fore when Mumbai was finally attacked so daringly. After the clandestine way in which many bombs were planted in Mumbai , maybe the terrorist agencies took confidence from the fact that there is no way that they are going to be caught. And this confidence showed during the Black Wednesday ..
But their were good things happening with India which I would like to share such as the CHANDRAYAAN MISSION, India's first mission to the moon .. the nuclear deal with the US .. which I think was very much needed for India.. I am not getting into details of that..
So with a positive attitude that people of India would chose the right leader in the next elections and their would be no untoward incident which would enable other countries to point fingers towards us and the Indian Team or any individual representing our country in sports make our country proud.. We need their achievements to be proud about so that we get some topics to write about when we are bored writing about politics :-)

So a Happy Happy New Year to all of my fellow Indians .. Be strong because the following year would fully try to test our patience and integrity ..

Movie Mania !!

Movies .. quite a considerable part of my life has been spent seeing movies... my mom,dad , 2 elder brothers.. all were movie buffs.. so my becoming a movie buff wasn't quite a surprise. During my childhood days , DD or Doordarshan showed us movies during Saturdays and Sundays. Having no option, we had to see all the movies that came by. the regional movies shown during Sunday afternoons would also be seen. It was basically the matter of choice. Since we had no choice , we viewed every possible movie coming our way.. okay.. granted that exam time movie watching was a strict no.. but still it was a period during which i developed a taste for movies..
After we took Cable Connection, we began to view movies by the dozen.. then the craze lessened to a great extent. This went till i completed my 12th exam.. though i used to see movies but it was what i called normal viewing.. no craze ...
Now , with advent of new channels and and channels willing to show the latest movies and also the classics.. it was a win win situation for a movie buff like me..
A big thanks to all d movie channels since i myself didnt go to the theatre till i was in the first year of my graduation. So all the movie watching was done ghar baithe

Set Max, Zee Cinema .. the two channels which made me pass away my tym with considerable ease..
Nowadays .. UTV movies and World Movies as well as Zee studio employs much of my viewing time since they are showing really great movies, classic movies....
More posts on the Movies topic coming soon...