I remember watching a Barkha Dutt episode of “who are these people”. As usual, it was low on logic and high on entertaining rhetoric – it was about the privacy of celebrities. How their private lives is nobody’s business but their own. Now, that topic is for another blog some another day, but what is inescapable is the fact that all public figures project an image of clean with an empty closet personal life. Tiger Woods, projected it for perhaps a lucrative deal from Accenture, Amitabh Bacchann projects it so that he can get farmer status for tax benefits ( I know it doesn’t fit I just felt like writing that) and politicians project it so that they can get votes. continue reading…
When you are a 4 -5 year old kid, life is simple and beautiful. It is simple because you know where the centre of your universe is – your mother. A kid cannot be comfortable if he doesn’t know where his mother is. She can be somewhere near or far doesn’t matter that much, but paramount is to know where she is. As the kid grows, he becomes disillusioned for a while and then he finds out the centre of his universe again – his wife (atleast if it is a loving marriage). Pity the poor mother. 
I have been having a writer’s block (or a blogger’s block) . So, to get out of the rut, I have decided to post some delightful quotes from Woody Allen movies. For some reason they are wanton , risqué and lewd. One would imagine that to get over a writer’s block I will need all the blood to reach my head, but whatever.
Back in IIT Kharagpur, I had a friend who was from a small town of Bihar. He had his theories like – why girls should not cut their hair short, how masturbation leads to weakness of eye sight ( sex on the other hand does not) , why homosexuality is a sin. His logic was weak but the rhetoric was usually impressive. Once he made an observation, and I will try and quote him verbatim ( and I would like to warn some readers for offensive language is ahead)– saali sutta marti hai to thukhwati bhi hogi. 
So Ekta Kapoor got tired of being made fun of. It must be getting hard for her to defend her “work” in those elite parties. She can possibly say – what I do in selling my saas bahu soaps is not any different from selling Coca Cola. Its called capitalism. Or she can say – if it is so bad why are there so many people watching it. Or she can retort with – don’t like it ,then don’t watch it. But she knew none of those arguments are cutting any ice with anyone. So apparently, she decided to put her money behind a movie that will be so fringe, so bold and so jarring, that it will make all those sophistoes, pee in their pants. 
Now that I have been watching some television, I realize we have made some progress as a nation. Two years ago, all the uncountable channels had basically two sources for their staple diet – cricket and bollywood. Now we have three – cricket, bollywood and reality television. The two I particularly enjoyed were channel V’s Dare to Date and Emotional Atyachar on Bindass.
Your sperm count goes down if you don’t wear underwear.Your eyesight becomes weak if you spank your monkey. Guys become skinny after marriage. And girls become fat after marriage.There are many such myths prevailing in our society. I decided to explore the truth behind the last one.
