In Osamu Tezuka‘s Buddha, a young Siddhartha faces ordeals in the forest of Uravela. Seeking to understand suffering he pushes his body to the limits of survival. As he does this his peers keep repeating that death due to an ordeal is the ultimate fruit that one can get. To this Siddhartha keeps repeating that … Read more
Most people are afraid of silence. It makes them really uncomfortable and considering that they encounter it so rarely, they never realize it. Silence is sort-of like the new Dark. Maybe the fear in some level, is to be left alone with just our thoughts…
A friend who recently turned 25, asked me for some life advice. I thought for a moment and didn’t know what to tell him… There were so many things to say but I had no idea where to start. After a while I started looking at the question differently. What do you wish someone had … Read more
A few days back I found myself sitting in Cafe Noir(an awesome cafe in UB city) having an amazing conversation with a friend. We were discussing a script that I had written and considering it was just the second draft it had a lot of unresolved debatable ideas in it.
To put it in short(without revealing too much of the plot) we were discussing about how machines would behave if they one day could start thinking.
When I was very young, my parents once visited a temple that had an artificial pool created next to it. Its a common thing for people to use the pool to wash ones feet and offer flowers at the pool before visiting the temple. Some people even take a dip in the pool before entering … Read more