The Namesake..

She writes..


It's easily one of your most important assets. Not many, neah, none of us realise how essential it is. It is something that has been yours since your birth, in some cases even before that. Its almost like your first ID into the human world. I am not even going to ask you guys to guess what it is ( like you bother anyway !!) . Its our NAMEs that am talking about.

I know, i must be completely jobless to be writing a blog about NAMES !! ( Dont worry, I am! ). But seriously, did you ever wonder how the idea of naming people came into existence. And even when it did, how did they chose to name after some word or phrase or sound . What if the masterminds had decided to start naming with numbers. He he he, What a thought ?

// Mom shouts at the sight of her mud clad son, "5643 ( Short for 5643.56 ) , Look what you've done to yourself ?! Huh!! "
The Advertisement replied , " Dont worry, 637 hai na !! " //

Actually, we really don't appreciate our identities much . It comes throughout your life. Even if you wanted it or not. You did not chose to have it. Your parents did. And by the time you decide that it does not sound like you , its too late. Sometimes you just dont connect to it. For example, Names like Elizabeth, Alexander, Marcus etc.., really don't sound like an Engineer, Beautician or a Chef. I mean, imagine Alexander The Engineer !!!
But Yeah, there are some people who simply learn to live with it while some give a new meaning to it. Names like Aristrotle or Shakesphere can not be dared to be used again ever ( unless you wanted your kid to grow up in a lifetime of mockery! ) .

Indian names are all the more interesting. The most common observation in the pattern of Indian boy names and girl names would be that, you find almost 99% of the girl names ending with long 'a' or 'i' or 'e' and boy names ending with short 'a' or 'n/m' or 'h' . Well this is mainly because in Sanskrit all the "Streeling" nouns end with vowels. Being one of the most revered language, Indians don't try to mess with the norms. If they did, the name ends up confusing the gender ( Which does not make a very good ID !! ) .

As if this were not enough, we had the surnames attached too. And this is where you start looking beyond the person . This is where things start to go little further about the man, his origin, religion, language etc etc. A totally unneccesary addition. If you did want a fashionable second name , why not keep your fathers name instead or if your rebellious enough why not try your mothers name ?
Starting merely as a demand to identify a person , Names have taken different forms and shapes serving more than just the purpose of its existence. I doubt if the trend would ever change. But , Whatever the name you adorn, live a life that gives a meaning to your name rather than living to satisfy the bounds of your name . Add the suffix -ness to it and give your name a life of its own, a memory that'll never die .


PS :- I spread Deepikaness. what do you ?

" If you are a terror to many, then beware of many."

She is not scared...





"Oh, we are SO scared", Is this what you want us to tell ?





Terror is it ? Is that the word ?





Sending E-mails you cowards ???





We are NOT scared. We are far from being called that.





Show us your god damn face and we'll show you what "Being scared" looks like.





If its anybody who's going to win aganist this disease called Terrorism, It's going to be INDIA !





Do you hear us ?

Ah.. look its superman !!!

She writes...
I see a 5 year old kid shouting in sathyam , looking at the posters of the movie "The Dark Knight", and i just smile it off. Cute kid. I see a 25 year old gawking at the same poster and i am thinking, "alright, this is no sleazy chick poster, so this guy must've been a good fan of batman in his younger days". And then I see a 50 year old enquiring at the ticket counter about the movies release and i am asking myself ,"Batman!! Really ??!! " .
Guys have this strange attaction towards the superhero movies. Atleast MOST of them i know do. Guess this is one common liking that they seem to inherit from their forefathers. And i have always been quite curious to know what is it about these comic book turned hollywood superheros/movies they like. Sadly, all the answers that i seem to get from them would be
"I like super/spider/bat man. Whats not to like ?"
"Well, They are our childhood heros. ( Sounds more to me like "fantasies" than "heros" :-) !! )"
"Comic books were okay. Movies are cool."
"Dont bother. You are a girl."
etc etc ...
It is interesting though, how these so called tough,macho,young,'I'm cool' breed of men actually think some random guy flying in the sky with zero fashion awareness would glide away to catch a falling aeroplane and land it safe. These are the very guys who you usually find reviewing movies like Harry potter's and Star Trek's and Enchanted and the likes of disney productions. According to them, its fine when a 30 something man with his underwear's worn out bashes a 100 million bad guys and saves the world but its virtually a crime watching a boy on his broomstick bring out magic of a wand. Yeah, It must be really hard to like Harry potter !!
And guys, before you blare about the fact that there ARE so many girls out there who do like catching up on these superhero movies, let me give you a piece of wisdom - believe me its got squat to do with saving the world or the superhero stunts. Its either mostly the man who plays the hero or the unique act of impressing their beau by showing off their "I like what you like" attitude. *smiles*
Well, I do realise that i have already wounded a lot of "manly" hearts out there by writing this stuff about superman or spidey or watever. But i had to do what i did because i was just SO shocked to see a #1 place for the recent batman release "The Dark Knight" in imdb. I am a great fan of the site ,owing to its remarkable reviews and synopsis and ratings of the movies. I do not approve of the fact that a movie that is mostly liked and relished by only a section of the people should be considered for the top spot irrespective of the fact that the movie is incredibly brilliant. A 25,000 vote count doesn't decide the best is all i'm trying to say. Peace.

The Police Story & The Black Media...

She writes...

Seriously, what went wrong ? It could've been just another twin murder case. It could've easily vanished into those thick lumps of dusty files. Yet, It blew up. Blew up to be one of the most scandalous cases ever. One that made the Indian Judicial system look like a complete farce in front of its people. One, which will not be forgotten for a LONG time...

I opened my idiot box on May 16th to see the headlines flashing about an yet another teenage murder case. Didn't pay much attention to the details, as i was by now getting used to the words like "Murder","Abused","Teenage" and "Noida" being flashed on the screen an infinite number of times. Finding myself being served the same news in almost all the channels that whole day, i decided to finally hear the news. Yes, there's a beautiful 13 yr old Arushi, and then there's the domestic servant, Hemraj who is not around. Giving the perfect plot for our favorite news channels (!!!) to go on and make a nice tale and treat it to the millions who innocently watch them.
Plot #1 : Hemraj abused Arushi and later murdered her.
Plot #2 : Hemraj and Arushi had it rough for a long time and one night Hemraj kills Arushi to take revenge !
Plot #3 : Hemraj and Arushi had an affair. ( Most disgusting of 'em all)

And then, there's a constable who accidently happens to catch one of these headlines flashing on screen and recites it to his superiors. They find it quite convincing and probably decide to pick one of 'em and take credit for the brilliant storyline themselves, leaving sector 25 without giving a slightest thought to look around , lest they find something like , say "Hemraj's DEAD BODY on the terrace" !!!!! They obviously settled for the easier and lazier option.
It couldn't have gone worse for the UP police when the neighbour's of the Talwar's had to show them the way to the terrace to find the body. I was shocked with these turn of events. A case that was treated like an ordinary murder suit took a complete U-turn. UP Police just proved themselves to be a Joke to the public.
ENTER Media. The workstations of these news channels must've announced some prize money for the guys who come up with the most convincing and thrilling story for the Talwar case. Everyone put their sherlock caps on. With some help from our most trusted police fraternity of UP, I don't think they had much pressue in coming up with a deluge of plots.
Plot #4: Rajesh Talwar ( Father of Arushi) was drunk and he murdered Arushi.
Plot #5: Rajesh Talwar had a row with Arushi about her relationships with Hemraj . Hemraj tries to protect Arushi from Rajesh hurting her and hence ends up being the bait himself.
Plot #6: The vice-versa of plot #5. Arushi sees Rajesh killing Hemraj and ends up with the same fate.
Plot #7: Rajesh Talwar had an affair with friend and colleague Anita Durani . Arushi knew about this. Rajesh killed her. Later, Hemraj.
Plot #8: Rajesh and Nupur ( Mother of Arushi ) plan the murder. (The most ridiculous of the lot.)

I was exhausted seeing this whole lot of crap coming out of media and Police everyday. It was over a month now. Rajesh arrested. No sign of any improvements in the case. The "Whodunnit" question swimming forever. Although, i have to admit . The media and the stories from the Police almost got me to believe that something was wrong about the father. Yes, not a surprise. Most of us did. That's the sheer power of media. Damn it. With all the hype and hoopla, we had nothing to doubt.
Just when things were getting to dry, We got the CBI in. (Somehow in India, we have them at the right time in the right place. ) And things started to unravel. And today, on July 12th, after 50 days of physical and mental torture, the father is released. Does the media even understand what it is to spend 50 DAYs in the Jail ? Can they replace the wounds of the bloody torture ? What does the UP police and media have to say now ?
Apologise ??

Mr.Talwar, Sue them for God's sake. We don't need such insensitive media and those extremely incompetent lot in the UP Police community.

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She writes...
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from: smirclhari@sify.com ( who the hell IS this ?? )
to : dpka2087@gmail.com
date : Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:26 PM
subject : hi deepika
mailed-by : sify.com

hi deepika..,
how r u?
where r u now ..
how is going on..

r uremember me..

Y there is no message..
u forget me ..

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I open my inbox after ages. Curious and excited to check some nice-sweet nothings mail from my long lost friends. Alas, all i find is a bunch of c-mails* - random orkut notifications, free sms registration invites,network sites invite, c-mails from music sites i registered a decade ago and bla bla. I scroll past 'em and suddenly i find a name which is not exactly english and neither would i call it Indian. I mean, i am not even sure if it was a word. The subject says "Hi deepika" . Excitement mounts. "Wow", I say to myself, " It must be her new id, she's mailing after so long.. ". Smiling to myself i open the mail and Voila! - Refer above.

I just have one query.
Does the mail qualify to be a pick up line(s) ???


*C-mails = Crap - mails

He's the man from earth - 2

She writes...

When i wrote the blog "He's the man from earth" , little did i know it was going to be read by the producer of the movie Mr.Eric D.Wilkinson himself !! :-)
With all due respect to him and all the technicians who worked in the movie, I certainly didn't intend to steal their thunder. On the contrary, I loved the movie so much that i wouldn't stop without filling a blog about this movie. Long ago, when i did create a blog for myself, the one thing that i took an oath was for the fact that i'd never write reviews for any movie and never turn my blog into an advertisement portal.

But alas, the inevitable happened !! I saw this movie. Evidently, this movie is one of those very very few movies that i liked, enjoyed and savoured in ages. Its clearly a masterpiece. And so, i had to write about the movie without reviewing it.

The strength of this movie was its screenplay and the strong storyline. The story had everything. So i thought, why not present the story in a different yet very subtle way( nevertheless committing to everyone that it WAS Jerome Bixby's script in the first place) .
In fact, i got this idea from my friend. Incidently, I asked him if he had seen this movie ( knowing that he is for one, who's certainly what they call a "movie" buff !!! ) . He said NO (Shockingly!!!) . And that's it. All set to write the blog (Remember, Not a review, just a blog ) .
Friends, those who enjoyed reading my blog, please do get hold of this movie. Its million times more exciting than the blog itself . Trust me.

And lastly, Thank you pavan for giving me the movie. :-)

13 questions

She asks...

1) Why is everyone being unfair to the Number 13 ? No thirtneeth floor, no gate13 in airports, no No.13 car in Formula one ?

2)Why do all the Aliens and the UFO's only land in the US ?

3)Who and what is society ? Why is that our every action has to be considered with regard to the pros and cons of affecting and treating the society ?

4)Why only february has 28 days ? Why did they chose the second month and not any other ? In fact, Why only 12 months ?

5)"Cigarette smoking is injurious to health" has to be replaced with "POISON" on the labels of the cigarette packets. Agree or Disagree ?

6)Why is there such a massive difference in the pay slips of a Pilot and a Train Controller ?

7)Why do people always account their mistakes to the rightness of Murphy's law ? Who the hell is Murphy ?

8)Do men know that even women have commitment fears in a relationship ?

9)Are the Americans really what we think they are ?

10)Why is Laloo Prasad Yadav the most attractive politician in the history of Indian politics ?

11)Is the concept of ''Arranged'' marriage the most insensitive discoveries of our people ?

12)Why are the Pakistani men so handsome ?

13) Can i ask the 13th question ?