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Note: The following post is taken from the archives of  PassionForCinema.com , a much-loved platform for cinema enthusiasts. This is being republished here in the spirit of archiving, historical significance, and sharing important conversations with the readers who may not have had access to the original site. The author of the post is iVIEW AUTHOR: Kumar Gautam (Bombay, India), who published the post on June 19, 2007 at 9:38 pm. Anytime an issue of plagiarism is raised in industry, blames shift on to writer. It has become common for the publicity vying producers – directors to come up with quotes like, “There are no good writers in industry that has original script…there is complete dearth of originality when it comes to scripts…” Some of the so called experts who, think themselves as the custodians of film fraternity and have their vested interests (read business and marketing) come up with the idea, “How will our writers learn to write when there are no good film schools except ...

Afsane — यह संवेदनशील ड्रामा-सीरियल चिट्ठियों और उनसे जुड़ी मानवीय कहानियों के ज़रिए रिश्तों, संघर्षों और समाज की परतें खोलता है। Ajnabi — यह एक गंभीर ड्रामा-सीरीज़ थी जो जम्मू-कश्मीर की पृष्ठभूमि में सैनिक जीवन, आतंकरोधी संघर्ष और उससे प्रभावित इंसानी रिश्तों को दिखाती है। Akbar The Great (अकबर द ग्रेट) — अकबर ख़ान निर्मित-निर्देशित यह ऐतिहासिक मेगा-सीरियल मुगल सम्राट अकबर के जीवन, युद्धों और शासन-दृष्टि को दिखाता है। भव्य सेट, परिधान और ऐतिहासिक विस्तार इसकी खास पहचान रहे। Alif Laila (अलिफ लैला) — यह फैंटेसी-अडवेंचर शो अरबियन नाइट्स जैसी जादुई कहानियों के लिए याद किया जाता है। बच्चों और परिवारों के लिए यह रहस्य, रोमांच और कल्पना की दुनिया लेकर आया।  ( Title Song Lyrics ) All the Best — यह DD Metro का हल्का-फुल्का comedy show/sitcom था, जो एक middle-class family की रोज़मर्रा की घटनाओं को हास्यपूर्ण अंदाज़ में पेश करता था। Amravati Ki Kathayein — यह श्याम बेनेगल द्वारा निर्देशित anthology series थी, जो आंध्रप्रदेश के अमरावती गाँव के लोगों की रोज़मर्रा की ज़िंदगी के छोटे-छोटे...

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, which does not mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. - Kurt Vonnegut If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you are a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind - Kurt Vonnegut     ~Highly Recommended~ Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy Christopher L. Hayes In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy Vijay Kelkar Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport ~Worth a Look~ Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy - Shivshankar Menon ~Pleasure Reading~ The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3) - Robert Jordan 3 The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) - Robert Jordan 3 The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) - Robert Jordan 3 Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World - Jacqueline Novogr...

The great enemy of plain language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one is real and one is declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms. ~George Orwell Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics do not like- then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. -Jean Cocteau     ~Highly Recommended~ Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir  - Malik Sajad Hatred in the Belly: Politics Behind the Appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar's Writings Ambedkar Age Collective ~Worth a Look~ Let's Talk Money - Monika Halan Jaya -  Devdutt Pattanaik Bhutan: The Kingdom at the Centre of the World - Omair Ahmad Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek Topi Shukla  - Rahi Masoom Raza Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - J im Collins अरे यायावर रहेगा याद? -  अज्ञेय,सच्चिदानंदा हीरानंद ~Pleasur...

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. -Raymond Chandler “Peace of mind happens to a man only after he has developed deep insight. ~Sam Veda      ~Highly Recommended~ Peeli Chhatri Wali Ladki  - Uday Prakash Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  - Yuval Noah Harari A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea - Masaji Ishikawa Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes - B.R. Ambedkar Andhavishwas Unmoolan: Aachar Vol.2  - Narendra Dabholkar   ~Worth a Look~ Andhavishwas Unmoolan : Siddhant  Vol. 3:  - Narendra Dabholkar The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) - P hilip Pullman The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) - Philip Pullman The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) - Philip Pullman The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins Qissa Qissa Lakhnauwa - Himanshu Bajpai Andhavishwas Unmoolan: Vichar Vol.1  - Narendra Dabholkar   Azadi mera brand - Anuradha Beniwal Co...

  1. There’s a moment every era hits—quietly at first—when morality stops being a compass and becomes a costume. When the point is no longer to be right, but to look right. And that moment is here. You can feel it in the air: the way people speak in rehearsed phrases, the way outrage arrives pre-packaged, the way nuance gets treated like betrayal. We tell ourselves we are more aware than ever—more informed, more empathetic, more “on the right side.” But the truth is uglier: Everyone’s agreeable. No one’s honest. 2. Victimhood as Currency: “ Then your perceived victimhood or group identity is the currency than everyone will go towards that .” That line hits because it describes a social reality: we’ve created a world where the fastest path to moral power is not wisdom, courage, or competence—but claiming harm. If the system rewards vulnerability, don’t be surprised when vulnerability becomes a strategy. A culture that applauds grievance will eventually industrialize it. And it has....

“To travel,” Aldous Huxley once quipped, “is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” “That is the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. — Chuck Palahniuk” ~Highly Recommended~ ~Worth a Look~ The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities - Namit Arora Execution Premium - Robert S. Kaplan ~Pleasure Reading~ Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) - Dan    Brown Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark - Tilly Bagshawe The Legend of Virinara - Usha Alexander Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev The Great Indian Obsession: The Untold Story of India's Engineers  - Adhitya Iyer The One-Straw Revolution Masanobu Fukuoka 3 ~Avoid~

Pankaj Sikka— an LA-based IT entrepreneur who wrote under the pseudonym “ Oz ”—started PassionForCinema.com (PFC) at a time when blogging was still relatively unknown in the Indian movie industry, and the site quickly grew from a founder-led initiative into a much larger, constantly active online cinema community. Contemporary reporting described PFC as an online group where geography felt meaningless and the “chemistry” came from a potent mix of cinema obsession and industry talk, with participation spanning India and NRIs across time zones and the site humming with activity round the clock.  PFC was not just a movie review site. It was an open space where people could freely share opinions, argue, and discuss films. PFC gave film fans a place to talk seriously about movies, and for many people it helped them get more deeply interested in filmmaking and film culture.  Filmmakers and film personalities use the platform to talk up their work or spark discussion around it: Shiva...

सूचना: तीन ताल पॉडकास्ट से इंस्पायर्ड और  नॉस्टैल्जिक  होकर मैं 90s को लिख रहा हूं। 90s नॉस्टैल्जिया: एंटीना, केबल और एक पूरा बचपन नामक ब्लॉग पोस्ट पहले भी लिखा है और आगे भी ९० के दशक ( अपने बचपन) को  कलमबद्ध करने का इरादा है | *90s की यादों में और डूबना है, तो यहाँ और नॉस्टैल्जिया पोस्ट्स पढ़ें। 90 के दशक की हिंदी कॉमिक्स बच्चों और किशोरों की पढ़ाई-लिखाई के साथ-साथ उनकी कल्पनाशील दुनिया का अहम हिस्सा थीं।  यह याद आता है कि कोई दोस्त कॉमिक्स पढ़ने के लिए दे देता है, लेकिन स्कूल बैग से कॉमिक्स चुरा ली जाती हैं; जब मुझको और दोस्त को इस बात का पता चला, तो दोनों आहत होकर रो पड़े। राज, डायमंड, तुलसी, मनोज और इंद्रजाल जैसे ब्रांडों ने सैकड़ों चरित्रों की परिघणा खड़ी की — सुपरपावर, जासूसी, जादू, लोककथात्मक तत्व और नैतिकता से जुड़े बेहतरीन मिश्रण के साथ। इन कॉमिक्स ने न केवल मनोरंजन दिया बल्कि पाठक समुदायों में साझा संस्कृति, किराये पर किताबों की परंपरा और लोककथाओं के नये रूपों को भी जन्म दिया। इस लेख में मैं उन प्रमुख ब्रांड्स, मुख्य पात्रों, विषय-रुझानों और सामाजिक प्रभावो...