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Never let your college interfere with your education. This altered statement of Mark Twain is self-realized guideline in mine learning throughout past years. I am giving you a little disoriented but true thought of my mind on this jolly topic. My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. I felt that more you give attention to the academics ,greater will be the intellectual property loss. Academics in India (Partialy IITs &IIMs) is like Wahhabi Islam . You have to submit to teacher with blind faith(closure of mind) and complete loss of scientific temper. Most of the teachers do not change with time and makes education boring. They ensure that more emphasis on written work than learning concepts. They bring same yellow pages of notes to dictate lectures over years. Student feel academics as:' 'The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing ...

I am enlisting the names of books read by me in 2008 with their background and my feedback. I also embed here their original language of creation and mine language of study (either Hindi /English). This is done because I believe that the thinking pattern of author is reflected much in original language of his writings. The emotional binding content between reader and book is somewhere lost in translation / transliteration. Ratings are highly personal. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini-English -7.5/10 Slow paced and Heart wrenching story of a woman in Afghanistan. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life -Lance Armstrong-English--8/10 Inspirational autobiography of a sports person. Lajja -Taslima Nasreen-Bangla(Read in English)--8/10 Story of Hindu family living in Bangladesh in religious riots. Midnight's Children -Salmaan Rushdie-English--8/10 Facts interwoven with Fiction. Beautiful art of story telling with post Indian sub-continent independence ...

Swades:We, the people(2004) ...aka Desam (2004) (India: Tamil title: dubbed version) ...aka Our Country (2004) (International: English title) (USA) Swades is a kind of movie which grows bit by bit after watching every time… Personally,anything good spoken about Swades is less;For me its SRK’s career best till date. I did not watch it with the help of download culture of college but walked into theater for first show. I walk out of the hall being a different person. Three hour feels like a journey for rediscovering of own roots. A masterpiece in Indian Cinema;Why? Cinema is an art. Art express truth by false symbols. It tells us about abstract ideas or ground reality through eyes of filmmaker. Film is technical artistic medium. Art provokes our thinking and emotion.The medium can be cinema, literature or painting. It brings a change in our thinking pattern and view of the world. Swades has changed the life of various NRI and they return to India for making it a better place. It p...

I have got a mail from the Nitesh ;It was a manifesto about Indian cinema and cinephiles.; Content--- Our manifesto is up on Indian Cinema, do read it chip in your support and spread the word. The more we can gather over the months will help in the cause of seeing cinema in the right direction. Original Link THE DELHI MANIFESTO Our cinema screen has become an ill-constructed, and conventional portal to a world we aspire of, rather than a mirror, which reflects us. Our emotions are guided by leitmotifs placed deftly, and religious beliefs exploited. Our spirit of inquiry has become dead and we have been reduced to mere receivers in the process. Cinema and television has replaced interaction with imposition of thought. Its thought. An artificial, fake and ill-created thought, a manifestation of our needs to escape ourselves. The medium has become a symbol of cheap entertainment, devoid of any examination of the form, and a victim of our collective need to create personalities, perfect al...