Brahmaputra

W-I-P

25 Random things about me

1.My left forearm bears a tattoo of my name inscribed in black. I love my name.
2.I shot an ad-commercial with Akshay Kumar when in class 4. It was for Ruf n' tuf Jeans. I was one of the 'good kids' playing football until we were interrupted by the bullies.At age 8, i was also offered to play the lead in the Horlicks commercial which i refused for no good reason.
3.I used to be freakishly short tempered. I feel better now :)
4.I have a firm belief that in my lifetime, i will make contact with intelligent extra-terrestrials. I also dream about having a week long chat with Carl Sagan.
5. I'm a big fan of the two great epics- The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.Every page read out of these books is like a soothing balm .
6.Through most of my life, the title of 'best-friend' has been held by women/girls.
7.My ultimate fantasy is to be able to talk to animals and live in the forest like beast master or Mowgli.
8. I've never really had a crush on any girl so far :(
9. But i did feel overwhelmingly out of my senses when i first saw Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky. It was probably the character she played.
10. I like growing my hair long but my profession demands otherwise.
11. I love singing.One of my other fantasies is to perform every night to weary people in a smoky den of a bar,sort of like Billy Joel in 'Piano Man'.
12. If i could choose to take any form ,I'd become a tiger and wander off into the jungle.
13. I hate money. I don't like any talk of money . It's a necessary evil that I've to put up with in this lifetime.
14.I like being fit and healthy.
15. I watched cartoons till i was 18.Bugs Bunny is my favorite looney toon.
16. I like sunglasses.
17. My nick names include Sathu ,Mr. Bean, Psycho & Sonali Bendre.
18. When I'm reading a book that i like or come across a concept or a character i like,i become them.That's how engrossed i can get.
19.I'm not a very good listener. I'm always too eager to get my point across.
20.I love the English language.I would like to learn Spanish some time soon.
21.I like writing. I'm planning on writing a Novel based on my life's experiences. I plan to finish it by age 35.
22.I can't stand the sight of blood .
23.I fell sick for a month after watching Deepa Mehta's Water.
24.I am a sucker for people who are musically talented.
25.I have 2 sisters for whom i have tremendous love and respect.

The Earth Is Diseased

The human species has been around for 250,000 years. Owing to our cranial expansion, we have graduated from using tools made of twigs to where we now stand- at the zenith of our intellectual capacity (or so it seems). The curve of our intellectual growth has moved steadily up since the advent of the industrial revolution.

Throughout the ontogenesis of the tribe called Homosapiens, certain behavioural aspects have remained the same- we occupy a certain location until we have exhausted all the available resources around us. A point is reached when the geography of the land can no longer sustain us. The only way we can survive now, is to move to another place. This abstraction of ours has led us to trot the entire globe in search of greener pastures. We have fought many battles and confronted great losses amongst ourselves to find cultivable land and begin a new cycle. Although our approach has been different, our intentions have been the same for many centuries and will continue to do so.

There isn’t another organism that has been under a spell of perpetual chaos, always in war with itself, unable to find its own harmony of existence. The only other organism that follows a similar behavioural pattern with its surrounding is the cancer cell. These cells, unlike invading foreign entities, are very much a part of the human body, whose functions are well defined. But, like a sudden awakening in its conscience, they grow and divide beyond normal limits. The malignant ones destroy adjacent tissues and then move to other parts of the body where they spread similar anarchy. It seems that a normally functioning cell assumes a different archetype –one that gives it a license to go on a rampage of destruction. The rebel cells ‘capture’ the other ones in order to multiply so that their kind and spread over quickly. These are like the Kamikazes and the Che Guevara’s of the human body. “Against brute force and injustice, the people will have the last word. That of victory “

The similarities are just too real to be shrugged off

Humans are a cancer to the planet. We follow a migrate-consume-destroy pattern.

It almost seems like the very purpose of our being on the 3^rd rock from the sun is to cause a gigantic cataclysm, one that will annihilate us all and make way for a new beginning.

The dinosaurs followed a similar exit when they failed to fall into harmony with their surroundings. Its a shame that we, the mighty humans, who have the ability to divide an atom, to put a man on the moon, to explore the universe -have to face a similar bereavement.