slice of life

This is one device which is truly enigmatic. Tightly gripped in your palm or carefully tucked in your pocket or safely kept in your bag, the mobile is the most sought after gadget these days. Mobile mania is very hard to fade. To top it, it's hit across all generations, all classes and equally loved by both genders. Yes, cellphones are the biggest hit across the globe. The best part is it lets you talk and people are talking a lot on mobile phones. Go to any office lobby and find the employees glued to their phones on a break. Going for a stroll in your neighbourhood park and find the walkers, the caring mothers talking incessantly on their mobile phones while keeping a hawk's eye on their kids. Mobile fever is caught on. Curiously, the the not so educated are also owning up these talking devices and talking a lot on their phones or simply listening to fm radios on their phones while doing hard labour. Also, it is much easier to trace them now. Whatever. thanks to this teeny-we

Elections are fast approaching. But do they create a buzz? Are you and me excited? There are actually very few amongst us who go for voting. We have completely alienated ourselves from the electoral process. We are confused whom to vote since we don't find suitable candidates. In a way, we are in a state of despair. But, we live in a democracy and exercising the voting right is very very important since that decides the governing body. But we actually need qualitative people in the fray. The urban voter is simply disgusted. This needs to be solved. Those representing us should actually represent us. This is very serious and in a way we boycott elections. This needs to be looked into. Life goes on and will continue even after election but inspite of repeated pleas of going to vote, very few of us will actually go. Will things go on like this only?

Slumdog millionaire has won 8 oscars. The Party has just begun. Curiously,the media is going berserk with heaps of praises for the British movie with an Indian theme. Danny Boyle is the most acclaimed director on date. I went to watch this movie with undoutedly lots of expectations and a tinge of pride that an Indian subject is creating much flutter. However, as the movie progressed, my smile melted into an expression of disgust. How could they show such a ghastly tale involving kids. Nevertheless, it is truth and there are worse case scenarios. At moments I had to close my eyes but this does not mean that the movie was very convincing. It was not a cinematic marvel deserving an oscar for best direction at least. There were glitches and most importantly, as an audience I was not very impressed with the way the story was told. It could have been more crisp and more sensitive. I should have come out crying with a subject like this. But obviously that didn't happen. Instead I came out