Beauty to me

Beauty to me is a child's smile,
Innocence dripping from it,
Lost in his own little world,
Nothing else matters a bit.


Beautiful are his jumbled words,
Whose meaning none can decipher,
Beautiful are his little hands,
Nimble like  pristine feather.

Beauty to me is my mother's face,

Waking me up from sleep,

Beauty is in her twinkling eyes,

The reassuring gaze of promises to keep.

Beautiful is the drop of sweat,

Sparking on her brow,

Beautiful is her sweet smell;

Prevailing even in the afterglow.

This post is regarding the "what does real beauty mean to you" contest.. Please check out  Yahoo! Real Beauty.for taking a sneak peak into a really beautiful world...

A dialog on Bin laden's death.

On the birthday of the master of creation Satyajit ray,the master of destruction Bin laden did perish;;;;

It's definitely a day for the whole wide world to cherish....

23 hours ago ·  · 

• Anurag Dey, Soumik Das Choudhury, Aniket Dhar and 32 others like this.
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    Ankur Debbarma umm....should we really celebrate another person's death? doesn't that make us as low as him?

    22 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury it's about celebrating the end of an era of destruction... the person is only symbolic......

    22 hours ago ·  ·  5 people
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    Ankur Debbarma ya u r rt, bt unfortunately the era hasnt ended, al qaida's still dere with their new leader, laden was jst 1 of deir instruments wich has nw bin destroyed

    22 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury perfect peace will never be possible in the real world... one bad guy dies, a thousand will spring up to take his place,, maybe they will be more sinister.. but still we live for these small victories....

    21 hours ago · 
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    Priyanka Debnath may its an end of a devil....bt dere r few qs wich we ned 2 asK ourselvs................earlier CIA itslf earlier helpd alqaida wit arms,nw dey r celebratng deir victory??! Morovr in d name of peace US destroyd a whol country namd IRAQ n tuk thousands of inocent lives in afganistan 4 d sake of dat devil???!!!.....so in wat way is US diffrnt den bin laden???

    21 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury well it was the USA who made laden, and it's clearly evident that USA is the bigger evil operating under the cloak of 'world peace' ... the real terrorists of the world don;t live inside caves and shout allh-hu akbar,, the real terrorists wear 5000$ armani suits and make secret dealings in 7 star hotels...

    21 hours ago ·  ·  1 person
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    Priyanka Debnath ya dats ri8.........so i thnk we shud nt celebrate d death of jst a play doll of deir hands.....D REAL DEVILS R STIL ALIVE!!!!!

    21 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury that's true... but if we can't relish these small victories, life won't be worth living in this dismal planet....

    20 hours ago · 
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    Priyanka Debnath yah ri8..........bt i hav doubts dat whethr osama is realy dead or nt!!!........cos US has nt shown d body properly n dey hav alredy buried him!! n also US has declard many times osama s dead b4 also!!!...................lols :P :D

    20 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury lol,, never before with this much confidence...

    20 hours ago · 
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    Arijit Kumar Bandyopadhyay bt d biggest question howzz it gonna effect d sensex now..!!

    12 hours ago · 
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury eh, materialistic :P
    
    the trillions of dollars worth of shares invested in the anti-war companies should come down for the time being i guess...

    12 hours ago ·  ·  1 person
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    Kesaban Sankar Roy Choudhuri my ass...America will create one more LADEN.....America can never stop investing on making enemies..

    8 hours ago ·  ·  1 person
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    Aneek Roy Choudhury kesu,, stop bringing awkward things like ur ass into every conversation...
    
    and america didn't invest in making laden their enemy.. laden was a plan to terrorize the world to give away their freedom which backfired...

    2 minutes ago · 

One more time, one more chance

I haven't written about a song earlier. But today I suddenly thought, why not?! I am a firm believer of the statement that music is one of the best ways to express oneself and so here I'm writing about a song which touched my heart for the first time i heard it, and touches it every single time thereafter, whenever I hear it.
This is a Japanese song from the movie "5 centimeters per second" ( I've written about this earlier here-- http://sylarthemaverick.blogspot.com/search/label/5%20centimeters%20per%20second ) . Don't let the fact that this song is in a language you don't understand bother you, because the distant tune will lure you more into the song (moreover it has english subs :P ) ..

This song is about those unspoken words which you never found the courage to tell. The moments you cherished and how they fled, right under your eyes. And then the long wait, when you searched for that face everywhere, in the darkened alleys in your dream,and amidst the millions of faces swarming past. Then when you realized that you are a changed person, now you understand all the intricacies of life, you turn back. You want to make amends for the past, only to find the still autumn air staring back at you, the fallen withered leaf just drifting away.......

Can't say!!

I can't believe that some people vote "can't say" in polls... Who in their right minds wastes 3 Rs per sms just to let others know they don't have any opinion!! I have seen it in news channel polls, newspaper polls and the list goes on.. I guess someday in the future even the electronic voting machines for parliamentary elections will have an option that says-- "can't decide" .. I mean there is a limit! If you have nothing to say about something then simply keep shut! why waste your money and somebody else's time ( includes my ranting here)..


Again, i have seen people dedicating songs @Rs 10 per song at 2.30 pm.. Shyamlal dedicates "tere bina ab na jeena" to ramlal.. What are the chances of Ramlal watching the show at that time at a crappy channel which plays shitty songs like that? What if Shyamlal's fiancee manmohanlal was watching the show at the time and gets to know about the affair between ramlal and shyamlal? 


Somebody may take the moral of the story to be my miserly attitude, they may ask, why do I care if someone wants to spend their money so that their name appears for 3.36 nanoseconds on national television,, all i can say is that from the next time plz make ur decision count... 

25th Hour (2002)

This is your last day of freedom;

The last day to smell the flowing air;

Last chance to look at things random;

Noticing which before didn't seem fair...

What will you do when you learn that today is the last day of your freedom before being imprisoned? Do u mourn? do u cry? do u try to run away? or u rejoice the last moments, with your friends? Montgomrey Brogan faces the same dilemma when he is accused of hiding drugs at his place and has to go to prison for atleast 7 years. he decides to take in all the good things with him, at the same time worrying about "what will happen to me in prison"..... And all throughout this film we follow monty's journey through his last day and the reactions and interactions with his close ones...

Edward Norton is brilliant as usual in his portrayal of this seemingly confident but gullible inside character. Philip Seymour Hoffman does the role of a teacher smitten with his student but unsure of the next course of action to perfection. Barry Pepper uses his enticing good looks to play the successful broker and a realist friend.. Rosario Dawson as naturelle was completely natural but sometimes lacking expressions.. All in all the whole cast did a splendid job.

Some scenes of the film command special mention. The "f**k you all" scene where monty lets out his anguish in the form of hatred for the several racial groups and right before the end where people of all those races are seen waving and smiling at monty and he reciprocates. These are very symbolic of harmony and are really cherish-able. The last monologue by monty's father where he gives another chance to set everything right, to run away and build a new home, to realize all the unfulfilled dreams is another scene which makes us think about the futility of freedom....

On the other-side

Staring into the star-shine, waiting for the dawn of my dreams;

stranded pieces of hope loitering above the sparkling streams,

Near, yet so far away stood alone the darkening horizon,

Found another companion,who was also waiting with anticipation..

Waiting for a sky not as azure,for a wind a little pure;

For a soul full of love; for an evergreen cove;

A place which doesn't have the need of rhymes,

Where shadows don't mess up the lights, 

And lights don't mess up the shadows,

Where grey and black are a shade apart,

there, on the other-side of life-dream-reality,, I will be waiting.......

Maverick Definition-Terminator

MAVERICK DEFINITION::: TERMINATOR:: This term is used to refer to a specific variety of students who dedicate their entire TERM (mid-term, end-term, summer-term, or any other) period thINkINg they will study TOmoRrow(and doing other stuff like downloading TORrents)..... That variety has been technically termed as TERM-IN-A-TOR.....

eg-- ME :D

Exam schedule!

And then i opened the book,

all my mind's power that action took;

soon after i noticed a lizard climbing up the hook,

and as the wind flew,the little leaf by my window shook..

what time would it be, should i take a look?

4pm,feeling a little hungry,perhaps time to eat and cook?

stomach fulfilled,now i sense some sleep creeping along the nook.

6pm,woke up to the alarm sound imitating a cock.

wonder what is going on inside the television block?

its a show i've never seen,but still it mocks the clock!

8pm,and i suddenly remember my long forgotten textbook,

staring at me accusingly and asking,'why did u make me a laughingstock'?

somewhere

The tick-tock of the clock or the fluttering leaf in the shivering winter wind,

A silent reminder of the unfulfilled promises, ringing in the corners of mind.

Somewhere a drop of dew falls on the ground,unnoticed by the sleeping flower,

A muffled bell chimes nearby, reminding it again of the shower of the bygone hour.

The moist ground,laid around, unperturbed by the rain or the single drop of dew;

But the moon looked on,seeping in the sleet and watched as the night flew.

One single star,it's light lost somewhere,kept on searching,for another dark night;

No dew drop to reflect on,no moon to look on,no wind to carry the sigh of unborn sight..

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

When the truth behind the lie emerges,

The whole wide world gasps and watches,

The inhumanity of humanity,

The untimely death of serenity

‎Fahrenheit 9/11 , was listed as the best film of the decade in some list i read some time ago.. And i thought,, how can this be, it's just a documentary! Shortly afterwards i got hooked on to documentaries, but didn't see this 1 till today.... And now i see the justification.. It is truly an indicator of how easily we can be succumbed into believing something when fear is used as a weapon..

The documentary by Michael Moore mainly centers around George Bush's term as the president of united states, the unjustified and utterly selfish decisions he made just for the benefit of a handful people and in a very subtle way indicates that democracy in a real sense is non-prevalent in the modern world. Starting with the "who won Florida" controversy right till the aftermath of Iraq war, Moore follows Bush and points out the gaping flaws within the political system.

Some of the most disturbing images of war, the grief of the mothers who lost their sons, the crying shrieks of relatives have been used frame after frame along with false promises and assurances of American politicians and congressmen and the hypocrisy of the leaders is highlighted diligently..  

This film received a 20 minutes standing ovation at Cannes(longest for any film), and it is also the longest selling documentary of all times. Without revealing any plot details, i would say it is a must watch film which will drastically improve your understanding of the world.

Cinematic equivalents may be drawn with zeitgeist and the 11th hour.. 

Maverick Definitions (part 2)

EXAM--- The dangerous sequence of events including the JAMming of the EGG(metaphor phor the brain :P) in the course of which the flow of necessary information is interrupted.. The condition may worsen, sometimes leading to cracking of the egg, which in turn results into some queer circumstances...  All these events grouped together is called EGG-JAM..




 PROGRAM-- A secret underGround PROject undertaken by the government of India to intricately scrutinize and find out all the lands that were owned, rented or leased by sri RAM and give a detailed report afterwards....  This highly confidential event has been called PRO-G-RAM....


 Elephant--- The shriek of anguish(EEEEEEEE....) emanated from a person's mouth when he/she discovers that he/she has grown so fat that he/she doesn't fit into his/her old LEE(or levis or any other brand) PANT.... This is called EE-LEE-PANT... 


 STUDY--The dangerous course of action undertaken by a STUdent whose marginal overdose can compel him/her to DIE.. This may be regarded as a primary stage of suicide and must be avoided at all costs..


This "severely injurious to mental and physical health" act is often referred as   "STU-DIE" in colloquial terms...

Black Swan(2010)

It was dark, or it was dawn??

Or it was just a hallucination??

The mind tells a different story,

The nebulous perfection, mandatory??

Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's fifth and latest film delves deep into the human mind and induces a queer mix of hallucination and reality. The protagonist, Nina Sayers works in a ballet company whose business is declining. Their most high profile dancer has been forced into retirement and a new production "swan lake" is just coming up. Nina fits perfectly into the character of the white swan, beautiful, fragile and all goody-two-shoes; but her life comes into a predicament while portraying the white swan's evil twin, the black swan. In come several characters, her domineering mother who was once a ballet dancer herself, the gray shaded master of the ballet company Thomas Leroy, and lily, who perfectly fits into the character of the black swan.

And Nina's dedication to dancing and performing takes a pivotal role with her mind playing tricks on her.. On her quest to achieve perfection she loses stability of her mind, imagining the impossible, doing the unthinkable. In this regard Natalie Portman's role as Nina should be mentioned specifically. She has trained for this film for months and all the effort shows in the dance sequences. Her eyes spoke, her body language killed. And her performance was definitely one of the best in quite some time. Don't be surprised if you see her walking home with that golden statute for "best actress".

All in all, black swan is a superb thriller revolving around a ballet company, painted mostly in rich dark shades by the director mostly in order to portray the mental state of the protagonist. The transitions from dream to reality, white to black have been shot meticulously well. But as this film delves much into the dark side, it may seem unpleasant for a category of the viewers and i'll advice them to refrain from this film.

Cinematic comparison may be drawn with David Lynch's Mulholland Dr or Mary Harron's 

American Psycho.