Saturday, May 3, 2008
The Anthem
My dear friend Arun, aka Unni, has just won himself a life time of trivia. The first guy to post a comment. Good show Arun...how does it feel? Point about the anthem of this blog. Hmmm.. well like the title of blog says. Seek Simplicity and Then Suspect it. I am convinced there is a hidden agenda behind everything that goes around this world. What seems obvious is meant to be obvious, for earthlings to quibble. "Exercise in the morning" because Nike and Adidas have to sell stuff. The Morning newspaper, tell me a better way to fine tune people. Healthy breakfast, yes Mr. Kellogg. I can go on but the point is I believe the worlds stuck. We are all running not knowing for what or where to. There is something, or someone, out there making us do stuff without questioning it. Its like the whole world is a Truman Show and about time the world was asked, "Is that air you are breathing". If the premise is that everything in the world is a manipulation where does this blog fit in? Fair point. I guess at some point in time or the other we have all asked ourselves-Why am I doing this and where will this lead to? But before the answer comes and the import of the answer hits us the Matrix has already pulled us back:) This blog is my way of staying outside the Matrix as long as I can. This blog will question everything. It will question the existence of Free Market as much as The Communist Party of India. The marketing machinery of Man Utd. as much as the big money of Chelsea, a Lalit Modi of the IPL and Ram Guha of the test crciket club. A RGV or Anurag Kashyap movie will not be good just because its not a Yash Raj or a Karan Jo movie. Anything going around that's supposed to be good, great, success, failure or a disaster will be questioned. This blog will be an attempt, to figure out the real stuff underneath the hype. The blog will also be bulletin board. No more e- mails to the gang. All the stuff I keep writing to you guys will be here. Like I said in my invite do consider this blog as democracy at its best. We will get from this blog what we deserve.
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3 comments:
hi, my first attempt to write a comment on any blog starts here. Atlast you have done it-you have your blog! Remembering manipal and not mentioning the role of music on us poor souls is like a crime. Floyd is the one who accompanied most of us to to downtown, hostel and eventually to bed! This blog is more about comic back to life,manipal style. Shin on u crazy diamond..till later sachin
as sean connery would say "thatsh the shpirit" now that your baby's born it needs your time, diaper changes and your creative attention to keep it kicking...dude, rise to the occasion
Good Start. Here is the initial list of things I would like to question
1) Why is English August such a classic while other works of Upamanyu Chatterjee suck?
2) Why one of my dearest friends is not getting a passport made?
3) Why do Bschool grads like us learn all about creating new businesses and get stuck in jobs that they eventually realise make no difference?
4) Why are social entrepreneurs not born in bschools? ior are they?
5) why am i feeling that as you are reading my comments, you are also man hi man cursing me?
Many more to come--keep it up.
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