Inception

Christopher Nolan’s Inception is a film about dreams, but nowhere close to giving you a nice sleep. This one shakes you awake with the possibility of what one can do with dreams. Sometime back I watched Leonardo in Shutter Island and was shaken by the story. I am shaken now too but differently. I loved the concept of Inception, dreamcatchers , who could enter your mind and plant an idea there so as to make it seem like your own and this could have repercussions of any kind. And as we move from the first level of dreams on to the next and the next, we actually start getting confused and the excess action does not help much. But in the end, it is exhilarating. The totem which is the key to reality keeps spinning and we wait with bated breath for it to fall so we know Cobb is in the real world, but the screen black out leaving us to wonder…

Delhi Diary 6

They are there everyday - at the corner of the Malviya Nagar crossing from the Aurobindo Marg side. The mother plays the drum while her son, not more than seven years old, begins his acrobatics for the benefit of the passengers in the vehicles waiting for the red light to turn green. The boy wears a cap with a stringed yo yo kind of a thing attached right at the top of the cap. He swings his head in a circular motion and the yo yo moves around him. He then stretches his arms clasps his hands and takes them behind him and takes his legs through the space between the arms. As a third item he draws up a tiny hoopla and goes in and out of it. Then he comes to beg. But every time he begs, he gives his head a flick and the yo yo rotates. His sister, a little older, does somersaults on the streets.

Delhi Diary 5

I couldn't have escaped it anyway. Yesterday, the autorickshaw I was travelling in on my way to office met with an accident. A car hit it from behind and the auto hit another vehicle ahead. Well, I had quite an escape, just a little shocked out of my wits. The driver was a little hurt. This happened right opposite my office and so I walked towards it when one of the bystanders called me back. I was wondering if the police had arrived at the scene so quick when I was told that I had forgotten to pay the driver!! Must blame it on my head which was hit slightly on the back and had formed a nice lump. So guys, how much ever careful you are, accidents happen just like that...

Rhythm of the Rain!!

The rain gods were rather too merciful yesterday. It rained from around 2 pm and continued till about 7 pm and Delhi turned into a huge lake of sewer waters. People stranded, waiting, trying to negotiate through the murky water, buses and autos and cars and bikes stalled in the middle of the road, leading to enormous jams and more. The auto rickshaw I flagged, stalled four times but I sat on and the driver did not give up. I managed to get off close to my place but had to cross a very busy road where no vehicle wanted to give way (God knows where they were headed coz there was a huge jam right ahead anyway. Make you wonder how the authorities take on huge projects like the Commonwealth Games??!! One bout of rain and the Games will be washed away. Think Ms Dixit! You need to plan better for the sake of India's name. Water collected on flyovers and under construction metro stations have given away and sunk further down. God help Delhi and its populace.