Saturday, February 24, 2007

Netaji

Today I saw the movie Bose by Shyam Benegal. Even though I knew the outline of the story but seeing it being played in front of my eyes hit me. It made me realise the audacity and the courage of Netaji's plan. No matter how hard I try, I can never imagine someone making such a move. How can one leave his motherland to search for a way to free it militarily from outside!

Firstly, believing in such an idea and internalising it would require the clarity of a mirror and nerves of steel... Secondly, there will be so many questions, so much self-doubt that he would have fought with... I am dumb-founded that someone like him actually existed in my country...

Unimaginable courage... unthinkable sacrifice... out-of-the-world inspiration... My life unto him... my life unto him...

Friday, February 02, 2007

Lamps...

Recently, I came across a very beautiful couplet in Hindi...
"Kisko rehte hain bure waqt ke saath yaad?
Subah hote hee chiragon ko bujha dete hain log..."
Who remembers companions of hard times? Every morning people extinguish the lamps...

-Mohit