READER'S DIGEST!!!!!!

Email forwards  with colossal company logotypes? …..understandably tolerable!

 

Spams  with subjects like-“SO HUGE MY BUDDIES WERE SCARED” or

“HAVE AUDRINA BEGGING YOU  TO EAT ” or 

“YOUR CHEQUE IS WAITING”

or 

“WANNA FEEL LIKE U’RE IN VEGAS”…..majorly unbearable!!

Thank goodness there are spam filters.

 

Pop-up windows with snazzily coloured matrimonial websites which practically blind you and downloadable smiley sites which dont make you smile….outrageously irritating!!!

Mighty lord bless the browser designers for pop-up blockers.

 

Now the most punk,sleaziest,tackiest,the most insanely frustrating,the most exceptionally

Innovative and torturous publicity drive is what I’d like to call “BUY IT OR NOT PAY FOR IT” stunt!!

This is something pioneered by a magazine of cult status namely READER’S DIGEST.

 The strategy involves three simple,VALID and intensely effective steps:

 

(1)Make a compilation of 4 wretched and distressingly snubbed novels of authors who were born,brought up and are famous on planet mars.

 

(2)Devastatingly attractive packaging of the above with some freebees.

 

(3)Sending it across to a subscribed reader who hasn’t renewed his/her account in ages.

 

The rub lies when this package gets followed by another equally attractive mail consisting of a NOTIFICATION asking you to pay for the order which you never placed

Else promising you serious action!!!!

 

MAIL

Following my previous post   I recieved a mail from a friend presenting to me an obverse of the issue which was stunningly neglected.Here it goes....

"well each person interprets this kind of a protest differently! Like
you've said that you're confused why they chose the colour pink, I am
confused with one more thing, why did they choose that particular
garment to represent  "women". It sounds dirty, or vulgar even, first of
all because it is a piece of clothing, since it is used in intimate
areas... and second of all, the colour is something which subtly hints,
anatomically, at womanhood. so the combination of the garment and the
colour has many overtones which does not really go with the protest. If
you understand all these inner dimensions of what is being presented to
Mr Mutalik, you'd probably think that this is somewhat of an "in your
face" effort to make those Hindu fundamentalists get used to the idea of
powerful, independent and social women.
How about this? well, if they really wanted to represent the protest
made by cosmopolitan women against people advocating Hindu radicalism by
an object or a piece of clothing to be precise, I feel they could've
chosen something like the Little Black Dress, or an Evening Gown, or May
be perhaps a cheap Wedding Gown?? well, those might be costly, but then
they're really speak for themselves.
Besides I was not impressed because, you cannot be sure everyone buys
new garments to send. I'm quite sure there would've been women who
would've sent what they would have been using..... In the view of the
protest and the want to insult the Hindu outfit for violating women's
rights it is the right kind of thing they deserved. But then, not to be
forgotten is the fact that having done such a thing they have well and
truly gone against the term "ladylike".
AS I said before this is my interpretation of the events that happened
after the attack. You can say that extreme situations call for extreme
measures."

The PINK drive

After the savage antics of the so called moral police whose objective was to blatantly rape all morals behind democracy,has started the campaign to save feb 14th.And how are they

doing it?By the alms-giving of "pink scanties" to the sene chief.

For which the outrageously flagrant sene chief is going to be returning 

pink sarees.And has also claimed to get all dating couples in karnataka married!!

So now its just got down to pink scanties vs pink sarees.

 Now what really has been bothering me is not the campaign but the color chosen for the campaign.

Pink ,the color of warmth,affection and a color strongly associated with contemporary girlhood,

the color of joy and happiness which was once upon a time allowed to be garmented only by the

elites of the elizibethan era.Its quintessentially a color of celebration.

 

I fail to figure out the association of pink with this agitation!Is it like a drive to save girls

or culture or praxis ??

THE FILM FESTIVAL

Art cinema is quite something very puissant in the way of communicating with the audiences.
Extraordinarily unbent no coincidences,no miracles just pragmatic.

Oflate I had the privilege of savouring some of it in the very altruistic theatre fest Bahuroopi.
Movies I managed to watch were Roots by Marvin J.Chomsky and John Erman,Amistad by Steven spielberg...
both of them based on slavery.One showing the unsuccessful pursuance of freedom by a slave and the latter showing the victory of humanity over politics.

The movie Amistad was scheduled to be screened back to back with this other movie called Cry Of Freedom.
And being dead timely we arrive 15 mins late for the movie and enter the room flashing the cell phone torch(which was am sure quite annoying to the others) to find our way and this usher rudely interrupts us asking us to put off the light...we do so...and realise there is no seat available..so we go and ask him if we can sit on the ground...he says-"movie is about to end but you can still sit"!!
Obviously enough it was the previous movie still running...so we get out and wait for it end.
After about 10 mins we go in again expecting Amistad to have started and since we didnt have a bat's vision we flash light again...but this time annoying this old man enough that he mutters to the man beside him-"AYYO!!EVERY 10 MINS THESE GALS ARE COMING AND FLASHING LIGHT"...
Nevertheless it was all worth as the movie was outstanding.Another over-the-top movie we caught up with was a spanish movie called sea inside,theme being mercy killing.
All in all an unforgettable festival.

A TALE OF TWO BRAINS

This is a tremendously hilarious analysis of the functioning of the male and the female brain and is perhaps damn on-key!!...

THE BUCKET LIST

Iam not really an ardent movie viewer...I prefer reading over watching stuff since laterly a movie is just a transmutation of pages into visuals(ofcourse not that I dont watch em at all!).But on the suggestion of a friend I watched The Bucket List.It features the lambent Morgan freeman and the endearing Jack Nicholson substantiating a bucket list.

I was excogitating if all of us had a ken of our respective deadlines, life would have been so much more different.We would just have to make that special effort and go the extra mile to realize the most perfervid desire and thats it...you would never get caught up in a vicious circle!...so that way you could not just die quenched but also live mirthfully!

The bucket list shown in the movie goes something like this....I guess...
1.Witness something truly majestic
2.Help a complete stranger for a common good
3.Laugh till I cry
4.Get a tattoo ....et cetera
If bestowed with a chance to create a bucket list ...ofcourse one would include all his torrid desires ...if you were also to include something extreme you had to realise for/on someone else.....what would it be?