Unfinished; by Kay S

“You Don’t Have To Be Great To Start, But You Have To Start To Be Great.” –Zig Ziglar This seems to be something one should remember before we embark on learning something we do not know.   When we sometimes find the process of learning long and tedious, the most important thing to remember is that time will pass no matter what, so might as well spend it learning something useful and upgrading your knowledge.   These are thoughts that went through my overwhelmed brain as I entered the Cypher Conference 2019 very recently during my stint at REVA University.   There were a few sessions I was able to catch up on when I was there and I would like to summarize my experience in the coming days as I felt that all learnings should be shared be it small or large as you never know who might find it relevant to their lives.   I would like to serve this as an attempt to document the learning I had regarding the upcoming trends and breakthroughs in the world of IoT, Artifi...

Six Dead Queens and an inflatable Henry A Bangalore Little Theatre Presentation directed by Dr. Shatarupa Bhattacharya  That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. - Brian Stokes Mitchell The above quotation of Brian Stokes Mitchell was something I had chanced upon some time ago as I was browsing the internet scouting for some information and it struck a chord in my mind and got me thinking.  As my thought process more often than not is an extensive and long-drawn one, it generally takes upon hues of different kinds and remains until I can solve a mystery or find the logic or reasoning behind what I chanced upon.  This happened very recently on Sunday evening at Alliance de Francaise, Bangalore when I watched a brilliantly and astutely direct...

Love, Peace & Harmony “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses!” – Lao Tzu The above statement could not have been put any more subtly as it has been put for Love, I believe, is the only emotion that seems to surpass and supersede  all boundaries and limitations known to mankind.   This is one emotion that will render you physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped if it fails and boost you to the highest levels of these three spheres if it is successful.   One might question how it is that one who has fallen out of love is ‘heartbroken’ so to speak or one that is in love is on “cloud nine!”   Well these are nothing to directly do with the heart but a chemical reaction in the body that evokes something of a psychosomatic reaction. Having said that the power of love can never be discounted or looked down upon.   A few endearing words, loving looks, sweet nothings, or just a g...

ZIKR- e -GHALIB - A Celestial treat A Kathputliyaan Theatre Group Production directed by Zafer Mohiuddin “The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe!” - Lee Strasberg It is indeed not every day that we mortals wake up to a beautiful day, experience magic, express without inhibitions, dance as if nobody is watching you, sing with the chords of our souls, or portray words with panache.   Today, July 13, 2019, for me will go into the annals of history as a day which allowed me to witness one such treat, a celestial one at that, where music, dance, drama, and poetry joined hands to create an undeniable, unmatchable, spellbinding magical confluence of sorts leaving each one of us in the audience speechless, stuck in our seats hoping for it to never end.   Yes, this was the feeling I experienced from watching ‘Zikr-e-Ghalib,’ an amazingly directed play by Zafer Mohiuddin Saab who created history by ...

A Tribute to Dutt by Dutt Inspired by Professor Ramesh Dutt This piece is a tribute to a stalwart, a legend, a human who was an imbalance in a so-called psedo-balanced society, the great actor-director and doyen of the Hindi film industry, Gurudutt written inspired by my dearest Dutt Saab’s bayaar today, as he narrates in his beautiful and mesmerizing style that is inimitable and a one of its kind voice.   I am writing this in a very different format today as a dialogue of sorts laced with my thoughts in first person with Dutt Saab on his bayaar, hence this style of writing and on my blog for posterity’s sake to preserve these thoughts. Waah Dutt Saab....Kya khoobsoorat aur dard bhara bayaar Dutt Saab ke naam...... Starting with Gurudutt Saab's death on 10th October at such a young age, the shocking effect on people around…..It's indeed a very great loss for the connoisseurs of films when such an amazing actor and more so a great human being passes away! Tapti ...

TOUCHSTONES & MRS. MOORTHY A Play Written By Vijay Padhki & Madhu Rye Directed By Anshulika Kapoor "The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation." - Stella Adler More often than not we come across people, instances, or events that force us to go into introspection about our lives, the people related to us, the world around us, and the people who we meet.   We love to live abysmally thinking none of these people or events or experiences we have through them are relevant to us because ignorance is indeed blissful and knowledge requires you to act upon the information you have.   In concurrence with the above quote by Stella Adler, I came across such a truth about life and the social situations plaguing us through two plays I watched today, “Touchstones” and “Mrs. Murthy” written by the theatre veteran Vijay Padhki, the founder of Bangalore Little Theatre & Madhu Rye, which was brilliantly directed by the multi...

GIRISH KARNAD - A JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL Inspired from an obituary & narration by Professor Ramesh Dutt “People do not decide to become extraordinary.  They decide to accomplish extraordinary things!” - Sir Edmund Hillary Life is full of mysteries and surprises and I believe that each one of us is born in a unique manner to unravel our own mysteries to carve a niche for ourselves in this world.  Some of us decide to do great things, think out of the box, be different, and create revolutions to achieve greatness and some of us live abysmally cribbing, complaining, and thinking negatively throughout our lives passing away one fine day.  Girish Karnad was the former, a visionary, a thinker, a rebel who decided to achieve greatness in a way that he found befitting.  He found his niche and he bulldozed his way through life doing everything he possibly could in a manner befitting his personality, which undoubtedly was greatness personified....