Review - Secret of the Nagas

The story which started in Immortals of Meluha, humanizing Shiva, on his road to "wherever fate leads him on his road to greatness" begins to peter off and head on a downward spiral in The Secrets of the Nagas.

The endearing storytelling with Shiva as the protagonist, filled with self doubt on every step and haunted by his own past quickly becomes a political drama filled with useless intrigue and an overdose of new characters. Gone are the introspective thoughts, gone are the incidents establishing camaraderie between the troopers. This is all replaced by random sequences of events at various places, mythological characters and relationships established in a manner which unfortunately seems forced at times. 

I personally feel the writer has lost the inspiration and has instead chosen an easier road and a writing style which is more acceptable and popularist. Read the book like you would - just another bestseller which will be forgotten as soon the weekend is over!!

Making Peace...

Recently, a realization has struck me, and struck me hard. The spite that was piling up inside me has somehow drained away. I do not really think there was a particular life altering event that made me change my outlook, it was more of a "Morning waking up and realizing the grudge really wasn't there any more".

Must say although, it felt refreshingly good to bow my head in front of the mandir  and recite the still-not-forgotten prayers... 

Losing Friends..

WTF.. everyone's around getting married.. while I am happy for them to be willing to sign deal for the last legal form of slavery under the guise of love and whatnots, what sucks is that I am losing out on my friends one my one.. this SUCKS/ BLOWS or whatever else you would like to call it!

2011 Beginning

Well time really has flown by this time.. just seems like yesterday when 2010 had started. The past year was a year of a lot of changes, changes in perspective, thoughts, life - personal and professional. Can't say they were all good changes or bad either, but one thing is certain. These changes have wrought a definite path to treat on.

So here's to a freaking fantastic year - 2011 up ahead. I wish all my friends have all the luck and love in the world. Here's to an year filled with action and anticipation...

Groupism..

Just when you think that the sail's been set smooth and the gust of wind has finally been caught for a speedy underway, in it's often so innocuous way, disparity seems to set in which suddenly seems to rock your boat.

I really do fail to understand the why's and the what's of an entity's dynamics which supports and hopes to thrive on setting people out into groups and then letting them be, as is often the case when kids are selecting amongst themselves for a match of cricket. While the team is being set out, each one of us fervently prays to get chosen before the rest, to become a part of something "glorious" while the underdogs see the resigned look when cold calculating eyes are appraising to which one out of the stock would cause minimum damage.

While in adulthood, this sort of a pyramid is still followed; often at times certain wildflowers are shunned away into a certain corner, the feeling being that they obviously belong together.

An unfair decision some might cry out in indignation, while others might simply say its the natural course of actions. Either way, it is quite annoying and most certainly extremely unsettling.

Resolve to keep that resolution...

It’s that time of the year, when everyone is planning how to improve themselves for the new year. This post is dedicated to new year’s resolution, but what about those of us who have no interest in bettering ourselves in '10 and do not really see a reason to start now in 2100?

Maybe you’re lazy or just perfect. If a traditional new year’s resolution doesn’t strike your fancy, why not consider a different kind of challenge? Try out one of these magnificently self-destructive new year’s resolutions and be on your way to an epically disastrous new year.

Typical Resolution: Lose weight or get in shape
Deliciously destructive alternative: Gain 200 lbs in 12 months
Why: Because it tastes good






















Typical Resolution: Find true love
Deliciously destructive alternative: Become the evil one in a toxic relationship
Why: Bad boys and girls get laid more.


















Typical Resolution: Save money or get out of debt
Deliciously destructive alternative: Live way, way, wayyyy beyond your means
Why: Because you know Obama or your dad will bail you out
















Typical Resolution: Spend more time with your family
Deliciously destructive alternative: Spend more time with your secretary
Why: Sex, why else? (do you really need another reason after this one!!)

One Drunken Night...

The one glance, the one look, the one moment when my world shook made me realize what we mistook while setting our life afoot. As she breezed by my mind went numb, the din dropped down and I just shook.
It's been a long time since we both took our future, our lives to be the story of a book. My dear, oh dear I am a big fool to still think of you and the way you looked.
As I stared in your eyes, and felt your heartbeat the joyous world was all upbeat. Little did I know what life had in store and how everything would just become just another chore. Now the world's at my feet but it's my heart that still beats for the one that left me incomplete.
Your touch, your smile would light up a fire, growing old by your side was all that I desired. But fate transpired fuelling my fire leaving my life in a state of mire. You were not to be mine was God's design and while I looked on you just went off fine.