How I Stopped Thinking...

Influences influence everyone and saying that an original creation wasn’t influenced would be an untruth. But in today’s world, people have gone ahead and distorted the concept of influence. Now people are blatantly copying creations and putting them up for people to see in the name of “Remakes”. Yes, I am talking about the new (?) trend in Bollywood to remake hit southern movies and rake in the moolah. Agreed, the ‘idea’ has been fruitful, but then how long does Bollywood expect people to fall for this ruse? It’s not that remaking movies is a thing of today. There have been Hindi remakes done of movies in other languages in the past too. There have even been blatant copies where the makers didn’t even have the courtesy of mentioning the fact that they have been copied or rather lifted from other movies. But then with the passage of time, people woke up to this practice and started to criticize this style of movie-making . Then people started to remake movies and name the mov...

The notice board is an integral part of any institution, be it virtual or physical. But out here,I am not talking about a notice board in the usual sense of the term. I am talking about the moving, talking and worrying(!) notice boards all around us. Like every country has a national song and a flag, likewise every neighborhood has a notice board. The person who is like the daily newspaper that is slammed into your windows every morning (a word of apology for people who get their newspapers in the evening). This person is an unique creation of society and is an integral part too. He/She usually carries the duty (and an important one at it too) of informing the world at large of the happenings of the world... She is the one who makes it a point to keep a tab on all the people, no matter what happens. She actually acts as an unifying factor, for people in families unify to preserve their well guarded secrets, but not many can escape the techniques of this person. She is like th...