" What will you all do in this boring place in 3 days vacation? You live in Nadia you should pay visit to ISKCON TEMPLE, in Krishna nagar, its good place to go " echoed Abhinav while leaving himself for Delhi on last Friday. Certainly this short vacation was going to be boring as both of my roommates had gone home. On Saturday I morning I had hair-cut after a long time, and it was cheaper than Kolkata but costlier than Chakradharpur. In the afternoon I went to Laboratory to do my project, but there was no Professor or in-charge, all chemistry faculty busy in attending geology colloquiums. (Actually they do not let me operate UV spectroscopy in their absence). In the nigh I watched Lord of the Ring 2 in HD print. Every time I watch this movie more new things I learn about characters. Finally we made our mind that we were definitely going to Krishna Nagar and went to sleep.
As I had expected no one woke up at 8 am, we had planned to move out at 9. anyhow at 10 pm Abhiket, Bradraj, Ritesh and myself went to Jaguli through Jugad. This is vehicle of which we had a bad memory earlier, hope I would soon tell you that story. In we caught a filled state bus, after alot of muscling we got some space. We had our quick lunch at Krishnagar bus stand. But we were not quick enough to catch aain the bus which will .....unfinished
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Haringhata here we come....
We had mixed feeling that our campus was shifted to Haringhata before the schedule time. We had to shift in afternoon so a day before I went to Kharagpur and stayed with my friends in IIT Kharagpur. But as always I propose, never disposes, I had forgot my room keys in my home, hence I had to wait for my friends who were coming next day from Jamshedpur. In Kharagpur, with my friends we accessed our life after our school and found that we are living in hell where all doors are closed for us, but still we can hope that someday we may be able to change the society.
We had stayed almost half of our college life in Kolkata. During this period of time, we learnt the art of shopping and some of us have become shopholics. We had 2 malls City Centre and Mani Square nearby us at walking distance where we had our evening adda. This was the place we used to make excuse about bad food to have some healthy food in the restaurants. We had travelled a lot in kolkata may be on shopping spree or birthday bash, or just for fun. we had traveled from from the slums to the malls, eaten from 5 stars to small dhabas, watched movies from Inox, Forum and Adlabs,from luxurious cab to walking along busy streets of Chandni to College streets, exploring new places and sharing our emotions, went from AMRI to local doctors, had fights with auto and taxiwallahs, we laughed at little money saved and showered anger on the person who invented ATMs. Yes, Finally i had got over my moron life.
But what was going to be next we were quite apprehensive about. From January we have to go to live in so called jungle. I were not that unhappy but I had little doubts as during my school life I had been in Narendrapur, which was far away from city hustle and bustle, full of greenery. Yes, I was sorry that we wouldnot have luxury of 2 Mbps net in our hostel, in fact no internet connection. Before leaving for home in winter vacation we bid adieu all of our favorite places but promised to return again .
Trouble started when we got call on taxi routing to hostel that the bus which was scheduled to take us to Haringhata will leave early and it was full. we showered all our anger on school management. This time again they have failed to arrange proper transportation. Anyhow we jam-packed the bus but left over on tata-407. We reached Haringhata in the afternoon. The ride was rough for me, at that moment I thought that I was not going to return Kolkata on frequent basis.(p.s. I returned next Saturday). At this moment I must say I was unhappy with the behaviour of some of my class mates.
Reaching here we were unhappy that 3 persons are living in 1 room and also also room sitting allotments were not according to our choice. But as always we arranged everything. We had no time to roam around. At first view it was as if we were on tour to a village, but our room and hostel was spacous. The facilities on macroscopic level looked wonderful, microscopically had faults like problems with aqua-guards.
The first thing I did was installed my computer and played NFS-most wanted. We had some problems with room arrangements. We hoped next day we will have solve out all problem and had a nice sleep.
We had stayed almost half of our college life in Kolkata. During this period of time, we learnt the art of shopping and some of us have become shopholics. We had 2 malls City Centre and Mani Square nearby us at walking distance where we had our evening adda. This was the place we used to make excuse about bad food to have some healthy food in the restaurants. We had travelled a lot in kolkata may be on shopping spree or birthday bash, or just for fun. we had traveled from from the slums to the malls, eaten from 5 stars to small dhabas, watched movies from Inox, Forum and Adlabs,from luxurious cab to walking along busy streets of Chandni to College streets, exploring new places and sharing our emotions, went from AMRI to local doctors, had fights with auto and taxiwallahs, we laughed at little money saved and showered anger on the person who invented ATMs. Yes, Finally i had got over my moron life.
But what was going to be next we were quite apprehensive about. From January we have to go to live in so called jungle. I were not that unhappy but I had little doubts as during my school life I had been in Narendrapur, which was far away from city hustle and bustle, full of greenery. Yes, I was sorry that we wouldnot have luxury of 2 Mbps net in our hostel, in fact no internet connection. Before leaving for home in winter vacation we bid adieu all of our favorite places but promised to return again .
Trouble started when we got call on taxi routing to hostel that the bus which was scheduled to take us to Haringhata will leave early and it was full. we showered all our anger on school management. This time again they have failed to arrange proper transportation. Anyhow we jam-packed the bus but left over on tata-407. We reached Haringhata in the afternoon. The ride was rough for me, at that moment I thought that I was not going to return Kolkata on frequent basis.(p.s. I returned next Saturday). At this moment I must say I was unhappy with the behaviour of some of my class mates.
Reaching here we were unhappy that 3 persons are living in 1 room and also also room sitting allotments were not according to our choice. But as always we arranged everything. We had no time to roam around. At first view it was as if we were on tour to a village, but our room and hostel was spacous. The facilities on macroscopic level looked wonderful, microscopically had faults like problems with aqua-guards.
The first thing I did was installed my computer and played NFS-most wanted. We had some problems with room arrangements. We hoped next day we will have solve out all problem and had a nice sleep.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Review: Slumdog Millionaire
I heard lot about the film in media. A. R. Rahman had got his first Golden Globe award was pure joy. Its a movie with lot of Indian emotion and drama. Emotional feelings were aroused to a large extent by acting of small Jamal. The beauty of film was it showed in a nutshell all the social traumas suffered by the slum dwellers. But in greater outlook it has highlighted the troubles of lower income group. Working hard, fighting for recognition and striving chords of their heart.
The movie covering from the Riots ,underworld and modern religion -" working in call centers". All actors have done a marvelous job, except the attitude Anil Kapoor was talking on a reality show was just too low. Editing of the film is excellent. The way story runs is appealing and moving.
A long debate is going on these days someone writing in their blogs that this film is crap and it sends wrong signal to audience about India. As the director and most of the film crew members are Non-Indian so they have ignored Indian sentiments. Perhaps they have forgot that this movie is based on The book "Q& A" written by Vikas Swarup who is an Indian says Salman Hasan. Arindam Chaudhury in his blog has criticized that its like typical Hindi Movie crap and has sent wrong signals and you must not watch this movie. Though he has given such comments after watching the movie himself, so you cannot force any one to not to watch this movie. You have choice in Times rating the have awarded 4,5 out of 5. Now its your choice you want to watch this movie or not.
Coming to music, its sensational. Its already rocking the world chart and pouring awards to much deserved Rahman and Gulzar. My favorite track is "Paper plane" and "Jai Ho". "Jai Ho" seems to be new national anthem arousing sense of enthusiasm. The music deserves laurels.
Western media rates this movie as overrated. It has got more Oscar Nominations than Dark Knight. Certainly I will rate Dark Knight far better to win an Oscar, but its my personal view. The first part where children play a part is new, but young Jamal turns teenage, it seems to be typical Hindi movie except the way it is edited. Yes the movie has used abusive language to large extent to give a real touch.
Overall its a good movie. But the ticket prices have rose sky high after its 10 Oscar nomination is not good.
The movie covering from the Riots ,underworld and modern religion -" working in call centers". All actors have done a marvelous job, except the attitude Anil Kapoor was talking on a reality show was just too low. Editing of the film is excellent. The way story runs is appealing and moving.
A long debate is going on these days someone writing in their blogs that this film is crap and it sends wrong signal to audience about India. As the director and most of the film crew members are Non-Indian so they have ignored Indian sentiments. Perhaps they have forgot that this movie is based on The book "Q& A" written by Vikas Swarup who is an Indian says Salman Hasan. Arindam Chaudhury in his blog has criticized that its like typical Hindi Movie crap and has sent wrong signals and you must not watch this movie. Though he has given such comments after watching the movie himself, so you cannot force any one to not to watch this movie. You have choice in Times rating the have awarded 4,5 out of 5. Now its your choice you want to watch this movie or not.
Coming to music, its sensational. Its already rocking the world chart and pouring awards to much deserved Rahman and Gulzar. My favorite track is "Paper plane" and "Jai Ho". "Jai Ho" seems to be new national anthem arousing sense of enthusiasm. The music deserves laurels.
Western media rates this movie as overrated. It has got more Oscar Nominations than Dark Knight. Certainly I will rate Dark Knight far better to win an Oscar, but its my personal view. The first part where children play a part is new, but young Jamal turns teenage, it seems to be typical Hindi movie except the way it is edited. Yes the movie has used abusive language to large extent to give a real touch.
Overall its a good movie. But the ticket prices have rose sky high after its 10 Oscar nomination is not good.
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