Microsoft Blunders.

I composed a mail in MS-Outlook & I normally use MS-Word as my editor.
Also, I prefer to keep the spell & grammer check on, to avoid spelling mistakes in my mails to clients.

In one such mail, this is what Microsoft suggested me to change, to make it grammatically correct::



Microsoft - Your Potential, Our Passion. Well!!!

Valentines' Day 2008...

A memorablia for the Valentines' Day 2008...

Obviously, for Dear Bhavna...

Where the Mind is without Fear...

Posting this poem from Gitanjali, with the hope that every citizen of my motherland, India, read this...

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake...

-- The Gitanjali or `song offerings' by Rabindranath Tagore (1861--1941), Nobel prize for literature 1913, with an introduction by William B. Yeats (1865--1939), Nobel prize for literature 1923. First published in 1913.

Sitaare Screen Par...

Whoa, what a flick. Ah, a movie which almost everyone can associate with, considering we have a movie based on a kid & his exploration in this mighty competitive world.

I would not make the mistake of comparing this movie with RDB or Chak De India, since all three movies belong to an entire different genre.

As for a short brief, the movie is based on a dyslexic child’s - Ishaan Avasthi (Darsheel Safary) journey from home to boarding school, the triggering events for this movement & finally, the successful outcome of the tremendous talent within him.



The tag line: “Every Child is Special” sums up this very nicely.

The script impressively emphasizes on the psychological parameters related to the inability of the student to cope up with the education. The movie further goes on to demonstrates the attitude of parents & the teachers towards the kid – parents are cooperative but still swimming in a typecast sea. Then enters the hero – a temporary art professor, Nikumbh, (Aamir Khan) in the boarding school where the kid is going through a rough stage.

Being a teacher (probably the founder) of a school for the differently able, the art professor takes keen interest in this kid. He dares to challenge the ordinary & goes on to convince the principal of the school about the talent potential in the kid. & finally, he emerges a winner in the efforts. He has been portrayed as a human with lots of kindness towards kids & more so for kids in despair.

On the whole, the movie is peppered well with characters which portray correctly the sorry state of primary school education in our country. As if the educational system is not enough, parental & peer pressure further thoroughly deteriorate the child’s approach towards life & challenges. The movie offers an advice to all parents / teachers to move away from stereotyped mode of thinking to a more refined one, when dealing with kids / students who are not able to cope with the educational sage.

The performance of each of the characters – prominently the kid, his parents & brother & the teacher is highly impressive. Emotionally soothing tune has been filled in at the right places to induce tears in eyes of the viewer. Yeah, the movie may not go well with heartless folks. The cinematography, the stills & the overall package looks very well presented & highly polished.

& the title goes well with the theme, to drive home the message that in fact, kids are the stars on the earth – they ought to be treated well.

Finally, Aamir Khan may hope to pull the movie to international film festivals, since the product overall has been presented very well. “Awesome” is just one word to describe it.