On the parchment

Why do people feel entitled to something they don't have and the others have? Moving to Bangalore is by far the most suffering and sacrificial thing I have ever done in my life. The only good thing about this wretched city is my husband is in it. As if this isn't bad enough, travelling to work everyday doesn't make it any better. The bus journey takes over 2 hours one way.  More often than not, I get a seat to sit in the bus and I choose my seat wisely since the journey to home is long. Given my physical stature, people are drawn to sit next to me. Let me put it this way. People see me as a thin girl occupying a whole seat that I don't deserve. This is one of many such incidents. The bus was almost empty and a lady boarded. I could see her eyes scanning for thin passengers just so she could sit next to them and occupy two seats and leave the scrap to the thin one. As fate would have it, she sat next to me. The bus seemed to be taking in more people in the following s...

Rating 4/5 I am so glad I watched this movie alone because watching this with an anti-BJP or anti-Congress person would have made the experience very different. Now, I am not going to walk through the movie scene by scene and find out flaws in the direction or the acting or screenplay because this of all the movies in the world doesn't warrant it. The actors played out their role decently well. The very little drawbacks in the movie were highly compensated by the very moving and real plot. This is not a movie where the audience wait till the end to applaud for India. This is a movie where every scene puts one word and only one word in your mind while you watch it: India. Every scene merits a standing ovation because in reality, the soldiers did really put their lives at stake for our country. Your patriotism is sure to resurface from the very start of the movie and will continue to linger forever even after leaving the theatre. The military jawans in the border unanimously say, ...