Friday, January 23, 2009

terrorists and freedom fighters

The terror artist



A human or is it?
Up in arm against the order or is it?
There is no rationale or is it?

As a child, and even today,
There are things still fathomless and grey.
May be we have missed a bullet or two,
With the whole story engraved through…

The gunfire and the platitude
The cries and the silence
What has brought us here?
Do we really need blood and rust?
To get ahold of the killer!

Does the child have a choice?
An AK at eight,
Rhetoric for brains,
that could be you or me,
Definitely not the ideal setting to be free…

You can bomb the base
You can assassin the face
You can fortify the hedge
The internal security for all you care…

But no wall is impregnable,
Can u crucify the idea, the thought?
One’s terrorist will be some mother's rebel.
Activity n care for those who rot,
Will be the first to ring a bell…

Someone’s grief is no-concern to others,
He was just a child, who couldn’t run,
You can torture or burn,
But is a lamp going to make the sun?

What is it, which calls for blood?
I know there are issues, and so was the colour,
But somehow I believe, we had a victory to savour…

I am entangled in this labyrinth,
Want to clobber the foe,
fire bullets in his toe,
But what if you just can’t make the unseen bow?

Better now then never
Guess only love n virtue is gonna help us run over…
Only love n virtue...

Saturday, January 10, 2009

top 25 movies on my list *jan 2009

Well this is a crude list of my top 25 movies*. Hope m not missing on some.


  1. Blood Diamond
  2. Cinderella man
  3. The matrix/the Shawshank redemption
  4. Se7en/Memento
  5. Serendipity/City of god(Cidade de deus)
  6. Rang de Basanti
  7. Godfather series
  8. Schindler's list
  9. Casino Royale
  10. The departed
  11. Butterfly effect
  12. The equilibrium
  13. Hotel Rwanda/ Saving Private Ryan
  14. Dil chahta hai
  15. Away from her/Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
  16. Enemy at the gates
  17. V for vendetta/12 Angry Men
  18. Million Dollar Baby/ Mystic River





*thanks IMDB, an awesome source to refer to.
Out of scores on LAN and then there are recos from friends with all different tastes (Three to Teeth and lot many in between), IMDB does make sorting really easy. Yes there would be movies I would have rated higher and vice-versa but a rule of the thumb that works most of the time is- ‘any movie with a 7 and above rating is worth my time’. I tried Rotten Tomatoes (takes a lot of time to load as compared to IMDB)but one credible rating agent is enough and i would stick with IMDB for better interface.



*Jan 2009