A Wandering Mind

It’s a roller coaster ride of emotions. At once you feel happy and motivated, or laughing over a dialogue, sympathizing with the characters or get a burst of patriotism and nationalism. The film is average if you forget the fact that it’s based on the true event; the nuclear bomb testing which India conducted in the year 1998, keeping it successfully hidden from the US. This event brought the small, forsaken village of Pokhran in the middle of the Thar Desert on the world map. Source: filmsxpress.com/ With US, China and Pakistan testing their nuclear bombs and showing their might to the world, a threat loomed on India’s political and defence stature. Adding to the woes, India’s previous attempt of testing the bombs in the year 1995 which failed miserably; it was all the more important for India to stand on its own feet before it crumbled due to the activities of its neighbouring countries. Ashwat Rana (John Abraham), an IAS officer comes up with a strategic plan to conduc...

I recently went to this restaurant : Incognito in Baner which I have reviewed in this post. During some restaurant hunting in Baner with a friend, we found ourselves hanging around the newly built Balewadi Highstreet which is the host for some amazing restaurants and cafes. Baner has quickly established itself as a new hotspot in the city for restaurants and cafes which the western part of the city lacked badly till now. The premises of Balewadi Highstreet are posh with clean footpaths, sophisticated buildings.We decided to try this restaurant "Incognito" out of all others due to its lively atmosphere and some great interiors. The restaurant is a showcase of European culture with interiors designed in the similar fashion. You see a beautiful bar with subtle dim lighting as soon as you enter the place. The overall atmosphere inside automatically gives you a sense of coziness. Every table is provided with its own lighting above which actually makes the interiors exo...

July-August has been  one of the most splendid months of my life by far. Not just I went for my first ever trip overseas but because this trip combined two of my passions: Astronomy and Photography. I was a part of IAYC 2016: International Astronomical Youth Camp. This was the 52nd edition of the camp this year which took place at Somerset, UK. The camp was 3 weeks long held from 24th July to 13th August. IAYC brings together 65 odd astronomy enthusiasts from every corner of the world together who carry out various astronomical projects together. The camp was divided into 8 different groups having 8 different sub-topics of astronomy. Every group is headed by a leader who guides its group members in their projects. I was a part of the group which dealt about astrophotography. Batch of  IAYC 2016 The camp was situated at a picturesque location in Somerset. Our house, Nettlecombe court, is a 16th century manor alongside  a church with beautiful architectur...

Let me be straight up. I'm not really the one who will sit up late till the midnight just to write a movie review. Now since I'm taking up the pen and gathering my thoughts about the film, the movie has to be something worth of. It is. Tamasha , serves like a reawakening to the masses to sit up an actually look into yourself and question your living. ' Am I a person with a masked identity trying to fake up my own heart and soul?' 'Is this life taking me where I ACTUALLY want to be?' Beyond the sizzling chemistry between the lead pair of the film Ranbir and Deepika, lies these questions. The film opens to a stage portraying Deepika as a clown and Ranbir as a robot as they try to bridge the ' dil aur duniya '.  According to the history of Imtiaz Ali's works, from Jab We Met , Love Aaj Kal to Rockstar and now Tamasha , the hero has to be a 'underdog' of his life going through highs and lows until an awakening comes by. In Tamasha, this ...

Massive Open Online Courses  ( MOOC / mu:k/ )  are a platform of online courses for students and also to professionals to explore their curiosity when it comes to knowledge. The last few decades have witnessed a massive increase in the number of its takers. MOOCs are one of the great outcomes of the advancing information technological age which has made the learning easily accessible and simplified in a sense that anyone can take up these courses regardless of their academic background. Being associated with almost 15 MOOCs since a past year, it has been a wonderful journey for me to learn from these courses. From physics and astronomy to psychology to even human resources and photography, digital learning has struck the chord for me. Learning varied courses which are out of the routinized pen-paper academic education has proved to be an ''addiction'' for me! Moreover, these courses bring in a whole lot of  advantages which I believe are unique in their self. A few...

From L-R: Keith Wallen, Shaun Foist, Benjamin Burnley, Aaron Bruch, Jasen Rouch The taste of triumph is achieved only after a nerve wrecking phase of struggle after a failure.It is just like feeling the warmth of sunlight reaching the the earth after a night of a violent storm.Breaking Benjamin's Dark Before Dawn is a replication of the same.The album takes you through a journey of revival after a failure or hurt is well worth taking. The alternate rock/ post grunge band is back to continue the journey started by Benjamin Burnley, band's front man and lead singer, in 1998 in Pennsylvania ,USA. It has been a wait of six long years for the fans after the band released their most successful album Dear Agony in 2009.This period found Ben battling with severe health and legal issues. The conflict between the former members which eventually lead to the break up of the band found Ben fighting for living which is the sole reason for the whole new line of the band. Forme...

Youngsters passing out from 10th and 12th standard are often bombarded with all sorts of questions regarding their careers. Some kids promptly burst out the answer,'Engineering!'. (I was among this category) But no one ever questioned the reason behind why the kid choose it as a career option out of so many alternatives. I am often confronted with silence from a 10th pass when I put this question forward. Some do manage to answer it as their 'interest' or 'hobby' or simply ' Sab yahi to karate Hain!' I wonder what may be their thoughts behind answering  one of the most important questions of their lives : careers Decisions about careers are taking in the adolescent stage where a student is dealing of variety of changes in his life.This stage is often regarded as a delicate or to be precise - vulnerable.Call it unfair or just the bad luck, it is in this stage the careers are decided. So its likely that this decision process might be affected b...