The Birthday
Secunderabad is 200 years old! Nice to see the city lit up again - last time I saw so many lights all over the place was during
Diwali. If only I wasn't so busy with some work at college (you'd think I'd be free from college-related work during holidays) I would have attended a lot of the events and taken lots of photos. In fact, there was a pretty impressive lineup of events - you can see the entire schedule on the
Official Hyderabad website. Unfortunately I'm free now, but all the celebrations ended yesterday.
Surprisingly, I couldn't find any photos of the celebrations. Only found
this one page, but all it has are images of scary dancers.
The Protest
I attended the
Anti-Reservation Protest on June 4 at
Indira Park - first protest I was ever part of. The turnout was much lesser than expected and nothing sensational happened, so obviously the media disappeared after a few minutes. Sad that Hyderabadies are so lazy to voice their opinion. Sitting at home cribbing won't solve anything you know. Not that the protest solved anything, it can't because the issue is incredibly complicated. But one thing is for sure - reservation for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in the premier government educational institutions like the IITs, IIMs and other institutions of higher learning is not the solution.
To me, a solution can be formulated only once the government reforms itself and India's corrupt caste-based village structure is done away with. When (and if) that'll ever happen? Nobody knows. Especially since our ministers are a bunch of clueless people. Speaking about clueless people, if you missed the interview with
Arjun Singh (Minister for Human Resource Development) on
CNN-IBN, read it
here.
Related article: Parth Dattatreya asks,
"Reservations Immortalized?"The Rest
Watched
Æon Flux (7/10) -
Charlize Theron looks gorgeous, loved the set design. Also watched
Inside Man (8/10) - a little slow moving for my taste, expected a better ending. Was pleasantly surprised to hear the
Chaiyya Chaiyya song from
Dil Se playing during the opening credits of the movie!
Can't wait to watch
Ghoom on
MTV this Saturday. It's a 45 minute spoof of the movie
Dhoom, produced under the banner of
MTV Fully Faltoo Films. It ought to be fun!
New photo over at my
gallery. My
'Waiting for Alms' shot made it to the
weekly photo contest finals. Lots of great shots this week, so it should be a close competition.
I first tried drawing this pic, but I couldn't draw it at all! I'm used to drawing comic stuff where there are sharp cuts and definite outlines for everything - the nose, mouth etc., so was tough drawing a person where all the facial features are defined only by shading. As you can see, it was way too crappy for me to continue working on it. Charlize wouldn't be too happy if she saw it either.
