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Totem : An object that is used to test if oneself is in one’s own reality (dream or non-dream) and not in another person’s dream. What if you lose your totem? Does your existence have any meaning after that? If another person’s dream is much more pleasant than your reality, would you really bother about [...]
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The Mermaid’s Sonata
Posted by Hemanth on September 7th, 2010
Boys don’t cry…or do they?
Posted by Hemanth on August 25th, 2010
What makes up one’s personality? Is it the upbringing? Is it the environment (the society)? Or is it one’s own psyche of his/her existence? There maybe several answers to each of these questions and in turn they give rise to some more questions. The process continues till we reach a dead end where we conclude that maybe we started with a wrong question.
Langkawi : Heaven On Earth
Posted by Hemanth on July 17th, 2010
On July 17, 2009 I landed in Langkawi, Malaysia for couple of days. It was the conclusion of my week long backpacking trip from Kuala Lumpur – Ipoh – Penang – Langkawi. After spending two days on this heaven on Earth, I joined my friends back in Singapore. Here are some of the pics from [...]
Damn! I swallowed the Red Pill..
Posted by Hemanth on September 19th, 2009
Yes. I am certain that I swallowed the red pill. No wonder, I end up being perplexed at the movies. Recently, when I went to see a Telugu film called, “Shankam”, I spent more time reading people’s reactions and tried to arrive at a conclusion. Either I have lost all sense of humour or maybe [...]
Posted in Films, Movies, Musing 
Tags: art cinema, audience, blue pill, Entertainment, escapism, realism, red pill, telugu film industry, Telugu Films, Tollywood 
8 Comments »Quantum of Solace and a Dash of Hope…
Posted by Hemanth on June 26th, 2009
These days I have been reading a wonderful novel by David Mitchell named “Cloud Atlas”. However, this post is not a book review, but about a series of images which can flash through your mind while reading a book. In one of the chapters of “Cloud Atlas” (Ch: An Orison of Sonmi ~ 45I), there [...]
Posted in Life, Musing Tags: Agra, An Orison of Sonmi ~ 45I, AP, Ayn Rand, Books, Cloud Atlas, College, Confusion, Conscience, David Mitchell, Dreams, Flash, Friends, Gaudi, Gloom, Happiness, Hyderabad, Images, J R R Tolkien, Jalesar, Life, Madurai, Memories, Michelangelo, Northern India, School, Steve Jobs, Summer, Thirumangalam, TN, Winter 2 Comments »Thank You Mr.Raju for Saving My Life!
Posted by Hemanth on June 17th, 2009
January 7th, 2009. A day which will live in infamy for the startling and shocking confessions of Mr.Raju. It blew one of the most profitable firms in India (atleast the figures said so) into pieces and thousands of skeletons were excavated from the closet by the media with great fervour. The columns in newspapers ran [...]
Posted in Life, Musing Tags: Arundhati, Blogging, Career, Chaos, Confession, Creative, Decision, Dreams, Evil Eye, Freedom, Frustration, Future, Hope, Horizon, Infamy, Influences, Journalism, Liberation, Life, Media, Mordor, Movie Critics, Movies, Newspaper, Newspaper Columns, Possibilities, Promises, Ramalinga Raju, restlessness, ROI, Sabbatical, Satyam, Satyamites, Shire, Spark, Studying in Europe, Studying in US, Tech Mahindra, Telugu, Virtual Pool Program, VPP, Writing 26 Comments »