Reaching There

FADE IN: INT: A SCHOOL FILLED WITH KIDS BUSY DRAWING WITH A TEACHER LOOKING OVER THEM - EVENING (CIRCA 1989) Flashback:  A four or five year old boy was asked to draw a picture of three trees that filled up the space. It was supposed to include a mango tree, an apple tree and a plum tree. The teacher didn't ask the boy to follow any instructions; just be free . The boy drew a picture with two trees and a man with a pointy red had standing nonchalantly between the trees. The audacity didn't end up there; the picture he drew included two apple trees. Probably mango and plum were not favourite. That wasn't the end of "experimentation" either; the fruits of the second tree were slightly triangular in shape! The boy is happy with the outcome . Present Day: The boy is now a twenty-nine or thirty year old man. He decides to "create" a poem so he can play with the words for fun . He sets a goal to write a poem; however this time arou...

Free-dom [ free -d uh m ] noun the state of being free, rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. the power to determine action without restraint personal liberty , as opposed to bondage or slavery. The attempt to "define" this word would be a futile attempt to confine the vastness of emotions associated with it. Thinkers, aristocrats, philosophers, artists, political leaders, governments and ordinary people throughout the history of humankind have defined freedom in ways convenient to the time. Golshifteh Farahani Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (Body of Lies fame) was banished from her home country of Iran - because she posed nude for a French news magazine, Le Figaro . According to the 28-year-old actress the aim of the photo is a symbolic gesture to remove the common taboos associated with nudity in society. You can read more about this at ' Iran's "nude revolutionary" Farahani says image is symbolic '. This...

Hoo...Haa...Hee! These were the sounds that were coming out of my mouth with my arms and legs outstretched. Oh, please don't worry; I wasn't undergoing any medical examination. Rather, these were the sounds I made when I was asked to do a few movements and sound exercises in my first class during a theater workshop organized by The Actor's Studio,Hyderabad . The next exercise was to make these sounds while throwing an invisible object to the person next to you. The next got a bit more interesting; a participant had to start a sentence with an English alphabet and the next person had to create the next sentence starting with the next letter in chain, however keeping a relation to the previous sentence. Then it was just whole lot of walking, sometimes in slow motion and running the other times. I didn't get the meaning of these exercises immediately. Even right now I am not sure. However the core message that seems to be coming from these exercises is “Let go ...