Disjointed peeves

So many things happen that I want to blog about and they are often just lost, so I’ve started writing small paragraphs as and when they happen. So while I still work on the Swiss travelogue, here’s some things that caught my attention over the last week:

Professor Sabharwal’s son – Himanshu Sabharwal appearing gleefully on every News Channel giving soundbytes on things not even remotely connected to his fathers murder. He recently played a big part in a debate on NDTV on whether teachers are underpaid or not. Should’nt he be at home in Ujjain, with his grieving mother, or something? He seems to be jetting between Ujjain and New Delhi – I wont be surprised if he joins some political party or a student union. I’m not against activism – more power to activists who get increased bandwidth because of channels, but this sounds like opportunism! Well the guy sure speaks well to his credit. So anyway, what he does is his own business.

House of Flying Daggers – the house got only about 10 minutes of screen time. The movie was more about how 2 guys loved a girl who loved each of them in turns. To start with, the VERY Indian sounding English dubbing quite put me off – I mean when you hear Chinese speaking English, you’d expect them to be accented – mind you, a CHINESE accent, not Indian!! So this movie started and expectedly it had many groups of kids – whose parents probably thought this was some good Harry Potter-kinda movie. I saw many parents who had accompanied their kids getting uncomfortable whenever some intimate scene came on screen. The unaccompanied kids were probably very happy – hehe, we caught some 12-13 yr old guys giving hi-fives to each other during the interval.

After Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese seem to have suddenly mastered the art of flying through Air/Bamboo Forests/anything high. The climax rests on a swordfight which…ahem…starts in summer and continues through winter when it starts snowing (one of the combatants had a knife in his back – again, since summer). The heroine – fatally stabbed with a knife in the heart in summer, suddenly wakes up in winter to still find her lovers fighting – am sure she wanted to go back to feigning sleep again and wake up in spring. But then the movie had to end soon enough.

Dress Code in Amity – the reasoning given by the Amity professors is that recruiters won’t see you seriously if you wear tees and jeans through 2 years in college. What bull?? Recruiters are not looking for waiters or security guards. In a TV interview, Mr Amity (someone) says this is about making a more responsible future generation – so does that mean that all who didn’t so far wear business suits to college have turned out irresponsible adults?