life during vacations is about finding a word and digging deeper.. the beauty of this is how you find one word and then it reminds you of Draupadi's Sari, albeit in a different way.. you keep pulling, the flow can go on endlessly, one word leading to another and another.
random musings of a desi about some firsts she experienced here.. that's what this space is all about. so this time it was the storehouse of information that is internet. (i will not use the word knowledge here, given the scope and retention of information being limited and variable from person to person.)
So the christmas break starts and suddenly i realise i was fitting in so much in a single day during the first term that just ended, that my day suddenly feels malnourished without new information. so i move beyond the five elements of the net and approach it with the eyes of an explorer. and the search begins.
house music: so Bob Sinclar performed here last weekend. if that name isnt familiar then this blogpost is meant for you. while my frnds went to his party, i looked up on google and found the word house music. and since then i have a youtube window open listening to his and other house artists' famous songs, and have realised how familiar these tunes are. i had danced to his songs and never cared about finding what they were or who they were by .
pantomime: this was a random fluke, some news website led me to an article about how Pamela Anderson was in the eye of a storm for having taken up a pantomime role. so i got to know about this completely different aspect of theatre in the UK which happens around Chrsitmas and New Year, and has its own set of performances and celebrities. just for trivia this year they are performing Alladin and Pam is the genie.
CSR: this goes back to the DGDW conference while searching for people, attendees, participants interested Corporate Social Responsibility, and i realise how this world is indeed thriving on a common fabric. it seems to me that people who are making something of their lives are increasingly cognizant about giving back to the society. but their efforts although congruent, aren't yet coinciding. it seems that everybody has the same aim and is working in silos. the future seems bright and this gets added to my "someday" list.
camel jockey: this is a classic example of endless-pulling of the sari. it started with a post on facebook about this interesting video on TED about sixth sense technology. (TED is a non-profit about spreading ideas and stands for Technology Entertainment Design and their last conference was held in Mysore). while this video on Sixth Sense Technology by Pranav Mistry was immensely interesting, what caught my attention was Sunitha Krishnan's talk on sex slavery. it was hitting and had a deeply unsettling influence. very similar to those stories that stay back with you forever. making you feel fortunate for all that you are and have, thanking Him for protecting you from tortures that others have suffered from. camel jockey is what it sounds like- a person riding on a camel in a race. the difference and relevance to this comes into picture because these riders are children who are sold off by their parents particularly in west Asia. i still remember the line on wiki quoting a person that these child camel jockeys live in conditions worse than prisoners. the tortures and abuse they suffer from is what relates it to sex slavery. if you still dont get it, think Shantaram in Arthur Road Prison, think Neil Nitin Mukesh in Jail and you might get your endless sari.
absynth: the one alcohol that is banned, and somehow this makes me feel justified in my apprehensions towards alcohol. i found out about how indian bhaang is a happy drug, not smooth but making you do the same things over and over again, while absynth brings out your violent tendencies, sending your life into a spiral devoid of all control. reading on about both smoking and alcohol, how alcohol is seemingly harmless but has long term effects on your health, while smoking tops the list of causes of most preventable diseases.
leaving you with a lingering thought.. Sunitha left me with a question, can i open my mind in my limited world? which brought me to another one, do i realise how limited my world is? which brings me to my new aim of finding answers to these questions. perhaps, just for the fun of it, i can call it my new year resolution. now thats another pulling-word, and i go back to pulling it.
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