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Happy 73rd Independence day to all of you. This morning, 15th August messages started flowing in, hugs from fellow Indians, mubarak ho. Outside the residence in Suva Patriotism flows high, but why just for a day and what exactly Independence day means to us anyway? I like the idea of freedom and believe every single person in the world should be and must be free to do, say anything. In reality, it may or may not happen. For me, driving a bike and cruising around gives me the ultimate kick. This picture taken this morning of 15th August- 2019 in Suva, the capital city of Fiji.

The 70s hangs high in this port town of Fiji, West. https://youtu.be/d5yy56RnyYI The song being played from a roadside shop in the background is from the 70's movie Muqaddar ka Sikandar, (1978) "Salaam E Ishq Meri Jaan, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha. The building in this video was built in 1974, four ago, in the 70s, the classic Bollywood age. Fiji in many ways is stuck in the 70s, like the Cuba. It's my first video to celebrate this unique island country with several traits, the world must turn back, and see. Vinaka https://youtu.be/d5yy56RnyYI

Five years ago, we saw ‘Bombay Talkies’ and the gang of four hit back again exclusively for the ‘Netflix’ generation.   This time, we see the movie real time in the Fiji Islands after work. We see how they see people and places. There are four untitled stories done by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar weaving Kiara Advani, Vicky Kaushal, Neha Dhupia, Radhika Apte and Bhumi Pednekar around a common motif. The idea of launching the films on Netflix – a LIVE streaming platform is liberating for the filmmakers, I wish this existed when Kashyap made yet-to-be-released ‘Paanch’ I think, it would be a good idea to launch it legally now.   Coming back to where we began, there are clueless men and strong women fore-playing. The film is apt in a sexually liberated environment and very urban. All the films apart from the common theme ‘lust’ also portrayed how strong willed these women are and all of them exactly knew what they wanted in/from life. ...

It's over one year for me in this beautiful island country tucked in the South Pacific Islands. After leaving Delhi, had zero idea what Fiji is about. Have lifted information etc. Now, will begin a series where i'll pick up words heavily influenced by Bengal. The place where most Indo -Fijians (forefathers) came from. Hope you will like it. It’s literally a journey across oceans, mixing diplomacy and friendship with history, culture and civilizational memories. Located thousands of miles away in the South Pacific Ocean, but kindred in spirit, Fiji, a string of 800-plus stunningly picturesque coral islands, is intimately linked with India by over 300,000 persons of Indian origin who have made this Pacific nation their home for over a century. Early ancestors of Indo-Fijians- Indians had been employed for a long time on the European ships trading in India and the East Indies. Many of the early voyages to the Pacific either started or terminated in India, and many of these...

With a kiss let set out for an unknown world. FIJI Seems like reborn, time to learn and unlearn things in life. Came here with a blank slate nine months ago. I am definitely more Indian than ever and shall come back to my motherland with one more layer of patriotism. Feel more Indian here than I ever felt back in Bharat. With less than 6 Indians in the new company I joined in August 2017, I was the 3rd recruit. Get surprised, amazed, shocked and awed all together at the same time everyday. Seems like life has definitely something else stored for me, which I don't know yet. This is a paveway and that's mysterious.  Need to share (express) more through this platform in days to come. Rekindle the passion and start living for the heart and not just the stomach (paapi pet). Vinaka

Pic Source: PWC-18 20's are a great time to spread those legs out on your sofa and munch a packet of Cheetos while thinking of what to wear to that party that awaits you on Friday night, and if you are edging out over the last few years of your 20s and find yourself living and working in a country like India, bless you because you won't run out of issues you "feel for" any time soon. I don't mean it in a bad way, but this is the best time to be a millennial in India. Every day comes wrapped with newer issues to fight for, and guess what, you have an audience for all your thought streams. Now writing a personal blog is fun for me, because this is only time I don't search the web for parallel narratives and sub-texts. No Huffington Post or Newyorker quotations will bore you.  As I make my way through the crowded metro in New Delhi, I can't help but notice the growing number of women now working in my city, and women of all types, the saree connoiss...

BHANSALI MOVIE DELAYED AND LAUNCHED UNDER FEAR.  Yet to understand why so much cry over a historical event by a variety of sections in our society? FOR all kinds of reasons best known to their circuit of intellectuals, or not.  The film poster made by Sanjay Leela Bhansali with the original name "Padmaati" outside a cinema hall in Nadi,Fiji Islands, South Pacifica region.  Note: Noone is supposed to get offended because this post is to inform and make a protest (if needed) after having all the information in place, not before that). Chor Minar near our place in South Delhi was built during Allaudin Khilji period. Around 800 years ago. Few points to be noted. 1. Almost forgot who Allaudin Khilji was. 2. Mild remembrance of the story of the Queen Rani Padmini  (until the movie happened) 3. Forgot the name of our Rajput king Raja Ratan Rawal Singh of Chittor (before Wikipedia ing it until late night last night) 4. Remembered every protest by the K...