Invitation

Shakespeare is No Theatre

The tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Act IV Scene 1: Titus:

"Magni Dominator poli,

Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides."

For those of you who could not comprehend, thank you for being on my side. And for those of you who could, I've one more.

Love's Labour's Lost

Act IV Scene 2: HOLOFERNES:

"Ah, good old Mantuan! I may speak of thee as

the traveller doth of Venice:

Venetia, Venetia,

Chi non ti vede, non ti pretia.

Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! Who understandeth thee not."

Actually, I understandeth thee not.

And those of you who could not understand this time, thank you for leaving pretentiousness. For those of you who could, Shakespeare loved men like you.

Even the most intellectual minds of the country interpret Shakespeare's words “Et tu, Brute?" as ethhuu Brute. And this was testified in a cultural festival held at a premier institute of the country. Let's come over to the definitions of theatre and drama. Theatre is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, puppets, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.

Drama is that branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text (plays), or improvised is paramount. Now if the speech of the characters is not being understood by the audience, the very purpose of theatre is negated. Instead of entertaining or spreading some message, there is confusion, misinterpretation and exasperation since the communication fails. And you know what, when communication fails, speech becomes noise, mere noise. So, Shakespeare is just some vague aristocratic cacophony which no longer relates to the status quo.

Shakespeare is regarded as one of the biggest plagiarists in English literature. All the plots of his theatre have been extensively copied from ancient Greek and European literature. But he played with the junctures of the plot and presented it in the language of his time. Now, with the changing time, the coherence of his literature has been vanishing. Today, if you recreate Shakespearian Theatre in a form that can be assimilated by the people, that's fine, but raw Shakespeare, I'm sorry, it's no more a delicacy. Today, when Juliet cries "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?, you know what Romeo is doing, he is mugging up the Advanced Learner's Oxford Dictionary.

Love @ IIT

Sitting on the grass

Beside the lush waters of the lake

Guarded by wild forest

With deer and bucks playing around

There are just the two of us

With her head on my shoulder

And my arm wrapped around her.

I talk of the moon, the ripples, the twinkling stars

The breeze caresses her

And plays with her hair

A few naughty ones fall on her forehead

I push them aside, meticulously

And fondle her right cheek

She cuddles me up

I embrace her

The night beholds us silently

Peeking through the North, South, East and West.

Under the shade of the sky

In the lap of land

Two hearts celebrate the joy of love.

The trees sway and swing

On the lullaby of wind

Creatures chirp and applaud

The moon smiles up there

The clouds flash dimples

And then...crashes the universe

The alarm of my clock bangs

It’s already 8:58

I had a paper at 8.

TFE Hindi IP'07

Cute Quote

God is not pleased to be insulted when He wears His dark suits.

-PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA on racial prejudice

Scribbled in my Room

Go to bed early
Get out of it soon
Use time in plenty
Every day is a boon


Listen to yourself. Look Within.
Speak up!


Time is precious
Today is auspicious
Wake up to the call
Go forward
Shoot the ball


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein


Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count


Time and tide wait for none


Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves


Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment

Kher & Kakkar

Last 36 hours brought me into contact with two eminent personalities – Anupam Kher and Prahlad Kakkar. The former is an actor and the latter an adman. Both are genius. You never realize that until their charisma and enigma catches you live. Before both of the respective lectures, I was lethargic enough to rot in my room amidst the usual malodorous fumes. Providentially, I somehow happened to be in the sanctified auditorium and the juice was worth the squeeze. Some of the chronological commandments of life leaked out are as follows: (->the apology smiley is for the pathetic clichés of my notorious mind which have plagued the paragraph towards the end)

Failures are as worthy of celebration as success, perhaps more sometimes. When you are not afraid of failures, the latent potential within you liberates itself. Success brings with itself arrogance as dowry.

Life is about choosing between journey and destination and it turns out that journey can be of more worth than the destination itself. In fact, the key to happiness lies in enjoying the journey and taking life as it is.

Bheega hua aadmi baarish se nahi darta (A drenched person is not scared of the rains). Let yourself go through the vicissitudes of life but rise out of any abyss like a mountain.

Counting upon your past-achievements is losing your present ones.

Rising to the zenith is commendable but staying there is genius.

Success is like money. Once you realize that you have it, you have already taken your first step towards losing it. Failures elevate you to success; success brings with itself the fear of failure.

The best way to avert mistakes is not to repeat them. Silly mistakes are like common cold; you never know when they creep inside and spit phlegm on your answer sheet.

Cute Quote

Using cute labels in a program is similar to representing a power supply in a schematic by a picture of the sun or a ground with the digit zero.

- RAMESH GAONKAR

Karan-Arjun

Get a taste of the delicacy which is prepared when Karan Thapar and Arjun Singh meet:

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/decision-on-quota-is-final-arjun/11063-4-single.html

vHow: Poetry - Analysis & Guide

A poem, invariably, is the concoction of expression and emotion. Nevertheless, it results in a compromise of either of the two. Guided by perception and fuelled by the outer world's myriad forms, sounds, lullaby, silence, simplicity, complexity, tragedy, comedy, wonders, a poet sails throughout her/his life with the sole cause of liberating the souls of all physical phenomena. In the process, he swims on the surface, dives deep, goes within, looks around and what is thus exhaled is pure creation.

Is it fair to call a poetic work as creation? True, it's been displayed never before, true, it's a connotation of authenticity, true, it is an undisputed property of its owner, albeit doesn't it challenge the supremacy of the almighty who is the first and only creator in the universe, who created heart and mind, nature and creature, life and death and everything else? May be, a poet assumes his creativity in the womb of His blessings or perhaps, it's bogus to use the term creative according to the uni-creator theory with the tag line

"Man can not create but discover."

Since ages, poets have been pseud in their advice about the secrets of writing a verse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

The Prince of Versia has shown a commendable act of generosity by agreeing to leak the secrets of writing poetry. Mr Virgineer proudly presents

A Complete Stud's Guide to Writing Poetry

Step1: Get yourself to a secluded place.

Step2: Forget everything, feel peaceful and think about things that have made an impact on your heart. Remember, a poet's heart is very sensitive. Damn anything in the world can impress it.

Step3: Choose the channel in which you wanna swim...

Step4: There should be one line that's going to be the most important in terms of representation of your thoughts...may be the 1st line.

Step5: Just go your way in your style, prefer ideas to rhyme scheme...If u don't get the rhyme right, put that idea somewhere else and work out some other idea that rhymes.

Sometimes people think backwards...they first think about a word that rhymes with the last one of a line and then formulate the idea. Either way it's fine as long as ur idea is impressive.

Once you've practised well, go ahead for writing sonnets, limericks and haikus...

**Note: Please, for Go..eh...Poetry's sake, don't sue me if the above doesn't work. I highly recommend it for novices who need a kick-start in their rhyming careers. Nevertheless, my recommendation is not recommended by me and, to put it simply, use it at your own risk!