Seeing Things

The Theory of Everything is an inspirational film. It inspires you to never allow anything to bog you down in your endeavors. But, the film is not so much about science as it is about love. The Theory of Everything helped prove some of my own theories. On love and relationships. Not that I have ANY credentials whatsoever to be commenting on love but here goes:   1) Love* triumphs everything.  If you love each other, nothing can come in the way. Not poverty, not alcoholism, not distance, not personality differences, not physical disability, nothing. We fool ourselves in blaming such things for our break-ups. My theory is that the reason for wanting a break-up is simply an inadequate give and take of love. Because mutual love can triumph over any issue.  2) Love* just happens.  Hence, it is effortless. You can not decide to love someone. Neither can you instruct someone to love you. My theory is that love* is inevitable and is effortless. (spoiler alert) We d...

This post is to discuss not the film but the subject of the film. It is as I watched the scene where a scientific breakthrough was inter-cut with glimpses of Ganesha and the soundtrack of one of my favourite aartis -jaidev jaidev mangal murthi..that I began to hear the first alarm bells go in my head.  Hawaizada is not just an untold story of an unsung hero.  The untold story would be that a man called Shivkar Bapuji Talpade existed who dedicated his life to building a flying machine at the same time as the Wright Brothers and many others across the world did.  But this film takes the liberty of proposing that  recorded history is wrong. That  Shivkar Bapuji Talpade  happens to be the man who invented the world's first manned aircraft and he did it with the help of our Vedas.   Hawaizada represents a fragment of the extreme nationalist right wing thought-process and it's  entry into the mainstream and THAT is something we need to aw...