The Ideal Old Age

Advertisements are a integral part of our lives. Advertisements of various kinds endorsing different products surround us everyday. However, most of them are blunt and boring and you grow so tired of them by a few days that either you shift your eyes away from it, switch the channel or you just go on tolerating it, having no idea what to do. But there do come advertisements once in a while, which captures our heart and mind, and you can never get enough of it, no matter how many times you watch it.

I came across one such yesterday while roaming around in cyberspace, at YouTube. Its from one of the leading telecom companies of India. The advertisement speaks of an old man who handles technology like a pro and makes use of it in his everyday life to make it more interesting.

The advertisement is a total success and is being appreciated by people from all age groups. Every young guy now dreams to become like him when they grow old.

Enough of jabbering. Here's the video:-

Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns.

And here goes another amazing book added to my "Completed Reading" list, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Its the second installment from the author of The Kiterunner fame.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a story again set in Afghanistan, Herat and Kabul to be exact. And this time there is no escaping to the U.S. but it starts, suffers and end in Afghanistan switching for a very short time to Pakistan.
The story is mainly based on two women, and gives us a close up view of their everyday life, their joys, their sufferings, their desperation to be independent from the tortures and misery and their efforts to claim it. The two female characters are chosen very carefully, the first one is Mariam, a harami born out of an accidental affair between the most richest person of Herat and his maid servant while the other one is Laila, the daughter of an university professor, educated in school and is free from wearing burkha or following any improper rules of the Muslim community. As luck would have it, the lives of these two women from completely two different rungs of society clash together and are made to walk the same path. But finally, one

What seems like an eternity

Let the lights dim out
And the candles blow off.
Let's sit in the dark today
Staring out at each other.
Let the vision pierce through the darkness
And the silence fill in our ears,
As a strange calmness spread around;
While time just seems to stop
For what seems like an eternity.

PADE Post #6 (Theme- Shape)

No shape

For you. But

Only power

You've got,

To sustain

Or destroy

An entire species.

My PADE entry for today's theme- Shape.

PADE Post #5 (Theme- Bridge)

Catch a metro and travel on this bridge, enjoying the view and soon you will find yourself in peace as you move down into the Earth, where no sound disturbs you except the roaring of the engines....

This photo is an entry for PADE, a month long photo festival organised by Sfurti & Ritu. A special thanks to these wonderful ladies for all their efforts for PADE.

PADE Post #4 (Theme- Word)

Stop inhibiting yourself.

Let the words flow

Out of your mind,

Through a pen.

And stare at wonder

To the difference it makes

Both to the world,

And to your heart.

Photo for PADE, a month long photo festival & this is my interpretation of today's theme Word.

PADE Post #3 (Theme- Window)

A window of a building in Fatehpur Sikri

 

A window of my present home

Back to PADE after a long time and it feels so good. Here is my two interpretations of today's PADE theme, i.e., Window. Hope you all like it!!