in mute box - i voice

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on- series polygamy- until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate....

Shankar Nag, the name evokes warm memories of Malgudi days in me. I was perhaps too young to understand the fineness of Malgudi days when I first watched it on television, but I remember enjoying it. When in college the series was re-run, and I was completely floored. I could not have imagined Malgudi in any other way. Everything was perfect, the actors, the costumes, the sets, the location, and so was the director. He was a natural. It could not have been made better. What I know of Shankar Nag is what I see of him in his movies, and hear what people say of him. And I realise why he had and still has such a huge fan following or why people still love to remember him. Many a times when a conversation about Shankar Nag comes up, regardless of who it is, the topic of the Kannada film industry comes up too. Everyone, has just one thing to say. “If he was alive, the Kannada film industry would have been in a different place altogether.” I have no doubts about it. Even as an actor, mos...