Some Thoughts

Q: Who am I?
A: No-one!
All right! I am alive! Does it matter?
For most of us – We don’t live life…life lives us.

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If you are able to spend your life in your own way – now, that is SUCCESS!!!!

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Cinema gives you a glimpse of the past. You then realize the present and think of the future.

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Americans seem to be obsessed by god and money.

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Searching for the elusive.

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A Place in the World "Un Lugar en el Mundo" by Adolfo Aristarain is a strong and powerful Argentinean movie about human lives and the place they dwell in. It shows that the rich always wins and that your dreams, ideas and visions however strong, need people to execute - and the people always ditches you.

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De América soy hijo... y a ella me debo is a documentary by Santiago Álvarez covering the visit to Chile by Cuba’s Fidel Castro in 1971, just before Chile’s President Salvador Allende was overthrown and a Military junta was established in 1973. Good visuals.

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Nobody will tell you not to do a thing. Nobody will tell you not to become someone, or somebody. Everybody will tell you to become a doctor, an engineer, an architect, a pilot, a business manager, a banker, a stock broker, an economist, a police officer, an income tax officer, a bureaucrat, a diplomat, a politician, a psychologist, an archeologist, a software engineer, a lawyer, a brand manager, a financial manager, a sales and marketing manager, a journalist, an actor, a director, a sportsman, a chef, a singer, a video jockey, a choreographer, a musician, a photographer, a mathematician, a physicist, a biologist, an accountant…the list goes on!

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Most conversations start with pains and aches. The discussion goes on with what ailments one suffers medically along with what holds the Bengali community at bay. How the Marwari community, the Biharis and the Muslims along with the Central Govt., the rival political party and American Imperialism have conspired to make the Bengalis suffer!

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While we are here on this earth, we like all past generations, keeps asking that same old question: Whether we human beings are free to decide and act or whether our decisions and actions are determined by external forces: heredity, environment, history, fate, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Twitter, Face Book, iPod, Smart Phones, Internet, Drones, Televisions...(and heaven knows what other miracles and magic are to invade us).

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