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 For the past few days I have been attempting to write and have left it blank, I open my blog think of what to write about and open my phone and start scrolling some social media pages. It has become a pattern, a toxic one at that.  I finally found something that pushed me to write, so I found this quote  that said "write everyday, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good or as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later" - Jane Smiley. This was on a page called writing about writing.  Actually it has been very difficult to open Facebook for the past few days, it has been extremely disturbing and still I found myself not being able to break out of it. few months back I wasn't opening it at all, for a few months I had even deleted it from my phone, I am beginning to wonder if I should do that again, because it is only filling me p with negativity. I have almost reached a point w...

 There is a new short film by Neelam Productions called 'The Discreet Charm of Savarnas', it has been all the rage in the past few days, so many people have been putting it up on their status and sharing it on social media and so on.  To talk about these things is a slippery slope because people tend to see things in a very black and white manner, for most of my acquaintances and friends the argument is that it is made by one of our people about a phenomenon that is so common among Savarnas and one of our issues is being represented on screen so we must encourage it. While there is no disagreement there, the question remains, should we encourage or praise bad film-making and a mediocre delivering of a subject simply because it is one of our own who has made it? Must we not be critical about the way the subject is dealt with and how it is put across so that there is scope for improvement and better performance in the future, or should we remain in our echo chambers and praise t...