SADist.

'The school announces prize money of Rs.10,000 for the top three rank
holders in the board exams.’,this announcement sends the toppers into
an exhilarating fit and the underdogs into a miasmatic frenzy,the cool
kids though , stay impervious. Now, such incentives are not bad per
se, but there is this one huge problem swivelling around it, the
impediment of a poor,myopic motivation.If only anything, such a
notice sends a wrong although “well intended” message through the
minds of the students and it gives a false sense of confidence to a few
and deprives of what little confidence the rest of them have. Now this
is one of those “stepping stones to success” which must be avoided
but unfortunately has been gaining steam.
Our country, being the biggest democracy is sadly a sheep following
the false ideology of partisan responsibility.Let us, for example take
the energy crisis; it is true that a solution to this problem rests in the
arena of a scientific mind but it would be utterly wrong to assimilate
and propagate the notion that it is solely their responsibility.
Population explosion is one of the major reasons why this problem
has aggravated. And it is the duty of political leaders, socialists and
every educated soul to endorse,propagate and help educate all the
strata of our society about the current scenario and the horrors the
future holds for us if the danger is not quelled.It is important to realize
that just finding an alternate source of cleaner,safer and cheaper
energy isn’t going to solve the problem in the long run if the
population witnesses an exponential growth and the responsibility
rests on all of us and not just a few.
A job market faces unpredictability when there is disproportionate
concentration of workers. This stems from the biased notion
acquainted with certain jobs being prospective which basically is a
ramification of a poorly educated, ignorant,quenched mind racing
towards a mirage. And being a witness and a victim and a deceived
patron of such a half-baked scheme,it is the root of all these problems
i.e the quality and intention of education that worries me the most as
an Indian, a land of intellect and culture.

Riddikulus!

 Advertising is a way of drawing people's attention towards your product,a contrivance in some(well!most)cases, with sporadic cases of genuineness and an amusement in certain other cases!
But, once it crosses a certain line that light amusement turns ridiculous.

Fairness creams have been in the soup for so many valid reasons but what amuses and some times irritates me is the backdrop of the ads.I was watching TV yesterday and the ad came up; a bunch of girls walking through a street and then this truck comes up spewing cacophonous amounts of smoke onto their face, and any sensible person would think(issued in public interest:please get emission tests done on your vehicles regularly) but no! it is an ad for a fairness cream(face-wash, something)!
I mean pollution is on the rise and complexion  is all you are worried about!!

Then, there was this other ad, where querulous mothers are brooding over how their kids badger them for junk food and then there is this solution that by using a certain toothpaste, mommies can be relieved that their kids teeth are all hale and hearty(dentists:face-palm) and fine, I can make peace with that, but then comes this tag line-' Now, I am secure as a mother!!' What does that even mean??
How does using a certain toothpaste boost one's morale??

Then there are detergent ads which says,a wash just like your mom's work! I mean, come on, what are you implying??Indirectly it hints at and endorses the perpetual notion that washing clothes is a mom's work, at least they could have attributed this to the efficiency of a washing machine, makes sense!

These are just some of the ridiculously charming ads we come across daily!
Next time you see such a boggart, remember to shout out Riddikulus!

                                                     Comic Boomlet!

Hulk,Batman,Iron-Man,Oh wait! Spider-man,Superman, Supergirl, Catwoman let us squeeze in add-ons say,Hawk-eye,Colonel Rhodes,Black Widow. Fine, here are the run of the mill sobriquets we all as humans belonging to this generation are well acquainted with and although some of the aforementioned "super heroes" are absurd or probably depicted so(Superman's gaffe until Man of Steel released.Ugh!!, then the mind numbingly preposterous,anti-climactic end to The Dark Knight trilogy which couldn't be masked by the mellifluous and liberating sound track and now Batman v/s Superman!KMN) most of us preferred watching them multiple times to watching a movie like 'The Vow' or Oh no! that one example is enough!!.

I thought, maybe after this there would be more sequels,spin offs,collaborations and stuff, but no!! there was Ant-Man and whom did they cast? Paul Rudd! Sure, Feynmann said "There is plenty of room at the bottom" and then the  comics was revolutionised about three years later!! Ta-da...Ant-man.
(No offence to all the fans out there but Garfield would have made a better super hero!!) But, this seemed to be tobogganing ,Ant-man the movie!!(lol). And what is new?? nothing, nothing at all, I mean come on, if there were ever to be make a movie on Supandi or Shikari Shambu  and let us say it released along with something like.. 'Ant-Man v/s Terminator -Termite' , the odds definitely favour the latter!!.

Now, let us decode the movies made so far in this genre(not the comics, the movies) . The algorithm seems to be this
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1) The soundtrack and a collateral display of the franchise names, the director blah blah...
2)A narration,like from the Intelligence Bureau interrogating one of the accomplice or from the newsreader saying that so and so place was attacked by supposedly such a kingpin (and in the case of Transformers franchise, it is Optimus' techno-babble)
3)They show the hero's house, he/she is alone, (a recluse basically) in his/her room listening to the news or pondering over something.
4)Then the villian comes, ruffles some feathers, threatens,assaults the near and dear ones but never manages to move a hair on the better-half!
5)Folks are surprised to find the "hero" out of the cocoon ,
6)Hero saves people by flying,jumping,riding.
7)Something uneventful and personal happens and the odds are against him/her.
8)The better half leaves him/her after a cursory session of advice on family, dignity and lovee(yes double 'e')!
9)The disconcerted hero flies to his cave. and goes into hiding only to be found by his/her sidekick and hence exhorted to return to save the "world" because apparently the villian is lighting fireworks instead of matchsticks and this has heavily influenced the media to an extent that, that is the only news across!
10)(basically this is a VLSI Soap Opera!!) Then, the hero meets the villian somewhere on the top of a building, in a deserted house or  in space where the better-half(only) is held hostage, and then there is a brief exchange of reproach, an insight into the villian's past, a brief moment(here 90s or more) of silence and then somehow the hostage's neurons fire up and he/she succeeds in grabbing free.
11)An inevitable physical(compulsory ,about 15-20 min,)combat and moment occurs where you feel that, yes, there is logically no reason why the hero should survive the attack and then
12) The sidekick or the police force arrives out of thin air, saves the hero, kills, captures or is too dumb to get hold of the villian!
13) A felicitation ceremony back in the city, the love birds reunite, bury the hatchet!
14)A boom of soundtrack to end it!
15)Credit roll or foreshadowing of the villain's reconnaissance!
16)(this step has never been STOP) Continue,step 1, with slight change in cast, title and
17)BAM , you have got yourself a sequel and a Housefull theatre,cash enough for another sequel or assylum! Your choice!

Celebrating the not so distant release of Batman v/s Superman!! and the success of Ant-man!! (get it?)