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Fist of Fury

 When you write a bad film review you blatantly discourage the audience  from hitting the theatres.The constitution gives you the right to speech to do any such criticism but you are ethically incorrect if you give a thumbs down to a movie named Mary Kom. The bollywood flicker may not have done justice to the real life MC Mary Kom but it has indeed made a way to reach out to the masses. Only a movie can creep in deep roots far down the masses. Books and wikipedia are only for a privileged class.  The movie wonderfully portrays the struggle of a sportswoman who fights not only within the ring but also outside it and those outside are far more tougher than the one within. She marries bears children and yet makes a comeback to where she is destined to. In a country which  worships cricketers like Gods , shouts for Brazil and Argentina in World cup ( but doesn't know the India's playing XI ) ; excelling in a sports called boxing more so by a woman is hyperbolically harde...

"Happy" Teachers Day ??

On teacher's day I pay my tribute only to the good teachers who have inspired me and motivated me to become a good student literally and endorse virtues necessary for building close to a complete man. However like most others I too had a bunch of 'bad' teachers and needless to say they outnumbered the good ones. These teachers beat you up in your kindergartens when you forget bringing a book. They rebuke a child heartlessly when he makes spelling mistake. They spank you hard for bad handwriting thereby instilling a sense of fear to go to school. I am not sure if it’s their personal frustrations that they unleash mercilessly on these poor souls and gain some sadistic pleasure seeing the children cry. Few years later as I advanced into the secondary section started the practice of employing monitors who would write my name as a willful offender for talking in a free period. And then these names would be presented to the teacher to decide what punishment must be awarded to the...