Monday, December 31, 2007

Now, Here's My Plan...For 2008

The Dalai Lama (August 1999): "For me, it is nothing. New millennium, or new century, or new year. For me is another day and night. The sun, the moon, the stars remain the same."

I need no alcohol to get drunk but I have never understood all the hoopla about a new year. I get very excited on the morning of Indian new year day. This year like almost every previous year, I won't be awake when new years arrives. Neighbourhood noise of course will wake me up.

31st December is a busy day for Indian TV channels. Their anchors are very excited, people watching them- like a couple below- probably aren’t.



“With sensing of New Year you must be thrilled- heart must be beating faster, let us dance, let us sing!”

(double click on the picture to get a much larger view)

Artist: Abhimanyu Kulkarni, Lokprabha अभिमन्यु कुलकर्णी , लोकप्रभा

I have no resolutions but plan for 2008...



Artist: Shel Silverstein for Playboy (easily one of the best pictures I ever saw)

...a plan to escape.

But isn't this blog an effort to escape? Escape from one's own personality?

Well then I have a plan to escape from "escape".

I will be off for few days and will meet you some time in January 2008.

Happy New Year 2008. Thanks for all your encouragement and comments.
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5 comments:

  1. mannabJanuary 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM

    Wish you happy new year, dear Aniruddha!Have a nice time during you break and return with more zealwith Marathi touch to your regular post!!See you soon. Bye!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM

    No doubt, I will be missing your blogs for some time, but enjoy your vacation and return with fresh mind and new authors in Marathi world. I expect your comments on new generation such as Avdhut Paralkar,Niraja, Meghana Pethe, Nikheel Shaligram etc.Bye.
    -Waman Karnik

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  3. Aniruddha G. KulkarniJanuary 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM

    thanks for your comments and wishes.

    Waman,

    I have not read a single line of any of these possibly good writers. I wish I had because I mean no disrespect to them.

    Also, I am more intesrested in non-fiction, poetry, drama, pictures. Therefore, stories, novels don't interest me as much as the former.

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  4. UnknownJanuary 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM

    It's so sad with surprise that you haven't read these young generation of samarth writers. I only stated a few of them.Awdhut Paralkar and Nikheel Shaligram write in Sadhana weekly of Pune regularly.
    Waman Karnik

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  5. Aniruddha G. KulkarniJanuary 4, 2008 at 9:42 AM

    Waman,

    It's indeed sad.

    But I tell you what is much, much sadder. Almost catastrophic.

    I have still not read Ramayan & Mahabharat-every shloka of them, Dnyneshwari, Tukaramachi Gatha, Eknathi Bhagwat,Dasbodh, Vasudevshastri Khare, Shakespeare, Chekov, War and Peace.....in their entirety.

    My first objective in life is to read them. If I die without doing this, I never lived!

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