From the dark to the dawn

I have watched Disney's fantasy movie Alladin starring Will Smith and Netflix's new animation, wish dragon, within a week. Thanks to my son. The end of both, Alladin and wish dragon, is uplifting and delightful. Both movies have many similarities and share many positive values like kindness, friendship, love, and strong leadership and negative values like obsession, power-hunger, and hatred, among many others. Lovely these movies are, as they keep love and friendship over wealth and power. I hope my son also learns some of them.  Since I have watched the movies, I can not help to think, what if I had a genie? What would be my three wishes be (both the flicks stick to three wishes)? The first wish is I am sure of is a corona-free or any such kind of disease-free world. Because of this ongoing lockdown, many small businesses have been closed permanently. They have little or no financial aid. Also, many children are suffering mentally and physically. These online classes don't...

The smallest Indian state, perceived as a party destination by most, Goa has more to it. Goa flaunts its rich architectural history, colorful carnival , 160 km long coastline, and the 7 major rivers quite proudly. Nature has been fully kind to Goa while blessing it with beauty. The first few trips are usually swallowed by the booze and the parties. Then, you start to explore the state. Goa has only two districts- North Goa and South Goa. This time we decided to spend our four months in South Goa. My husband chose a small town, Canacona. We could not be happier. Canacona deserves a full article so I will leave the details to my next article. This article tries to explore a lesser-known beach  Kakolem . About Kakolem Beach Kakolem Beach on Google Ma p Also known as Tiger Beach, Kakolem beach is a ravishing and lust-green beauty known by few people. It is one of the most unexplored and secluded places. Unlike its South Goa peers (Palolem Beach, Patnem Beach, Agonda Beach, Cola Beach, ...

You open your social media site(Instagram or Facebook or whatever). While scrolling through your feed, you come across one of your acquaintances. She is vacationing in Switzerland. A chain of thoughts starts in your mind. She is married to a handsome boy, both of them earn good and settled abroad. They spend their vacations in a foreign country. Wow! What an amazing life she has.  You just started comparing between you and her in your mind. How is her life is better than yours? That picture of her in Switzerland brought out the failure in you. The things you did not achieve. This is how we measure. We measure everything in either success or failure. For us, our life is these two poles. The favored one is, of course, success. We indulge all our energy by focusing on the final destination of being successful and perpetually thinking about it. We don't even spare a glance at the path we take as we forget life happens between success and failure. Life happens through our emotions, our ...

Mulan is a live-action of a famous 1998-99 musical  Disney Toon movie with the same name. I have added the "original" Mulan to my watchlist after watching this one. There are few movies which give a double boost: entertainment and learning in one go. Mulan movie is an adapdation of a Chinese fictional folk warrior heroine, Mulan from Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century AD). Mulan is popular worldwide and many series and movies have been made before on her life. Disney live-action Mulan is the latest remake. I would not like to go into details about what Disney has missed like its other women-centric action movies just to lure the Chinese authorities to accept this movie to their theaters. I would also not talk about the boycott movement around this movie. This movie deserves a round of applause too. I am going to talk about it. To save her ailing father, a girl named Hua Mulan( Liu Yifei ) steals her father's sword and armor to join the Imperial Army ...

This movie was first premiered on 19, October 2019 at the 21st  Mumbai Film Festival organized by   MAMI   (Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image ), sponsored by  Jio . The movie has been released on Netflix on 9, September 2020. The film has been written and directed by Ms. Arati Kadav and brilliantly captures the vivid acting of Vikrant Massey (as Prahashta, a demon), Shweta Tripathi (as Yuvishka Shekhar, a demon), Nandu Madhav (as Nitigya, a demon) in lead roles.  Indian Cinema has been active in the genre of sci-fi cinema since its first release ' Kaadu ' (meaning - The Jungle) in 1952. Kaadu was a Tamil-American co-production. Most of the Indian audiences rely on Hollywood Sci-fi movies due to their impressive special effects and fresh storylines. Crago has been entirely produced in India. Ms. Kadav has done a great job by trying to relate mythology to science in her debut filmmaking. It brings freshness to the story of the movie. The story revolve...

Some time back, I brought Horlicks for my son, and with it came a free pack of "Avengers Infinity Wars- Super Hero cards'. I and my son loved playing the cards game. The cards looked like this: (Src: https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/b6ijhm/my_infinity_war_not_so_limited_edition_trading/ ) Each playing card has certain characteristics. They are (in order): Height, Intelligence, Strength, Speed, Super-Power. A number was assigned in front of each attribute on each card.  Let us take a close look at one of the cards: This card game made my lockdown life a little easier as I could keep my child engaged for about an hour in a day. Thank you,  Horlicks  for rolling out these cards as without even watching any movie my child became an Avengers fan. Although this game is fun to play with,  it has made my child believe that Thanos is unbeatable . Here is the card: This is how  mind tricks  are played on the public by successful advertisers. The method...

"Money is the most universal and most efficient method of mutual trust ever devised." ~ Yuval Noah Harari (The Bestselling author of  'Sapiens -A Brief History of Humankind') (Src:  https://pixnio.com/ ) The vindication of humankind is money, a predominant, wondrous universal phenomenon that can turn the wheel towards the affluent.  It is the underlying of all civilizations, religions, globalization, and history. History and Evolution of Money: The evolution of money is as enticing as money itself: (Src:  https://www.evolutionira.com/evolution-of-money/  ) The  first regulated coins  were introduced around 640 BC by King Alyattes of Lydia in western Anatolia (present-day Turkey).  These coins made of the electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) had a standardized weight  and were imprinted with an identification mark. This mark testified two things:  Weight of the precious metal in the coin. The authority that issued the coin and gua...