Knock Knock.

Hey look who's at door.....

Lemme guess...either its an evil spirit ( Halloween time dude) or its Goddess Lakshmi ( Deepavali is just around) or its your neighbourhood kid. No no I didnt get mad yet... just read on to find out..!!

Some things I find strange when I compare the western tradition of Halloween and eastern festival Deepavali are listed her under! To start with, these two festivals usually occur around the same time of the year... during the transition to winter.

Halloween has a bit of spookyness associated with it, Deepavali is more a bright festival. But I would say that the dissimilarity ends there. These two festivals emphasize lighting your home and places around, though the reasoning behind this differs. These festivals emphasize the victory of good over evil,mark the beginning of new year - The day after Halloween Nov 1st is the new year's day for Celts while Deepavali marks the new year as per the Vikram calendar.
And both have since ages captivated the imagination of children... both of them are basically children's festivals.Aaand atlast both involve lots of sweets and candy!!!!!

So whether you name it ... Deepavali or Halloween... Celebrate it and Be Happy.

Interested to know more about:
Deepavali read here
Halloween.. read here

SamaraSimhaReddy and A history of Violence

Drawing similarities seems to be my incorrectable habit... but thats what seems to interest me to the bone.

I never felt the similarity more striking than when I saw the latest english flick "A history of Violence".

The storyline goes like this:

A seemingly harmless,absolutely stingless guy named Tom Stall, faces a scary situation of life and death, when he is attacked by a group of blood-thirsty hooligans. But comes out of this very easily killing the assailants with much ease and elan, astounding the residents of the sleeping village to which he belongs. He is immediately hailed as a hero discovered.

But it so happens that the reality is that this guy is a gruesome killer by profession and excels in it. Not only is his family shaken but its broken by this dicovery. He clears the air by putting to rest the gang that is responsible and he comes back to his family.

In a nutshell, its the most gullible,sweet,stingless,powerless guy having a background that scares the hell out of you.

This is where the similarity lies with the landmark telugu movie "Samara Simha Reddy"!!!.. Now please dont kill me....please!!!!!

Samara Simha Reddy or Tom Stall or Indra Sena Reddy -- It looks like "Everyone has something to hide".... right ???

MixMasala aka Motley of all!

A bright and sunny day and here I am in the place I like most... My blog.

Whats the topic today.. it will be all the things I like - mixed and put before in the platter.

I will start with alternate names I was thinking for my blog

a) My life's rearview mirror.
b) Real and the Ethereal! ( considering thats the networking tool I keep working with most of the day)
c) As my hair changes colors.... -- donno whether it would made much sense though!!

Identity , Probability, Serendipity et all

"We belong to a better religion, we will fight any oppression"
"We are the better race, others are no match"

Cries of war, misplaced pride abound us all today in every aspect of life. We have wars fought on basis of identities be it religious, national or racial. We have wanton, remorseless killing in the name of identity. So what are we after ?

Does a specific identity or rather a choice of identity exist to a person at the time of his birth ?
Could you choose to be a Hindu or Muslim before your birth ?
Isnt it a pure probability that you end up belonging to a particular race, creed or religion ?

So why this false pride and hatred for other groups ?
Why should you fight a race,religion,nation,ideology of which you dont belong only because of pure coincidence ?

Isnt this the time to realise what we are and put an end to all forms of war ?
How great would be the world with no wars .... I dream to be there....

I belong to the world. I belong to life and living... rather We belong to the world.

Let peace prevail.