Schindler’s List – The List Is Life

Schindler would have been an easier man to understand if he’d been a conventional hero, fighting for his beliefs. The fact that he was flawed – a drinker, a gambler, a womanizer, driven by greed and a lust for high living – makes his life an enigma. He was a man who saw his chance at the beginning of World War II and moved to Nazi-occupied Poland to open a factory and employ Jews at starvation wages. His goal was to become a millionaire. By the end of the war, he had risked his life, spent his entire fortune to save those Jews and had defrauded the Nazis for months with a munitions factory that never produced a single usable shell.

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6 curious kids interview their moms about life and love

This is something that’s worth taking a time to read and listen. It’ll leave you with a smile on your faces and a new perspective about life.

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[Reblogged] A Letter To Everyone Who Will Eventually Watch 50 Shades of Grey

Originally posted on ForeverAwkward (And Maybe Learning):
Hey darling, Now, I don’t know where on the sexual spectrum you place yourself. I do know, however, that you’re a citizen of the interwebs, and 50 Shades of Grey is going to be rather fascinating to you. If you’re a citizen of India, you know that it’s…

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[Reblogged] On My Father’s Birthday: A Letter To The Man Who Killed Him

Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
Dear Sir, I don’t know your name, but you killed my father on June 9, 1973, in Stockton, California. My father was thirty-two years old then; I was ten. If he had lived, he would have been 74 on November 29th. The year my dad ws killed I am…

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[Reblogged] A Hijra In The Family

Originally posted on leylashah2014:
I was just another boy wanting to be a girl. Now, I’ll be just another boy. I have not complained, nor do I complain now. I only tell a tale, for that’s all I’ve got. A tale, some could relate to. This is for everyone who sees the queer movement as…

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[Reblogged] Me.

So, why would you think
I should be ashamed of my assets
In which I hide, I feel, I thrive?
My body is me,
My home.
No matter where my soul travels to
It’ll be found here
No matter what makes me feel alive
I’ll be breathing, here.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Thoughtful Teen Drama

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age, comedy-drama directed and written by Stephen Chbosky and based on his own epistolary novel from 1999 of the same title. It is a privilege only few people enjoy. And it’s not often when a book to movie adaptation is as good as the book itself, if not better.

The movie revolves around an introverted high school freshman, Charlie, who also has some mental issues and writes letters to an unnamed “Dear Friend” chronicling his life. He enters high school tremulously, scared and alone after his eight grade friend Michael apparently committed suicide. The story is about how he grew and was able to “feel infinite”.

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[Reblogged] My English Teacher.

This is a poem about an English teacher. One of my juniors wrote this. She is currently studying in school. Do check out some of her other amazing works at http://www.falsesubtleties.wordpress.com

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Insignificant Rant

Hi there! I guess somebody is reading this, although I’m not too sure about that since it’s been a long time since I wrote something here. But if you are, thanks for being patient and not giving up on me. Enough drama, I guess?

So here’s the thing. I’ve been mighty busy with college, studies and co-currilcular work, been out socializing and making new friends and learning new things. So basically this post is just meant as a sign to remind me (more than you people) that I should start writing something again.

By the way, some of the things I learnt about myself during this time are that, one, I don’t know what to write about, two, I don’t know what really motivates me to do something and third, that I finally have learned how to make time for all that you want to do. But more about that later. For the time being I need your help to help me pick out a topic or theme to write upon. It could be a topic like School memoir or Internet safety or a broad category like short stories, a movie review, a technical post, a post about college life and the like. You can ping me at http://www.facebook.com/hasanashhar or in the comment section below.

Thanks for reading. Hope to see me after 5th Nov.

I’m Back (But not with a bang, yet)

Hi there!

I hope you people would be kind enough to forgive me not writing for so long, almost 6 months (I can’t believe it). I was lacking the ‘posting goal of 1 post a month’ feature from WordPress. Just kidding, I lacked motivation and on an equally important level, I lacked the topics to write on. So here I am, asking you all to help me a little bit by suggesting some nice topics or fields to write on in this post’s comments section. Sound off below.

I hope not to keep you guys waiting so long. And thanks to my followers for being there.

PS: This is simply the most embarrassing and meaningless post I’ve ever made, so forgive me.

Have a great month ahead.

2013 In Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 490 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 8 trips to carry that many people.

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The Time of Our Lives

This isn’t much of an article, it’s a part fact, part fictional account of the best time of our lives.
A day comes in everyone’s life when we have to let go of something, that’s when we truly realize how much we loved them.
14 years is a long time, long enough for people to forget things. But I still remember it – clear as day – the first day of school.

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‘Chennai Express’ Review

If watching vehicle chase sequences, cars being blown up in the air and muscled goons is your film genre of choice, then you would know that we could be talking about Rohit Shetty of the ‘Golmaal’ series fame. This time Rohit Shetty, one of the heavily critiqued filmmakers of the current times for his directorial ways, has come up with Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Chennai Express’. Quite obviously, this unique combo of Shetty and Khan is enough to make one curious about their product. But once you go for it, you won’t regret watching ‘Chennai Express’, as you would have been after watching ‘Golmaal 2’ and ‘Golmaal 3’.

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‘The World’s End’ Movie Review

The World’s End, the final installment in Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy” follows a group of childhood friends who return to their hometown, Newton Haven, in order to finish a twelve stop pub crawl, dubbed the Golden Mile, they failed to complete back in 1990. In the intervening time, Oliver (Martin Freeman), Peter (Eddie Marsan), Steven (Paddy Considine) and Andrew (Nick Frost) have all grown up – starting families and/or working in steady (albeit unexciting) professions. However, former group kingpin, Gary (Simon Pegg), has spent the last two decades drinking, philandering, and bouncing from one job to the next – falling very short of the lofty ambitions that he once possessed.

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San Iker Completes 13 Years At Real Madrid

Interview 12/09/2012 Casillas: “It would be a dream come true to end my career in the club I had the privilege of starting out in when I was only nine” “Time goes by quickly, but I’m really pleased with all the things that Real Madrid has given me and all that I’ve given the club”, […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Fails to Live Up to Its Heritage

The Bourne Trilogy is one of my favourite movie series of all time. It started with The Bourne Identity, which was a great action spy story with a fantastic hook. The Bourne Supremacy brought in director Paul Greengrass, whose handheld shaky-cam style has come to define many action films for good or ill ever since. Greengrass came back […]

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Iker Casillas Becomes The Latest Addition To The Adidas Hall of Fame

Iker Casillas Fernandez, the Real Madrid and Spanish International Goalkeeper became the latest addition to the “Adidas Is All In” brand yesterday. He had shared this information on his Facebook. He has moved on from his old partnership with Reebok which I think he had even when he started playing in the Real Madrid Youth […]

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Iker Casillas in Good Mood After Suffering From Food Allergy

Real Madrid and Spain captain Iker Casillas has been left with a swollen face after suffering from a food allergy. Despite the health scare, Casillas made it to the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid where he participated in a charity match. He was in a good mood and showed his sense of humour to the gathered public. […]

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Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas: We made things complicated for ourselves against Malaga in Copa del Rey

The experienced shot-stopper has admitted that Los Blancos were unhappy with their performance in the 3-2 cup victory and has demanded more focus in the return game Copa del Rey: Real Madrid-Málaga: Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas has expressed his dismay at his side’s display in the opening 45 minutes of Tuesday’s […]

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Iker Casillas: Kaka has told me he will stay at Real Madrid

The World Cup-winning goalkeeper has revealed that the Brazil international won’t be leaving the Santiago Bernabeu any time soon amidst growing speculation of a departure Iker Casillas – Real Madrid Real Madrid shot stopper Iker Casillas has revealed that attacking midfielder Kaka informed him that he has no intention of leaving the Primera Division table-toppers in the winter […]

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Iker Casillas wins the IFFHS “Best Goalkeeper of the Year” for the 4th Consecutive Time

Iker Casillas has been voted as the best goalkeeper of 2011 by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics). The Spanish national team and Real Madrid keeper and captain won the most votes from experts selected by the IFFHS. Casillas, with 248 points, came in ahead of German Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munchen, 130 […]

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Legendary Bollywood Actor Dev Anand Dies

Legendary Bollywood actor Dev Anand(26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) dies… Bollywood’s evergreen star Dev Anand, whose flamboyant image and innate romantic spirit swayed millions of fans, died here last night following cardiac arrest. 88-year-old Dev Anand, who had come here for medical check up, was not keeping well for the last few days. The […]

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Casillas: “I’m moved and deeply happy; I’ve had 12 marvellous years”

“The team is doing a great job; we have many objectives, but we must focus on short-term goals and on one game at a time” Iker Casillas shared his happiness and deep emotions stirred by the publication of a biography presented today at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. You were visibly moved during the presentation… I […]

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The Perfect Night In The Spanish Capital

Madrid is well known for being one of the party capitals of the world. Late starts to your Saturday night out, late finishes – or is that early Sunday morning finishes? Either way, Madridistas will have been partying slightly harder then usual this Saturday just gone thanks to two massive results in La Liga, both […]

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Sara Carbonero and Iker Casillas, the sport’s most romantic couple

It proved not to have any qualms about shouting from the rooftops his love forSara Carbonero during the World Cup final in South Africa 2010 when, beforethe cameras around the world, Iker Casillas planted a passionate kiss to the sports journalist. Now, more than a year after the declaration of love, Real Madrid goalkeeper again demonstrate […]

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Royal wedding: Prince Harry pays tribute to brother William in best man’s speech

Harry was said to have made a light-hearted best man’s speech, laced with jokes at his brother’s expense, after a dinner hosted by Prince Charles to celebrate Williams’ marriage to Kate Middleton in front of 300 guests. Prince William After the royal wedding party, guests filtered out slowly through the side gates of Buckingham Palace between 11pm […]

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