As Shakespeare Likes It!

Yet another from an old archive. This piece was jointly written, rather written by a friend and edited by me while I was in college. It featured in ‘Sans Frontiers’, the official Umang magazine. Umang is one of the popular cultural festivals – the fun and frolic of Indian colleges. I take the freedom to post this here since there is no online archive for the same and of course, I bear the editorial rights to this piece 🙂

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Shakespeare has gained great adulation for his fabulous work in the stream of literature. His praise is beyond words, maybe even if we gave him this task (praising himself), he would have been unsuccessful. However here is an interesting review of his famous contributions.

We owe the core story of the scripts of our popular desi movies to Monsieur Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’. The story of lovers caught between the belligerent families, lives from Qayamat se Qayamat tak  to Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Even Hollywood’s Leonardo Di ‘Romeo’ Caprio is indebted for his popularity to Mr.Shakespeare much before the sinking of the legendary Titanic, through ‘The Tempest’.

Attendance at Marriages

Sure, this one is from a really old archive – dating back to 1997. A couple of things have changed for me but check out how I wrote back then 🙂

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Come November and the postman, courier fellows, liveried chauffeurs, sometimes the parents of the to-be couples come swooping to your household for wedding invitations. As far as stacking these expensive cards is concerned it does not matter much but when it comes to attending these marriages, there comes the world falling on your head.
Trust me, from personal experience, I have been badgered into attending weddings as a necessity to be known in society. It is worse than being badgered for attending college.

Mulling over CNBC Specials

Come Sunday and its time to glue myself in front of the TV screen with mum’s scrumptious brunch. I religiously stick to one channel all morning. A recent Sunday led me to writing this 🙂

I hope to be an entrepreneur one day and was rejoiced to see my regular show, Young Turks (CNBC TV18) covering only women entrepreneurs, all of August, ’06.

Interesting profiles. Someone organizes kid parties on a large scale and does corporate picnics and entertainment nights, someone does Bombay Heritage Walks, of course loads of successful interior designers, Mktg. & Sales VPs at budding organizations and much more. But I would like to mention some outstanding profiles –

Mumbai Swamped – 26/7

Mumbai has not seen anything like this. Everything came to a standstill but the people. It was only 4.30 pm on Tuesday afternoon when my gut feel said it was the worse rain ever. I had decided to leave late considering conditions would get better in due time. I was wrong. The downpour only got worse. The electricity went off at about 5.00 pm and all of us were left to do nothing but muse at the drama going on across the street. Few vehicles were plying and the whole of Andheri seemed to be on the roads. People had removed their footwear and were walking through knee-deep water, balancing themselves with umbrellas in one hand and bags in another. A bunch of young men actually started playing ball at the end of the street. A lot of vehicles had broken down. People only walked and walked. They walked non-stop and we were amazed at how men, women (old and young), children alike just walked, no matter what.