RIFLE RANGE BOY

Brief Encounter (1945) Director: David Lean When we are caught in a twist, it sometimes feels appropriate to solve our problems ourselves without creating a hue and cry. Bringing out in the open, getting numerous opinions and getting their worthless two-cents' worth of advice may occasionally cause more problems. Being truthful out in public to the aggrieved party may not be the best choice too. Honesty is not always the best policy. This obscure film directed by the same man who did classics 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'The Bridge over River Kwai' also did this gem. The screenplay was written by the famous English playwright, Noel Coward. The film tells the tale of a happily married mother of two and a brief encounter with a charming gentleman en route her return from weekly shopping at the railway station. The occasional weekly meeting turned into something romantic. The gentleman himself was a married man, a doctor, who works once a week at a nearby hospital....

They are no more the weaker sex, the fair one, the one who plays second fiddle, the subservient one, the one to be seen but not heard. Sometimes, their presence was not even made aware as veils hide either their enclosures or their faces. Nanthini The world realised that second-classing half of the population was counterproductive. With the demand for extra pairs of hands in meeting the requirement of the times, the members all sexes were pulled in.  For the first time, women realised that they too could walk shoulder to shoulder with men. With generations of oppression and suppression, their DNA must have understood there was dire need to evolve to stay relevant. Now more and more of them came out their cocoons, demanding equal rights. The powers that be had to relent. By then, everyone realised that it was the way to go. The cake was big; there was plenty for everyone. Somewhere along that path, something went astray. Socio-economic rights were confused with biologica...

traveldigg.com Everybody yearns to be free. They want to be liberated. They dream of eudaimonia. Sadly, their search for bliss is anything but fulfilling. When we are young, we long for the time when we are adults and do not have to play to the whims and fancies of our parents or to bow to societal pressures. We thought we had to conform, as a payback measure to our parents to all the food, accommodation and care rendered in our teething years. Then we get our keys at 21, and we thought that is it - our path to unleashing the caged animal within us. With education came conformity and decorum. With a life partner came mutual respect, reciprocity, tolerance, empathy till death do us apart. With the expansion of the family tree, came commitments, responsibility and leadership by example. The elusive freedom and liberation just slither us by. We tell us that is just the circle of life. We still bear hope of release from the shackles in the horizon, and we straddle along. Cor...