RIFLE RANGE BOY

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry 2022 Director: Hans Canosa (based on Gabrielle Zevin's novel) So often, we have heard that truth is stranger than fiction; stranger things happen in real life compared to what happens in our imagination. On the other hand, we were told to be competent to sieve fact from fiction, what is possible, plausible or probable and what is not. Occasionally we are advised not to live in Lalaland but to descend to reality, not to yearn for that Prince Charming or Snow White to sweep us off our feet. The fact is that the biological clock is ticking away, and opportunities are flying by. They tell us 'carpe diem', seize the moment, not wait for the perfect ending and not expect to live a happy life forever and ever. Life is so full of twists and turns, more convoluted than spaghetti if one reflects on it in his twilight stage of life.  This film will excite an eternal bibliophile. A gadget-savvy person would not understand the excitement about the physical...

Miniature boats on Karthika Purnima to commemorate  the  rich maritime glory of ancient Odisha. It marks the  change  of  monsoon tides. Sail is set for Java from Odisha . We like to convince ourselves that a particular ritual will help us in our life ahead. Perhaps paying tithe or giving alms will ease our path to salvation. They say that a cleansing bath in a specific lake on a particular day will symbolically wash away one's previous sins, even of previous births. With the conviction that we had of our past lives and have more future births to sail  through to attain Moksha, the breakaway from the curse of repeated birth and attainment of eternal bliss, we religiously indulge in this activity and that. Karthik Bath in Odisha The recurrent thought that has been going on throughout my life is this. Am I so lucky to have been told these secrets of life by virtue of my birth as a Hindu? My other good friends who, through no fault of theirs, had not been expo...