RIFLE RANGE BOY

http://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/297 CLRI Contemporary Literary Review India Brings articulate writings for articulate readers. eISSN 2394-6075 | Vol 6, No 1: CLRI February 2019 | p- 181-187       Book Review on Farouk Gulsara’s Inside the  Twisted Mind of Rifle  Range Boy Prof Shiv Sethi ‘Inside the Twisted Mind of Rifle Range Boy’ is a melange of profound thoughts penned down by Farouk Gulsara. Hailing from a family where everybody perceives that there is only a single way to deal with the things either black or white whereas the writer is inclined to have an altogether contrary viewpoint. As he advances in the years and grows mature, he becomes aware of the harsh reality that the family of his parents has innumerable blood-curdling  tales to narrate because they had witnessed the seamy side of life during the turbulent times of early Malaya. Farouk Gulsara makes the most of that opportunity and begins...

http://wallpapersafari.com/ Maybe it is just me with my twisted mind. Perhaps the others do not have such morbid imaginations about life. They like to see their glasses half full rather than their nihilistic nemesis. But I cannot help it. My mind seems to go on autopilot, and I cannot press the reboot button. It is hanging but still buzzing under the surface. Luckily it only happens sometimes. This train of thought came sprawling to me one day when I was given the honour to bear witness to the public declaration of a private intent, i.e. to bless a couple who wish to share their joy of nuptial bliss. There I was sitting at the back row of the dinner table just watching the world go by. Sometimes, people watching can be therapeutic. It can stimulate your philosophical cords. You can also indulge in a game of one of trying to guess their background, stature, the worries, their fears etceteras. Nobody wins and nobody loses in this meaningless game to kill time. It dawned upon m...

Lost Highway (1997) Written and Directed by David Lynch An interesting concept. When you are already up there amongst the doyen who change the field, you can never go wrong. You must be right. Others just do not get it. It is not that you do not make sense. You are not playing with their minds. They do not get it, plain and straightforward. This is another of David Lynch's thriller which appears complicated. A man is leading a quiet life, but it is later convicted of killing his wife. In a closed confinement, he actually changes into another person! Unable to contain an innocent person, he is released. The released person meets a girl who is the same girl who was the wife who was killed. In a convoluted story, this man gets entangled with another murder and changes back to appear like the first man. After watching so many movies with a straight storyline, this is a good distraction.