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My first meeting with Guruji

My first meeting with Guruji I have met Guruji (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) on several occasions, and each meeting with him is very special, but the first meeting with Him was extra-special. It was about 2 years I had done the Art of Living Part I course but I was pretty much marooned on my intellect at that point of time . :-) I came to know of His visit through a very loving and caring Part I teacher who kind of coaxed and cajoled me not to miss this opportunity to see Him. I was also a bit curious to see "this" personality who seem to have charmed so many men & women around the world. He was coming from North east region of India and He was supposed to stay for only a few hours in Kolkata. The best place to see Him was in the airport. So I headed for the airport , the due time of landing of His plane was sometime in the 2nd half. On reaching the airport , I heard a no of people greeting each other with "Jai Gurudev" (I knew very less AOL ppl at that point of t

The Last Lear

The Last Lear This is not a formal movie review, but rather a message to all you movie buffs, the people who enjoy watching good cinema ! Pls go and see this movie - The Last Lear, you will love it ! I saw it with my family last weekend and it was a completely enthralling experience. With wonderfully creative direction by Rituparno Ghosh, he showed again , what a director who is fully in control of the script, the characters & the actors can do ! Based on a play written by Utpal Dutta, the story is as expected marvelous. It depicts how true love can be - totally unselfish, totally undemanding and abslutely unmindful of any rules (Satvik love) It also depicts on the contrary how feverishness towards perfection (also a kind of love - Rajasik love) can be the cause of so much misery ! One of the best selling points of the movie is the unique narrative style adopted by Rituparno (which I am not going to divulge now !) The actors simply give outstanding performance - Amitabh's b