I have recently started reading good poetry, partly because I was searching for something good to write in my farewell letter, and partly because of some other reasons. So, I came across this beautiful poem recently, and I can only wish that someday I will be able to write something even remotely as good as this -

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

Want more ? Here ya go -

• Top 50 Poems – Famous Poets & Poems
• Top Favorite Poems List
• Plagiarist.com’s Top 50 Most Viewed Poems
• Top 40 Poems at American Poems

I plan to post more of my favourite poems here, so keep watching!

I finally got freedom from my job at CSC India (Indore) on 25-July-2008. It feels awkward not to be earning any more. And I don’t think I have saved much, and anyways, it is not even remotely sufficient to cover the cost of my oncoming student-dom (at the Stanford University, yooohooo!). So, anyone who’s moving on from one company is expected to write a good-bye email, and the case with me is no different. I have spent the last 2 years here, I joined as a campus recruit, and eventually did learn a lot of office-office. However, what I did not want to do, was to write something that people already have heard before. So, this what I finally wrote (after around 40-45 mins of effort) as my good-bye email, the last email I sent to my colleagues, friends and my partner-in-crime, before leaving my office. See if you can catch the sarcasm -

I just can not miss this ECD, so here it comes..

Good-bye to the life I used to live, And the world I used to know; And kiss the hills for me, just once; Now I am ready to go! “Farewell”  -  Emily Dickinson Today is my last day at CSC India and it is time to bid farewell to everyone.

Last two years have been a roller coaster ride for me, with more ups, than downs, and its been a real pleasure to have had you all, riding along. I believe my “CSC” experience has matured me enough to be able to handle the professional life ahead. I believe that this relationship will continue even beyond our work place contacts. And, well, I also believe in fairy tales, but that’s a different matter.

Thank you, for being you. I wish you good health, success and peace. Keep in touch.

And, till we meet again.. Adios, amigos!

Well -

• I took the poetry part from here – Farewell by Emily Dickinson
• How does UrbanDictionary define Adios, amigos ! Somehow, I enjoy the insolence of this site.
• Here’s an interesting article about the phrase “Adios, amigos”, on an Internet marketing blog… ?
• Note: Adios to Amigos only, not my dear Amigas. Get my drift.. ^_^

This happens far too often..

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I like to watch good movies. Who doesn’t ! But it breaks my heart to first really admire a movie and then realize that it was plagiarized or “took inspiration” from some other movie be it bollywood or hollywood. Damn! What is wrong with Indian mainstream cinema, why can’t they write up good scripts themselves, more often. Why do they have to copy dialogues (verbatim at times).

Me and my group of friends, are fans of the extremely good performance by KK Menon while delivering this dialogue in the movie “Shaurya” (you can find text of the dialogues here and here on Amit’s blog) -

But what do you know, “Shaurya” took inspiration (read-ruthlessly plagiarised) from the hollywood classic “A Few Good Men” -

Now, this does not, in any way make me doubt the acting prowess of KK Menon, and I’ll still vouch that he infact outdid Jack Nicholsan, however, this does in fact, make me lose all the respect for the director of this movie. Come-on guys! We have done Rang De Basanti, we can do better than just copying a flick almost as it is.

Talking of plagiarism, allow me to rant away to glory. “Sarkar Raj” takes inspiration for dialogues like “Sab niji hai” (verbatim copy) from “Its all personal” (Godfather). I wish we’d do better then that. Promising actor Ranbir Shourie’s upcoming movie “Ugly and Pagli” seems to be a copy of the beautiful romantic Korean movie “My Sassy Girl”. The beautiful songs (so they seemed) of “Life in a Metro” (2007) were inspired, that is the composer Pritam literally copied many foreign hits. Part of the story of “Life in a Metro” was plagiarised from hollywood movie “The Apartment” – the part about call center employee giving away his apartment keys to his boss(s) for their escapades.

I mean COME ON, damnned frigging bozos, atleast accept that you are making a scene by scene copy.

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• itwofs.com – chronicles of plagiarism in indian film music
• Review of Shaurya – 1
• A Few Good Men Vs Shaurya

Update: Google Analytics tells me that the keyword “Ranbir Shourie” is referring a lot of people to this page. Some research tells me that I have mis-spelled the name, actually it should be “Ranvir Shorey” or “Ranvir Sheorey” or “Ranveer Shourey”. Well, I don’t know how to correctly spell his name, and neither do a lot of my esoteric set of visitors {smiles}.