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Why we all need some Aakrosh (Angst) in our lives

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We live in an era, where we are blessed with knowledge and news quite literally at our fingertips. We have the instant ability to find out if there is a traffic jam on the Eastern Express Highway before even stepping out of our homes, or know of a riot in the making while it's happening, or see the innumerous videos of waterlogging at different spots in our cities, and with the same ease and speed be able to share our opinions on the matter, all without even moving an inch, from the place we are present at currently. This in itself is an amazing achievement for our generation and rightly so the world has become a very small place to live in. And yet everyday I feel so distant when I step out into the world, I feel disconnected, and within me lies an urge to go to times of the past when as they say "Things were simpler then". But even so, I have not explained the intention of this post, and you are justified in asking as well. It is the rage in all our collective fin
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My foray into filmmaking

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O ne always wonders, how they came upon something which became an integral part of their life, and usually to find that answer, we have to dig very deep. Luckily for me, I didn't have a hard time figuring it out. Almost always it starts when you were a kid. In my case I had a distant relative who wrote lengthy letters to our family (when mails were a real thing, and to those uninitiated the non electronic form of long distance communication). I loved looking at all those stamps, but didn't really care about the envelope it came on or the letter in the envelope. So I collected all those stamps and together they became a collection, a hobby, a past time and maybe even a passion.  But then again could it become a thing one did for a living? Ask a philatelist, and he will concur. But not me, for there was something bigger than a 1 inch by 1 inch representation of color and art waiting on the horizon. This was the 80s and I had a new hobby until my grandfather boug
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