Life as I know It

If there’s one thing about Gone with the Wind that has left an indelible impression on my mind, it is the character of Scarlett O’Hara. Beautiful, fearless, ruthless, practical and materialistic in a world that is bleeding for the Cause, she epitomizes the anti-hero in the eyes of the Confederate society. Her character is so complex, layered with unyielding determination and an utter lack of morals, shouldering responsibility for those who have submitted to her care, sprinkled with self-confidence and a penchant for theatrics, cemented by an irrational, passionate, blind love for the husband of another – which eventually proves to be her undoing in a way. Gone with the Wind is the story of courage and determination, love and jealousy, persistence and hard-work, practicality and obstinacy, the selfish Scarlett O’Hara and the altruistic Melanie Hamilton, the spirited, cheeky Rhett Butler and the listless, fatalistic Ashley Wilkes. As with all the great novels, what a reader will re

“If you really want to watch a Vampire movie, you should watch the Underworld series,” remarked my boyfriend after I forced him to sit through the latest installment from the Twilight saga. And thus, I got introduced to the dark world of Vampires and Lycans and their unending, bloody war. Several differences between the Twilight series and the Underworld series struck me. Twilight is essentially a love story, enveloped by the overlapping worlds of Vampires and Werewolves, while Underworld is primarily a Vampire-Lycan saga, with several motivations driving the main characters, love being just one of them. Of the 90 or so minutes of Underworld: Awakening, about 45 minutes is pure, unadulterated, adrenalin-pumping action. Selene (Kate Bekinsale) is the undisputed hero of not only the movie, but the entire series. I cannot think of too many successful Hollywood action movies with a female lead. It won’t be exaggeration to say that she owns the movie. Michael Corvin, ostensibly the male lea

The mind is the most potent tool in the hands of man to steer his life in any direction of his choice. Thoughts become things. We create our lives in our minds. Imagination is the key. These are some quotes pointing to the same principle or law. There are innumerable books written about the power of subconscious mind for achieving wealth, health, happiness, love and what not. Ask and it shall be given. I have read countless quotes, shrouded in complex pattern of words, all guiding me towards one truth. We create our lives with our thoughts. What you think about today will manifest in your life in the future. What you have or don’t have today is a result of your past thoughts. Positive thoughts engender positivity in life. Negative thoughts spell our doom. I accidently came across an article on Visualization a few days before my final MBA placement. It presented a simple, but powerful technique on visualizing the end state, what you desire (in my case, excellent performance in the GDs a