INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COMMUNITY (ISC) is organizing spread a smile project to help poor people by collecting the old cloths, shoes of students of sharda university and donate to poor people so that they will not feel cold and which makes us human.
This project will start from 29th November to 20th december and the donation boxes will be available at every hostel and one in international division.
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At band rehearsal this week (I play in a covers band for weddings and corporate functions) I scribbled this onto a scrap of paper between songs as the band rehearsed with a drummer who is filling in for me for an upcoming gig.
I’d had the title floating in my head for about a week and an idea of what I wanted to write. Originally I intended it to be a simple blog post about how I, as a writer and poet, find my inspiration and ideas.
The idea was composting in my head and while I lounged behind the sound desk I scribbled this out.
Where I Find Poetry
while searching for loose change in my pocket
between the first splash of milk
when I make a cup of tea
and stir in the sugar
waiting for the hot water to come through
in the shower and I’m standing…
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Recently, I’ve been thinking about living a simpler life. The idea started when I visited Mickey Trescott’s new home in the Willamette Valley over the summer, but it really solidified when we moved all of our things from Maryland to Florida last month – over 14,000 lbs worth of belongings. As we started unpacking boxes, I couldn’t help but think that I just didn’t need so much stuff. The worst part about it? We’re still unpacking.
So for the holidays this year, we’re trying to not buy any objects for each other. Instead, we’re gifting experiences. So this week’s recipe is going to be a little different from your usual Tuesday post; I’m going to walk you through how to make gifts to hand out to people that aren’t stuff. A couple years back I made a few gallons of my barbecue sauce and gave it away as…
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I have an uncle who was a cop.
His kids, my cousins, were around my age and when we visited our family in Québec every summer I practically lived at their house. As soon as we got to my grandmother’s house, all rumpled and grumpy from our eight hour drive, I would start dialling my cousins’ number on her beige rotary phone. I spent the whole damn school year waiting for summer, and my time with my cousins, to come; we wrote each other letters all through the dreary winter, hatching plans for new summer exploits. Life with my cousins – swimming in their pool, family barbecues, playing hide-and-seek in my grandmother’s mammoth hedge at twilight – was lightyears better than my boring life in Ontario.
Pretty much every summer my uncle would, at some point, take us to visit the police station. He would pretend that we were criminals and…
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And then something happened that changed everything.
I wish I could start the story that way, because that’s how it felt when it happened: startling, vivid, breathtakingly transformative. Even now it makes my heart race, the moment when I looked down and saw what I saw on our front porch, and the follow-up moment when I pulled the car out of the garage and saw what was there. But you can’t be jolted out of a world without there being a world to be jolted out of. That’s an awkward way of saying it, but I’m a storyteller, not an expert in metaphysics. Bear with me.
And then something happened that changed everything.
We’ll get to the something. But first, you have to know what the everything was.
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We were renting a house on a cul-de-sac in northern Virginia. The purplest part of a purple state, in the section of…
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The blind fingerless art critic
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I have a confession to make: art critics baffle me. Especially when they venture to make grand pronouncements about the right way to go about experiencing art in museums. So when I saw the title of Philip Kennicott’s piece in the Washington Post, titled “How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much” I will confess that I died a little bit inside. “Sigh. Another ‘you people are doing it all wrong’ piece.” Just what the world needs, another art critic holding forth on the sad state of museums and museumgoing. But, though there is plenty of sneering, there’s also a lot worthy of discussion. And debate. Kennicott’s post didn’t stand alone too long before Jillian Steinhauer posted a reply at Hyperallergic, and Jen Olencziak a rebuttal at Huffington Post. So, let’s take a…
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Becoming fluent in Norwegian is a long and bumpy path, full of “YEAAAHHHH I am so good at this” and “Oh my God I will never make it” moments. In the down moments, when you burst out laughing thinking THAT was a joke (sorry it wasn’t, say the eyes of your mystified colleagues), you will need some little things to keep you going. Small expressions or words that will automatically make you feel more fluent than you really are. Who doesn’t like to hear “Du er SÅ flink i norsk!” (you are so good in Norwegian!) when you perfectly know you aren’t?
This blogpost is inspired by a short article in The Oslo Eye. I made my own list of things that make me feel like I am more fluent in Norwegian. Hopefully it will be of some help for other immigrants like…
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For an actor who has made his mark playing an arrogant Intelligence Bureau officer in “Kahani” and the villain with the heinous laugh in the recent blockbuster “Kick”, one would expect Nawazuddin Siddiqui to project a larger than life image, or at least an air of entitlement that stars of lesser talent don effortlessly. Instead, he explains for the benefit of an audience at Chicago’s Icon Theater, he is nervous, being ill at ease on a public stage.
In fact, Siddiqui said in an interview with IANS here that he has never allowed the need for an image to distort his craft as an actor. Siddiqui’s unswerving commitment to the craft and his apparent detachment to stardom appears to have been honed more by his setbacks – till recently his appearances in mainstream Hindi cinema were limited to a solitary scene,often of a torture victim – than his recent spectacular commercial and critical successes.
For Siddiqui, who grew up in Budhana, a village in the Muzzafarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a break in films was nothing if not fortuitous. When he moved to Mumbai, all he wanted were a few roles in television serials.
In a profession, where stardom is a destination, and narcissism an essential virtue, Siddiqui would seem to be a misfit. He struggled for about a decade trying to get a break and today he appears gratified, but not unsettled by success. After the success of “Kick”, he has been getting several offers for similar villainous roles, but has rejected all of them, keeping a promise to himself that he would not do more than one commercial film a year.
“I knew I would get offers to play the villain after ‘Kick’, and I had already decided to reject all of them,” he said, adding: “Fortunately, I have enough scripts to give me a choice. The success of ‘Kick’ will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in. A big blockbuster like ‘Kick’ expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.”
Siddiqui was honored at the Chicago South Asian Festival for his “outstanding achievements”, where two of his films, ‘Liar’s Dice’ (India’s entry for the Oscars) and ‘Monsoon Shootout’ were screened, and where despite his reticence, he appeared to an audience favorite. He had earlier attended a similar festival in New York and was scheduled to attend another in Los Angeles.
One of his most cherished memories is of the time he spent with the reputed Chicago-based film critic, the late Roger Ebert, watching “Citizen Kane”(1941) , Orson Welles’ landmark work. “I had seen the film earlier, but watching it with Ebert was a unique experience,” Siddiqui said. “He explained the significance of the scenes, giving me a new insight into the film.”
Siddiqui’s exposure to films has been quite disparate – from C grade Hindi films, which were the only films screened in his village, to the best of international cinema at the National School of Drama in New Delhi. Two of the actors he watched in Budhana still remain his favorites – Dada Kondke and Joginder Shelly, who acted in such films as “Ranga Khush” and “Pyasa Shaitan”. The Hollywood actors he admires are Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. While he appreciates the art of Hindi screen legends like Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt and Dilip Kumar, his favorites veer towards the contemporary – director Anurag Kashyap and Manoj Bajpai, whom calls a vastly under-rated actor.
Coming to “The Lunchbox”, his film with Irfan Khan, which has been a commercial success and also won critical acclaim in the United States, he said his character in the film was modeled on a friend he has known for several years. “For me it was very easy, because I copied his mannerisms and his reaction to situations.”
One of Siddiqui favorite leisure activities is to listen to background scores. “Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination and I travel in my mind’s eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy,” he said.
The craft of acting is a journey and what fascinates him is the ability to delve into himself through it. “Acting is a process. Even now, I feel I am a beginner on this path, because it an ocean and I go into its depths with a great feeling of apprehension. There are a thousand different ways to play a character for example. You have to build on each character from zero, because they have no connection to the characters you played earlier. I strive to bring integrity to the roles I play. I think this is essential for an actor. I have done that in small budget films like ‘Miss Lovely’ or ‘Liar’s Dice’ or in a big budget film like ‘Kick’.
Siddiqui said he was overwhelmed by the compliment that legendary actress Waheeda Rehman paid him in her recent biography. “I am her fan. I do not remember the number of times I have seen her film, ‘Teesri Kasam'(1966).”
How does a village boy stay grounded through the commercial success and the wild accolades ?
Siddiqui sees no other choice. “It is my instinct to act that has brought me this far. It would be foolish of me to kill that instinct now by focusing on other activities like image building and starry tantrums.” He said he is still ill at ease promoting his films at media events, but does it nevertheless because his directors want him to.
Siddiqui is supremely confident that he can thrive purely on small budget independent films. “I have limited needs. If you have unlimited desires, of course, then you have a problem.”
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