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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

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Dear Ashu,

You are not alone in lamenting over the debilitating effect that love has on the mental abilities!

The great Mirza Ghalib said as much:

Ishq ne Ghalib nikamma kar diya,
Varna hum bhi aadmi the kaam ke

Ghalib, love has made me good for nothing,
Otherwise I too was a capable man ( So much is lost in translation!)

Shyamala

Originally posted by: samarp2
i m not understanding y Arjun had to hand that work to Punni, saying all this prob came frm this call?

are which prob...he was talking to Punni as if she already knew abt the prob...

he should have told her, just to find the dtls abt it..as this no has made a phone call to Ovi & is making prob..

he was talking to punni as if punni is already aware of the prob..ovi is facing...

its only we audience knw what prob...how will Punni know, what prob?

so confusing...Arjun is behaving like un illiterate...not using his brain power at all👎🏼

pyar mein beichare ki kya haalat ho gayi hai

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 13 years ago

#22

Mine too.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: soapwatcher1

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Debu

@crazy2012

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Posted: 13 years ago

#23

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Dear Ashu,

You are not alone in lamenting over the debilitating effect that love has on the mental abilities!

The great Mirza Ghalib said as much:

Ishq ne Ghalib nikamma kar diya,
Varna hum bhi aadmi the kaam ke

Ghalib, love has made me good for nothing,
Otherwise I too was a capable man ( So much is lost in translation!)

Shyamala

Kya Baat Kya Baat..Bahut Khub!!!😊 Thanks for the lovely post

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samarp2

@samarp2

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Posted: 13 years ago

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

Sparkler

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Posted: 13 years ago

#25

Janhvi,

It is uncanny how many favourite books we share, despite having a solid generation gap between us, or so I presume!

I could have told you that the 'sequel' to GWTW would be no good - those written by another author usually are. They try too hard to capture the tone of the original and it becomes like a bad copy. Plus the original in this case is such a mastodon of a book, full of raw emotion that is the strongest when it is not displayed - remember the scene when Rhett shuts himself up in a room with Bonnie's body and will not let them take it away for the burial? Eventually, it is only Melanie who can get him to relent. In that scene, how much one can imagine without a line being written in the book!

The only good sequels by another author that I have read are 2 Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries in the style of Dorothy Sayers. written by one Jill Paton Walsh, called Thrones, Dominations, and A Presumption of Death. They are billed as co-authored by her and Dorothy Sayers herself, because Paton has used some unpublished material by Sayers in The Wimsey Papers. Both are really good - the atmosphere and the integrity of the characters are both preserved, without too much of straining for the same tone and style.

It is a little better when it is a question of completing a partially written book, like Jane Austen's The Watsons. I read one of the two completed versions, and it was not bad, but NOT Pride and Prejudice or even Sense and Sensibility. Apparently Jane Austen herself felt that she had made a mistake in The Watsons by setting her heroines on too low a rung of the social ladder, which meant that there would not be enough scope for her gentle wit and mischievous badinage. In The Watsons, the eldest daughter spends her time salting pork and churning butter, undoubtedly worthy pursuits in themselves, but not the best of topics for a witty novel of manners, which is the Austen speciality.

Do you like the Inspector Appleby mysteries by Michael Innes? For someone with such as strong literary bent of mind, they would be a delight, for the author pays more attention to poetic sallies, acrostics, sonnets, and the like - most of the clues are hidden in such literary devices - than to the mystery itself.

Well, I suppose I should include something about PR to justify plonking this on the forum.
I see that I need not be afraid of going postal after all, for your faltu slowpoke has now moved to sentence no.3, Why are you doing this to me? , instead of the other 2 that I shall not repeat here, Not that it is a new line, but at least we have not heard it fpr a week or so. One cannot ask for too much, as you observed so sapiently somewhere else!

I do not know if you would call what we had of Arjun and Purvi today a 'scene', but I was more intrigued by his taking Purvi off to some other room at the end of it than by Punni's declamations of intent. I wonder where they went and what they did. No hint offered on screen, so you, Janhvi, can imagine whatever you like, a la GWTW!

I think Archana has been taking a course in Gandhian studies. That is why she feels so bad about having stopped Taraka from landing her aai one solid thappad. She must by now be wishing that she had not intervened, so that Sulochana could, true to the teachings of Gandhiji (and Jesus Christ), have turned the other cheek as well. I was feeling a bit perked up when she demanded an apology from Taraka, but that soon fizzled out watching her lamenting her deviation from Sulochana's sanskaars and having actually grabbed Taraka's arm.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Shyamala, Shyamala, do you have to bring Rhett into this??? I am undone!!! 😆 I have spent many a long hour as a school girl after that comment of his, inventing and re-inventing a grand re-union between the two and when the sequel to the book came out, written by some far off relative of the author, I devoured it in the hopes that it would finally rest my "frazzled" nerves. It did not, the book was a total disappointment and left me wishing I had not read it at all but that I had just dwelt in the myriad rosy endings that my over active teen brain had conjured for dear old Scarlett and the swoonworthy Rhett!! 😳😃

Now, your reference has once again reduced my brain and nerves into a nervous swirling mush wondering if the CVs will throw as big a disappointment into my ladli's life as did Alexandra Ripley!! 😕

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bee5

@bee5

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Posted: 13 years ago

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Originally posted by: soapwatcher1

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bee5

@bee5

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Posted: 13 years ago

#27

Originally posted by: sashashyam

I think Archana has been taking a course in Gandhian studies. That is why she feels so bad about having stopped Taraka from landing her aai one solid thappad. She must by now be wishing that she had not intervened, so that Sulochana could, true to the teachings of Gandhiji (and Jesus Christ), have turned the other cheek as well. I was feeling a bit perked up when she demanded an apology from Taraka, but that soon fizzled out watching her lamenting her deviation from Sulochana's sanskaars and having actually grabbed Taraka's arm.

Shyamala

And this thought of having supposedly been committed a mistake by a 50 yrs old?! 😲

And a 75 yrs old having to explain to the Sanskaari 50yrs old and give assurance that the there was indeed no daag in her Sanskaars!! 😲

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Darlyne

@Darlyne

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Posted: 13 years ago

#28

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Dear Ashu,

You are not alone in lamenting over the debilitating effect that love has on the mental abilities!

The great Mirza Ghalib said as much:

Ishq ne Ghalib nikamma kar diya,
Varna hum bhi aadmi the kaam ke

Ghalib, love has made me good for nothing,
Otherwise I too was a capable man ( So much is lost in translation!)

Shyamala