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Posted: 12 years ago

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Posted: 12 years ago

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Hi, Varun & his Fans,

Please do read this book, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman that is, whenever you get the chance from being away from TV:

This is a free e book text

Forward:

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

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Posted: 12 years ago

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Here's something to remind us all what we value...

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Posted: 12 years ago

#24

Here's a nice photo of Varun Badola with his wife Rajeshwari

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Posted: 12 years ago

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just want to dedicate this song to you and all your loyal fans

abhi mujh mein kahin Baaki thodi si hai zindagi jadi dhadkan nayi jaana zinda hoon main to abhi kuch aisi lagan is lamhe mein hai yeh lamha kahaan tha mera.

ab hai saamne, ise chhoo loon zara. Mar jaaun ya jee loon zara

khushiyaan choom loon, ya ro loon zara. mar jaaun ya jee loon zara

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Posted: 12 years ago

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Babygirl, Thank you for your deep felt poem. It was very nice.

Here's another poem for Varun & all Vikram fans:

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Posted: 12 years ago

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When You Tend a Rose, a Thistle Can Not Grow

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Posted: 12 years ago

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Posted: 12 years ago

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To Varun,

This is my humble opinion on how this show can be saved.

Phir Subah Hogi started off a very strong footing about the Bedni Community and Takur Vikram Singh being their defender of these deprived women. After the show suffered set backs with exchange of characters, the show has fallen below standards and is collapsing.

Nandish being the lead and Adi with Sughni has spoilt everything. If Nandish was meant to be the lead then he should have been one from the beginning and should have been seen supporting the Bedni community. How on earth can Adi be the lead after throwing so many insults at Bednis and at Sughni?

These two characters have absolutely nothing in common except for Adi degrading Sugni & patronising her as she does the same to Vikram and both leaving their original partners getting superficially married for convenience, based on their illogical and unjustified principles.

Things (imho), have gone wrong are, for example:

Bringing the dead back alive
TVS continuing on with a broken marriage
Bhanja fighting his Mama for wanting to marry Sughni and stealing her from him
The disappearing act of the whole village,

All of these have had a negative impact on the show. Other comments from viewers & poor ratings prove this.

I'd rather this whole fiasco ends. The show is a mess. The only way forward is for TJS with Reeva to conspire against Vikram, leading to a huge scandal, about him being after Sughni. When he attempts to talk to Sughni, she misunderstands his intentions, while he tries to stop her from leaving, someone from behind the screen (e.g. TJS) shoots at him and blames him for trying to dishonour Sughni. He ends up with a physical injury, humiliated by the villagers and abandoned.

Vikram needs justice, and needs to put all of them in their rightful place.
Vikram's mother, Mother Takur, in the mean time starts to investigate the truth and coaches Vikram into telling her everything, which he does.
When TVS finds out Reeva was behind this, he divorces her but gives her what she wants, a name & place - a separate house to live far away.
Mother Takur meanwhile counsels Vikram into leaving the village for a while to recover from his injury and for his own peace of mind & safety.

Mother Takur has to play an active role as TVS's supporter and pay back to Sughni for all the pain she gave to TVS, by making her realise how wrong she is. This will be a slow process. At first MT invites Sughni to her home to talk with her about working as her servant (by now, she knows everything & that Sughni a bedni) when Sughni has no money and no where to go except the takurs who want to exploit her. MT will teach her how to do house chores, educate her, give her manners, values (sanskar), and how be a real takurain.

In the mean time, TVS finds out the culprit is TJS and fights him (like the character of Zoro), but no one knows who is helping the women of the town or attacking TJS. This way, he earns back his love, trust & respect of Sughni, her mother and the whole village. He should stay away for many years and do good for the Bednis without any of them knowing it, till the end, when Sughni realizes who is her hero.

In the mean time, Adi can play the main lead in helping this unknown hero and Adi will also realize it's his mama saving him from near death during the confrontation with TJS's gang, where Amrita paying a quick vist finds him unconscious and nurses Adi back to recovery.

Adi finally learns to respect his Mama and go back to marry Amrita, who is still waiting for Adi to realize his real love for her.

I hope this helps in some way.

Best Wishes

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