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To My Role Model, My Hero, My Dad – Happy Father’s Day!!

I was home from school with the progress card in hand. We had just moved from Mumbai to Mangalore and I had joined 5 th Grade of a CBSE school in late June when classes had already started.  The monthly exam was due in 2 days from the date of my joining. So for the first time my marks were low; C, D in all subjects except Science. I had got E in Science. I was scared to take the progress report home and get it signed. Firstly, I never had such low grades so wasn’t sure how my parents would react, and secondly my dad was at home, so I will obviously have to get it signed from him instead of Amma. My dad used to travel a lot and would rarely be at home, so with papa not being around much, we (me and my sis) were both scared of him. So you can imagine how I would have felt while carrying that progress report back home with a FAIL/E grade on it. I still remember how I was reciting different excuses to give on being scolded, I dint have time to cover all the syllabus, I will do b...

Bus 5 minute ki Kahani!

I have a new addiction these days :) Short Films!!! From last 3 days I have watched over 50 short films in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi & Tamil; and I LOVE them. I was wondering how come I never came across these earlier. I have always loved and admired our Indian advertisement’s creative department. The stories they put in a video of few seconds to couple of minutes is just awesome. They have a good story line, awesome actors, screenplay, direction, music and also succeed in getting their message across. I mean look at the ads of Virgin mobile, Asian paints, Fevicol, Airtel, Surf Excel, Imperial Blue etc…   Below are some examples of recent commercials; I have embedded YouTube links to these videos (I am not even including our good old Doordarshan time ads like Jaleebiiii or Cadbury dairy milk   or Hamara Bajaj etc…) Some heart touching ads like Airtel   ,  ICICI   ,  Asian Paints  . Some beautiful ads with social message like -...