BRAToSPHERE

Author: Bharat Jhurani

  • Welcome to the Sphere

    Voila! We are finally up and running.

    A lot of exciting stuff has been happening of late, and you would gradually come to know of it.( sorry, confidential right now. I know saying this just raise even more curiosity!)

    Many things have been happening on the professional as well as on the personal front( NO! I AM NOT GETTING MARRIED!). Well, again, more on that later.

    After a lot of tweaking, and twisting, and going through oodles of manuals, the site is up on its own domain.

    The visible change, evident in front of you, is the new home of my dear blog. It is a complete revamp of the existing blog, which has been there for more than 5 years. Considering the many decisions that I have taken in the last couple of weeks, this is one activity which figures quite high on my priority list – Blogging.

    The name has changed, the design has changed, heck! The address itself has changed. But well, the treatment is still the same. This is the same sphere which has been providing you with your share of fun, and one liners, along with a lot of gyaan. Just expect it to increase in the coming days.

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  • Moving to a new ( small) town

    The last post was about the bright future in the small towns, and the huge potential they carry. Here I would like to ramify about some things you SHOULD look while moving to a new city.
    After shifting to hubli, and getting my stuff too transferred from Bangalore, the first thing I did was Unpack ( obviously). Set up my virgin house with whatever little I had, and head straight to Big Bazaar ( yes, hubli has one!) to fill up the rest of the house.
    Although moving sucks, it doesn’t end when you finish unpacking the boxes, and getting more stuff then and there and unpacking it. Every body needs to find certain spots (and a few people) in a new city to make his own.
    There are some things that one should always look down while moving to a new city.
    BARS – These are the places you have the chance to network, hook up, set a date and in short do everything to start your social life. Alas! Hubli just has these shady bars, where you have the overgrown uncles and frustrated sales people, frustiyaying about their bosses. No chick around. But well, Networking is not all about finding chicks. Is it?
    Food spots – As a bachelor, in spite of having a microwave and all the necessary amenities in the kitchen, you would never ever cook on time. Very important to eat a full satisfying meal atleast once in a day. Go find about all the good eating out places ( being Hubli, by all I don’t mean many!) and ensure your daily bread and cereals are taken care for.
    Coffee house – While initially moving in, I did not expect a decent coffee place where I could hang out in the evening. Hubli surprisingly has a CCD( yes, they have managed to get a franchise even here). This is the place, where you need to go to get rid of your loneliness and in your quest to see some live people, and also to give rest to your Facebook and google talk account for some time. Accept it, humans do need live interaction with other humans. Not to talk about the prospects of hooking up with some one.(  here I drift again!)
    Impressing ladies place – You never know when you get lucky, or when you be able to score. So do find out about the existing parks and “local sight seeing places converted to lover’s parks” around your town. Even if you don’t find anyone like me, you can always go there to see other happy people and just dive into the beautiful memories you would have had till you were shifted here. ( yeah, CCD will get boring after a point of time!)
    GYM – If you are lonely, staying alone in a big city, the Gym would be your only partner, and this applies to small towns too. Hubli has a talwalkars( yippee!!). This is the place where you start your not-so-social day.
    Many other things I might have missed out,  which I would keep updating you as I go through this exciting journey called “ Living in the fortune!”

  • Small towns

    After a lot of random posts, I think it is my moral duty to update you of my presence. I have recently ( last month) shifted to Hubli (a small town in north Karnataka) and am operating from here, selling more and more candy.
    This is the first time that I am actually living out of a small town, and in spite of all the disadvantages in terms of lack of exposure, people, company, hang out places, etc.. small towns have their own charm. To begin with, your expenses go down drastically. Many other things like, getting to be in the heart of the country and trying to understand their aspirations and dreams from a close quarter, learning where these people like spending money, and ultimately what really drives them – drives the Indian economy.
    After spending a little over a month, by actually living amidst such circumstances, my respect for the late C.K. Prahlad has gone up by notches, and I totally subscribe to the idea of Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. The fortune is here, and the future growth of the country is going to be from here. No second thoughts about it. Any one who gets their small town strategy right, will crack it.

  • >Demi God Stars of South india

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    As such it is, there are a pretty many crazy things that happen in india, and there are a lot many takers for entertainment ( read movies). There is something very peculiar with the south indians, and the god level status accorded to the movie stars here.

    The kind of feeling and respect that the south indians have on their stars is mind boggling, and the space movie stars occupy in the minds of people in the south is something truly out of this world.

    Chiranjeevi  is a God like figure in Andhra. So much that people die in the quest to get tickets for his movies. People have been so mesmerized by the actor, that the patronage now extends to his brother, nephew, son( all actors), and father in law( producer). I doubt, if the fan following will not be extended even to his dog, who might feature as the main cast in a forthcoming movie.

    The Late Rajkumar or the late Vishnu Vardhan in Karnataka enjoy a similar status. I was in bangalore last december when Vishnu vardhan expired due to completely natural circumstances. In spite of the complete natural form of death, Bangalore, and the whole of karnataka was brought to stand still for a day to mourn for the actor. We need not dwell about the time when rajkumar was kidnapped by Veerappan.

    Coming now to tamil nadu, and there is only one God here – RajiniKanth. His legend is long lived, and his fan following extends far east even to the funny looking japanese. He is creating waves presently in entire tamil land, with the release of his new movie – Endhiran ( Robot in Hindi). We have been hearing abou crazy stuff people dole out for their stars, and how a song is released before the whole cassette is released to capitalize on the craze.

    Rajini has gone a step further. He has released the trailer of the movie in the theatres before the movie releasing.

    WTF!!

  • >FB Movie

    >Just about a week back, i had spoken here about the movie on Facebook, and the general rise of the social networking behemoth called FACEBOOK.

    Now i get to hear from ibnlive.in, about not one but two movies being made on the website. Now this is some achievement.

    The Social network traces the birth and the coming of Facebook, Catfish is a documentary talking about what possibly could happen with the increased usage of FB.

    Being a web enthusiast myself, these two movies come under my must-watch films this season. Would sure be an interesting watch.