Being Blogger

Although I was compelled to subside my tempatation to visit my blog over the days for want of time and mindset to even think about a lot of things happening around me, to say the least, detached temporarily from my blog, it had not frustrated me as much as the news of blogs being blocked came.Not until friends started asking me as to why blogs were not being accessible did I realise and research on the cause for blogs getting blocked. Thanks to my not-reading-newspapers-habit that I have developed, of late! All said and done, I too believe that in the name of Freedom of Speech, anything under the Sun cannot be allowed to be expressed, for the welfare of the nation, rather to the benefit of the masses. Government, supposed to think sensibly, does have the rights to limit the rights of the people at certain circumstances to meet the security and communal stability in a complexly constituted country like India. But, being a massive body that it is, it can't afford to think and act this petty! The act of blocking blogs would to what extent serve the purpose is beyond my imagination! If not blogs, rather blogs only on blogspot, there are other means to express oneself, which possibly according to the government has the potential to invigourate the communal violences. Can curbing one from posting a blog stop all this! If the Government is incapable of handling the physical disturbances happening around, I wonder how it can fight the mental turbulences happening in the minds of people! That's exactly what it attempted to do.
Amidst all this, what seemed like a silver lining was the potential that blogosphere and bloggers had, to challenge and compel the Government to revisit the constitution to recollect the basics of rights and duties and how rightly they have to be executed.
It came as a surpise that Indian bloggers are such a significant group, both in numbers and strength. More often than not, my blog had been a place only for miscellaneous jottings, but I have visited blogs dedicated for note-worthy issues and help in various fields. It just shocked me that they were getting blocked too! Just recently , I had read about a Police station in Chitradurga ( A demographically large, but comparatively socially backward district in Karnataka) had maintained a blog to keep in close touch with the public. I have no words to express the pride I had in knowing that a district which has yet to go a long way had become so tech-savvy. Pride being two-folds for the reason that my parents are native of that place and hence, although was born and brought up outside of it, I find my roots there. Here, blog was maintained to improve security, Isn't it?
Nevertheless, the crisis that had popped up for a while,only helped in making us understand the role bloggers can play. If they were unfortunately thought of as being able to shake the communal stability of India, (while they actually shook the Government!!) they indeed have an audience to cater to! Yes, blogging should go on and in the interest of not only the nation, but the world, one should morally adhere to certain boundaries without being compelled to.
Hail Bloggers!

Off went the offer

Hmm… it truly has been quite a long while since I even saw my blog.Not that I have been extra-ordinarily busy, rather not that I wasn’t as busy anytime before as I am now. Despite being hard pressed for time, I used to squeeze some time out for my blog, very often. Did I hear someone say, “Come on Rashmi, enough of beating around the bush, why not say suffering from Writer's Block!!” Well, me not a writer per se to be privileged enough to suffer from it.
Not that the days that went by weren’t eventful. If you are given an offer to act in a movie or the hope in your ability to act in one, isn’t it significant? Well, it happened to me one day. While I was traveling back home, reading a book with my half-closed eyes,a pretty high-school girl came and sat next to me. I was not in the mood to strike any conversation with anyone, so, for the conversation that occurred between her and myself,she truly deserves the credit. After the initial your-name,your-job,your-place, basically a bio-data enquiry, the answers to which I gave reluctantly, every time hoping that she would conclude and leave me alone to relax myself, the next question was the one that made my mouth and eyes open to a complete 360 degrees. She calmly asked me if I would act in a movie, given a chance. I didn’t know if she came from a filmi-background,neither did I want to know. What amazed me was the sheer question and her choice of recipient of the question. Although there is an age-old myth that there exist seven people in the world who look alike, me not the one to believe that I figure among the rest six of the beauty queens. It took some time for me to come over the shock and thought of asking her what made her ask me that question, and what made her think that I would be interested in acting, and above all, what made her think I could become an actress. Hmm.. after having framed the questions in my mind, I started asking for her justification for asking me that question. All she said was “Just like that”. I didn’t want to insist more because I was not looking for a film-offer, anyway. So, that was the story of my 30-mins film-offer. Be it an offer that went off the moment it came, wasn’t that an event for me? It sure was. I was wondering what kind of art-movie was she or whoever she was knowing planning to make that a person like me would fit in, is Jassi jaisi koi nahin being made into a movie? Probably, she thought I can play pre-transformation-Jassi!!