Making a difference

It's amazing how media can change the way of thinking on a massive scale. Getting a thought process run full steam is not that difficult with tools of communication at an arm's length. How we would like to use it is just another question. But what I would like to talk about is how Rakesh Omprakash Mehra has used it recently.
Movies have always been our favourite timepass. That they double up as motivators is just a coincidence that's too rare.
Rang De Basanti is just another of those rare coincidences, which succeeds in inspiring, driving passions to the hilt and truly awakening a generation. Aptly handled theme with closer to life characters and use of colloquial tongue are some of the basic things a director need to incorporate for helping audience ingrain the message. I hope most of you have seen the movie. So, there is no need discussing how well-made it is. But I hope such adventures are attempted on a more frequent basis.

communication breakdown

Does advancement in technology lead to communication breakdown? Is it that because we have an overload of information, with the 24 hours channels, numerous newspapers with numerous pages, net connections and sundry media for communication, we forget to communicate in a face to face manner? When a group of people sit down for a chat, each seems to be chatting into a mobile phone rather than to the person sitting right in front of them. When we do talk face to face, all the theories of communication viz interpersonal , face to face etc. takes away the sponteniety from the conversation.