them, the intellectual people
(formerly, the irony) Today they burnt off ravan as it's dussehra. Adding life to the ravan-pollution. Of all kinds. Wow. 02-10-2025
Woke up early today to give leetcode contest for god-knows-why. I was surprised that I sat up as the alarm went on. Shouldn't have I just snoozed and hit the bed back! So I had 30 min to spare before contest and I knew I wouldn't wake up again if I sleep. Yesterday's long bs chat made me read Bavishya's I believe you woman again and others. That inspired me to write more and here I am.
I saw Gargi a few years back. Not willingly, given that I don't watch movies unless I have a strong reason to do and that I just don't happen to like Sai Pallavi. I somehow saw the end turning up that way all along, but couldn't actually digest it when it actually came. It was unsettling. You know, as if someone showing the very picture you have been avoiding to see. You knew it was there all the while right in front of you and knew it is what it is but seeing it will make you accept the truth that you don't like and somewhere a timestamp is created as an evidence/ acknowledgement that you saw it. I could not sleep for few days. And for someone with a memory of goldfish, it's startling that I remember the movie this long. I would hit myself if I ever trusted a man.
I remember getting a week's vacay where I asked my friends for movie recs as I had time at disposal. I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Dead Poets Society. The narration, cinematography, the plotline, the depiction of depression, love, relationships and how being kind is not being weak, rather a way to fight is flabbergasting. I cried at the end. Umm kindness(not in the film's context) is something debatable cause there's a difference in being kind out of choice(like you could have fought, you're strong but still chose to be kind) and out of helplessness(tenderness is all you've got to offer, you're timid).
Perfect Days and the Eternal Sunshine of a spotless Mind. These slow paced, aesthetically shot movies are something I could not bring myself to continue watching after ten minutes.
(diff context) I cannot fathom the ridiculosity of Indian judiciary system. Threat calling has 7 years of imprisonment while sexual abuse has tinysmal(if Shakespeare can make new words, so can i) do 3 years, as per web. Life is not fair get used to it(Bill Gates), the world is not a wish granting factory(John Green), these quotes can hold for everything but not this. This is unacceptable. To not give women the justice they need. Are the law makers only men?
(diff context) Bullies and pervert people keep students who love learning away from education just as it would be if you take away the wick of candle. I want to make them all go weak in knees.
I admire them, the intellectual people. for they inspire me. How they do not give up their thirst for knowledge against their odds. I wonder how does it feel to know bunch of stuff that others don't want to nor can they comprehend. I find them intimidating though.
Facts. What do I do with them? The fact that neither can I discard them nor put to use remains. 12-10-2025