A new term begins!

So now everyone's back on campus. Because classes have also begun full swing. It's quite a scene when people return from a longish break. All the fancy looks and hair-cuts that people sport disappear and people with brilliant moustaches come back with much sober looks. That might be because they're coming back from home, where they've got to look more civil or because they're coming back from home and can be spared another round of a trim for a long time.
Anyhow, some of them look significantly different from what they used to look. In certain cases like myself, one would get to see new piercings in my ears. The last time there was a new one on my nose. So ya I think people start afresh in every sense of the word.

Anyhow, we had film studies today and a lot of jargon was thrown at us. We spoke about a lot of different paradigms and forms in cinema, how reality is different from realism and real. How cinema represents reality and constructs it also. How taking apart and unpacking them makes the cinematic experience worth it. Then I saw 2 extremely extremely taxing films. While one was French known as, Cache which had an indeterminate ending. It made a lot of possibilities possible. But the film had long-drawn, protracted scenes which could sedate anyone like me in the sultry afternoon. The narrative/sequence also kept jumping making us think a lot. And then I saw Kadosh, another disturbing film from Israel. It was about two very very beautiful sisters who fell victim to the shackles of the conservatism in Judaism. How their freedom was constantly limited by religion, custom and orthodoxy. How they both wanted to fly out, into freer world but were so caught up that there was no escaping. It was one of the more affective and deeply troubling to the mind.
Such movies make me dislike men a lot. Ya so I don't think I like very manly men. There's got to be a little womanly compassion in every man.

Ya so having done that, I played badminton with a friend. Not that we get turns immediately but we still played a few games. I ran across the breadth of the court, running up and down, thinking that maybe this one I'm going to hit but Anil managed quite well without me. He's a star who doesn't react when he plays really well and loses it if he's being made fun of. Anyhow he's a dab hand at badminton and can manage single-handedly.
Thereafter, i went to eat at TT. Since my dinner was light, and i played a little bit, I went to TT to eat some 'sukhi bhelpuri', which incidentally I had to have myself. I was chatting up with a few students in the first year and telling them a little about my school and college and city. It's really funny, Indore must have been a stand-up comedienne in it's last birth. It inspires so much humour with everyone, even people who have heard about it the first time. It might be because of the way I talk about it or something else. I don't know.

But ya, we ended up talking a lot and I ended up talking about some famous people from my school, which were too many but a little insignificant. Anyhow, that shouldn't keep me from talking about it. I hope people are more educated and literate about the place I'm from, which by the way, is one of the more livable cities incorporating within it a lot of good things about the big city and the small city. Anyhow, in the last few years Indore has seen a sea change in the way it's started to look. It's responded tremendously to some good enterprise in the past few years. I hope however that people don't fall prey to pushing and jostling and pollen and traffic and violence and pollution and travelling and students immigration and hash and IT.

Anyhow, I'm creating a lot of buzz for the city. The MP tourism department should actually pay me for this. Ok now, my eyes are almost closing out of their own accord. I have to have to sleep, otherwise these tired eyes will decide to come out of my face and sleep by themselves. Hopefully I was able to write some coherent lines in this state of drunkeness.

Later