HE - Episode 7

Hi Vidya,

I may have been given limited moderating powers with respect to my forum. But you are the real super moderator, green-lettered moderator of my forum.

The statement that you are a better writer than me is as simple a fact that the sun raises in the east. The fact that you have not chosen to write does not in any way affect the veracity of the statement I made earlier.

Absolutely no issues on that. I just wanted to tease my new moderator. In this issue may you have the last word.

Potent words. And strangely these words furnish ample proof of my statement, that anyday, you are a better writer than me. My request to you, if you think, that it is worth your while to listen from a Mofussil Accountant, is "Just start writing."

Agatha Christie's statement is quite chilling.

Again thanks.

Thanks once again.

I want this forum to function precisely as a discussion board. Your response to my response has fulfilled my wish. Thanks.

Regards,

 

Dear Veda Vyasan,

That is perfectly true. I have known people who came from humble middle class background. But when they got on to positions of power, their behaviour, their morals, their values everything changed.

And today if you ask me what is the most dangerous of all the drugs available in the market, my answer will not be hashish, Kanja, Ecstasy, or LSD. It is money. The desire for money. The single minded approach to garner as much money as one can, disregarding the fact that you cannot even spend a portion of it before you die.

I remember a Zen story. A rich man died. Another person living in the town asked a Zen master,
"How much wealth did he leave?"
The Master answered,
"Why, he left every thing he had. Do you think he can carry even a single penny with him in his journey after death?"

Had Madhavan and Priya both been addicts then at least the situation would have been better for them as a couple. But now has come a time in their lives where journeys are heading in different directions.

They are now in a car drawn by two horses, each pulling in opposite directions.

Whatever I said about money applies with greater force to take-overs, mergers and amalgamations.

You will say the same words when you hear about the lives of rich and famous. The point here is that even if we by chance become so rich, we should remember those words.

Your understanding is right. But the whole world goes in the opposite direction. When you are sitting in a stationery train and the train on the next platform starts moving, you have an illusion as if your train is moving. The above sentence is uttered in such a state.

I forgot for a moment that Chitvish lives in Chennai and have unwittingly chosen Chennai as the venue. I never knew that her son Kumar will be the Vice President of Gandhinagar Club. But you know, I samalichified that by saying that now the Chef has changed. Howzzat...

Waiting for you to come up with that English movie.

regards,

 

Dear Veda Vyasan,
Thanks for the reference. I shall try to get hold of the DVD. When you are engrossed with your writing and your story, at times you get an eerie feeling that what you create has an effect much more than you can even imagine.
In a story like HE or SHE (and more so with HE) I am sort of living with the story.
Thanks once again,
regards,

 

Hello Aruna,

In fiction we have an advantage. The number of villains are fewer compared to real life.

Madhavan and Priya being love birds is a statement which was true at a particular point of time. Probably when they were in Amsterdam, and till about six months after marriage. Now there is a perceptible change in them. Especially Priya is moving in a different direction leaving Madhavan far behind. Many marriages fail because nobody stays the same in a marriage. At the point of marriage, both the man and woman would have been in a perfectly romantic spot with identical likes and preferences. As days go by, as they age and mature, they tend to grow in different directions.

Well said Aruna.

Thanks for the post. Please pray that I should be able to get in HE 8 on time. Right now I am so busy that I cant sit down to write that episode.

regards,