“‘2 STATES’ REMINDS ME STILL MY HEART IS WORKING”

Do I fall in love to a Tamil girl?

3:15 am in Indian time. Just I finished watching "2-States" based on Chetan Bhagat's novel “2 States”. It is a romantic story. Running time is 149 minutes, directed by Avishek Verman, produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala, music composed by Shankar-Ehasaan-Loy. Arjun Kapoor as Krish Malhotra Alia Bhatt as Ananya Swaminathan, both is protagonist. Their love story begins from the IIM Ahmedabad and followed by a story of marriage. Krish is from a Punjabi family and Ananya is belonged to a Tamil Brahmin family.

Almost a year back I used to watch diverse movies, a lot, every day and night; whenever I get free, not by this year. Though still I collect Oscar winning films and high rating Hindi films and documentary and art films too. I love to watch movie alone and very much vigilant that who is directing, who is composing music, who is the lyricist, whether the movie is novel based one or not or based on true story etc.

Frankly I would say I’m not a film critic and even not a film reviewer. I watch very less movies by this year because I do not have much attention due to lots of circumstances. Spending time on books, hunting new matchless taste from books; I go after few rules from my darling books.

Well let me come to what I wanted to express now. Since I quit my job, most of the night not able to sleep, so got sleep by early morning only; Spending late night by reading couple of books, writing few poems, plotting up some short stories and ended up my day. It’s been a long time this very movie is in my system. I never tried to watch that. But I engaged myself tonight to watch that so co incidentally. Yes I had watched manifold Indian inter religion, inter language, inter state marriage based films but here I could have another flavor. Simply I loved this movie. I had began to read this novel, unfortunately didn’t accomplish. Read all of Chetan’s novels, I didn’t accomplish among few of them, started reading and simply left due to frame of mind of reading but I have completed his latest "Half Girlfriend".

Which part I love most and like in this film? The role of father (Ronit Roy as Vikram Malhotra) of  Krish, he makes me teary my eyes. Fall in love is natural among the youths. That doesn’t matter about the native, religion, caste and class. Lovers want to get married to each other and want to breathe whole life together; this also natural.  Most of Indian parents want their son and daughter to get married with their desire and preferred ones. However it can’t be happened to every son and daughter. Love destroys their parents dream and love gives more sinew to their decisions. Ending won’t be fixed by the lovers either parents, it depends on life.

Why I pick up hero’s father? Yes a mother’s love is limitless but often pathetic sometime and moreover mother’s love might turn up to pessimist instead of optimist or positive goal. However a father ultimate decision and finding is very much authoritative and can be best for his dear and care ones. Everyone commits mistakes, may be son or daughter, may be mother or father; we human beings cannot be proper at all. But when hero’s father realizes himself and changes his character and becomes a real father, showing factual fatherhood for his son, engages  into his biggest responsibility of his son as a true director of the family; such roles are stupendous. He has fewer roles but was breathtaking.

Every movie has protagonist actor apart from the protagonist roles, without a sub-protagonist, movie cannot be beautiful and touching at all. Therefore, because of Vikram Malhotra; Chetan Bhagat could accomplish his novel by a happy ending and even the movie too. I would give rating for Ronit Roy 4.5 out of 5 and for the film 3.5 out of 5.

A few personal feelings: watching such a movie is good, it can refresh our mind. Life is damn boring sometimes, corporate conversation, communication skill, high tech devices, money matters, less time to enjoy, various diseases, oh my god; its so hectic. That is why we sometime have forgotten completely that where am I, who am I, am I a married guy or unmarried; so confused.

Being in love is not sin, giving time for love is also not illegal, and fall in love again and again is good for heart. It shows that heart is still young. I feel emotion, love, I smile, get teary in my eyes during I watch “2 STATES”, it means this movie is worth to watch and I could ignore and forget all of my stress and unsolved miseries for couple of hours and yet.

Yes, I fall in love to a Tamil girl J

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"GUEST ARTICLE: FUTURE FOOD by ASHEIBAM BELE"

How to feed the World 9 billion people in 2050; eat safe and healthy food; global climate change; sustainable agriculture; fair-trade food; animal welfare; and so on. These are global scenario that I heard every time in lecture or any conference that I attended. I don’t know how many of us really care about the food that we eat daily. How they are produce? Are they safe and healthy to eat? Who is producing our food? And, thousands of questions continue behind our food. But, we never thought of producing own food or realize that is necessary. Because in present day, we all run behind money and thinking that money can buy everything; what we want to eat and whenever we want. And so forth. Kitchen garden turns into car garage. Fields turn into malls, complexes and factories. What shall we do now? Don’t worry! Many scientists, researchers and farmers are working day and night for our food. Just wait, buy and eat. One day we will realize that we are not eating food but eating slow poison. Why? Because we become lazy day after day; we want to live luxury life. Owing to this, few people are responsible for producing food for numbers of people. For instance, like Dr. MS Swaminathan, father of Indian green revolution, saved hunger and humanity since introduction of green revolution in India. Unfortunately, mechanized farming is not sustainable anymore in terms of fuels, synthetic fertilizers and chemicals and its impact on earth. He also pointed out the mistake of present farming and suggested for sustainable farming. He once said “We Need Evergreen Revolution”. The question is how? The answer is you and me. For this reason, the United Nations declared 2014 as “The International Year of Family Farming” which they believe family farming will ensure global food security; will reduce poverty; and maintain sustainable environment.

Let me come to Manipur now. I wonder when would be the day people start talking about good food. Like for example organic food, biological food, fair-trade food, animal welfare, etc. Do you know? Everything can be possible when we do farm/garden at small scale. For example, synthetic fertilizer can be replaced by compost or any organic fertilizers, weeds can be controlled by hand weeding or any other cultural methods, pest and diseases by improving biodiversity and crop rotation. Production can be maximized by introducing scientific design like permaculture. Whether you like it or not, time has come to think global and act local. The world is in your pocket. Most of us have smart phone, laptop, tablet, or whatever new technology we have means that the world is in our finger tip. But, our knowledge on food is very much less as compared to developed countries. Recently, I saw in social media and news showing statistics on how much money Manipur has spent on medicals annually. A lot! I believe good food and healthy environment might reduce the percentage to a maximum. I wonder whether the most advanced technology and the best infrastructure can help us to save when our daily food is contaminated with chemical residues and antibiotics. Believe it or not!  Some farmers in Manipur still use chemicals that were banned many decades ago (e.g. DDT). We don’t know whether they do it willingly or just a lack of knowledge. There are many things going on, but you have to know your food. Anyway, let me conclude, with the opportunity we had a chance to pioneer but discovered by someone else. Recently, there was a conference on the topic “Insects to feed the world” highlights the insects for feed and food are viable solutions for the protein deficits problem. The fee of the conference was 600.00 Euro. It was very funny and amazed to see the insects showed during the conference were the ones that we eat everyday and ate by our ancestors since the time immemorial.

“Time has come to know behind our food which I desirably like to call Future Food...!”

Written By:

Asheibam Bele Singh
Future Farmer
Master Organic Agriculture
Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

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