The Week that was!

Perhaps it’s the indication of the fact that we live in very exciting times and the events that as they unfold-minor as they seem are likely to affect us in a way that we may not be able to visualize today. Or perhaps its just the fact that recently I have had nothing much to write about.

Every week (that is how I would ideally want it), I would like to note a few events that I feel are either
1.Of immense importance to our lives.
2. Are offbeat in nature
3. Make for interesting reading

Ideally I would not like to talk about the spiralling gas prices and the falling stock indices of the world.

Eventually I would like this attempt to not be limited to a narration of facts but rather a commentary on the events around us.

What I hope is that in the process I will be able to form or refine opinions.
This is at best a humble effort and I am the first to acknowledge this.

Now for the first “edition”

The events that made news this week:
1. N Korea beginning with nuclear disarmanament.
2. Bill Gates bidding good bye to the tech world.
3. Passing away of the legendary Sam Maneckshaw.

All of the above events have been well-documented including the last one with the story of the President unavailable for the funeral of the greatest Field Marshall India has ever seen.

What caught my attention however was WALL-E, the latest animation offering from PIXAR. WALL E ( acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class). I don’t really want to dwelve into the story but the movie presents a startling but entirely plausible picture of the earth a couple of centuries down the line if we extraplolate the events as they are occuring today. The greatest takeaways from the film is the danger of the rampant consumerism and how we are playing into the hands of the big companies, Secondly automating everything around is deadening our brains and giving the power of the human mind to machines. Auto-Pilot is probably not the answer to everything.But the most endearing piece in the story is how even two futuristic robots cant escape the power of love. The only thing that is likely to survive the mess that we are creating for ourselves is love and of course cockroaches for company if we are there at all.

The movie though not the best offering from PIXAR so far ,delivers the most important lesson ever delivered by an animation-the time to act and the save the earth and the human race is now. There may never be a second chance.

In this world of chaos, WALL E stands for all that needs to change about this world’s and about us.

I only hope the world doesn’t brush this movie aside as a children’s cartoon film.