A page from my life

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is one of my feel good watches that I keep going back to. I rewatched it a couple of weeks ago. I love this movie for the grandeur, dance numbers, filmy dialogues and of course the music. But this isn’t a movie appreciation post. It’s more of a Rocky Randhawa appreciation post... I mean, why don’t they write more male characters like Rocky anymore? Because Rocky is such an oddball of a hero. He is colourful, loud, slightly pretentious, ridiculously filmy and probably someone you’d think twice about making friends with. He’s impulsive, dramatic and very much a “too much” kind of person. On paper, he is hardly your conventional ideal partner. But what makes Rocky different is what lies under that loud persona. His instinct is to love and care. He wants to show up for the people he loves. When he gets something wrong, he is capable of recognising it and learning from it. He is comfortable being vulnerable and genuinely lets himself be changed by the people ...

I’m an atheist… Although I sometimes find myself somewhere between agnostic and atheist…And one thing I’ve genuinely wondered about is why atheists are so often portrayed as intolerant or lacking morality. Honestly I’ve often found atheists to be some of the most accommodating people when it comes to belief. I can disagree with your faith, question your beliefs, put my POV across and still respect your right to believe whatever you want. I don’t need you to believe what I believe for me to coexist with you. But then I open the comments section of almost any woman’s reel and see people quoting religious scriptures, invoking God, preaching about faith  while simultaneously throwing around rape threats, death threats and the most vile abuse imaginable. And so often, the very people doing it are the ones loudly proclaiming their religiousness. How do you invoke a supposedly moral, all-powerful being while using their name to justify hatred, misogyny and cruelty towards another human...