For the Love of Writing!

Before I delve into the explanation of the weird title, I would like to do a round of introductions for those unaware. Batman is a superhero, but without any superpowers. He is a human being, who, even after all of his vulnerabilities, saves the day when the need arises.                            I came to know about Batman by accident actually. A 12 years old boy, at a book store looking for the latest issue of Super Commando Dhruv and Nagraj , suddenly spots a weird logo stamped on a comic book that has fell on the floor from the shelf, title reads 'Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again'. This was the beginning of my fixation on the Caped Crusader. Initially I found him very cool just because of the mystery around his persona, and I used to enjoy the comics for what they were, not really caring about the far deeper reason behind it (no one cares at that age). This fixation kept on growing over the years because of innumerable comic books, animated series and of course,

So here's a confession, I started writing this piece a few years back, but left it incomplete because I couldn't find a suitable conclusion. Or may be there was one, but I felt strongly about its inadequacy. And now, after almost 3 years, my mind stumbled upon a comparison which seems to explain the absence of a proper conclusion, or may be provides one.                                I want you to imagine and go back in time to when you were still a kid. And at that time, when someone asked you, " What do you want to be in life? ", it seemed like a simple question and you'd answer with a random profession, and you thought that accomplishing it was going to be the most important facet of your life. It was as convenient as that. Of course it was supposed to be convenient, as that's a part of the charm an innocence a kid has.                                For me, the answer to that question was engineer , mainly because my father was one, and it sounded c

There was a time when we used to get dragged back in the house for playing outside for too long, not pushed out of it for using cellphones, computers and other gadgets for hours. When families sat together for a meal, they had each other to talk to, not some other people on their phones. The wired landlines were mainstream and the house with a cord less phone was considered to be upper class (even those cord less phones had an operating range from their sets!). This was the time before the new century kicked in and when you tell about this time to kids/ teenagers today, they will certainly be surprised, a lot! The new web series by TVF, titled 'Yeh Meri Family' takes you to a trip down the memory lane to relive those times. The story, told from the perspective of a 12 year old boy Harshu (Vishesh Bansal), is set in Jaipur, Rajasthan during the summers of 1998. It kicks off when Harshu's school closes for the summer vacation and revolves around his mother (Mona Singh

                                              *Warning: The following content may contain potential spoilers* Episode 1 starts streaming, it's daytime, and you witness a dog falling from a high rise building and meeting the floor with obvious outcome, smashed out of life. This probably is the first and strongest signal that the content that is about to unfold will be unabashed, uncensored and may be even gore at times. This may sound like a far stretched comparison, but it kind of reminded me of the beginning of Game of Thrones, when Ned Stark beheads the man in front of his sons. Although there are many differences between the 2 scenes, yet both serve the purpose of setting up the tone of the series. The series, currently streaming on Netflix, is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra. Now you have to take into matter that the book in question is a 900-page epic, so to completely justify it through a series will be too difficult to achieve (assuming that