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The Problem : Marvel and analyse how efficient things as virtual as dreams can get. Assumptions : 1. You dream when you are in a deep slumber 2. Sometimes dreams reflect your state of inertia ( with that i mean you want to stay in some previous condition of your life.You miss some part of your life so much that your inner self still wants to hang on to it. For instance, you are in a new place but you dream of your old home or you dumped your boyfriend but still dream of being together). Analysis and Discussion : With those assumptions, the efficiency of a dream can be thought of like this: Just imagine, you get up from a good night's sleep and feel like you visited your home town during the night (Brain argues - your home town is atleast 17hrs away by air!). You sip your coffee and feel like you smelt home food and mom-made dosa chutney a few minutes back (Brain argues- haven't met mom for months!). You feel like you just had a long conversation with an old friend in the colleg...

यादों के झूले हैं, झूलने दो मुझे, इन में तुम ही तुम हो, खेलने दो मुझे.. आशाओं कि लहरें हैं, उठने दो मुझे, इन में तुम्हारी ही प्यास हैं, बहने दो मुझे.. सपनों कि बस्ती हैं, रहने दो मुझे, इनमे तुम्हारा ही चेहरा हैं, देखने दो मुझे.. काश.. काश , यह जिन्दगी एक सपना होता, तो तुम मेरे साथ ही होते, बात मेरे बस में होती, आँखें न कभी मैंने खोली होती ..

Quite recently i saw this Hindi movie, 'rajnigandha', for the second time. it stars the placid, now forgotten vidya sinha and the effervescent, now director amol palekar. a simple story-line depicted by basu chaterjee. so simple that we might miss the complexity intended. The first time i missed it. I must have just run into the teenage years then. the only reason i might have watched it is the still hummable and soulful songs in the movie. The present, shows deepa (vidya sinha) engaged to sanjay (amol). theirs was a boy-meets-girl at university love story. but now deepa wishes for more passion in the romance while she listens to sanjay's work related woes. he is due for a coveted promotion and sees nothing more important for them at present. nevertheless he charms her every evening by bringing in a bunch of her favorite flowers, rajnigandha, which fills her heart with the fragrance of his love. a job interview takes deepa to Bombay. a stranger in the city now, but previous...