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Please have a look at the advertisement in which a detective solves the case with a different way. First we will look at the explanation of the term postmodernism and then discuss the traits in this advertisement.  "Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the previously dominant modernist approaches. The term "postmodernism" comes from its critique of the "modernist" scientific mentality of objectivity and the progress associated with the Enlightenment".-Wikipedia. The advertisement I have shared has postmodernist traits but how? First of all let's recall all the detective stores you have read so far. In each story we see that the detective solves the mystery in an ascending order. Here, also the det...

I woke up with one thought in mind why all men are possessive about women not to mention their beloved's, girlfriends, wives, and daughters. I have no answer for this but upon thinking I zeroed my self at some points. The first thing, I have never come across any man or men who are talking merry things about their women. Why do they never talk better or positive side of them? Why two married or unmarried men never talk about their girlfriends or wives? On the contrary if two or four married women are chatting then their respective husbands is the hot topic following children and shopping. If four men are grouped together they would talk about or discuss hell lot of things including financial crisis, inflation, or any other things but not about their better halves. Why is it so? My opinion is irrespective of modernization, industrialization, or better education men possesses the same mind set of Adam. During primitive ages man use to hunt for shelter, food, and prot...

The other day I was scratching my head. A question was suddenly aroused (actually not unexpectedly but was in the mind) in my mind why our nation practices Male Preserve Society structure? I couldn’t get the answer. I think I’m too young to find the answer or not experienced enough to understand the structure. But what I learned from my past is there are three types of people who influence this structure. Father Figures -Comprises all the male persons Mother Figures -encompasses all the female  persons  Both the sexes -Involving all the Adam’s and Eve’s Now one thing may be confusing how I add women in this social structure. The answer is in my opinion today’s women are rapidly becoming Father Figures with their stubborn attitude and rigid thoughts. Rigid thoughts mean their attitude to avenge men or male preserve people. What they think that I don’t know, but this will lead to nowhere.  Our society needs to bridge the gap of manly hood and womanly hood ...

Leaving behind the childhood why we grow faster, why we leave all the glorious days when everyone is talking about us, everyone wanted to know you, wants to spend some time with you. Those were the days when the whole world was revolving around you and you were busy in constructing your own world. while one day this all vanishes at once. when it vanishes doesn't know but it disappears like a cracker. you will not get any glimpse of those days, situations, minutes, seconds, hell lots of other tings. why this happens? donno know. wanted to catch those bitter sweet moments again. In anyone's case, the bitter moments are the most joyous moments. may be the line is contradictory but it is true. will tell u how? these moments are those that are unexpected, unpredicted, unexplained but lasts for ever. why this happens may be a scientists headache but one can not erase them, wipe out them, eradicate them, eliminate them. We always say that these moments teach us a lot. I doubt. ...

Here is a banned commercial. I found it on You Tube. Please see it once and tell me what's wrong with it to ban. I think the advertisers want to say that it is better to use condoms than having a child. I don't understand why it is banned. It was aired in Europe and immediately banned. The protesters were the people who think that children are God's gift. But what they don't understand that everyone has right of parenthood. If you are not capable of raising the child then it is better not to conceive. That's why use condoms. I was wondering if it was aired in India then what would be the reaction.Now a day, we are awaken of use of contraceptive pills and condoms for safe sex. But still we are very traditional about having a child. In most of the families first marriage anniversary comes with a child. We don't even discuss or think whether we can afford or not. After marriage our parents starts dreaming about their beautiful grand daugh...

Film Noir literally means Black movie. The name was given by French critics for the black & white low-budget Hollywood movies released between 1940 & 50's. Though these movies were produced on extremely shoe-string budget (if we consider big budget films like Gone with the Wind) but their content were very high. A typical film noir was based upon crime story published in pulp magazines like The Black Mask. Writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Dorothy Hughes were very popular among producers. What impressed the French critics to apart these movies from regular buffs is the use of camera. The low key black & white visual style has roots in German expressionist cinematography. Cinematographers like John Alton had key role in making beautiful noir movies. Hindi films like C.I.D & Aar Paar (both produced by Guru Dutt) clearly inspired from noir's. In recent time we have considerably number of movies which can be called as Film Noir. Ek Chal...

On 8th of this month a girl hanged herself in her house. She was twenty two years old. She finished herself for the sake of college examination. Local newspapers printed it on front page. According to newspaper reports she hanged herself to get rid of the second year engineering examination. She was failed earlier in the first year also. Some questions came up in my mind: 1) Why do students hang themselves? 2) Is suicide the only way to run away from life? 3) Who is responsible for this? 4) Either parents or teachers or education system? For me the answer is our education system and parents. Our education system has became like a assembly line where students are churned out like cars. They are xerox copies or pamphlets. Education system became manufacturing units with students as products. The curriculum and syllabus is designed to solve lengthy question papers. Whoever gets top marks in examination is the most 'clever' student in the class. Other students are stup...