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The real cool dude!!

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Ever wondered how small things can make your day? A few days back as per my usual routine I came down to take an auto rickshaw to the nearest station, so I waved my hand to a rickshaw, without even knowing what am I getting into. So, while I was getting into this auto I saw that the rickshawala was wearing a biker's glove (you know those cool ones) and I thought he must be high or something. But, when I sat and I noticed a mirror just in front of me, actually when I starting looking around inside the auto I noticed loads of stuff like a magazine stand, newspaper stand, a fan, mobile charger, recharge coupons, speakers, list of emergency numbers, a warm water thermos and it was no longer an rickshaw for me, it was just something else. Just have a look at it...  And guess what, this dude even has a facebook page called 'Cool Rickshaw'. Just imagine! And one of the best quotes I read is below, that to in a city like Mumbai where without money you are nothing, but

My way or the highway!

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This is the first time I am going to write about a movie I watched. I thought of writing it before but did not had the time and I also thought that may be later I would be able to connect with it in a better way. There was something intense, something more than a simple story to the movie, 'Highway'. A journey without a destination, a soul without body, a feeling without temptation. What I love about Imtiaz alis' movies, except our common love for mountains, is that how his movies take you on a ride from one place to another and its never the compulsion to move the story but the need of the characters to deal with the situation which moves the story. In real life that is what happens, there is no such destination which we think off. There is an illusion of accomplishment. We never come to know that what we always want to achieve, in a way we have already achieved that, probably not in the sense we thought but in the way it actually is. Highway told the story of two peop