Splitsvillains

Split right down the middle. This is so awesome. A new trend has caught up in our country. Splits. The demands of certain political parties, inspite of all their earnestness has the viewers in splits. I propheise Banana Splits to come back into fashion.

One can imagine the scenario in the days to come. Your Farmville land getting too big to manage? Write to the central government to authorise a splite. So many things in our lives are becoming unmanageable. We must consider what is splitworthy. Recently the common admission tests for management institutes were conducted. It was a massive failure due to

excess server load and mismanagement. Hey, maybe we could ask the exams to be split into two exams with ten day slots each.That might avoid future CATastrophe/CATatonic attitude of the IIMs....no? well how about a CATtle class joke?? forget it...

Maybe divorce/break up being the new trend is actually the root cause of it all. Maybe grown ups are taking lessons from youngsters after all. The cure for incompatibility - split. Or maybe, its just a desire to compete with America to see who has the most no. of states.

Some years down the line the splits could increase exponentially until everyone is living in his own isolated world. Hey, kinda like that flick Surrogates. They all make these dystopian futuristic sci-fi flicks and set it in countries like America or Japan which are doing so well. If you really want to be realistic, you would set it in India. India where everyone touts cultural diversity and yet cant wait to get rid of those different from others.

Ironically, this is a country where local sports team are fanatically supported as if they were patriots off to war. If sports is to be enjoyed, you could realistically support anyone that you like. But no, India means India. Until of course you have actually intereaction/contact with another person. In which case you can't wait to rid yourself of this pest who is so different from you.

Again a point of irony, irony and sarcasm being my only forte, Its funny how its only when talking of division, destruction and chaos that seems to bring a group of people together. While it may be true that a man fighting for his life is the fiercest fighter, in case of a mob, its the one bent on destruction that appears the most dangerous.

Empirical Formula OR Vampirical Formula

Vampire obsession of the world: The world is currently obsessed with vampires. Pulp novels, The Underworld movie series, Facebook applications (for crying out loud)even chick literature, recentlyturned into a movie franchise deal with vampires as does the HBO show True Blood. All this within the space of a few months. It were as if vampires are the new fad.

Fads, obsessions and trends aren't something new. They have been going on for quite some time now. One reason would be that if something sets people thinking, others choose to cash in on that mood by doing similarly themed stuff. Other reason is a lack of imaginative ability to go beyond what they are awestruck by and do something great themselves. They can only imitate the last person to clear the bar. The thought of raising the bar never occurs to them.

What is more disturbing is that not just the trend being imitated in a broad sense. The basic ideas premise established by a person are just blindly carried forward. And not just during the trend. The notions from the very first time the idea was concieved. For example, once established as pale people with fangs, vampires have never been depicted otherwise. And the

current trend has them all as pasty looking people with heavy eyeliner, a goth look and brooding nature. I mean, cant a vampire be cheery?? Oh, and of course they have to have werewolves as their mortal enemies.

People will jump onto fads because corporates will. And they do so because they fear to tread the new path. It has been ingrained into us to go for the safe route. Indians leastways never were adventurous or explorers. But the rest of the world isnt that different either. Drain the fun out of something and then crib that its old and gimmicky. But thats till the next bandwagon comes along and they can jump onto it.