An Update On My Second Novel - Blue Bells

Today I had a sumptuous dinner at Wangs - a Chinese restaurant in Bangalore. The restaurant had a good ambience and the food was also good.As I sat down on my laptop typing pages after pages of my second novel - Blue Bells, I got engrossed into the unfolding events in my novels and almost lost touch with the outside world.

I reached an instant while typing the novel, where Suraj - the main protagonist of my novel has a habit of writing blogs. It was then that I realized I had a blog too and it had been a long time ever since I had posted anything on it. I opened my blog to see what was my last post. I felt that I needed to write another post to spice up my visitor clicks. But what do I write remained a big question???

I am literally living with the characters of my novel and all I can think of at this moment is my novel. So I am updating you guys on the latest happening in my novel.

Well... first things first. This novel is set in a Post Graduation College and Blue Bells is the name of the canteen in that college and that also happens to be the name of my novel. It is so because this canteen has a very vital part in my novel. I can say that it is this canteen which actually runs my novel because most of the story unfolds here.

I am currently penning down an intense confrontation scene between Suraj and Pooja. I can't reveal further as it would act as a spoiler. All I can say is that this is one of the most crucial scenes of my novel and my novel takes a different altitude after this scene.

Well, I am having a lot of fun penning down this novel. It is actually making me understand various facets of life in a better manner.

Sorry to end this post in an abrupt manner coz it is very late into the night and I am already feeling sleepy.

Is Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize his Anticipatory Bail ???

A couple of days ago as I opened the website rediff.com to check out some movie masala news and I stumbled upon the biggest masala news; 'Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace prize'. My first reaction was WHAT!!! and my jaw dropped. It has not even been a year since he got into the office and now he was a Nobel Prize winner!!!

The world too reacted in no uncertain terms. The reactions ranged from;

'What has he done to merit this?'

'I thought Miss Universe was the only event where people get awarded for making empty speeches about world peace.' (This reaction takes the cake as the best reaction)

Now the question is what made the Nobel Prize committee which sits in the comfortable environs of Norway decide on the Peace Prize for Barack obama????

Considering that USA is waging many battles in the world, building missile systems in Europe against Russia, trying to intimidate China indirectly etc.......So how does the PEACE come into picture for its President????

The only feasible answer that seems to emerge is that now that Mr. Obama has been conferred the top honour, he has got to live upto it. Now he has an additional responsibility to make sure that the world is a safe and 'PEACE'ful place to live in.

Mr. Obama will begin feeling the heat as the entire world has once again turned their focus on everything that Mr. Obama does. He will now understand what it takes to be a PEACE awardee. One wrong step and people will accuse him of 'buying' the Peace award (if they already havn't).

Now with great 'PEACE' comes great responsibility and it would be interesting to see how Mr. Obama will conduct himself. Mr. Obama himself acknowledged this when he said on Friday, upon accepting the award, "The Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes."

The first step that Mr. Obama would be considering to justify his 'PEACE' award is to mend USA's relations with the international community. He can start off by not pestering India to sign the NPT. My argument is how can a country with arguably the largest nuclear arsenal in the world ask other nations to engage in disarmament of its nuclear arsenal???

So all my thoughts converge to a common platform that the Nobel Awards Committee played its trump card by conferring 'PEACE' prize to Barack Obama. Coz now his PEACE prize will act as his anticipatory bail and he would be forced not to take any foolish steps that would hamper world peace. Now before any foreign policy that Mr. Obama mulls on, the PEACE prize would invariably play on his mind.

But one question stills lingers in mind; 'Did Barack Obama win the Nobel PEACE Prize for being Barack Obama or for NOT being George Bush???'