Shawshank Redemption

I love this movie. Wanted to post some of the best dialogues from this movie (tough to choose tho :)

1. Some Birds Are Not Meant To Be Caged...
Their Feathers Are Just Too Bright..
And When They Fly Away..The Part Of You Which Knows,
It Was A Sin To Lock Them Up Rejoice..Yet The Place You Live,
Is Much More Drab And Empty After They Are Gone....

this was red's feeling after andy broke out of SHAWSHANK.

2. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

3. On the outside I am a man straight as an arrow... I had to come to prison to become crooked...

4. Red : These walls are funny, first u hate them , then u get used to them and as time goes by u get dependent on them

5. Red : Some things are best left unsaid

6. hope is a good thing,maybe the best of things and good things never die


7. I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away...and for the briefest of moments -- every last man at Shawshank felt free.

8. "Andy Dufresne, he crawled thru 2 miles of shit and came out clean
on the other side"

Dandia bash!

Well, I have to say that the India club event at Georgia Tech provided lots of entertainment to all the students who took part in the Raas Garba Night last weekend. After a l'il thought, I have to admit that the dandia night matched the navratri celebrations that I had taken part in India. I thought of tracing back the origins of dandia through this blog. So here it goes....

Raas and Garba are the featured dances of Navratri evenings in Western India, originating in Gujarat and Sindh. Navratri is the longest Hindu festival celebrated all over India for nine consecutive nights in praise of Lord Rama (Hero of the Epic Ramayana) and Godess Durga from the end of September to early October.
Originated as devotional Garba dances, which were performed in Durga's honor, this dance form is actually the staging of a mock-fight between the Goddess and Mahishasura, the mighty demon-king, and is nicknamed "The Sword Dance". The sticks of the dance represent the sword of Durga. The women wear traditional dresses such as colorful embroidered choli, ghagra and bandhani dupattas (traditional attire) dazzling with mirror work and heavy jewellery. The Men wear special turbans and kedias, but can range from area to area. The dancers whirl and move their feet and arms in a choreographed manner to the tune of the music with lots of drum beats. The dhol is used as well as complementary percussion instruments such as the dholak, tabla and others. The true dance gets extremely complicated and energetic. Garba is performed before Aarti (worshipping ritual) as devotional performances in the honor of the Goddess while Dandiya is performed after it, as a part of merriment. While Garba is performed exclusively by women, men and women join in for Raas Dandiya. Also known as "The Dance of Swords" as performers use a pair of colorfully decorated sticks as symbols, the circular movements of Dandiya Raas are much more complex than that of Garba. The origin of these dance performances or Raas can be traced back to the life of Lord Krishna.


Today, Raas is not only an important part of Navratree (meaning nine nights) in Gujarat but extends itself to other festivals related to harvest and crops as well. The Mers of Saurastra are noted to perform Raas with extreme energy and vigor.