Well… am back after a looooooooooonggggggggg time!! Dunno why, not feeling the urge to blog!!! guess that’s all got to do with sumthin inherent in me called a “somberi” (lazy for the ‘tamil teriyad’ ones!!). especially after I wasted a solid two and a half months of hols just chillin out at home!!

Lots hv happened since I blogged last time… my last blog was on the maytas scandal and whew, how much has changed on that front! Satyam is no longer only satyam, but Mahindra Satyam and is now on the way to recovery!! And rajus are behind bars!

A lotta things have happened in my life since then, nittfest, cpc’s, pragyan etc…. all different experiences I would never forget in ma life! And now I have pragyan to look frwd to!!!

Well.. that apart it was another thing tat brought me into blogging now…

Saw a prgmme in TV abt how the most famous of the music performers and popular men always die young and spectacularly! Be it jimi Hendrix, elvis, lennon (he had rockstar status), kurt cobain, kennedy, marilyn monroe and now the most famous of all, micheal Jackson..

There was something interestin in all of these… these ppl achieved more popularity in their deaths than all of their lives put together!!! And the manner of their deaths adds to their enigma.. elvis is still believed to be alive and hiding by some crazy fans. Same case with micheal too…

This brings me to an important discussion…so do these ppl who have orchestrated most of their lives for popularity and fame on stage and off it , orchestrate their deaths too? Did elvis presley want to die young? Are people remembered only if their deaths are spectacular?

There is an interesting theory abt how Julius Caesar knew that he was goin to be assassinated but fell into the trap himself because he wanted to die in a spectacular way and be remembered!!! He had got many hints from his intelligence that there was a plan to murder him in the senate and that he get extra security. But on the fateful day he went to the senate even without his bodyguard!!

Would kennedy or Lincoln be remembered as they are now if they were not assassinated? For that matter, would have Indira and rajiv Gandhi be glorified such, but for the manner of their deaths?

There is even an interestin anecdote! “Good ppl die young”. But this can have another meanin also in the present context… “if you die young, you are perceived as good”.  Will anyone talk abt Jackson and his molestation charges now?

Take the case of bhagat singh… there were hundreds of youngsters who fought the war as valiantly as he did… but atlast who is remembered?? Bhagat singh, for he went to the gallows!! Am not sayin that he does not deserve his popularity, but am just pointin out that he was more remembered for his death than his achievements!!! Would he have been remembered such and honoured as the best freedom fighter had he not gone to the gallows?

A more recent example is that of che Guevara and fidel castro…. Che Guevara died young and mysteriously… while the fight was taken forward and successfully won by castro. But who do you think will be remembered more for generations to come? Castro, who has won the battle and is living upto late eighties or che who died young? The answer is obvious…….