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    • DAY 750 Amitabh Bachchan Blog
    From the morning a consensus on the census. Officials from the BMC, the Bombay Municipal Corporation, troop into Prateeksha to detail in on information, that shall for the first time in India develop for every citizen the UID - a unique identity card. All kinds of information is sought name, place, age, dependents, place of birth, house, residence years and on …. I wait for them to come to the crucial controversial one … caste. They don’t. Wary of the sensitivity that this has raised recently by politicians, they keep away from it. They reason that they would wait for some government decision on this. I tell them irrespective of what the system decides, my answer is ready - caste, Indian. My Father never believed in caste and neither do any of us. He married a Sikh, I married a Bengali, my brother a Sindhi, my daughter a Punjabi, my son a Mangalorean … in his autobiography he had expressed that future generations of his family should marry into different parts of the country. So far that tradition has been kept alive !!

    The heat continues unabated. But within the discomfort and the sweltering conditions a flowering delight as the sun goes down over Juhu -

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    The laburnum in bloom. Only in the hottest month of the year. Bright and beautiful and cooling. In huge large bunches all around Jalsa. Nature in its finest expression and so justifiable. The element of balance, the element of poetic justice, good and evil, Ram and Raavan …

    And equally the sunset over the Arabian Sea off the coast of Juhu. The multitudes over the sand and the beach, bringing down the temperatures that they may have endured throughout the day in extreme conditions. Do not comment on those little objects on the horizon as specks of dirt on camera lens. They are kites soaring above the wind swept sea front. Peculiar in shape but kites all the same.

    Prakash Jha comes over to discuss his ongoing project Aarakshan, his take on the education system prevailing and the issue of protection for the under privileged. He wants to have Ajay and Manoj and Katrina, but is still to finalize them. Plays for me a show reel on his coming project Raajneeti. Intense and with a host of some very fine artists.

    Warming up to work.

    Music governs the mind in connecting with some inner force, that transports one into the sublime. It is a rush of energy and enthusiasm as you hear or play with the keys of the electronic piano - a piano that virtually plays on its own, that makes you sound like a maestro. After long I have fiddled with it. In the absence of any other, this would most certainly be that moment when you feel the closest to the creator. Or whoever else did that for us.

    Peace be upon us. In what we say, what we do and what we believe. There are not very many options left after this …

    Laburnums to gently drift into your sights, with affection and love -

    Amitabh Bachchan
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