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Vikram Roy

Bangalore Now A Days Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Capitalism = Cubism; it is like Picasso’s free style modern art ruined the classic art tradition. Modern art is politicized by sales, marketing, and media publicize. The incapable middle class is responsible for growing consumption of media hypocrisy. We believe in what media says in luxurious news packaging.  We engulfed to trust on what dominators contaminate to make us believe? In a recent sport drink marketing promotion one marketer asked me “Do you think breaking rule is important?” My mild response to her was, “No, I think improving the existing rule is more important”. Now suppose your laptop’s DVD drive is not functioning and you need some backup. What do you do? You replace a new drive or repair the old one or throw the laptop?

How satellites involve our everyday life? We don’t bother about, because we are ordinary. People control the space knows the depth of knowledge in on the ground. I was listening to David Bowie’s 1969 song “Space Oddity” where “this is Major Tom to ground control”, makes very basic sense that intelligent people are controlling activities of others. Not relating with corporate citizenship flotation; talking about micro existence policy, how a lower income man is getting responsible of making the life difficult for similar of his own category?

We, the people are victim of celebrity gossips, symbolic peace, politics, religion, economic empowerment, media illusions, fake doctors, mad scientists, and under-study medicines. We boost our general knowledge about all fabricated illustrated stories but not the transparent truth.

Understanding the pain points of the society and then addresses it by using innocent faces to empathize the mass who are listening attentively to the broadcasters to know the unknown secret massage encrypted with complete lies. This is the era of viral marketing strategy is applicable to internet, entertainment, advertising and news industry. As we call it “paid media” to make successful fake news, FMCG, fast food business, packaged products, telecom and satellite related business models. Concurrently manufacturers are trying to abolish all natural products.

What creative directors say? “The packaging is not looking very attractive, use bright colours and write an emotional tagline…  People are always being mesmerized by emotional words with bright colors!” A simple trust of attractive packaging might great inside!

How global news agencies refine news articles to inject poison into the society? How they channel fabricated stories through the local media and contaminate us? The truth is god heads have developed strategies to snatch the social run! God heads are fiscally strong enough to create a rapport to expose new ideas. I assume that both urban and rural markets are being observed like dissect laboratory frogs.

A few people are squeezing the hibernated society designing micro business strategies. The commoners are always involved in religious arguments, political disagreement, terrorism, and domestic violence. Life is too short in argument that they are not even realizing to get active before they are dying. Broadcast such news, TV series, movies to showcase “this is ideal life” is a continuous brainwash process working against the society.

Then, what is the active role played by the society? It seems they nominate fake leaders who betray their own people. Mouth shut! Better I should bother about my daily breakfast, work, lunch and dinner. The same is applicable to the rich who are living in luxury and don’t bother about twisted society! “Hey Vikram, what the nonsense you are talking? Now will you please stop this bullshit?”

Related topics:

What is the difference between ‘Lifestyle’ and ‘Luxury’?

Social Class Division Around the World. The Story of Them Who Don’t Know Their Limits!

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What Has Been Lost? What Has Been Gained? Capitalistic Evolution Vs. Human Life!

With love

Vikram

I can prepare around 35 Indian recipes.  This is an easy 20 minutes recipe, quick to prepare and very delicious! I hope all the items I discussed here is easily available in any local market. I am trying to put all the names in English, if you are not getting the names, feel free to ask me. Thanks!

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Ingredients: (Serving 2) 

200 gm Tofu (Paneer/ Indian Cheese) (boil with vinegar before the main preparation)

25 – 50 gm green peas

5 baby potatoes, (peeled)

3 tsp olive oil,

2 red chillies,

1 small onion, (finely chopped)

2 tsp ginger garlic paste,

1 tsp zeera, (cumin)

½ tsp green cardamom powder,

½ tsp haldi or turmeric powder,

Salt, (to taste)

1 tsp garam masala or aromatic blend of spices,

2 tablespoon butter

Method:

Take vinegar mixed water in a pan and put peeled potatoes, tofu, and boil for 10 mins before the main preparation.

Take 3 tsp of olive oil in the pan, fry chopped onions for a minute on medium heat. When onions turn into reddish, add red chillies, garlic ginger paste, and cumin. Mix well. Put potatoes, green peas and tofu, fry on medium heat till it turns golden brown. Add turmeric powder, green cardamom powder, salt, and garam masala. Add green peas. Garnish with butter and mix it well. Boil for 2 minutes and serve happy meals.

Its 15-20 minutes easy preparation and very tasty vegetable dish specially for vegetarians. Please send me your feedback.

with love

Vikram

Photographed by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

Today I went for an evening walk at Shankey Tank at 5:30 PM, the correct timing. Thanks God! Every day I notice people very carefully. Their attitude, lifestyle, culture and behavior. A nice group discussion was going on some hours back. My colleagues think I live in an ideal world that doesn’t exist. I was speaking about the health and the lifestyle! How to improve yourself? They were giving me numerous examples of luxury. I was defending, trying to make a better understanding about lifestyle but getting confused to conclude a proper answer.

I was thinking during my walk, I gave an example, “How many laptops you can use at a time?” They answered, “Two”. My point of judgment to the social behavior and improve human lifestyle worked here. I come up with a conclusion!

I was not thinking deeply. As an example like ‘rich’ and ‘poor’, very common concept the rich becomes rich, and the poor becomes poor. One is benefited another one is being used. Sharing between the two extreme levels is complete fantasy. May be you can say, “Vikram is barking like a dog, blaming on the rich and protecting the poor. It doesn’t change anything.” Is it?

What is lifestyle?

Let me come directly to the point. A week ago I ordered a vacuum mug, the costliest one available in the market. Divya, one of my colleagues, made a point. In silhouette voice she asked, “Why you ordered a costly one?” Few hours back I was defending poor and now I have ordered the costliest vacuum mug. It creates a moral quandary that somehow I am also two faced like the celebrities and the business men. I just asked, “What is lifestyle?” The confusion is very natural because the cosmopolitan society teaches us the capitalistic marketing strategies, where the luxury means the lifestyle.

There is a sharp gap between these two words. It’s like a slice ray of light that separates the dark and the bright room.

Suppose you have earned money to buy yourself a luxury car. This luxury car was a dream to you. To buy this car you have worked every day for last five years. The word luxury is also attached with the car but should it be called as luxury? I say, it is lifestyle, it is not luxury. Then what is luxury?

First tell me, how many mobile phones you have changed in last three years? If your answer is more than six then it is luxury. How frequently you are having dinner in the costliest restaurants in your town? If it’s more than five days a week then it is luxury. How many cars do you have for your personal use? If it’s more than one at a time, then it is luxury?

Lifestyle is to improve our daily life. It is a practice of doing nice, cute, lovely things everyday to feel the happiness. Take care of your health, work out, proper food habit, cultural involvement, social causes, events, travelling, hobbies, recreation etc.

The point is related with consumption and buying behavior. If a person buys a property and then he can’t buy another immediately that means he just added an extra value in his daily lifestyle. I find no luxury in it because it is his basic requirement. But if a person is buying multiple similar object at a time and using only one then he is consuming without his basic need. It should be calling the luxury.

Genre : Ambience, Atmospheric

Instruments: Synth, Drum Kits, Dance Pad, Loops and Piano

Always Love
Vikram

“The Dark Lady” work in progress, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Illustration by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

“The Dark Lady” work in progress, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Illustration by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

“The Dark Lady” without frames, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Illustration by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

R E M í N í S C í: © Vikram Roy
Size: 30 x 26.4 x 0.8 in
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Thanks and Always Love

Vikram

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Painting: The night flows by the day, Medium: Water Color, Illustration by Vikram Roy © Copyright 2013

I discover Aristotle, Plato, Laozi, Søren,

I found light instead of death,

I was looking for eternal knowledge,

The knowledge that is precious than gold.

I  

Words hypnotize me, capture my attention,

The life flows by the night,

The dark flows by the day,

Beauty relishes life, cheerful youth remains unchained!

II

I met a happy old guy; he had no education,

I met a wealthy merchant; he was searching for love in his sixty,

I met a strong soldier; he lost his friends,

I met celebrities; they were hunted by uncontrollable desire.

III

Life gives that we make a wish,

Takes that we pay much attention,

The balance remains intact,

Only survives the healthy descendant.

IV

Always love

Vikram

I can prepare around 35 Indian recipes.  This is an easy 15 minutes recipe, quick to prepare and very delicious! I hope all the items I discussed here is easily available in any local market. I am trying to put all the names in English, if you are not getting the names, feel free to ask me. Thanks!

Soya Balls & Potato Curry, Photographed by Vikram Roy

Ingredients: (Serving 2) 

50 gm soya balls (boil before the main preparation)

5 baby potatoes, (peeled)

3 tsp olive oil,

2 red chillies,

1 small onion, (finely chopped)

2 tsp ginger garlic paste,

1 tsp zeera, (cumin)

½ tsp green cardamom powder,

½ tsp haldi or turmeric powder,

Salt, (to taste)

1 tsp garam masala or aromatic blend of spices,

1 tablespoon butter

Method:

Take boiled salted water in a pan and put peeled potatoes, & soya balls for 10 mins before the main preparation.

Take 3 tsp of olive oil in the pan, fry chopped onions for a minute on medium heat. When onions turn into reddish, add red chillies, garlic ginger paste, and cumin. Mix well. Put potatoes, and soya balls, fry on medium heat till it turns golden brown. Add turmeric powder, green cardamom powder, salt, and garam masala. Add green peas. Garnish with butter and mix it well. Boil for 2 minutes and serve happy meals.

Its 15-20 minutes easy preparation and very tasty vegetable dish specially for vegetarians. Please send me your feedback.

with love

Vikram

Berserk The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of The King

Why it captures my attention? 

Berserk has an exceptional balance in the story. Each character has his/her unique qualities and not dominates other. Every single mercenary of the Band of the Hawk are characterized like real characters. Griffith, the anti-hero who is dare ambitious and has the charismatic attitude. He is not very strong but he has all the qualities of a  leader. Guts, the mysterious Black Swordsman, not one of the Hawk’s who is superior in power and achievements  and has no fear in his eyes. He becomes the Commander of the Hawk’s who can bring hundreds of victories alone on the battlefield, better known as, 100 men slayer. The third main character is a women knight, Casca who is a victim of sexual assault in her childhood and desperately chosen her fate to fight. She has the purity in her heart and she is completely devoted to Griffith who saves her life several times. Finally she finds her true love in Guts. A man can act like a child but a woman can’t.

Golden Age Chapter II – The Capture of Doldrey

How the story becomes alive? 

The story is indeed fantastic, the love triangle between three main characters and the Crimson Behelit, The Egg of the King that incidentally protects Griffith time-after time. Yes the amulet has life. Things we believe do exist, but supernatural like Zodd the immortal, sometime they do, either in real or in dreams! The same way, the size of human character that is depending on the wealth, not in our mortal figure!

Griffith’s ambition of becoming the king of his own kingdom is innocent, at least at the beginning we think so. But the adobe he builds in his mind is erratic, he never forced anyone to join him, except one man, Guts, who has changed everything. Griffith’s dream reflected in Guts’s eyes. Tudor, the most powerful neighbouring country of Midland that was unconquerable for centuries was defeated by only 5000 armies of Band of the Hawks. Such impossible becomes possible because of the leadership of Griffith and the strength of Guts. Nosferatu Zodd the supernatural, himself appears to the battlefield to see Guts live.

Casca loves Griffith, her love is all about devotion. She knows Griffith is ambitious, and to fulfill his ambition he flirts people. She knows Guts has the power that Griffith lacks. The day Guts defeated Griffith on a duel to prove he is a freeman and not belongs to anybody without his own will, Casca realizes her blind devotion.

Griffith defeated by Guts on a duel, Berserk

Guts felt love for one woman in the earth, Casca. He dislikes festival, dance, highborn court women, amusement, and lights. He enjoys silent moon at night. An iron hearted man without feelings. In a flashback we see how he learns to live life. A group of mercenaries found a newly born from the corpse of his dead mother. The wife of Gambino, a mercenary, adopts Guts. Years later she died, leaving Gambino to raise Guts. Guts learned to fight alongside the mercenaries even though he is just a child and his sword is as big as him. Although Guts loves Gambino as a father, Gambino is cruel and harsh on Guts, believing the child brings the curse and blaming Guts for his wife’s death. One night Gambino attacks Guts in a rage and Guts accidentally kills him in defense.  

Guts, the orphaned mercenary

Conclusion

All’s well that ends well, may be here the writer and illustrator, Kentaro Miura tries to make a difference. Beserk is a dark saga. Above I shared the ideal folk tale is aroused by curiosity. At least people like me will love to know to that level. Later the same story reminds me of Dante’s Inferno is in compare. But it is not that the end, the saga burns everything into the hell. It could be something else, better. It’s not about  the cruel rape scene, that is common in many sex by force stories.  Indeed the darkness is something beyond the bad dreams, cruel, horrific, devastating, that directly played with the feelings and emotion that people afraid of. May be Griffith’s rebirth aftermath is concluded without an explanation. At least I deserved something else.

HP Original Pose, The Funny Moments

HP Original Pose, The Funny Moments 2

HP Original Pose, The Funny Moments 3

Sketching by the missing artist!

The HP Original Stage

30 Seconds of Fame

Indiblogger Team

With love

Vikram Roy

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