Here's to the Crazy Ones...

" Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do ".

Steve Jobs version
Lee Clow the creative genius who had created the "1984" ad was the one again who created this iconic  "Think different" ad for Apple. ' It was designed to celebrate not what the computers could do, but what creative people could do with computers' Says Walter Issacson in his book 'Steve Jobs' about this ad. Its amazing to know that Steve himself has written some of the lines including "They push the human race forward". The ad featured most of Job's personal heroes who were Creative and crazy enough to put their careers at risk on doing things differently.


The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl opening her closed eyes, as if making a wish. The final clip is taken from the All Around The World version of the "Sweet Lullaby" music video, directed by Tarsem Singh; the young girl is Shaan Sahota, Singh's niece.

The voiceover for the one which was aired was by Richard Dreyfuss.

Links: Think Different Wikipedia

The Valentine's Day Clue

First of all Thanks to Ms.Rupali for selecting to send me a Goodreads giveaway.

 There are few novels in Mystery or suspense genre in Indian writing in English. Rupali Rotti ventures into this less trodden path for her debut novel The Valentine's Day Clue. It is the coming of age story of two college going youngsters who want to be detectives. They are presented with a real world case when one of their friends is bashed up a day after the valentine's day. So the novel is not only about how they solve the case by gathering help from friends but also learn tricks of the trade in the process.

What I liked about the book is Ms. Rupali has a casual style of writing and is mostly successful in holding the suspense throughout. Book left me wanting go on a trek to Sinhagad and explore the caves. Chapters are crisp and language is simple. She took care not to complicate the plot there by making it a very nice and easy read. I read it in a single day, partly because I wanted to send feedback to Rupali and partly because it was such an easy read.

At times there is too much detailing and that seems to be deliberate to make it easy for international readers. I felt she could have used more depth in emotional conflicts to add more drama. Before reading the book 'Nayak brothers' struck me as mature sleuths, going into the book I had to set my expectations right. It had been a long time I had read about young amateur detectives on trail and somehow after reading, it reminded me of Doordarshan's 'ek do teen chaar', which still is one of my favorite teen detective serials.

On the whole it is a decent first novel. Choosing a young detective genre and engage the reader is quite a challenge and author must be commended for her honest efforts. Rupali and Nayak brothers are here for the long haul and hope they keep enthralling the readers in their subsequent adventures.