{"id":65,"date":"2009-11-16T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/neoriz-musings\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-02-08T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T07:02:25","slug":"column-turning-30-disappearance-of-ysr-and-inglourius-basterds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/column-turning-30-disappearance-of-ysr-and-inglourius-basterds\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Turning 30, Disappearance of YSR and Inglourius Basterds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are just plain old days, nothing much happens in them, no memories, no funny incidents, no association. And then some days are just too much to handle. As if, they were designed to compensate for all those inglourious days, that have gone by, or are waiting to happen next.<\/p>\n<p>This september I\u00a0turned thirty, officially! It was uneventful yet full of memorable moments. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year my wife\u00a0arranged my birthday, though it was just for\u00a0two of us, but it was first birthday with my wife.<\/li>\n<li>Watched yet another great performance by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brad_Pitt\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Pitt<\/a> and a\u00a0superb direction by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quentin_Tarantino\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>\u00a0called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361748\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inglourius Basterds<\/a>. What a movie!<\/li>\n<li>A sad event that\u00a0happened on my birthday was disappearance and death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y._S._Rajasekhara_Reddy\" target=\"_blank\">YSR Reddy<\/a>,\u00a0erstwhile\u00a0Chief Minister of Hyderabad. I have had the opportunity to meet him last year and even though I didn&#8217;t subscribe to his ways and ideas, it is a shame indeed that he died such a violent death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess these events have sort of marked a milestone for the years past. Turning thirty has been a long journey, with so many transformations, from a\u00a0kid to a boy to a man to a married man. It appears as if it was yesterday, when I fell down from the bicycle I was trying to learn, even thought it is more than 20 years since that happened. In other words, it is 3 decades of long journey so far and has been worth every minute.\u00a0I am glad to say that I regret nothing and that\u00a0I am excited to see what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>It only feels apt to\u00a0quote this, &#8221; If it doesn&#8217;t kill you, it will make you stronger.&#8221; And it goes for everything that happens\u00a0 in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days are just plain old days, nothing much happens in them, no memories, no funny incidents, no association. And then some days are just too much to handle. As if, they were designed to compensate for all those inglourious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/column-turning-30-disappearance-of-ysr-and-inglourius-basterds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,115,116,118,121,174,122,127,129],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-brad-pitt","tag-column","tag-experience","tag-ingourius-basterds","tag-life","tag-married-life","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-turning-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}