For an Indian, Republic Day is no Army Day. Or Air Force Day. Or Navy Day. Or even Independence Day. In fact on the list of Indian holiday makers get excited over Republic Day because it’s right between our previous working day and the next working day. And while those are all fine traditions, patriotism and love for our country, but we rarely get thrilled about making a difference for our motherland .
So, in an effort to show that I too am a robot, what better way for an Indian to celebrate Republic Day than with Patent Number 3,192,863: Blood Pump and Artificial Heart?
India! You really get my heart pumping!
~Sunil, R2D2, Astromech Droid.
Where the mind is without fear
~Rabindiranath Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic wars;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Language: Hindi
Happy 62nd Republic Day, India!
Client: Times of India
Ad Agency: Umbrella Design
Creative Director/ Art Director: Bhupal Ramnathkar
Resolution? You? Just what are people implying? That you need to change? Well, as far I’m concerned you’re perfect the way you are.
Happy 2011 and I wish the best for every day for the next 365 days.
Initially. I had mailed all New Year’s greetings and not many appreciated my wry sense of humor it. But to paraphrase Douglas Adams:
“Sunil is a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher . Or, as the digerati , would have it, an idiot.”
I empathize with James Joyce’s last words:
“Does nobody understand?"
WikiLeaks exposes your unalienable right to be happy in 2011.
To be what you want to be.
To smile, cry, laugh, sad, worried, joyous or what you want to be.
Julian Assange has shown a video on the day of your birth all around you celebrated.
Since then Big Brother has tried to put you under complete surveillance by his authorities but you have successfully escaped his propaganda of misery and pain .
Time and again.
In fact, Big Brother and the powers that be have surrendered to you and agree they will dance all through 2011 along with you.
