Lucknowite and comedy writer Shobhit Sinha, who has shows like ‘Entertainment Ki Raat’ and ‘Comedy Nights Bachao’ to his credit, was in the city recently to meet his friends and family. “After the first season of my recently concluded show ‘Entertainment Ki Raat’ got over, I straight away booked my tickets for Lucknow. In fact, my maximum punches and humour come from Lucknow. Apart from meeting my near and dear ones, another motive is to come and interact with people.” said Shobhit, who will now begin writing for the second season of ‘Entertainment Ki Raat’.
Another reason why Shobhit was in Lucknow was to meet his girlfriend. “Since I have now shifted base to Mumbai, I come to Lucknow to meet my girl every now and then. Mine is a very complicated love story with the girl being from a different community. We both still haven’t told our families and are waiting for the right time to explode this bomb. I am sure a lot of drama will be created when our parents will come to know about our affair, but main uss comedy ke liye bhi taiyyaar hoon,” he laughed.
Comedy writer Shobhit Sinha at Globe Park in Lucknow
Happy to know that several open mic sessions, featuring young comedy writers, are being held in Lucknow these days, Shobhit said, “Not all, but yes, most UPites are born writers, and today there are several money earning options in the field of writing in Mumbai. The television industry requires several writers on a daily basis. And interestingly, a large chunk of writers in the industry are from Uttar Pradesh
Shobhit adds, “The command that we Lucknowites have over Hindi, is what is required in scripting. Also, now script writers too are getting good money, which was not at all the case earlier. Ab mera hi case le lo, my salary has more than doubled in this one year. Also, most of the hit comedy writers keep getting calls from different channels, who are ready to pay us double our remuneration to work for them, as comedy is now required in both fiction and reality shows. I recently wrote a proper act for comedian Balraj Syal when he went for ‘Bigg Boss’ house. So youngsters should dare to now try out their career in writing. And with such open mic sessions on a rise, I am sure we will get several local talent from the state.”
In the process to write his own book, Shobhit says he wants to convey several messages to youngsters with his power-packed punches. “The book that I am writing, which is almost finished, will have a lot of spiritual gyan with a funny tone. Just like spiritual guru Osho’s sessions, which had the same punches. I am a follower of Osho and I love the way he used to convey a serious message in a funny way. So my first book will definitely have his style somewhere,” shared Shobhit.
(Text: The IndianTimes)
I suppose that “different community” alludes to caste, ok, I understand the drama.
But that drama has nothing to do with the drama of an Italian boy, same age as Shobhit, in presenting to the family his black boyfriend, from a Muslim country, forced to hide from the family that they can not marry because he too is unemployed.
Time to leave the family.
If you have a friendly gay garden, Parmartha, I could give your number to the couple.
“Time to leave the family.”
Leave for what?
Or simply leave as kids are leaving while playing Blue Whale?
Dear Parmartha, wake up, man. We are in 2108, not 1977!
2108? Now Shantam has added living in the future to his list of fantasies.
Did I get that right, Veet Francesco, that you did not only speak here of black and white skins or other racist or caste problems, but did you also indicate here some severe problems which more than some ´families´ in more than some ´countries´ up to nowadays severely and unfortunately have, executing hatred against homosexuals and marriages of the same gender?
(That´s what I read in and in-between your lines?).
Madhu
Madhu, I’m reiterating the same concept expressed in recent days: civil rights are not edible.
But I want to reassure you I am not against civil rights but against the use of institutional propaganda to trade them, as I have already written.
What annoys me is the frame used by spin doctors, who work behind the scenes of mainstream communication, salaried by the few ones who shit on our heads, and use very sophisticated techniques, playing with words and frames.
When they want to sell you something they can not declare it first, feeding our resistances, then they have to circumvent them, for example by creating the conditions within us (dramatising, softening, outraging, etc.) so that we decide to derogate from the initial point of view by reason of an exceptionality or emergence described by the new frame.
In this case they can not sell you immigration as a reserve army of the workforce, a way to discipline, blackmailing the working class, so they create situations just to exacerbate the situation until you either get what they want to sell you or you are a racist, homophobe, fascist etc. (One technique is also that one of secretly financing homophobes, racist and neo-fascist groups who want to drive out immigrants, and at the same time giving money to the NGO boats that ferry them here).
For example, in these days in Italy there is fear for the electoral defeat of the two parties that in the last 25 years have alternatively guaranteed loyalty to the Troika that defends the single currency, in the indecision that the two new emerging parties can replace them with the same efficiency, without upsetting the status quo. In the media they are talking about nothing more than Russian spies on mission in the UK, or CIA that in Italy has foiled the attack of a Muslim terrorist from… Latvia!!!
You see, Madhu? Which frame better than the geopolitical one can “contain and inspire” the political action of the new political forces?
MOD:
COULD YOU CLARIFY THIS, PLEASE, Veet F?
by reason of an exceptionality or emergence described by the new frame (4TH PARAGRAPH).
P.S:
Synthetic, the place where a hetero couple can marry without dramas, at least economic; it is India, judging growth.
https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=66&c=in&l=it
https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=24&c=it&l=it
@MOD:
Sorry, I struggled for myself to remember what I wanted to express, let’s try this:
“When they want to sell you something they can not declare it before, nurturing our resistance, so they have to disguise it, for example by creating within us the conditions, not only emotional (dramatise, sweeten, outrage, etc.), described by a new frame that is imposed with a criterion of emergency, exceptionally, so that we decide to derogate from the initial point of view, and its frame.”
Sorry, sorry, Veet Francesco,
I simply asked you a question, referring to your very first post on the matter of THIS topic here now, and re that, which I read (several times, to feel it):
“But that drama has nothing to do with the drama of an Italian boy, same age as Shobhit, in presenting to the family his black boyfriend, from a Muslim country, forced to hide from the family that they can not marry because he too is unemployed.”
I´m getting very dizzy when reading your response at 2.22 pm, getting an awkward feeling about your very long political discourse.
Seems I really got it wrong, your very first send-off to the topic. And I don´t know what you are up to.
Sorry for that.
However, when you say: “What annoys me is the frame used by spin doctors, who work behind the scenes of mainstream communication, salaried by the few ones who shit on our heads, and use very sophisticated techniques, playing with words and frames.”
I definitely would second that!
But being on a Sannyas-related website-chat, there may be taken into consideration (always) that the topic ´spin-doctoring ´is worth a juicy-painful shadow work meditation -idealistically seen – for senders of posts and receivers here, for moderators and editors and for an administration expert etc. etc….all the way round…and round, including just mere ´onlookers´.
MOD: POST EDITED.
This article reminds me of Osho (Bhagwan)’s one special sannyasin from seventies named ‘Kamlesh Pandey’ who is very famous Bollywood film scriptwriter & has won many awards. Also he teaches scriptwriting as well.
Please, google “Shobhit Sinha, Osho, India Times” and see what results come.
‘Our’ sannyasnews is the only one which covers all the three searches. Not a single one which shows Mr. Sinha´s association with Osho.
Thank God then for SN.
I admire someone known to the public, who can say in a public newspaper that “I am a follower of Osho “, even in India it is brave.
Shantam looks for accreditation beyond the individual connection that someone has with Osho. Such nonsense.
It was this fear of an individual’s connection to the mystical, outside the RC Church. that gave rise to the Reformation, and much bloodshed, so it sure is deep in human consciousness not to claim such incredible individuality above the Church, the State, the priests, the Imams and the Shamans. It frightens them to death.
Parmartha,
If someone says once in a twelfth years full moon, “I am a follower of Osho”, why it is thrilling for you?
Is not the identification with the wordsmith Osho? I am curious about your inner patterns, nothing in a derogatory way.
Every day I see Jehovah’s witnesses standing with their new trolleys, so happy, so contented to have connection with Jesus through his words; just curious, are those people superior who feel the similar connection with Osho?
Feeling a connection to Osho appears to be a mind trip for most people. What does it actually mean? Rare to hear much in the way of clarity in response to that question. Some have material fantasies, others spiritual. They are still in essence a fantasy.
Lokesh, you are the right person to create an article, ‘Feeling connected with Osho’
I know it requires much concentration to write such a piece.
Yes, there is no limitation on fantasy and reality is limited. It feels good to read spiritual books as much as fiction books.
But words are still words. Some words can help people & some can hurt people, and some people read things beyond words.
Words can be very powerful for young people as they formulate the mind. Osho used words to create spiritual thirst in people.
Jehovah’s Witnesses make use of passages from the Bible to make certain guidelines, which will help them to stay on the correct path to Heaven on Earth and eternal Paradise, which they say will come very soon after Armageddon, when Jesus will return to govern the Earth.
With Osho it is not so easy so make a belief system , as he stated,
“Trust is of the heart, belief is of the mind. They are diametrically opposite, they never meet. They can run parallel to each other, but they will never meet. Belief will remain hollow, without any content, and trust is overflowing with joy, blissfulness.
You say you trust me. That’s enough, more than enough. I don’t want you to believe in my statements, because my statements go on changing every day. If you believe in my statements you are going to be crazy. They are so contradictory, you will not be able to figure out what I actually want to say to you.
But trust remains the same – the same flavour, the same grace, the same beauty, because it is not a statement of the mind. It is not a statement at all. It is a silent communion between two hearts, a silent communion in which two hearts synchronize; their beats become a rhythm, their vibe takes the same colour and aroma.
I am not a man who wants you to believe in anything, including me. I am against belief as such.
That’s why I have been continuously contradicting myself, so nobody can make any belief out of my statements. No scholar, no theologian is going to make any system out of my statements. In thirty years I must have contradicted myself thirty thousand times. Anybody working on me for a PhD will soon be found in a madhouse. And my reason for doing so is crystal clear. If I were making statements consistent with each other, you would not listen to me, you would make a belief system out of it. I am a little outlandish.
In the forty-two years Buddha spoke, you cannot find a single inconsistency, no contradiction. Now it is so easy to make the whole living religion into a dead belief, a dogma. The religion becomes a cult.
Religion is religion only when the master is there continuously watching that you don’t get into the head, that you remain centered in the heart. But when the master is gone, all that you have left with you is his statements. If they are consistent, then it is very easy for you to make a theology, a Christianity, a Buddhism, a Hinduism, Mohammedanism, and then cling to it. You have forgotten the master; now you have only words, which mean nothing. It was the man behind the words who had meant something to you. Can’t you see the difference?”
Death to Deathlessness chap.3
Swamishanti, do you TRUST somewhere in the cosmos Osho is waiting for the faithful ones like you? If that is so, Belief of Jehovah people is worthy of applause.
In India, when a non-Muslim married man has an extra-marital affair & wants to legalize his relations he opts for Islam, as Islam approves 3-4 marriages with the approval of his already existing wife (who is mostly docile) but they don’t have anything to do with other Islamic teachings/Sharia laws.
Same way there are many who use Osho as a shield against their social rules but have nothing whatsoever to do with Osho & his teachings as such. Osho is at most considered a very free-thinking man!
We have a woman here, Kavita, who´s channelling a source, she says, teaching about baby-Souls, young Souls, maturing, ripening Souls, old Souls, and so forth, a complicated matrix unfolding about whatsoever on whatsoever Life´s pilgrimages and destinations is bound to be experienced.
(This woman, similar to others in the channelling business, had shorter or longer episodes of experiencing Osho and the Sangha around this Master as well, before then founding their own school(s) and moving further, as some express it).
When I did read your relaxed comment on social realities (realities here and there too), a cool and simple way also stating some of inconvenient truths (in my eyes) as you did (at 10.21 am today, and not for the first time), then I feel like a young Soul, still passionately paining about this and that, whereas an elder like you (?) is just stating social (as emotional) facts.
Facts I do really bother about as a woman and as a lover and as someone who so often these very last decades just feels betrayed and used, misused and in pain. (Nothing to do with body-age – the whole stuff).
Quite sometimes, I happen to feel this when reading your comments – and please, don´t get me wrong, I don´t say that to complain about you.
Just trying to find a way to deal with some of my pain and confronted with my helplessness.
Madhu
Kavita, I have met an Hindu devotee of Hanuman in India who told me he used to have two wives but they were too much of a problem and now he is a bachelor!
So it is also ok for Hindus to have extra wives, right?
Yes, SS, it’s ok with few, but some, in anticipation of the society, take precaution.
After 1947, The Hindu Marriage Act was changed to one wife.
I heard stories from my maternal grandmother that she had an uncle who had two wives & their children were living in one house, the uncle treated both his families equally!
Really, so there is a law.
But I am sure my friend was married to his two wives after 1947.
Ah well, India is India, after all.
SS, maybe actually, one wife is enough for any man to become a devotee of Hanuman – the God of brahmacharis!
I think he told me he found them too expensive and they both left!
Still, things can get more complicated when a man falls in love with two ladies in the same body:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/conjoined-twins-who-share-same-3807281
The question is, can Siamese twins become enlightened?
I see no reason why not.
“It was this fear of an individual’s connection to the mystical, outside the RC church that gave rise to the Reformation, and much bloodshed, so it sure is deep in human consciousness not to claim such incredible individuality above the church”
Parmartha, I do not understand how the argument of an institution’s fear of losing its credibility in the eyes of the faithful ones can be applied to what Shantam says.
On the contrary, it seems to me that rather than seeking an accreditation through an institution, he challenges an institution through his individual connection with the Master, his only credit.
Especially in a context like SN, where those who fight Shantam because he fights that institution do not declare a greater connection to the Master but a greater indifference towards that institution (Satyadeva or Lokesh).
But there are also politically correct conformists.
Nothing to do with political correctness or conformism, Veet, I’ve criticised Shantam for wasting his precious time and energy, seemingly basing his life on nurturing chronic negativity around a single issue, not to mention his often shambolic arguments, incoherent thinking and sheer stupidity, all of which indicates that obsessive emotionality is ‘running’ him, which, I suggest, can only be to the detriment of his ‘inner sannyas’.
And unfortunately for him, I doubt whether he even begins to recognise this is the case, as he prefers to see himself as some sort of ‘freedom fighter’. A laughable but tragic irony indeed.
Such a misfortune that somebody of the calibre of a Charlie Chaplin with His stunning oeuvre of ” The Great Dictator” or ” Modern Times” amongst so much else to enjoy Charlie Chaplin´s Genius to tell stories with the eyes of a Clown won´t probably ever again appear in Bollywood as Hollywood adaptations. Too bad….
Do you remember Chaplin happening to play with the pumped-up world (all the planet as a rubber ball) when He was dancing on an office desk? And the great planet rubber ballon puffed up while He was dancing and playing with it? Do you remember?
When seeing the attached photo to the topic and yes (also some of the attached texting) it reminded me of Charlie´s take….and for me, that is the best way ´to take this topic´ as such and in particular a scriptwriter´s boasting about being a ´follower´.
Madhu
And a P.S. added, especially for Shantam Prem:
My generation of the West, born right after WWII, grew up with that work of a Charlie Chaplin; not only with some eye-openers like this!
And amongst the first sannyas generation, so to say, most of those from the West I came across in commune places have had some maturity of this kind….
Charlie’s eye-opener did not function. Movements of Russian and US troops towards Polish border increase.
Lots of people keep ‘world globe’ on their study desk, including myself. It is amusing.
It is nice that Shobhit is making good use of his good command of Hindi language (as he mentioned) for Hindi-speaking Bollywood audience. Also, as I understand, different cultures have different sense of humour, due to different conditioning.
Kusum , maybe you can include a frameless picture of the whole universe !
Sorry, Kavita, for that one has to close the eyes & look within.
I meant for your amusement, since you mentioned it!
I keep my window open & look at the stars, moon, Milky Way, shooting stars, sun, clouds, birds, trees, people, etc. I haven’t seen Pluto or Venus or Mars recently…maybe I should visit planetarium some time again.
Good idea. Jupiter, with all its rings, is also most interesting sight!
Saturn is the large giant with rings.
Jupiter has many moons, sixteen.
It is the largest planet in our solar system.
The guy has become comedy writer after reading Osho. I think it is a right approach and right time to click with departed master.
Just imagine, Osho is alive and young man gets influenced and gets the longing to see the master and then stays in the community. Such person would have gone to America, Germany, Sweden and working six days a week in Mcdonald’s.
Also, when masters are available, even more available after death, it is idiotic and stupid to get hooked with the alive ones. Best option is to wait for them to go and then copy/paste something like, “My people will find me in air, in water, everywhere.”
Seriously speaking, if I see some young chap getting influenced by Osho literature I will surely advise to get university degree in Psychology, Philosophy, Theology and earn livelihood from it and also get higher kick!
MOD:
and also get higher kick! – PLEASE CLARIFY, Shantam.