You can make the walled garden very very sweet. But the jungle outside is always more appealing in the long term - Sir Tim Berners Lee, Wired.

In the early days of the Internet, users would dial in on a modem to a proprietary network controlled by AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe or others. An AOL user would find different content available to a Prodigy user. Advertisers would have to think carefully about which network to target. The introduction of the HTTP and the Web changed this: suddenly the same content was available to everyone. You could browse the forest, and not just the trees.

Fast forward twenty-years, and proprietary networks have not gone away. In fact almost all of the most popular serves on the Internet today exist on walled garden domains. Most of the content you publish is stored on the servers of privately held Big Tech companies.

You can make the walled garden very very sweet. But the jungle outside is always more appealing in the long term Sir Tim Berners Lee, in Wired

The architecture of these services is not open-protocol but proprietary and hidden. The terms of service can allow for data-mining, censorship, location tracking or the storing of your biometric information on a private system in a country far-away.

The spaces we occupy on the Internet are increasingly private and controlled. There is no public space and maybe thats a problem? After all, the conceptual underpinnings of 'public space' emerged during theEuropean enlightenment, as individuals became classified ascitizens instead of subjects.

The spaces we occupy on the Internet are increasingly private and controlled. There is no public space and maybe thats a problem?

The public square, townhouse or promenade belonged to everyone. Some of the mass-communities in cyberspace may feel open, but their technology is proprietary. Youre a user. Not a citizen. Access can be revoked at any time.

Some of the mass-communities in cyberspace may feel open, but their technology is proprietary

According to Amy James of Alexandria Labs, the solution could be a public index on the Web, with content storage across the distributed network of the blockchain. This technology would create a more horizontal relationship between users and walled gardens, creators and platforms, privacy and data.

Either way, it's clear that the private vs. public space debate is beginning to encapsulate many of the idea influencing the future of the Internet.

Full disclosure: Al Bawaba is exploring blockchain solutions on the Open Index Protocol.

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Nature is returning to deserted cities around the world. Meanwhile, down on the Pelorus Sound, she never really left, writes Allan Ramsay.

Mice have always been a big challenge in my struggle to live by Buddhist principles. Five of them are now very dead and minding their karmas elsewhere after being found in the kitchen volunteering as collateral damage in my latest battle for enlightenment.

And they are just the tip of the iceberg. As humans have been forced back into their boxes to contemplate their lives, the universe and everything else, the wildlife is making a bid for supremacy way beyond my kitchen.

A coyote was seen near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. In the UK, people have been getting excited about the appearance of sheep on traffic roundabouts and goats in a deserted playground. Mind you, those last two sightings have caused some head scratching round these parts that would be pretty much business as usual here. If we had a roundabout.

Closer to home, on Great Barrier Island, a kiwi was filmed inspecting a DOC kitchen. A rare white tauhou (waxeye) was photographed in central Wellington. Theres plenty more. Its all good to see.

Here in the Pelorus Sound, Im not sure nature is doing anything all that different. She never quite left in the first place. Twice a day the tide goes in and out, part of the pertinent, daily reminder of our complete insignificance.

Across the water, starting at dusk and on into the night, as they do every autumn, virus or not, the stags have started to roar.

Theyre giving each other that come and have a go if you think yer ard enuff stuff that males like to do usually ensuring they keep a good distance from each other. Their deerish insults conveyed in huffing, gravelly sounds, pitched at such a low, ground-level frequency that they give off no echo at all.

What was likely a rare New Zealand falcon dropped by the other night, too. It was hunting something visible only to itself on the front lawn, just three metres out from the deck. It slapped itself down on the grass for about two seconds, then clumsily staggered into the air, off through the ponga fronds and into the darkness. I think its prey was heavier than expected.

Then there was the seal that showed up in the shallows at the end of the garden during the big moon tides weve just had. Not that usual to find them this far up the sound, Im told.

The chicks in the shag colony nesting in the bare trees just along the shore are well grown and about ready to fly. Now Im just waiting for Sir David Attenborough to stick his head up through the harakeke down by the tomatoes.

And, of course, smugly waving its essential services letter granted by the PM, the Easter Bunny delivered chocolate eggs and hot cross buns. I have to confess I pass on this information as hearsay, as I didnt actually see it. Then again, I would never blame the Bunny for moving fast, given the number of guns in the neighbourhood.

To cap it all off, on Wednesday afternoon there was a near miss when the moon shot past us only 357,042 kms away, the closest it gets in its orbit. Over the next few nights it put on quite the supermoon flounce and encore as it went by a real hey, look at me moment. Talk about a drama queen.

Aside from the Easter Bunny bit, it all adds up to a thumbnail sketch of Gaia in action the notion that everything on the planet is connected one way or another, that the planet itself might be alive. How we laughed when scientist James Lovelock first proposed the idea in the 1960s. Clearly some dippy hippy shit. It was also the theory that allowed the serious study of climate change. So were not laughing now.

Meanwhile, the piwakawaka are fluttering around, as they do, wittering on and inviting themselves into the house. As we work through week three of lockdown, its become perfectly acceptable behaviour for us three PoBs (People of the Bubble) to talk to them at length.

Football scores, hokey pokey versus cookies and cream, the nutrient value of horse versus goat manure, the deputy PMs haircut, dressing left or right on a bike ride, capitalism versus communism, climate change versus Covid-19 nothing is off the table.

So far, theyre not talking back.

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You no doubt want to hear what I think of being in hiding, Anne Frank wrote in (and to) her diary, which shed named Kitty, on July 11, 1942. Well, all I can say is that I dont really know yet. Only a day or so had passed since the Franks had fled their house in Amsterdam for a secret annex in the back of an office buildinga harsh precaution against the harsher menace of Nazism. Anne, lonely, would soon be lonelier. She wouldnt live to see the readers who no doubt want[ed] to hear what she thought. A few weeks earlier, the thirteen-year-old had referred plaintively to the condition that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I dont have a friend.

It is painful to consider the lackof connection, stimulation, solace, controlout of which Franks diary arose. Some authors avoid writing about what they dont really know yet, but, for Frank, discovering what she thought and felt, or at least managing her uncertainty, may have been the whole point. Forced within, both physically and psychologically, Frank seems to have countered that retreat with an exteriorization. She could manifest her inner world in paper and ink; she could shape her not-knowing into language. Perhaps she could even outsmart timeby organizing it, occupying it, smoothing it into a continuous flow.

Its been a lonely few weeks. Our plight isnt comparable to Franks stoppered girlhood, but the coronavirus has made us fearful and helpless, and weve entered an age of diaries: coronavirus diaries and pandemic journals and quarantine diaries and Wuhan diaries and coronavirus-quarantine diaries, in the press and outside of it, as historians and mental-health professionals alike urge us toward self-documentation. Were transcribing what were cooking, eating, reading, listening to, and streaming. Collectively, were revisiting the notebooks of the politician Samuel Pepys, who blogged the bubonic plagues arrival in London, in 1665, and lingering over A Journal of the Plague Year, the protopandemic novel, from 1722, by Daniel Defoe.

What function do such records serve in moments of crisis? If youre looking for a reactive form, one that makes it possible to respond in real time to the latest statistic, then a diary is the one you want, Larry Rosenwald, a professor of English at Wellesley, told me. Any utterance can be an entry. Its the quickest route from thought to production. Let poetry finesse emotions recollected in tranquility; a journal can field them as they come. The form connotes immediacy, authenticity, a lack of mediation. As the writer Andrew Hassam suggests, because a founding principle of the diary is the belief in its own privacy, its language is assumed to have no designs on a reader. This relieves the author from the duty to be accessible or interesting. (They dont have to be timely, eitherindeed, most diaries are explicitly and transparently dated.)

That explains one use for journals in nerve-fraying times: mood regulationor, as a non-psychologist might put it, venting. The lifelong diarist Ralph Waldo Emerson was an extraordinarily diverse and capacious self-chronicler, Rosenwald told me, free in his choice of subject and tone, and yet, in the run-up to the Civil War, Emerson grew obsessive, monomaniacal, writing largely about the perfidy of highly respected congresspeople. This was a less beguiling period of his introspection, Rosenwald said, but it served a psychological need: to rage. Other habitual diarists have processed disaster with a pointed consistency. The Puritan preacher Cotton Mather, an early advocate for vaccination, became a controversial figure during the smallpox epidemic of 1721. Townspeople hurled a bomb through his window. Members of his family fell ill and died. And yet the reverends diary reveals not agitation but a measured and stately piety, an aspirational calm. I this Day considered, Mather wrote, upon learning that the plague had killed his uncle, how strangely the Lord hath, beyond my Expectation, prolonged my Life.

Lifeas in the pure gift of it, rather than its artistic expressionis the diarists chief concern. (This is one distinction between journaling and memoir.) But if diaries argue for the value of the ephemeral or mundane, implying that these subjects need no adornment, the material is nevertheless transformed. The diary, the scholar Irina Paperno writes, represents a lasting trace of ones beingan effective defense against annihilation. Take Albert Underwood, an artilleryman in the Civil War, who scrawled a few sentences into his journal every day until a steamer explosion killed him, in 1865. Very pleasant today, runs a typical entry. Still laying up yet waiting for the river to rise. There is something alchemical about how these words evoke a world: the laying, the waiting, the river itself on pause. What happens becomes, in Seamus Heaneys phrase, the music of what happens. Experience can seem almost sacred.

Diaries have long mirrored both the people who created them and the eras in which they were created. Early examples, in the seventeenth century, grew out of almanacs and housekeeping logs. Third day of planting; sold four bushels of grainx shillings; quarreled with brother. These texts married economic best practices to a new form of religious self-surveillance. Puritans, for instance, used diaries to inventory their sins and, ideally, to hasten a moral awakening. (Cotton Mather, recounting how he spent his thirty-fourth birthday, wrote as if an angel were monitoring the page: I paraphrased, improved, and applied, the whole Hundred and Third Psalms, on my Knees before the Lord.) As the Enlightenment secularized the impulse toward self betterment, diaries became cornerstones of a sentimental educationaids in the cultivation of feeling. In her study of eighteenth-century pedagogy, the scholar J. A. Baggerman focuses on a Dutch child of ten, Otto van Eck, whose journal formed part of a comprehensive didactic regime instilled with great insistence by his parents, who later read his jottings and supplied them with commentary. (Otto inclined toward the poetic, either naturally or because he intuited that a tender melancholy might please his mother and father. We have a perfectly green May, he writes. If I werent deaf, Id rise early to hear the nightingale.) Fifty years later, the Romantic movement co-opted the diary as a vehicle for individualism. (Paperno quotes the painter Eugne Delacroix, who grandly defined his journal as the history of what I feel.) For the Positivists, diaries were empirical instruments. For the modernists, they were crucibles of self making.

And what are diaries now? When things go well, one learns that one is better company than one thought. When they dont, one circles, with some helplessness, those handsome Protestant dreams: atonement and rebirth. Over the past few days, trying to journal, I was simultaneously too shameless to alter my garbage routines and not shameless enough to lie about it. (Wallowed, I wrote, on day two, taken with the symmetry of the ls and ws. Wallowed. Wallowed. WAAALLOOOOWED.) More seductive, to me, than any cleansing aspect was the Enlightenment notion of the diary as a kind of affective workout: weight training for feelings. Global disasters cause suffering, of course, and witnessing the suffering of others can shake loose more sufferingpsychiatrists have spoken about a nationwide increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms, and the mental-health toll is even greater for nurses and doctors. But a quieter fear can haunt those not on the front lines. What if the eeriness of the new normal leaves you numb? What if, bombarded by death rates and scared parents and images of fellow-citizens in masks, your emotions fail to rise to the occasion?

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Cosmic techno group, Pleasurekraft, is hitting 2020 with their new album titled Love In The Age Of Machines. We see its release on their own Kraftek Records label. It contains 12 heart rate inducing tracks, ready to blow your mind.

This follows their huge remix track of Adam Beyers Space Date last year. They showcase their forward-thinking grooves rippled with interstellar melodies and scintillating synths. Their music is an auditory and physical journey to be experienced.

Last Sapien portrays gritty dystopian societies, perfect for the albums theme. Nostalgic for the Future is dark, rainy, and casts urban-lit textures down your spine while listening. If you sense impending doom reading the titles, youll feel a sense of wonder at how the music carries you through it all.

Panopticon ft. Thomas Gandoy is a more intense track, like a voyage through the galaxy and back. I Sing Body Electric and Main Sequence carry their cosmic techno vibes youve been looking for. The build-up in your body releases with Novacene. At The Mountains of Madness and Primordial have krafty titles and they elicit pounding heartbeats the more you listen to them. End with Requiem For The American Dream and youve got just the right amount of techno leading you adrift forever.

Hush, The Occupant, and Corpse Revive Number 3 add enlightenment to the other pessimistic tracks of the album. Combined with their abstract ideas for love, justice, liberty, art, and scientific beauty, this makes the perfect dystopian, sci-fi soundtrack.

As the title states, humanity in the age of machines can lose their way. Machines can surely take over our fragile bodies. What do we do?

You listen to the album below. Award yourself the experience of listening to a unique, endless sea of dance music. Think about your place among the stars.

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By Ofeliya Afandiyeva

Azerbaijan has set up a Council for Public Control under Coronavirus Response Fund on April 11, the official website of the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers reported.

The relevant decree to set up the council was signed by Prime Minister Ali Asadov on April 11.

The reason for setting up the Council for Public Control is to ensure transparency in the use of funds collected in the Coronavirus Response Fund and to regularly inform the public about the use of the funds.

According to the order, the Council is created in the following composition of seven members, including five members public representatives and two representatives of the Operational Headquarters under the Cabinet of Ministers:

Ziyad Samadzade - Full member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council of Economists;

Shafiga Mammadova - Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Azerbaijan;

Farhad Badalbeyli - Rector of the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir Hajibeyli;

Garay Garaybeyli - Rector of the Azerbaijan Medical University (AMU);

Zemfira Meftahaddinova - Olympic champion, Member of the Executive Committee of the National Olympic Committee;

Aydin Isayev - Deputy Head of the Department of Tax Policy and Revenues of the Office of the Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan - Head of the Sector;

Rasim Ismayilov - Deputy Head of the Main Financial Department of the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy.

Board meetings are valid if two-thirds of its members are present. Decisions of the Council are taken by a simple majority vote of its members.

The council within two working days approves orders received from the relevant state bodies and state-owned legal entities.

The council publishes information on the use of the funds resources twice a month on the websitehttp://covid19fund.gov.az/en/.

The Fund to Support Fight against Coronavirus was established by the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on March 19, 2020.

On March 19, President Aliyev announced the creation of the Fund to Support Fight Against Coronavirus.

Initially, the government allocated $11.7 million to the fund and the president and the first lady donated their annual salaries to the fund. As of April 8, the fund had collected about $65.1 million.Donations have been made by 2,692 legal entities and 8,223 individuals.

The resourcesof the Fund are used in the following directions to combat coronavirus:

1) The remuneration of medical workers and the provision of material assistance to them;

2) The improvement of the infrastructure and material and technical capacity of medical institutions (including the acquisition of technological installations, devices, equipment, vehicles, goods, and materials, as well as other medical supplies);

3) The formation of medical institutions of special regime;

4) The organization and implementation of control and monitoring;

5) The financing of researches in the medical field;

6) The training of specialists in the medical field;

7) Awareness-raising and enlightenment activities;

8) Other measures taken to fight against the coronavirus.

Moreover, President Ilham Aliyevdonatedhis annualsalaryto theFund on March 21.

Currently, the amount of donations transferred to the Fund in Azerbaijan is about $65 million.

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Netflixs original television series, Dirty Money, was truly an eye-opener that spoke more about enlightenment that entertainment. It appealed to all masses and was welcomed wholeheartedly when a batch of six episodes pumped out all the way back on January 26, 2018.

And then we had season two that premiered on March 11, 2020, adding to its popularity and acclaim. Based on the subject of corporate corruption, money laundering, and creative accounting, Dirty Money has grabbed all attention and has discussed some of the hidden facts about the worlds leading firms, their dark truths, and other famous (or infamous) personalities. The show has been produced by some of the great personalities, one of them being an Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.

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So, is season three happening! Weve no idea yet. Lets know what information we have gathered yet regarding Dirty Money 3:

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To our despair, no official declaration has been made about season three. Although the show is a great success, Netflix will reevaluate the figures and ratings before considering the third season.

Since both the previous seasons have rolled out in the first half of their respective years, we can safely assume the third one to arrive somewhere around that time period, with high bets on March 2021.

Just like there is no information about season threes release date, we have no concrete idea about the cast too.

The show has showcased the interviews of key players that include personalities like Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Hillary Clinton, Stuart Jonson, and many others. Many more personalities belonging to corporate and politics are expected to be interviewed in future episodes.

Every episode brings up a narrative of fraud that deals in creative accounting corporate corruption and security fraud. In the course of the narrative, the key players of the game are interviewed.

The second season saw the frauds of the banking industry, such as nefarious deals of Wells Fargo and personalities like Jared Kushner, who rose from being a real-estate heir to White House adviser and then targeted by reporters and housing advocates for disturbing patterns at his properties.

Many more interesting narratives are expected to come in season 3, but as of now, we have no proper information about it.

Since there is no confirmation about season three, no teaser trailer is on the cards. Till then, stay healthy and keep safe.

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Bus Stop Prayers: Praying the Psalms Over Your School-Aged Children: a touching account of prayers for children that ask God for guidance, mercy, and enlightenment in their lives. Bus Stop Prayers: Praying the Psalms Over Your School-Aged Children is the creation of published author Lauren Golis, a loving mother of three from Holland, Pennsylvania.

Golis shares, Do you ever feel anxious by the idea of sending your children out into the world? Do you long to see your children grow to love the Lord with a faith that is all their own? Have you ever felt overwhelmed by these feelings and not know where to begin?

As parents, we are called by God to tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done (Ps. 78:4 NIV). He did not leave us to do this job alone. God promises to be with us every step of the way, ready and waiting for us to call out to him in prayer. What better time than before they leave for school?

As a mother of three, Lauren invites you into her own genuine prayer journey for her children. Turning to the Psalms for guidance, Lauren has created a collection of prayers to inspire you to pray for your own children each day.

Keep this collection of heartfelt prayers by your bedside, inside your car or tucked into your bag, and begin lifting up prayers that will stay with your children today and for a lifetime.

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Lauren Goliss new book is perfect for parents to ponder upon and inspires them to intercede for their children to nurture them in spiritual insight.

This book contains a loving desire that with each Psalm-inspired prayer, future generations will learn the importance of having God in their lives early and onward.

View the synopsis of Bus Stop Prayers: Praying the Psalms Over Your School-Aged Children on YouTube.

Consumers can purchaseBus Stop Prayers: Praying the Psalms Over Your School-Aged Children at traditional brick-and-mortar bookstores or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries about Bus Stop Prayers: Praying the Psalms Over Your School-Aged Children, contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919.

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Once speaking at the inauguration of a chair at Surat University dedicated to Osho, spiritual guru Morari Bapu expanded to give a different dynamic to the meaning of the acronym OSHO.He felt OSHO should mean, Own Silent, Happiness Own meaning our silence and peace should be internal and within us.

The great Adi Shankaracharya had said, Ekante Sukhamasyatam (There is happiness in solitude). Bapu felt that considering the Lockdown has naturally put us in a situation of solitude, we must use it for the purpose of introspection.

Is the peace that we feel really our own? Silence can be of many kinds. There is deep hush even in a graveyard. Sometimes we become quiet due to the compulsions of our circumstances. Sometimes a wicked man can force us into silence by showing us fear, Bapu said

He explained further, A child plays with toys and then discards them. He understands that toys are for meant him and he is not meant for the toy.

The same is true of materialistic objects in life. We need to analyse whether our happiness is based on some incident, object, person, country or time. A Buddhpurush (Self Realized soul) is in bliss all the time because he is the reason for his own happiness. The joy is neither borrowed or purchase or dependent on external factors. This is inner peace.

We could use this time when we are confined to our homes and with limited social mingling to thus internally analyse about these aspects and we might find new strength.

What is not yours and is borrowed is never permanent. It will break or be interrupted

The Ramayana says:

Nija sukha binu mana hoi ki thira, parasa ki hoi bihina sameera

(Can the mind be stilled without inner happiness? Just like there can be no touch without the existence of air.)

II Ram Charit Manas Uttara Kaand 90 (A) II

This brings us to the question whether we all have the capacity to find that calm within.

Morari Bapu feels that in actuality there is no difference between a Guru and the disciple except as a societal arrangement. They are the same in the spiritual realm, otherwise Adi Shankaracharya would not have said, Na Bandhur Na Mitram Guru Naiva Shishyah, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham. (I am not the relative, nor the friend, nor the guru, nor the disciple. I am indeed, that eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.)

Goswami Tulsidas also says Shrota Vakta Gyan Nidhi (Both the listener and narrator of Gods tale are full of knowledge) in truth both are on the same plane.

Guru only enters into disciple and lights the lamp of his soul and in the light of this lamp, all delusion is destroyed!

And what do we discover after such a stage?

God is all about acceptance and love. God is the joy within and the peace that emanates from within us. They are synonyms.

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Udaipur :Udaipur police has registered a case against a constable posted in the District Special Branch (DSB) here after a German national was found living in his cottage in Osho Dhyan Vihar at Seth ji ki Kundal under Goverdhan Vilas police station area of the city on Tuesday. There are many cottages in the center and one of those in which the foreigner lady had been living, is reportedly owned by the constable Sajjan Singh who did not report about her at the local police station or the administration even after a fortnight of her stay.

Goverdhan Vilas SHO Chena Ram Pachar told Udaipur Kiran The lady, Kyara Marki had come to India on February 5 and after visiting several places had reached Udaipur on March 18. She had been living in the Osho Ashram since then however, Sajjan Singh didnot report about her arrival to the local police or the SP office , which is mandatory and more importantly ahead of the present lockdown situation. Germany has over 1 lakh people infected of coronavirus and 1810 residents have died till now. The police was tipped off about few foreigners residing in the ashram and when they cross verified the register, they came to know about the German woman.

The police has confiscated her passport, got her screened and medically examined while a case has been registered against the constable under the Foreigners Act,1946. Under the act, any hotel, guest house , institute, hotel or others who provide accomodation to foreigners must submit the details of the residing foreigner in Form C to the registration authorities within 24 hours of the arrival of the person at their premises. This is to help the registration authorities in locating and tracking the foreigners.

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Radhika Madan made her debut with Vishal Bharadwajs Pataakha and was seen in Homi Adajanias Angrezi Medium recently. The film had to be pulled out of theaters due to the lockdnwn to combat the spread of COVID--19. Now the movie is available on the OTT platform. And the actress is getting rave reviews for her performance. This has excited her. She says she wants to explore new sides to her on screen. The journey has just started for this newcomer. And she's gung ho about the journey ahead.

How are you staying positive in this difficult hour with so much negativity around?

Its important to take care of your mental health as well as your physical health. What we don't realise is that our immunity is related to our mental health. Of course, we should be aware about whats happening around. But I also keep myself disconnected. I make sure that I learn something everyday. I am thankful for things that I have like food, health... I just keeping myself busy learning something everyday. Thats how I keep myself on the positive side.

What are you enjoying the most about this quarantine period ?

We keep saying we dont have time. Now we have the time, still we dont do the stuff we want to do. I always said that I wanted to learn tap dancing, I'm learning it online. I'm learning to play the piano. I'm cooking, writing, reading and doing yoga.

One movie or show, you've been binge watching all day at home.

I saw Parasite. And now Angrezi Medium is out, I was watching it with my house help yesterday.

If this lockdown extends, who are the two people you'd want by your side?

I'd want to meet my family. I want to just hug my parents. I'm here and my parents are in Delhi. As soon as the lockdown is over, I will go to meet them.

What have you learnt from this critical period?

I've learnt to just be thankful for the things I have. We want money... people behave as if they have all the power in the world. At the end of the day, it just comes down to washing your hands and sitting at home. No matter how rich or powerful you are. Everybody is at home doing nothing, just making sure they 're eating well and washing their hands. It makes you think about a lot of things. This time teaches you to realise the value of your family and friends.

Which is the one book/webseries/ film, you'd like to recommend to your fans?

I'm reading The Goose Is Out by Osho. Its a lovely book.

With Angrezi Medium going on digital platform, what kind of response are you expecting from the film?

Angrezi had released and unfortunately the lockdown happened. The film is far bigger than our personal interest in it. At the end of the day, it all comes down to why you make a film, right? You make a film to entertain the audience. So our main motto was not just to release it in theatres... its about entertaining the people.Thats the reason we released it digitally. We want people to see the film with their family. We just want to put a smile on their faces The response I am getting is humbling. Its positive and so encouraging.

What kinds of roles/scripts are you looking forward to do in the near future.

I just want to do whatever excites me. I dont want to live the same character twice. Thats the reason Angrezi was different from Patakha. Shiddat is going to be different from Angrezi. I just want to explore different shades of me.

Tell me something about your next film Shiddat with Sunny Kaushal.

Its a love story and I am a swimmer in it. Its gonna be different from whatever I have done before.

Lastly, what do you think lies in store for Bollywood, post the novel coronavirus pandemic?

I cant say whats going to happen after the pandemic. But I hope we will realise the value of the important things in our lives. And we get out of this as better people, more aware about things.

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