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• Top 10 Reasons Why Karma Ain’t A Bitch
• Top 10 Reasons Why Indian Movies Can’t Make To The Oscars
• Top 10 Tools To Create Internet Memes

Top 10 Reasons Why Karma Ain’t A Bitch Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:19 AM PDT A common saying is “Ain’t karma a bitch” that has gotten popular in modern culture and is used too frequently in context with karma. But the people who really think that karma is a bitch or something bad don’t really understand what it is. Many people think that karma is just a law that forces you to be good all the time because if you are bad then karma will come and bite you in the ass. This is the way many religions preach morality with the threat of an impending hell for wrongdoers. But karma is not that simple. It is a much bigger concept than that and it definitely ain’t a bitch. Here are top 10 reasons why karma ain’t a bitch. 10. Karma Is The Law Of Cause And Effect: In very simplified terms karma is the law of cause and effect. For every effect there is something that caused it and it in turns becomes a cause for some other effect. The cycle continues and karma states that bad actions become causes for further bad actions while good actions become causes for good effects. Such a law can never be a bitch because it acts impersonally all the time. 9. Karma Is Unbiased: Karma is unbiased and a great man also has some bad karma while an evil man may have a little bit of good karma too. Karma is not partial to anyone. Your every good deed will be rewarded but so will your every bad deed punished. There’s nothing bitchy about that. 8. Karma Can Be Both Good And Bad: A lot of people think of karma as bad but karma can be good too. As stated above, good actions lead to good karma and positive rewards. If you help someone in need it will come back to you one day when you are in need. The perception that karma is a tool for punishing the bad is wrong. 7. Karma Is Not Revenge: Karma is not revenge either. A lot of people think that if someone has hurt them then karma should take revenge from that person. They want that person to get hurt and suffer and when that doesn’t happen they feel that karma does not exist at all. But karma is not going to take a revenge for you. The person who has hurt you has earned bad karma and it will affect him in the end but it won’t be done to satisfy you or make you feel good. 6. Karma Is Not Obvious: When karma comes back with whatever we sent out, it’s not always obvious especially to others. It’s not like if someone has hurt you then in a few weeks they will get hurt too. It’s not that simple. You might not even realize from outside that the person is suffering but at a very deep level karma will be doing its job. 5. Karma Is A Balance Sheet For Your Actions: It is easier to think of karma as a balance sheet for your actions. All bad actions go in one column and all good ones in another column. If your bad actions exceed the good ones you are in debt and will receive bad karma but if your good actions are more than your bad ones you’ll receive good karma. 4. As You Sow So Shall You Reap: Karma is the same thing as the saying of “as you sow so shall you reap”. It is a simple reminder that you must behave with others as the way you want others to behave with you. If you are rude to everyone you can’t expect others to be nice to you. You should use karma to guide your actions and not think of it as a bitch. 3. Karma Is A Moral Compass: Karma ain’t a bitch, it’s a moral compass. It should be used to guide your actions. If you know something is wrong don’t do it just because it seems easy. The wrong things are always easier to do. The shortcut is never worthwhile taking. Do the harder but right thing because of karma. 2. Good Karma Brings Positivity: How can karma be a bitch if good karma brings positivity to your life? A bitch is always a bitch but karma can be both good and bad depending on how you are and what actions you take. So be good and do the right things and let karma take care of the rest. 1. Karma Is Only A Bitch If You Are: Karma is like a mirror. It’s a bitch only if you are. If you go around hurting people and earning bad karma then of course it’s going to seem like a bitch to you. But try being good for a change and earn some good karma and then see if it still is a bitch. It won’t be. The post Top 10 Reasons Why Karma Ain’t A Bitch appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Reasons Why Indian Movies Can’t Make To The Oscars Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:13 AM PDT The 'Indian Oscar Dream' was shattered once again, post 'Barfi' debacle – the Indian entry at the Oscars this year. Another time the same reason was proffered by our local filmmakers for the failure to grab the most coveted trophy in the celluloid world – 'the western discrimination against the eastern world continues.' To put it straight, our flicks have fallen flat in providing quality cinema for a long time now. We have compromised with rotten cinema making styles to rake in huge moolah and are even ready to take egg on our face for trouble-free money. Nothing else can be laid down as a foundation for this embarrassment that continues unabated year after year. We have fallen for our false pride and are continuing to do so till date, all unapologetic. Here are ten reasons why Indian movies can't make it to the Oscars. 10. Terrible Scripts: Noted film critic and arguably one of the most respected cinema critics globally, Derek Malcolm once declared "Indians choose the most terrible scripts." He was spot on with his argument. Indian movies are more on emotional content that rarely finds any parallel with the globally accepted movie making styles. Full on clichés, Indian cinema, which includes the regional cinema, lack a solid script that fall short on many aspects. Barring Satyajit Ray and few other filmmakers, no one has been able to strike the right chord between reality and cinema – cinematic liberties have been taken for granted by our unprocessed filmmakers. 9. Distant From Reality: Indian movies are junked at the Academy Awards repeatedly for the very raison d’être that Indian flicks don't portray India in its true light. Strange it is for a nation where millions sleep hungry-stomach each night to portray itself on the contemporary lines as the US in terms of lofty standard of living style. Protagonists are shown born with 'ovarian lottery' when significant part of the nation is incapable to make its both hands meet — leave alone clap. For the unambiguous reason, Danny Boyle, director of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire who portrayed life in Indian slums was able to make it to the final list and sweep the coveted academy awards. 8. Gimmickry: Sincerity is the basic ingredient for authentic movie making whereas Indian movies run heavily on gimmickry and overly cheap-spoof content. The amount of content that is burgled or plagiarized is huge; devoid of any kind of reference even. The characters are larger than life and scripts tend to play the side-most role. The movies such as Barfi where Anurag Basu heavily borrowed scenes from the Hollywood classics including Chaplin's are good for raking easy dollars in India but can only bring discredit and ignominy at the Oscars. 7. The Selection Committee: The selection committee that comprises of 11 eminent members from the film world depends too much on commercial success of the movie rather than evaluating it on critical benchmarks. Vested interests hold the best films in ransom and less deserving ones get to make the tour abroad on national budget. Since 1957, only two movies that won national awards hace made it to Oscars from the list of 45 entry's put in till date. 6. Wanting In Creativity: No excuse can wash away our grossly baffling and mystifying behavior — the local bred topics involving Mahatma Gandhi and slum children in Mumbai were portrayed  on celluloid using Indian actors by the foreigners, but India's Scorsese's keep complaining for lack of real inspiration. Although, the new tribe of talented filmmakers from the tier 2 and 3 cities are coming up with fresh concepts but those with capacious funds are comfortable to plant out safe and rosy romances with actors double the heroine's age. 5. Businessmen Out-Power Artists: In total, only five Indians have won Oscars – Satyajit Ray, AR Rahman, Gulzar, Bhanu Athaiya, and Russell Pookutty. The surprising fact is that among these 5, three are still alive and working in India. However, they are not only underused but misused when their experience could have worked wonders for Indian cinema. Businessmen dictate terms to directors and confine them to work on wafer-thin-margins of creativity –100-crore-box-office profits is the new mantra here. 4. Regional Cinema Outcast: It's for the severe discrimination and big brotherly bully that many of the gems regional cinema find it going tough to picked out at the right choice for being considered as a potential Oscar winner year after year. What else can explain for holding upon movies such as Samskara for finding an entry for the Academy Awards. Later that year, it did win at the Locarno Film Festival. 3. Films Not Suited To American Taste: Most of the participating nations rarely take into account the kind of films American audiences, media and jury accept. Of late, China and Iran have understood this fact and are picking their options accordingly. India will take time to realize that and will cut ice with the academy jury and audiences much later. Take the case of, Lagaan whose script was spun around the game of cricket that is not widely followed in America (unlike baseball), but despite being considered a potential winner at the awards for the year it was made it did not make it. 2. Song And Dance Sequence: Not needed and forced upon music scores and dance sequences play with the pragmatic acumen of the flick and reduce it value. Although Indians cinema thrives on song and dance drama but they destroy the realism that a film essentially needs to portray. But it seems far from done, considering love of Indian directors for dancing around the trees with hundreds of accomplices in the backdrop – which plummet into the scene out from nowhere. 1. Lack Of Publicity: Right advertising and publicity is what places a film into context, something the Indian entries for the Oscars definitely lack. It's mandatory for the movie promoters to announce it properly in the international market to draw the right kind of audiences for it. It was for lack of the right kind of publicity that accompanied films like Lagaan, Salam Bombay and Bandit Queen could not get ahead of others at the Oscars though they were among the finest of films produced for the year they were counted as the Indian entries at the Academy Awards. Earlier it was no different with a film as great as Mother India. It would require a lot of grit and dedication along with change in attitude and movie selection process if we are serious in winning an Oscar anytime in future. The post Top 10 Reasons Why Indian Movies Can't Make To The Oscars appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Tools To Create Internet Memes Posted: 04 Aug 2013 09:36 PM PDT Humor, wit and marketing have got a dramatic boost with the advent of Internet 'memes'. It's the best way to attract attention, express emotions, tell jokes, spread rebel words, insult, humiliate, in fact for every emotion a creative brain can devise. Not just the fun part, but memes have become one of the most effective tools of marketing and promotions. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are flooded with internet memes. Internet memes go viral within few minutes of being uploaded. Internet has given memes a revolutionary medium to pass on words to the world with taking minimum of your time. Mostly, a meme wouldn’t require more than some seconds. It isn't as easy to create a viral meme, but it is easy to create one. Here is a top 10 list of tools to create internet memes. 10. Imgur: Did you know that Imgur isn't just an image hoster. It has a meme generator too. Along with uploading images for storage or sharing, Imgur also lets you create, share and save memes. Its meme gallery is very rich and allows one to browse popular and viral memes. You can also enjoy remixing of existing memes. Start creating your own memes here. 9. Zipmeme: Like Quickmeme, Zipmeme lets you upload image files from your desktop while all along displays popular or random memes from where you can choose one for your use. You are likely to come across most popular memes featured in lists from where one can pick any popular one or other existing memes. Start creating your own memes here. 8. DIYLOL: It's a special treat for iPhone user, who can enjoy surprising busts of laughter with an app on the go. DIYLOL is all about standing for 'do it yourself' expression. This is the tool if you love to create and share high doses of laughter with memes, which you can also rate. Upload a picture and throw your caption over it, and your meme is ready. Start creating your own memes here. 7. iMeme: iMeme is different from other tools. It's a special app for Mac OS X and Windows. If you use Reddit, then you know about the creator, Redditor Michael Fogleman. Here you'll get over 50 templates to work with. It allows resizing, set fonts, alignments and rearrangement of text. It also lets you share memes after you create them. Start creating your own memes here. 6. Rage Comic Maker: 'Forever Alone Guy' went viral and is one of the most popular memes today. But, from what was the original generator. It was Rage Comic Maker. It also lets you experiment with some really hilarious and exaggerated characters to suite the purpose. Start creating your own memes here. 5. Troll Me: Troll Me would give you the same tools which other sites like Zipmeme and Quickmeme do, but still it gives you a lot more options to choose from. All you need to do is to create an account and login and then you can start creating your own memes. It'll also keep you updated on popular memes. Start creating your own memes here.   4. Cheezburger LOL Builder: Here you get a custom page where you can create your own memes easily. You get a dropdown to select the expressions for some default meme characters and comics. It also lets you use some additional tools with which you can add memes and text for your original memes. Start creating your own memes here. 3. Meme Center: If you are nuts for GIFs, the Meme Center is a special tool for you. Most of other tools don't let you create GIF memes. The process has the same simple steps – create an account and log in. You either use your own images or use the meme builder tool. Start creating your own memes here.   2. Meme Generator: Meme Generator is quite a popular and efficient tool used for making memes. It lets you browse through memes made by others and create your own. A menu bar offers a look through variety of characters, pictures and does even suggest what's going viral and what are latest additions. Start creating your own memes here. 1. Quick Meme: You won't find it hard to use Quick Meme if you have used Meme Generator. It appears to be a just another version of MG with some modifications and improved presentations. Popular memes are featured on the homepage. It's quite an amusing experience to browse through the most popular and viral memes created by other users. You can also kill some time with random memes search. Start creating your own memes here. The post Top 10 Tools To Create Internet Memes appeared first on TopYaps.

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