Over the years, I have been bombarded by others with so many wonderful and some not so wonderful stories that I was assured would make great movies. For some time, my stock answer had been, “I have an endless fund of my own ideas, I really don’t need to be given any more.” I think […]
Have you reached your tipping point? If so, which way will you tip? We are globally at that tipping point. I’m not talking about taking any particular political side wherever you may be -– that’s your choice. Frankly, all political philosophies have both strong and weak points, and sadly the weaker points are on display […]
Like so many people I’m speaking with, I’m reluctant to put the word “Happy” before “New Year,” so I’m settling for a “Better New Year” to all of you with a determination to change “Better” to “Happy” just as soon as possible. It’s tragic to see that the emotional level of virtually everyone around us […]
As we all sit in our little boxes called homes and wish for a Christmas without tiers, as in the British tier system of lockdowns for COVID-19, our sense of space has been severely restricted. There was a time, not long ago when one could look up at the sky and wonder. What’s up there? […]
The whole point of being a creative writer, or a creative anything for that matter, is to have the freedom to create. I had earlier experienced the frustrations of advertising copywriting. This required writing to a usually quite vague brief, then be subjected to often devastating critiques by the account executive who had given the […]
When I arrived back in Durban, Dennis and I finished off the filming of my short film; then I spent a few weeks editing it. The finished product was not a bad effort. It was just a cute twelve-minute story about Kamal, a little boy who worked in an Indian restaurant every Friday after school […]
In my last blog, I had written that my little movie did get made. However, when we were almost finished with the filming, Dennis Bughwan apologized and said that for the next eight weeks, or so, he was totally tied up with his photographic work and other business matters. We would have to postpone everything […]
Just to wrap up the story of this segment of my life, I became more and more involved with the Indian community in Durban through the Bughwan family. So much so that Bobby Maharaj, Devi’s brother-in-law, who was a marvellous character and a keen tennis player, asked me to come and play a game of […]
I don’t mean to launch into my life story from this point, but I would like to continue with the events that developed after I had been fired from Lintas. I had a small amount of money to tide me over through the next couple of months, but clearly I needed to find work. Still […]
When I think back to the times that unexpected opportunities occurred out of the blue, I usually took them, blithely unaware of the future consequences, and luckily most of them turned out well. However, there were also opportunities that, had I taken them, my life would have been very different and in most cases the […]