26. A Dance with Dragons.

26. A Dance with Dragons. George R. R. Martin. 1009 pages. September 2011.

Finally a book that changed things and speeded up the situations. This is the second book after "A game of thrones", that it is well paced and almost all chapters have something interesting. The end is excellent and the author doesn't care about killing important characters for the story (that was shown with all the Stark family and Robert). I discovered what is the problem that makes this books so different from TLoTR and others like that, is that it tries to cover so much points fo view that the reader forgets the importance of some things, there are still things that happen in the second book that hasn't come specially relevant to the story but they must be.

The book is good just wait for the remaining two.

37. Aarakshan (Reservation). August 2011. Prakash Jha.

37. Aarakshan (Reservation). August 2011. Prakash Jha.

A cultural experiment that went very well. It is not real Bollywood but is still the first complete indian movie I watch. It was excellent because it touched many aspects I have think about and have some relation to the situation in Colombia. The movie is full of contrasts and mixing of culture, chastes, social classes and differences in education. They show an education based on chastes. The movie has good music and the dancing "just for fun" are funny. That system based on chastes and scores is a really hard system in the way that they see education as the only end, but many people fails and are considered losers. The main aspect of the movie is that the race for education is unequal and that people from low and high chastes start at different levels and for this reason are in disadvantage, and for this they have a "reservation" of spots for higher education. My conclusion stays in that if they have the same opportunities and the same base the reservation has to be abolished. Another problem is the opposite, when the reservation becomes to big and the high classes start to be at disadvantage. The problem is between elitism and equity vs charity and effort. In some way is the same thing in Colombia with the public and the private universities.