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My fabulous five

The following blog post is written as part of Indiblogger’s ‘WeChat’ contest, which is a promotion for the WeChat mobile messaging app. To learn more about WeChat, check their youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/WeChatIndia?feature=chclk The idea of a common platform where anybody could connect – past, present or future, alive or dead, real or fictional – is, I think, brilliant, both as a brand promotion and a general concept. What messages would you leave to your as yet unborn children or grandchildren? Would Gandhi have been able to influence the views of Adolf Hitler? What musical masterpieces would have emerged had A.R. Rahman collaborated with Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar & Mohd. Rafi at the peak of their prowess? How many more Meiyappans & Vindoo Dara Singhs would Sherlock Holmes have unearthed, had he been part of the investigations in the sordid IPL scandal? The possibilities are endless. My own personal ensemble cast is an eclectic mishmash o