Saturday, May 9, 2015

Ask me new. ( hate speech against exams)

When you ask me a question, I feel happy to answer.Your curiosity is admirable,and your respect to my opinion is encouraging. However, the sacred covenant in the question-answer mode of conversation is that the person asking the question doesn't know the answer, or at least he is not so sure about it. This trust is paramount and breach of it results in frustration! 
This is precisely the reason why I hate examinations. 
Why do you ask me something you already know? 
You are giving me a complex calculation, and I waste my time to solve it. But later you pull out your model answer set and match my findings!!Above all, If any difference is found, you hail your answer correct!! What does that even mean? Why then did you even ask me the question you little piece of work ?

So much of time is being wasted in figuring out presolved problems. Any new answer amount to failure, and people talk of out of box thinking. Where is the respect for new ideas, new answers, new formulae, and new solutions?? Anything different and you are wrong! Where is the humane approach of treating the different with love and sensitivity and respect? 


What kind of example are we setting in examination halls? No one is interested in co-operation, even when all are haunted by exact same problem! This is when time is a constraint! Is this how we will respond to an alien attack? This is shameless enforcement of  Individualism and nothing else! 
Worse is that those who seek to co-operate are
 discouraged and punished, at times humiliated too!
Pathetic!
What is the objective here? Do you want to test whether I know what you or a teacher taught me? Then test the teacher for god sake! He is the one who taught me! 
 If you are looking for checking my capacity as a student, you can't check it by asking questions. You have to give me a blank paper where I will write new questions! You try them, and see if you can answer them, and tell me an answer. If it's satisfactory, this was the question I had in mind, and you just told me the answer, now I have no further question. Subject is done.
 Should you fail to solve them, or the question doesn't make any sense, you must pass me  and send me for higher education so I figure out that question.
Above all, if I don't write any question on the subject matter, you must understand that I have no doubts what so ever, pass me my diploma or whatever and off you go. 

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Hot but not sexy !

Delhi is so hot these days.
Delhi is so hot that if I order tea in a road shop, I can drink it till night. I was walking by a kid having a lollipop, and I thought he was smoking; it's that hot. It is so hot that a bird dropped dead  from sky on someone's plate, and he thought it was the roasted piece that he ordered before!
It's hilariously hot. It makes you laugh in despair. Actually you are crying, but your tears are getting evaporated. It is so hot that ice cream is soft drink, soft drink is hot coffee, and hot coffee is molten iron! 
It is so hot that a polar bear died only because somebody showed him delhi on google map. 
I posted a recent picture on facebook and got a 100 like. It was in delhi and every one said that it was looking super hot. 
It's obscenely hot. It is so hot that it has been banned in many conservative societies.
It's so hot that pizza delivery packs are being dispatched half cooked from the shop! 
It is so hot that no matter who pulls whose leg, everyone in the group gets burnt. 
It is so hot that a person using infrared technology night vision glasses has to use them after wearing a shades on top. 
It's just fucking hot! 
And I am having a cold!! 
Irony just got roasted! 

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Tortoise and rabbit - hit and run race

The winner in the story of slow-cum-steady tortoise and fast-cum-proud rabbit turned out to be an even slower Mumbai session court, who, after a decade's chase, found the hit and run rabbit guilty.Kudos. We hail it as victory of justice system and rightly so.
But.....
Where as all of us feel that privileged give the justice system a long chase and often subvert it to their comfort, in this particular case I beg to differ. I say this with utmost honesty but with a right to deny it (in case I happen to fall in wrong side of law), that I have known people who have done such acts ( of killing people in drunk drive etc), and have gotten away with it.As far as I know( with a right to refuse it), it costed far less than you would think! 
It seems Salman turned out to be too visible to get advantage of the system.
Apparently in India the middle level of power and middle level of richness is the sweet spot. This is the place where you get your FIRs corrected or decimated without a noise. 
Being a brother of let's say DSP or a powerful inspector, a distant third cousin of an MLA, a local level leader's brother, or a status like such are the exact blind spot of justice system. 
The law is one for very rich and famous, and poor. Law is absent for upper level of middle class or lower level of upper class. 

( disclaimer- I am not supporting Salman here! 
CLAIMER- It's all fiction ( wink) 


Monday, May 4, 2015

Super power of flying !!

Flying- 
This super power has really caught our imagination from time infinite, and we have successfully created so many air crafts for the same. It definitely was a super power as long as only birds were flying but, after so many air crafts occupying the space, we need to rethink. Does the power of flying come with a power of navigation, is one question. You can fly from roof to roof, keeping the landing place in sight( careful for electric wires), but that will hamper seriously your altitude of flying and distance you can travel. Plus you will remain a stone throwaway distance from land, making you seriously vulnerable to all those who may get irritated. ( One slap, and I have a dead mosquito !)
If you increase your altitude at medium heights, you will subject yourself to various extremities of a turbulent weather and also, how will you navigate! With out a chart and direction system, you will be utterly lost!! (Remember how fast your mobile lost signal when you were trying to send a last message after the plane took off? )
Needless to say that flying without radar will make you just what a bird is to an air craft. A sucker who collides with them and gets lives in danger!! That will make you a wtf super hero!
 High speed will demand radar, high altitude will demand temperature protection, drop in pressure will demand vacuum protection, and loss of sight will demand charts and compass together with a high skill training for air navigation, which will expose you well before you can take a first flight!  And don't argue that you will over come with all these handicaps with machines! You are asking for everything here other than an engine, which I suppose you yourself are.
What kind of superpower reduces you to being an engine! 
Finally, having just one power of flying with out anything else gets you in trouble for no reason. You may land up from nowhere in an awkward situation, but have no options to do anything after that! You can try and fly around, becoming witness to all crimes around you, and then testify in courts all across the country in life long cases.( provided all crimes are happening in open bars, as flying will not get you inside those closed power corridors! ) 
You will be a frequent flyer to courts anyways as your flying will break million rules, domestic and international. On a bad day you may find yourself facing a fighter plane, who not only can fly just as well (or better!), but also can guide a GPS missile to your ass! 

I will stay away from this power. All I need is a good plan to book a cheap ticket in advance, and a glass of wine if I am getting international !! 
I am leaving this power on a jet plane.....

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Super power potency test - (invisibility )

(an attempt to check how powerful superpowers really are. 1st one -)
Invisibility - Is this really a power or actually a handicap that most of us suffer all the time! Except a few awkward moments when I really want to disappear ( premature ejaculations included), don't I want to be most visible stand out person in my surrounding? Who would you want to be- A Barack Obama who is visible from all quarters of globe, or a back stage invisible dancer among 100 others gyrating in a Bollywood movie?
It's not a super power, invisibility is a super weakness! What a sham!! 
Makes me think, if God is really that powerful, won't he make himself visible instead of being a nobody in an ocean of nobodies? 


Thursday, April 30, 2015

The (wrong) reason of quake

In year 1934, Gandhi Ji missed physics Nobel by a nick. He postulated that earth quake( magnitude 8) in Bihar was nature's anger against Indian caste system. Mother Nature was really pissed. But it was not the last time when benevolence turned into  stupidity and insensitivity.
When scientists are still struggling to get an early warning of these quakes, leading activist Medha Patekar thinks that earth quake is a warning in itself! In her universe, Nepal earth quake is a warning to mankind against its interference with nature. Scientists, please stop adding an alarm bell to nature's alarm bell!You will degrade it into snooze mode!! 
Environmentalists like her spank industrial ass a thousand times, but do they ever thank a bulldozer which lifts the debris, and gives a chance to a resilient survivor to tell his tale? To hell with nature! Earth quakes are natural,our relief work is man made!! I admire environment warriors, but when all and everything that goes wrong is dumped upon human endeavours,I get jealous of dinosaurs. How much they must have interfered with nature to go completely extinct!

Evangelists are saying that it's an amazing chance to those who survived against all odds to chose new Gods. Slow clap. I won't find it rational to leave my god after he has just successfully saved me, but then religion is not a rational stuff, and I am not a believer. 
There are even such lunatics who think cow slaughter has inspired Mother Nature for man slaughter. I ran out for any smart comment here, but I will get back once I have taken my daily dose of cow urine!!

Why do people, who are otherwise intelligent, choose to humiliate victims of a tragedy?There are slabs of cement crushing breaths of children, while their parents may be crying outside begging for help! There are people who picked up more dead bodies then they could ever imagine! There are people who have lost everything in matter of seconds,perhaps even their will to move on!
Why do unaffected people need to explain reasons for earth quake in most stupid way possible!
If you think that earth quake was a "reaction", you are a being an  idiot of tectonic size. 

Friday, May 2, 2014

Political Spirituality

AAP promises an "all Religion spiritual City Status" for Banaras. This is convenient. Why banaras? why not Ayodhya or Mathura. Why not Rameshwaram or Dwarika or Hazi Ali, or Golden temple.(Oh how hard i am trying to sound sufficiently secular!). Is it just because Kejariwal is a candidate from Banaras? So, after a Shiva mythology, Lots of temples, lots of scriptures, scores of weed smoking and all the spiritual history, it takes an Aam aadmi fighting election that elevates Kashi?
The title is all the more perplexing. An "All" religion spiritual place? What exactly does that mean? And how many religion are we counting. Hindu? muslim? christians? Sikhs? Buddhist? Jain? Jew? Zoroastrian? and other all too(lost and alive...ho ha ho ha hhooooooo)?
So you will make it spiritual for all. And then What? All these people will start coming to Varanasi, leaving all other pilgrimage because Government Of India has declared it spiritual? Or endorsed by G.O.I. People will have more spiritual effect. Like beer mixed with whisky, It will hit hard .
AAP promises that they will develop this city in above ridiculed way. How will you develop that? You will create new spiritual philosophies? Subsidize philosophical imports? On railway stations, holy mantras of all religions will be scheduled to scream? Or you will make more temples, and mosques and churches all over, with common toilets? Ahh you will clean Ganga! That will make it spiritual. Like a clean Thames makes London a spiritual capital of world!
Or you will make it more spiritual by opening hippie centers, and throwing everyone else (of all religion alike) out, who doesn't buy this official spiritual ways, and wants to die just like a nobody.
"Sorry sir we don't give room to a non-spiritual man!"
And what is with this "All religion" theme? Having equal disrespect (read respect if you are offended) to all religions in my heart, I fail to understand why a secular party can't accept heritage of a religion individually. Is Banaras principally spiritual for any reason other that Hinduism (not hindutva, mind you ). Or in a secular world Sikhs will get credit for Roman Cathedrals, and Confucians will get credit for sermons on the mount?What exactly being secular is?
Reason why i write this is not that i support BJP or Congress.(Yes, few people are not enchanted by any!!!) Its because AAP irritates me for variety of reasons such as simplification of problems and half cooked solutions, to name a few. But most irritating one is that they are a group of motivated people, claiming to be "Aam Aadmi", who want to do well for country (I presume), and then they try to fool common man of India, just like every one else. AAP, please get over with your feeling of intellectual superiority, or get over with hypocrisy. Other people are not kids, whom you are trying to pass a bitter medicine by calling it toffee, so that later you can watch them getting better and feel great about yourself. You are fully entitled to do so, as you are not the first to try this.
But just know that people who see you doing that and get irked are in millions.
Critics of critics of AAP often target them for their nitpicking. Here is reason for my skepticism. After A.K. interview episode, and Shazia's remarks, this is third instance when AAP seems to be kneeling down and making compromises of electoral politics (all instances when they acted "not-so" aam"), and this is when they are going for second election. Isn't it time when one should think of various other compromises that any party needs to make, to keep an organisation running, to retain power and to run a country. Is all the hyperbolic honesty coming from a single reason. "They did not have to, so far"

Sunday, February 2, 2014

The dude duel - Gandhi and The Dude

( Rahul being most enigmatic( hilariously ) and my personal favorite in political circle, and The dude from big Leboswki being my personal favorite movie character; i couldn't  help noticing the similarity on the absurdity and vagueness of the the whole interview and the movie (given the nature of the new shit that has come to light, man). So i watched them together and a good dose of beer helped me to connect the dots... Only the true appreciators will understand..but then , "you know, that's what you pay me for"!!!!
(this is not a NAMO or AAP support thing....its just that Rahul is more interesting when you want to get amused.)








Rahul :It's not my first interview, but it's my first formal interview of this type.










The Dude :Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.






Rahul: I like difficult to tough issues, I like dealing with them.

The Dude: Fuckin' A.

Rahul : To understand that question you have to understand a little bit about who Rahul Gandhi is and what Rahul Gandhi's circumstances have been and if you delve into that you will get an answer to the question of what Rahul Gandhi is scared of and what he is not scared of.

The Dude: That's Fuckin interesting man.




Rahul- You are not answering my question, but I will answer the question and that will give you some insight into how Rahul Gandhi thinks. For that I will have to expand a little bit about my growing up, how I grew up and the circumstances in which I grew up. What I saw when I was a child ,was my father, who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant-constant combat with the system in India and then I saw him die actually. In my life I have seen my grandmother die, I have seen my father die, I have seen my grandmother go to jail and I have actually been through ........................



The dude:Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man!

Rahul: I am here basically for one thing, I see tremendous energy in this country, I see more energy in this country than any other country, I see billions of youngsters and I see this energy is trapped.
The strategy of the party is very simple. Everything we have done over that last 5-10years, in fact if you look all the way back to the freedom movement, every single thing we have ever done is empower people.


The Dude : This is a very complicated case. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind limber.



Rahul: What Rahul Gandhi wants to do, is Rahul Gandhi and millions of youngsters in this country want to change the way the system in this country works. What Rahul Gandhi wants to do is empower the women in this country, wants to unleash the power of these women, I mean we talk about being a superpower...

Dude: Look, just stay away from my fucking lady friend.



Rahul: What I want to do is going forward is basically focus on three things. Focus on empowering our people, truly empowering our people, giving them democratic rights within the political party. I want youngsters who come in and really, really push democracy in the party. I want to empower them and I want to make India, together with everybody, taking everybody together I want to put India on the manufacturing map, I want to make this the centre of manufacturing in the world. I want to make this place at least as much as a manufacturing power as China.


Dude :look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?
hasn't that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?


Rahul: I do not take my anger which existed on 2 individuals who did something evil and wrong and overlay it on millions of people. I think that's criminal. Did the Sikh riots take place in Delhi? Absolutely. Were they completely wrong? Absolutely
Did innocent people die? Absolutely.The fact of the matter is that innocent people died in 1984 and innocent people dying is a horrible thing and should not happen

The Dude :Fuck sympathy! I don't need your fuckin' sympathy, man, I need my fucking johnson!


Rahul: What I will say is that there are six bills in parliament that are sitting there bring them in. Pass them.

 Dude : that's fuckin interesting man.


Rahul: Prices are a reality...

Dude : funkin A man


Rahul: Yeah, I will win the election
The reason children of politicians keep getting repositioned is because the system is closed. You are not going to change that without opening the system, you are not going to open the system without having processes, the system is not going to open by waving a wand and saying Abracadabra let us open the system.

The Dude : what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?


Rahul :You are talking about India, we have had a 1 hour conversation here, you haven't asked me 1 question about how we are going to build this country, how we are going to take this country forward, you haven't asked me one question on how we are going to empower our people, you haven't asked me one question on what we are going to do for youngsters, you are not interested in that.

The Dude : Ahh fuck it.




Rahul: frankly, attack me all you want. Beat me to death. It's not going to stop me. I'm going to keep doing it. And I'm going to ask the questions that are relevant. And you know what, I have thousand people in the Congress party, two thousand people in the party who are working on this stuff. They're not letting go. .... And I'm going to then take the system on. Don't forget that.
women empowerment....six bills...

The Dude: I love you, man, but sooner or later you're gonna have to face the fact that you're a goddamn moron.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

The rug that tied the room together












Image source : http://derekwinnert.com

I would say it as casually as it gets. The big Lebowski is one movie, one thing, well a movie Of course, but there is something about this movie.. well, it's a movie that just fits into you.. If you are, the person of that heart. You may say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man", and I have came across as an opinionated person at times, very "undude" of me, but this Lebowski fella, the dude, he is something to have an opinion about.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Sachin's Farewell, My speech.

Nation took a breather, when endless Modi-Rahul saga came to halt. It takes something really huge to stop this never ending debate, at times as much as a cyclone. And today it was Sachin.
(Cyclone,Mars Mission,Sachin- who have stopped this namo/raga in recent times )

 There is no other news today. Sachin has retired, and that is all that we can handle in one day. How badly I wanted him to join Rahul and Saurav, standing near boundary. That sight could have save my bleeding heart. How I always thought that they three look best together. Just as much as I always  loved a combo comic of Naagraj, Super Commondo Dhruv and Paramanu. That didn't occure. Alas!
His speech made a history with every passing word, and no wonder we wanted to hear more. We wanted to hear all about him.All that has been covered in so many sports shows and matches, and even more. What was he like in his previous life?
 I will seek Aranb today. he always knows, what we want to know.


How badly I wanted to give even a bigger speech, and let him know, how many sacrifices I have made "outside" those twenty two yards, in last 24 years. How nothing could ever come in between me and his cricket for all these years. How my brother, just like me, sacrificed his career for "His" game. How bloodthirsty we used to become, while playing on our terrace with eight rupee plastic ball, just to be Sachin. We all wanted to have our name Sachin while holding bat, and at times (though rarely) we had to play Sachin Vs Sachin. Though it was too ludicrous to do so frequently, and often we had to settle with Sachin VS Mark Waugh matches instead. We would never play Sachin Vs Saurav, as this could amount to treason.
I wanted to mention (in my speech) my parents and uncles/ aunts of neighbourhood as well. How my mother lost her sleeps, due to never stopping cricket fights. How my father lost all his temper, and himself batted upon us, just to bring us back to our sinking studies. How all uncles around similarly acted and punished their wards quite often, and shaping them in some finest engineers today. Above all how this unified the neighbourhood, with crying boys and  angry fathers, wooden hand painted MRF bats, and plastic balls in sewers.

But I will have to control myself. May be some other day I will give my speech. Today, its about Sachin only, and nothing can take focus away from our dear legend. Not me, not my important speech and, in no way, any stupid politics.


Cold Hearted

Stars are there, but not as many that I can't count. Mist is rising from cold hearted ground, and making yellow street lamps suspiciously smoking. Few dogs are keeping a watch, breaking the silences just enough to remind that they are my companion in a sleepless night. It's getting cold. Enough to pain my toes. Not enough, to numb them mercifully.


My cup of tea is warm like a childhood friend but gradually losing its warmth, like one would lose his patience in a silence like this.This morning had been a usual one, except that I was little late for work.Something had hit the auto when I was busy with my cell phone. A visibly angry man came out from his car and started showing off his skills with profanity. I saw my watch, I was getting late. Police man came by as it was hindering the traffic. With  efficiency of a private banker, he slapped twice the auto driver without delay, and asked him to clear the place. The angry man was still angry over his financial losses. Auto driver took the slaps in a motion as if they never occurred and stuck to his line, blaming the Angry man for the episode. Angry man slapped him again, and police man asked him to let it go. Some more profanity surfaced, referring to few mothers and sisters. I looked around for another auto. I was getting late.The episode ended with some more profanity, and auto driver resumed our journey. I caught his eyes, found them with little more water than twenty minutes ago, when I first saw him.

During lunch, I saw the message from the girl, I was dating from last month. She was getting married, and so conversations were concluding in nature from past three days.I replied, as appropriate. As I finished lunch, I lit a smoke when a colleague joined me. We discussed the upcoming presentation and profanity.For most he spoke. I responded verbally and nonverbally. Adequately.
As I was finishing for the evening, Boss came by. He looked happy with work (my?). I too reflected the same, and took leave.
Routine  Evening Activities.
Tea, Shower, Food, News, Business News, SMS/Phone in between.

Now I am here.On this terrace. Feeling cold for lack of better things to do, before it becomes appropriate to sleep.
But this one thing I do feel.
I feel cold, with a warm tea.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

children's day special

"Happy children's day, " I said to that irritating Monu, and offered him a cadbury. He took one, then he snatched the other. Without much thanks. I hated his guts.
Aavi came by, his elder cousin sister. She is in college, and she is pretty. One reason why I talk to this pain in grass Monu. I smiled at Aavi, and she returned it. I wished her Children's day playfully, and she asked me for chocolate. I hated Monu again."You snatched that one, you little weasel," I thought. 
I used some cool college words and phrases, that I had learnt 5 years back, and made an "unbreakable vow" to "treat" her at some other time. Aavi gave me a kittenish look, followed by a giggling laughter. I was satisfied by pleasing her with my theatrics. Monu was doing round and round with his football, with a strange hostile look, that he kept reserved for me.I couldn't care less.
Mini came out. She is elder to Aavi. Her parents chose to name her Mini, because they thought she was the only they would have. Mini is pretty, just like her sister and unlike her cousin brother. She is second reason why I talk to this chimp Monu. She is serene, graceful for her age and place, and all with a precious smile.She is out of college and these days home. Monu made some drama and called Aavi, leaving Mini and I alone. She had a book in hand, same that she had two days back, same which I had googled two days back, and read reviews and premises.We discussed a bit, and it went well. She seemed impressed; I was happy. I told her I would love to read it again (since I hadn't read it ever). She said, "Letmee finiish yar,"with a big smile. 
Twice happy, I moved out of compound, straight to the tea-smoke shop. Mission accomplished. 
Thanking the world for this children's day, I called up "chotu" for a chai and a goldfleck.

Vikram, Betaal and The Immunity Problem

As a routine exercise, Vikram got Betaal, the Dracula dude, hanging upside down from a tree doing his abs and said, "Okay bro, let's go."

Few days back, when it all started, Betaal was rather annoyed. Out of green this Vikram bloke had appeared, and tried to arrest him without any warrant. Betaal, the old potato, had never seen this kind nonsense since the end of emergency, but he had seen The Ghost Rider. He struck a deal with Vikram.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Mission Mars and Irritated Tiwari Ji


News came out of Indian mars mission, and Tiwari ji came out fuming like a dhoopbatti.
Couple of months back, Tiwari ji (among 78000 others) had opted for a scheme initiated by a Dutch based organisation , asking for volunteers who would like to leave mother earth to have a flat on father Mars. “A full new planet”, he had exclaimed with his sparkling eyes jumping out of his old pair of glasses. As he stood proud next to his small garden that he had cleverly crafted out from the invisible yet legal roadway, Tiwari Ji couldn't be happier to have a planet to capture.
But his happiness had come to an end, with a smug little satellite on its way to great Mars.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Rainy reminder..



It poured instead of raining, and traffic responded by standing still in Noida sector 60 making all the office- released hasty and horn-honking. Every shop and compound became shelters, and got crowded enough to hide their purpose. Smokers started smoking to bid the time rather romantically watching the rain and few hung up to their phones.Checking mails and checking time.


One guy, whose name could have been anything, stood there neck deep in thoughts, and head deep in the rain-less cloud of smoke rising from his mouth. He could be seen as seeing everything around, but with a lost sense of flicking the ash and slow exhales of smoke, he wasn't actually seeing anything. His mind was full of thoughts, too many to think one through. As if he wasn't thinking anything either.As if he wasn't there or anywhere precisely. He was just somewhere, some gloomy place that has kept him at an average low point of feeling.This was just as vague as a cold sense of strangeness that he and his wife shared from quite sometime, seldom resulting in an argument, but often in prolong silences. After seven years this was perhaps usual,he thought. Love marriage sucks, was another.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Capt Phillips: one among many untold stories..

Till now I was convinced that merchant mariners of cargo ships are invisible people.In a world where movies cover professions from media to Intelligence, time travellers to space travellers, writers to painters, engineers to doctors, ninja warriors to modern soldiers, stock traders to serial killers, add man to mad man, ghosts to wizards, perhaps all possible streams of life, one wing that remained nonexistent was of merchant mariners in cargo ships. These people cover the largest part of sea going trade and vessels,  and are largest part of seafarers in a group which also includes warships, fishermen, support vessels, and luxury liners. Somehow the majority is out of picture. They are perhaps the common man of high seas. 

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Allahabad airport

The quietness of Air Force cantonment is superimposing on the part-commercial part-defense airport in Allahabad. The vastness of the protected defense area makes the airport appear smaller than it actually is, which actually is very small. As you get over with the Air Force effect, the airport starts appearing more and more homely with every passing minute.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

one long time back

What do you do
When the day comes,
And you come to know
All the act, that you did for long.

It's better to know,
That you do care,
And  you do love
The One, who forgot
You a long back,
Like those waves
Hitting the shore,
For no reason;
But to make you fall,
But to make you feel
All that you know, 
And all that 
You feel 
And all that
You felt ...

One long time back.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

They think you are that stupid!!

During the passage of life you come across many who are completely convinced of you being an idiot. Now for most cases they are right, and so are you. But there has to be a limit of this assumption. One can't just think of other being "that" stupid, especially when one doesnt know any of the "alleged" stupids personally !
It's time we name them.
Here is my list of people who are convinced of us being the dumbest  ass around. They think we are "thaaaat" stupid!!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

These talented kids !!

I hate kids showing off their talents, to put it bluntly. The other day a kid was just on and on, rambling all the geography that I don't know. How irritated was I with  all this shameless act of superiority. But is that enough for kids ? No !!
What about those guys cooking all the world, in that funny cooking show . God be damned , all I can cook is a bloody Maggie!! Then those idiots , dancing with all expressions and steps! Leave me alone, will you ! Do you know how much I have to drink before I can do a simple balle balle of Bhangra? 
And you , the little brats, singing on top of your voices! You are killing me , with all this talent and lack of mine. What the hell was I doing at that age? The biggest hurdle that I attempted to overcome was not to spill food on shirt, and not to appear in underwear when guests were dropping by! 
And even now , with this silly, useless blog, and an even more silly profession, I must confess, all this show off is ripping my soul, and my hair.
I am stuck in a world, where I can keep taking inspiration from all around. This is sickening! 
I need a show , where people of all ages can come and demonstrate just how stupid they are. I want to see a show intended to maximise the potential of one in having no talent whatsoever. Where a participant can come and show just how pathetic he can sing, and dance. He should demonstrate it by keeping silent and standing still. The lowest of the bench mark needs to be set for people like me to take a sigh of relief. 
Till that time , I hate you all, you super talented kids. One day I will be Spider Man, and guess whose ass is that I am not saving! 
What ? Super man was like super man even as a kid ?? Kill me!!!!