Welcome to Mumbai- The financial capital of the land of Saraswati, Seeta, Laxmi, Durga, Kali or a ghetto full of Duryodhans and Dushyasans in its underbelly?
In Mumbai these days “ Vastraharan “ seems to be the way to usher in the new year! Last year on new years eve a girl’s clothes were torn apart at the Gateway of India even as her hapless BF tried bravely to ward off 70/80 drunken hooligans in vain. This time it was outside a posh hotel ( JW Marriot)in Juhu. But mind you today’s (Kalyug's) Dushyasans and Duryodhans however do not/did not meet the fate that they rightly got in Mahabharat. Instead our police condone their behaviour by calling them ‘minor happenings' or 'incidents blown out of proportion by the media'.
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Well…according to me these so-called minor happenings are a scar on the face of every Mumbaikar and every Indian.
Who are these people? Where do they come from? Are they from Mumbai ? And really no matter how much I try not to say the clichéd phrase, I can’t help thinking did none of the 40 spineless bastards have mothers/sisters?
Mumbai has this glamorous reputation of being the land of dreams. That I agree with. But there is a flip side to it. It depends on what dreams one harbours. I am currently living out of Mumbai, I have come across several people who have this larger than life sort of idea of Mumbai where ‘anything’ goes. Sab chalta hai.I have come across ” How many pubs are there? “ “ How many discs?” “And Oh ya Marine drive?(smirk) ”Bandstand?”(wider smirk) ."Arre Mumbai should be out of Maharashtra ya! It does not fit in with the rest of India forget rest of Maharashtra! ….And ohh the babes of Mumbai!.... So what do u do on weekends? …..How many parties per week/month….It just goes on....
For some of these people Mumbai = Page 3. Nothing more and nothing less!
These starry eyed people fail to see the hardwork put by Mumbaikars to achieve the smallest of things in everyday life...like commuting to work...or school/college......like . No basic Infrastructure, no basic facilities, slums, bomb blasts, dirt, traffic jams, trains filled with human (or should I say inhuman!) herds, beggars, potholes, the list can go on and now new battles lay ahead ...... no morals and spine as well!
My heart goes out to the newly married couple from California who unfortunately picked Mumbai to celebrate their new year ( What a shame for Mumbai!). I can’t imagine the husband’s plight when this was happening to his wife in front of him…!
How human is it to tear a girl's clothes? How can all 40 people lose their sense of basic humanity at the same time? What is this mob mentality? If one person does it it is not ok. But if 40 people do it, it suddenly becomes ok?
Another shame: How can the police be so damn cool about a girl’s clothes being ripped off by 40 inebriated hooligans? Would they be equally cool when their own kin went through such experiences? If it had been a politician’s relative say Priyanka Gandhi , would the commissioner have said this was a minor happening? See even you think this is unthinkable and are probably thinking that this is impossible. Why ....isnt she a lady? More importantly weren't the girls at juhu equally entitled to decent behaviour ?
This reminds me of a sentence from George Orwell’s book ‘Animal Farm’:
‘All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others!’
For now I am not proud to say ‘Mi Mumbaikar!’…In fact I am quite ashamed of the incident and how it was handled by the Mumbai police!...
May these hooligans' souls never ever rest in peace!!!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Kya pata ....Kal ho na ho!!!
No!...This post is not about the movie...or the lack of logic in it either!....
How many of us are actually living in the present?..How many of us are conscious of what we stand for..? Of what we love...and want badly?...I am not talking about our plans for the future...or where do u see urself five years from now(...God...what is that supposed to mean btw....)...I am talking about NOW!.....is what is happening right now what you want(i mean ...what is happening now...is that what u wanted sometime in the past)..God!..I cant believe how confusing I get at times!...Phew..!...
I had a friend back in engineering college...She is no more....You cant imagine what I would do to have her back.....to chat with her....(She had an amazing sense of humour....The time when Star Wars:Attack of the Clones had released...was the same time when Sohail Khan's first movie was released....When his song came on TV...She just said that this should be have been called attack of the clones instead(For the uninitiated she meant that he was just as stiff and brawny as his bro Salman Khan....It was so well timed and original...I break into a smile everytime I think of it!....)..go places with her...click more pics together....But can I do that now?...
I wish I had spent more time with my grandmother....She is very special to me....and I miss her immensely.....I wish I would have shared more of my life with her......I wish I can take back the harsh words (which were never really meant!) I said when I was corrected/scolded....even if I was right and she was wrong....I wish I had cooked for her as she used to cook for me.....I wish I had watched more movies with her....may be read out books to her...I so wish I had spent more time with her..knowing her life more...about what she did when she was a young girl..when she was married...She did tell me stories about her life....In fact my childhood is full of her stories..about how .my father used to fool everyone that he had brushed his teeth when infact he used to never do it till scolded(Eewwww!)..about the time when she was alone in her house and some prick made a pass at her and then how she locked herself in a room to get away from him..alone and scared but brave...in her own house...and how I was lost on the streets of mumbai when i had just started walking...and (in her words by the grace of god!)..how a passing neighbour found me....and got me back....about how she had spun cotton yarn in the Gandhian movement..how her grandfather taught her english.....but I wish I had made a deliberate effort to know her more.....to know her likes...dislikes..her life......like there was no tomorrow........Can I do that now?
I came across a most pathetic person in my school years.The girl had issues with everyone....Not simple issues..But big complex ones.....She used to never be happy with anyone's personality..always judgemental....always crooked in her opinion.......In retrospect I realize now that she was(is) the one with real issues....But guess what?.. I never saw it like that at that time.......I liked her once upon a time...and her opinion mattered a lot to me.....That was my mistake...If you let the wrong poeple in your life...they will never be happy with what u do or who u are...and consequently you will never be happy in that relation....and maybe your other and possibly better relations will suffer.....I spent so much time and enerygy on that (wretched) relation...I wish i could take all that back...and have done better things.....She even had a problem(a big one) with my younger sister..(Now, what kind of a person has a BIG problem with someone's YOUNGER sis...whom u happen to meet so infrequently..Ans = A person mired in inferiority complexes and loads of other unfortunate issues.!.)..Once she said something to my sister....and I didnt stand up for my sister then.......(I was in the eighth std then and my sis in sixth.. ) Now anyone who knows me knows that my sister means the world to me...I so wish I could have found out what a fake person that girl was and have stood up for my sister then...Its not that I didn't know in my heart that my psychotic friend was wrong ...but I chose to rationalize her behaviour to myself and my sister....My sister of course won't remember all this...but I do...and feel really bad about it everytime....I so wish I could go back and do the right thing......Since then I have realized that standing up for the people you love is one of the best things u can do for THEM....and standing up for what u believe in is one of the best things u can do for YOURSELF....From personal experience I know that both these translate to fewer regrets and more happiness in life....
I have wasted a lot of my (precious) time with false people(they come in great numbers ,don't they?)...people with issues,insecurities,pretensions,complexes(U name it and its on MY list baby!....Though I was too naive(ok dumb if you wish!)) to understand all this at that time)....too much time and effort has already been wasted behind foolish, incompetent ,inconsiderate,judgemental,insecure(etc) people who never stood by me in times of need....who never supported me .......I badly wish I can have all that time back...and spend it with my family...my true friends...with children in the park...or just be alone and do things that I enjoy...or just sleep (even that would have been a better use of my time and energy!)......
This has taught me a very important and very expensive lesson(I paid for it with the one thing that is depleting with every passing second!i.e. my time in this world......pun intended!) in life.
A lesson to all by my of my experience (read mistakes):
Be conscious of what you stand for and whom you love/cherish/care for in your life.....Know why you do what you do..Is there a principle you stand for? Stand for it whole-heartedly...It doesnt matter if people dont understand,if people laugh....Is there a person whom you love dearly and maybe take for granted at times?....If your answer is yes...then stop doing that immediately...because times change and you can't do a thing about it no matter how hard you try.......so do it when u can...Thats the only way out.......
Do things like there is no tomorrow...Because you know what?....One day there will be none!
How many of us are actually living in the present?..How many of us are conscious of what we stand for..? Of what we love...and want badly?...I am not talking about our plans for the future...or where do u see urself five years from now(...God...what is that supposed to mean btw....)...I am talking about NOW!.....is what is happening right now what you want(i mean ...what is happening now...is that what u wanted sometime in the past)..God!..I cant believe how confusing I get at times!...Phew..!...
I had a friend back in engineering college...She is no more....You cant imagine what I would do to have her back.....to chat with her....(She had an amazing sense of humour....The time when Star Wars:Attack of the Clones had released...was the same time when Sohail Khan's first movie was released....When his song came on TV...She just said that this should be have been called attack of the clones instead(For the uninitiated she meant that he was just as stiff and brawny as his bro Salman Khan....It was so well timed and original...I break into a smile everytime I think of it!....)..go places with her...click more pics together....But can I do that now?...
I wish I had spent more time with my grandmother....She is very special to me....and I miss her immensely.....I wish I would have shared more of my life with her......I wish I can take back the harsh words (which were never really meant!) I said when I was corrected/scolded....even if I was right and she was wrong....I wish I had cooked for her as she used to cook for me.....I wish I had watched more movies with her....may be read out books to her...I so wish I had spent more time with her..knowing her life more...about what she did when she was a young girl..when she was married...She did tell me stories about her life....In fact my childhood is full of her stories..about how .my father used to fool everyone that he had brushed his teeth when infact he used to never do it till scolded(Eewwww!)..about the time when she was alone in her house and some prick made a pass at her and then how she locked herself in a room to get away from him..alone and scared but brave...in her own house...and how I was lost on the streets of mumbai when i had just started walking...and (in her words by the grace of god!)..how a passing neighbour found me....and got me back....about how she had spun cotton yarn in the Gandhian movement..how her grandfather taught her english.....but I wish I had made a deliberate effort to know her more.....to know her likes...dislikes..her life......like there was no tomorrow........Can I do that now?
I came across a most pathetic person in my school years.The girl had issues with everyone....Not simple issues..But big complex ones.....She used to never be happy with anyone's personality..always judgemental....always crooked in her opinion.......In retrospect I realize now that she was(is) the one with real issues....But guess what?.. I never saw it like that at that time.......I liked her once upon a time...and her opinion mattered a lot to me.....That was my mistake...If you let the wrong poeple in your life...they will never be happy with what u do or who u are...and consequently you will never be happy in that relation....and maybe your other and possibly better relations will suffer.....I spent so much time and enerygy on that (wretched) relation...I wish i could take all that back...and have done better things.....She even had a problem(a big one) with my younger sister..(Now, what kind of a person has a BIG problem with someone's YOUNGER sis...whom u happen to meet so infrequently..Ans = A person mired in inferiority complexes and loads of other unfortunate issues.!.)..Once she said something to my sister....and I didnt stand up for my sister then.......(I was in the eighth std then and my sis in sixth.. ) Now anyone who knows me knows that my sister means the world to me...I so wish I could have found out what a fake person that girl was and have stood up for my sister then...Its not that I didn't know in my heart that my psychotic friend was wrong ...but I chose to rationalize her behaviour to myself and my sister....My sister of course won't remember all this...but I do...and feel really bad about it everytime....I so wish I could go back and do the right thing......Since then I have realized that standing up for the people you love is one of the best things u can do for THEM....and standing up for what u believe in is one of the best things u can do for YOURSELF....From personal experience I know that both these translate to fewer regrets and more happiness in life....
I have wasted a lot of my (precious) time with false people(they come in great numbers ,don't they?)...people with issues,insecurities,pretensions,complexes(U name it and its on MY list baby!....Though I was too naive(ok dumb if you wish!)) to understand all this at that time)....too much time and effort has already been wasted behind foolish, incompetent ,inconsiderate,judgemental,insecure(etc) people who never stood by me in times of need....who never supported me .......I badly wish I can have all that time back...and spend it with my family...my true friends...with children in the park...or just be alone and do things that I enjoy...or just sleep (even that would have been a better use of my time and energy!)......
This has taught me a very important and very expensive lesson(I paid for it with the one thing that is depleting with every passing second!i.e. my time in this world......pun intended!) in life.
A lesson to all by my of my experience (read mistakes):
Be conscious of what you stand for and whom you love/cherish/care for in your life.....Know why you do what you do..Is there a principle you stand for? Stand for it whole-heartedly...It doesnt matter if people dont understand,if people laugh....Is there a person whom you love dearly and maybe take for granted at times?....If your answer is yes...then stop doing that immediately...because times change and you can't do a thing about it no matter how hard you try.......so do it when u can...Thats the only way out.......
Do things like there is no tomorrow...Because you know what?....One day there will be none!
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Hey Good-looking....You must be dumb!!!
How many times have you heard that?....not many i am sure (as there are not many pretty people in this world!).........Sorry no offence intended!...
Its just that I am tired of being civil and nice to people who stereotype me just because I happen to look very pretty....(Look mister/missy....I am not bragging.....you can ask people who have seen me!...Ok.?...)
Things have always been this way right from my school days and college days as well....(ill leave that for later)........Recently in my new office.......During my initial days..the following incident happened.....I was in the rest room....and this girl comes upto me...and she is like"Hmmmm.......Have u done a diploma?...now i have to tell you the background story......i have given the CET for getting into my mba college...and am from open category (read Govt. Dalits)....so basically its a feat if you get into the second best college on the list......now my college also offered a diploma course which is not as (read nowhere near)....competitive.....(Hey people..cant a girl be honest?)......
So if people say have u done a diploma...i say "NO" (emphatically and i think quite animatedly too)I have done the MMS course(which is quite competitive to get into)......how can i not let people know that!....
Ok....back to my incident.... so this girl lets call her pUpa(hint..read between the lines)......
So pupa is like .....have you done your diploma....I was like NO.....I have done my MMS in finance....and went into the elaborate efforts to explain the difference......She seemed to be lost in some string of thought the whole time though...."Are you sure you havent done ....you havent done some diploma?"she asked...Did I hear "some "diploma....I was like MMS(you ass.....in my head obviously...)......Are u sure?.....Hmmm..I was like .I think i would know..........Are you sure you havent done a diploma......(She went on for like a good five minutes..)....Are you sure u havent done a diploma...from.......FrankFinnn....or flying Cats?....For a moment it did not sink in.........I was like Wha.........flying...Wha.......did i hear CATS?.....what ...come again......i...actually didnt understand......I just smiled and ...we then parted ways(well as much as we could given that we work sit in the same dept!).....
Ok...I came to my desk...I was like Flying ....wat.......cats..did she say cats....CATS?.......and then it hit me!..Eureka!.......She thought I have done some godforsaken Air Hostess course.......Is she mad?...i work for one of the top five Investment banks in the world.......I hAve done an mba in finance....and ya its MMS(had to say it!).........Its really not that hard to guess that well i am NOT an air hostess under all these circumstances...she was really insulting the HR of my firm by askin me such a (weird ) question..........
Then one more thing struck me...why am i getting worked up...Its actually a compliment.....she thinks I am quite pretty (not that i think air hostesses are. preTty(certainly not the ones i have seen...and ill not even get started abt the stewards..)...they are just assumed to be....but wait a minute.....why did she ASSUME i was DUMB?.(not that I associate dumbness with air hostesses....its just a general assumption i think!...)......well she couldnt logically or shouldnt logically think I was dumb cause i hadnt spoken to her or anyone really given that it was my second day at work......she assumed i was an air hostess. ..(well say that to a mathematician or a derivatives trader and youll know what a blunder she has made?..by assuming such a random thing.....)...assume...something so weird? (given the situation.....).......why....hmm...because i look good and dress well.......thats why?......
(Note: ...i do not believe in all this "shallow" looks talk...its just that i have been discriminated against and stereotyped ...so it has become an issue by default!)....
Ok....Going by her thesis....then do I ASSUME she is intelligent?(Hope u got the point)......Do I?.......Well...I dont think so....given her question(when everything else was pointing nowhere near(and this is an understatement!) any air hostess trainin or airhostess qualification...or the lack of it... )....I think I can safely assume otherwise.!!!!!......
Its just that I am tired of being civil and nice to people who stereotype me just because I happen to look very pretty....(Look mister/missy....I am not bragging.....you can ask people who have seen me!...Ok.?...)
Things have always been this way right from my school days and college days as well....(ill leave that for later)........Recently in my new office.......During my initial days..the following incident happened.....I was in the rest room....and this girl comes upto me...and she is like"Hmmmm.......Have u done a diploma?...now i have to tell you the background story......i have given the CET for getting into my mba college...and am from open category (read Govt. Dalits)....so basically its a feat if you get into the second best college on the list......now my college also offered a diploma course which is not as (read nowhere near)....competitive.....(Hey people..cant a girl be honest?)......
So if people say have u done a diploma...i say "NO" (emphatically and i think quite animatedly too)I have done the MMS course(which is quite competitive to get into)......how can i not let people know that!....
Ok....back to my incident.... so this girl lets call her pUpa(hint..read between the lines)......
So pupa is like .....have you done your diploma....I was like NO.....I have done my MMS in finance....and went into the elaborate efforts to explain the difference......She seemed to be lost in some string of thought the whole time though...."Are you sure you havent done ....you havent done some diploma?"she asked...Did I hear "some "diploma....I was like MMS(you ass.....in my head obviously...)......Are u sure?.....Hmmm..I was like .I think i would know..........Are you sure you havent done a diploma......(She went on for like a good five minutes..)....Are you sure u havent done a diploma...from.......FrankFinnn....or flying Cats?....For a moment it did not sink in.........I was like Wha.........flying...Wha.......did i hear CATS?.....what ...come again......i...actually didnt understand......I just smiled and ...we then parted ways(well as much as we could given that we work sit in the same dept!).....
Ok...I came to my desk...I was like Flying ....wat.......cats..did she say cats....CATS?.......and then it hit me!..Eureka!.......She thought I have done some godforsaken Air Hostess course.......Is she mad?...i work for one of the top five Investment banks in the world.......I hAve done an mba in finance....and ya its MMS(had to say it!).........Its really not that hard to guess that well i am NOT an air hostess under all these circumstances...she was really insulting the HR of my firm by askin me such a (weird ) question..........
Then one more thing struck me...why am i getting worked up...Its actually a compliment.....she thinks I am quite pretty (not that i think air hostesses are. preTty(certainly not the ones i have seen...and ill not even get started abt the stewards..)...they are just assumed to be....but wait a minute.....why did she ASSUME i was DUMB?.(not that I associate dumbness with air hostesses....its just a general assumption i think!...)......well she couldnt logically or shouldnt logically think I was dumb cause i hadnt spoken to her or anyone really given that it was my second day at work......she assumed i was an air hostess. ..(well say that to a mathematician or a derivatives trader and youll know what a blunder she has made?..by assuming such a random thing.....)...assume...something so weird? (given the situation.....).......why....hmm...because i look good and dress well.......thats why?......
(Note: ...i do not believe in all this "shallow" looks talk...its just that i have been discriminated against and stereotyped ...so it has become an issue by default!)....
Ok....Going by her thesis....then do I ASSUME she is intelligent?(Hope u got the point)......Do I?.......Well...I dont think so....given her question(when everything else was pointing nowhere near(and this is an understatement!) any air hostess trainin or airhostess qualification...or the lack of it... )....I think I can safely assume otherwise.!!!!!......
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
We the living!!!
Today I saw parts of Mr & Mrs Iyer again ...Its a well made film and all that...But this time it made me wonder about things that I generally forget about and take for granted....Like will I die because I am a Hindu?...U read it right...not heart attack or cancer....or even an accident...Well the answer is even weirder than the question....Maybe I will!!......Who knows?......There can be riots/blasts etc ........
We are living in an age when one can actually die because of a reason totally out of his/her control....I didnt do anything special to be a hindu ...it was just the way it is......a law of nature/turn of fate one might even say.....
I actually can die someday because of that!...No matter how many times I repeat it.....It still does not stop sounding ridiculous and( a bit funny too if u think about it)......I mean DIE??....DIE???....Denied the right to breathe/be happy/have a family/play/learn/work/exist/be a grandmother someday/smell the flowers/see the rainbow/eat pani puri./read a book/dance/..in short denied or rather cut short the right to LIVE....and Why?.... because of a fact I had absolutely no control over!.......
Everyone is busy talking about chemical warfare/biological warfare/nuclear warfare.....Now all these take tremendeous amont of money from both warring sides......But in case of "religious warfare" as we see around us life is a cheap commodity....
About the term "Religious warfare"....Now thats wat I call an oxymoron!!
We are living in an age when one can actually die because of a reason totally out of his/her control....I didnt do anything special to be a hindu ...it was just the way it is......a law of nature/turn of fate one might even say.....
I actually can die someday because of that!...No matter how many times I repeat it.....It still does not stop sounding ridiculous and( a bit funny too if u think about it)......I mean DIE??....DIE???....Denied the right to breathe/be happy/have a family/play/learn/work/exist/be a grandmother someday/smell the flowers/see the rainbow/eat pani puri./read a book/dance/..in short denied or rather cut short the right to LIVE....and Why?.... because of a fact I had absolutely no control over!.......
Everyone is busy talking about chemical warfare/biological warfare/nuclear warfare.....Now all these take tremendeous amont of money from both warring sides......But in case of "religious warfare" as we see around us life is a cheap commodity....
About the term "Religious warfare"....Now thats wat I call an oxymoron!!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wagle Ki Duniya!!
At times even a rational person like me (ya u are right...its self proclaimed...But its my blog remember!!!) can do irrational things.......not out of stupidity..no...no....These things happen when everything is pretty much smooth....wonderful even.....Its basically ..out of too much faith and "smack-me-in-my-face" optimism......
Instance 1:
In my 12th std....Had joined Mr Aundhes classes...One day I had a great test...My sir really praised my paper...I really felt proud that day....On my way back at around 7 in the evening...(over a bridge)...the breeze felt tingly...the air redolent...the setting sun smiled....the birds chirped.....the bridge felt like mankind's genius in stone...everything was perfect and dreamy....little did i know I had to pay a price for feeling this for the next 18 months.......
As I was frolicking along....there came a little kid ,grinned at me and started to wave happily...I was like this completes the picture!!....In my head I felt that this isnt a coincidence...I am generally restrained in public places...But this felt like a time to let go...be free to do wat I feel like..Jump ..shout...fly even....I felt really connected to the kid(the timing was simply great for the kid to appear and wave....)...So I vigourously waved back very animatedly...even ruffled his hair a bit......and then started prancing towards my home.....But something was amiss...or was it.??.Even in my A-great-time-to-be-alive moment.....I thought I saw some hair above his lips...Did I...Did I......hmmm...Wat nonsense I told myself...and then forgot about it....
I got the answer to my above "Did I?...Did I?"...the next time I passed that bridge....The kid was infact not a kid at all but a demented man who was just plain short...and had kid like features(gross!)....And he started jumping all around me and started shouting(playfully)weird things at me....I felt like I was struck down by lightening when he first came to me out of nowhere ...I still remember it vividly...me trying to flee..and this Man-child (who walked surprisingly fast!) making animated gestures and loud noises next to me...God ....It was quite scary ....At one point passers-by had to intervene and help me out....I avoided the bridge after that....
After this incident no matter wat good happens in my life ....I avoid walking on bridges!!!
Instance 2:...Coming Soon....
Instance 1:
In my 12th std....Had joined Mr Aundhes classes...One day I had a great test...My sir really praised my paper...I really felt proud that day....On my way back at around 7 in the evening...(over a bridge)...the breeze felt tingly...the air redolent...the setting sun smiled....the birds chirped.....the bridge felt like mankind's genius in stone...everything was perfect and dreamy....little did i know I had to pay a price for feeling this for the next 18 months.......
As I was frolicking along....there came a little kid ,grinned at me and started to wave happily...I was like this completes the picture!!....In my head I felt that this isnt a coincidence...I am generally restrained in public places...But this felt like a time to let go...be free to do wat I feel like..Jump ..shout...fly even....I felt really connected to the kid(the timing was simply great for the kid to appear and wave....)...So I vigourously waved back very animatedly...even ruffled his hair a bit......and then started prancing towards my home.....But something was amiss...or was it.??.Even in my A-great-time-to-be-alive moment.....I thought I saw some hair above his lips...Did I...Did I......hmmm...Wat nonsense I told myself...and then forgot about it....
I got the answer to my above "Did I?...Did I?"...the next time I passed that bridge....The kid was infact not a kid at all but a demented man who was just plain short...and had kid like features(gross!)....And he started jumping all around me and started shouting(playfully)weird things at me....I felt like I was struck down by lightening when he first came to me out of nowhere ...I still remember it vividly...me trying to flee..and this Man-child (who walked surprisingly fast!) making animated gestures and loud noises next to me...God ....It was quite scary ....At one point passers-by had to intervene and help me out....I avoided the bridge after that....
After this incident no matter wat good happens in my life ....I avoid walking on bridges!!!
Instance 2:...Coming Soon....
Monday, May 28, 2007
AB,His baby and Shweta's new bhabhi!!
I am on a roll today...fell like pouring my heart out on issues like the "Bacchans"....There is no reason there should be an issue called the "Bacchans"...Well according to me at least..
The entire hue and cry about the abhi-ash wedding...actually made me want to puke..but the voyeur in me got the better of me...I watched most of the coverage...hopin to get a glimpse of the bride and her "I cant believe I have the mightyAB on my side aur ab yeh baby bhi "thinkin AB Jr ...and who is quite lucky in life..(By lucky i mean being born to amitabh baccahn...that about sums up his achievements or the lack of them) ...but the difference between me and most others is (i think) that I knew wat I was doin and till date regret the time wasted on the crappy coverage...But wen I saw the frenzy. the media being shoved,abused,the common man(wats that by the way..I guess everyone who is not AB or Sachin T or even Mr/Ms Bobby Darling!!!)..I realised how little people(including me!) value our own lives and wat we do with the only thing which gets lesser by the second for each and every one of us...Our time in this world.....
Now back to the Bacchans and their bachpanas...Trust me there are numerous instances of these....I guess havin millions of imbecile girls shrieking and jumping all around him has made AB junior think that every girl who happens to be stuck at a traffic jam accidently next to his bus and who looks at him just because of the mere circumstance...is a crazy fan waiting to throw her T-shirt at him!!!....He thought the same about me i guess wen I saw him at Marine Drive shooting for Bluff Master(What a great bluff they pulled on us unsuspecting audience by calling it a film worth paying for!!)) Swaying to music he showed me a victory sign(wats that by the way...and please grow up will ya!!!) with a huge smirk..from atop a roofless bus....I was like watever....Please urself!!!.....& I looked the other way...Ya ok maybe i overdid it a bit...but still the smirk was a major turn-off....and so was the extra who was dancing around him very scantily and gaudily dressed...who later on I realised was none other than Ms Priyanka Chopra....Hmmmmm!!!!
But the main thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiyya!!!
These people are making money...and that too insane amounts..... because of people like us...ok not me but others...who are quite gullible and at times plain stupid to make gods and godesses out of mortals like these and value them over everything else worth valuing in their lives....I read the other day that The Bacchans are gonna be the first family wen it come to taxpayers also....No doubts about that with UP Sarkar's Maya or the absence of it!!!
But these fans are given the "Achyuutt" treatment wen it come to "Its all in the family" type affairs...I was like...ya i respect that...But Since these people are aware of the sentiments of us over enthuse loyalists...I think they cud have give a snap or two of the happy couple...But thats their desision...Ok..Thats fair.....But then later on I see the "IT" couple posin at Cannes smiling...waving...giggling....standin stupidly....and Aish speakin in a hideous accent about how wonderful it is to be a baccahn bahu...ok maybe...but why tell all this at Cannes and to the firang photographers..who by the way did not care much(This was evident in a photo published in midday!!!)....wen all u cud do is moive the earth to make sure the Indian media and the aam junta never get to see/hear/speak to the "Happy Couple"......
The other day I read an interesting article which talked about the film "Guru" and how it is about a man who is totally self made and did his own thing to great sucess....But isnt that the exact opposite of Mr AB Jr...who wud not be anywhere without Mr AB Sr,his connections and focussed dedication to further his son's career and now Miss Rai....Well.....Couldnt agree more!!
The entire hue and cry about the abhi-ash wedding...actually made me want to puke..but the voyeur in me got the better of me...I watched most of the coverage...hopin to get a glimpse of the bride and her "I cant believe I have the mightyAB on my side aur ab yeh baby bhi "thinkin AB Jr ...and who is quite lucky in life..(By lucky i mean being born to amitabh baccahn...that about sums up his achievements or the lack of them) ...but the difference between me and most others is (i think) that I knew wat I was doin and till date regret the time wasted on the crappy coverage...But wen I saw the frenzy. the media being shoved,abused,the common man(wats that by the way..I guess everyone who is not AB or Sachin T or even Mr/Ms Bobby Darling!!!)..I realised how little people(including me!) value our own lives and wat we do with the only thing which gets lesser by the second for each and every one of us...Our time in this world.....
Now back to the Bacchans and their bachpanas...Trust me there are numerous instances of these....I guess havin millions of imbecile girls shrieking and jumping all around him has made AB junior think that every girl who happens to be stuck at a traffic jam accidently next to his bus and who looks at him just because of the mere circumstance...is a crazy fan waiting to throw her T-shirt at him!!!....He thought the same about me i guess wen I saw him at Marine Drive shooting for Bluff Master(What a great bluff they pulled on us unsuspecting audience by calling it a film worth paying for!!)) Swaying to music he showed me a victory sign(wats that by the way...and please grow up will ya!!!) with a huge smirk..from atop a roofless bus....I was like watever....Please urself!!!.....& I looked the other way...Ya ok maybe i overdid it a bit...but still the smirk was a major turn-off....and so was the extra who was dancing around him very scantily and gaudily dressed...who later on I realised was none other than Ms Priyanka Chopra....Hmmmmm!!!!
But the main thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiyya!!!
These people are making money...and that too insane amounts..... because of people like us...ok not me but others...who are quite gullible and at times plain stupid to make gods and godesses out of mortals like these and value them over everything else worth valuing in their lives....I read the other day that The Bacchans are gonna be the first family wen it come to taxpayers also....No doubts about that with UP Sarkar's Maya or the absence of it!!!
But these fans are given the "Achyuutt" treatment wen it come to "Its all in the family" type affairs...I was like...ya i respect that...But Since these people are aware of the sentiments of us over enthuse loyalists...I think they cud have give a snap or two of the happy couple...But thats their desision...Ok..Thats fair.....But then later on I see the "IT" couple posin at Cannes smiling...waving...giggling....standin stupidly....and Aish speakin in a hideous accent about how wonderful it is to be a baccahn bahu...ok maybe...but why tell all this at Cannes and to the firang photographers..who by the way did not care much(This was evident in a photo published in midday!!!)....wen all u cud do is moive the earth to make sure the Indian media and the aam junta never get to see/hear/speak to the "Happy Couple"......
The other day I read an interesting article which talked about the film "Guru" and how it is about a man who is totally self made and did his own thing to great sucess....But isnt that the exact opposite of Mr AB Jr...who wud not be anywhere without Mr AB Sr,his connections and focussed dedication to further his son's career and now Miss Rai....Well.....Couldnt agree more!!
Have head??.....Then think...dont bow down....!!
Its been a long time now..Actually blogging isnt that great as i had imagined it to be...But it isnt bad either...And right now i have nothing better to do anywez...
For the last couple of days...I have observed or rather registered a few happenings around me...and then a question struck me.. are Indians an inherently servile race.?..always ready to jump at peoples feet/bow down/bend over...are we...are we...First the rajas/maharajas. then the nawabs/nizams...then the brits...and then the Policians/babus.......It actually came to me when I saw a man going totally prostrate on Mayawati's(UP CM) feet at some ceremony...there was no need to do it...i mean she was sittin on a stage at some ceremony....and did not even look at the man once.. ..But she very righteously put her hand over his head and gave him "ashirwad" with a very devi like but indifferent and as-a-matter of fact look on her face.....The sight was so pathetic that it actually made me wince thrice....
Frankly speaking I generally have this "I dont give a damn " attitude about who touches whose feet or watever else....but this really got me thinkin...Isnt this how we treat our politicians everywer in the country....Why do we do it...I mean arent they humans(mortals )who have been elected by us(so we are a power above them logically). and are paid by the taxes we give(I shall write about that later...taxes...taxes...taxes.!!)....
Why do we have to put gigantic flower garlands aroud their sweaty necks...or go prostrate werever we can wen wenever see them...wat does this signify...whom does this help...Respect can be highlighted in so many other ways.....Is it Indianness to be constantly servile and appear helpless...why cant a poor man not have the dignity to stand and say whatever he likes...I am not asking him to be rude...but dignified in his dealings......not that by going prostrate the person will get money or anything...If at all by doin that the politician may not get a chance to see the guys face and thus be not able to recognise him to help him later on in life.......But still...I guess the mantra at least currently at political gatherings seems to be :"Have head....will bow down...."
For the last couple of days...I have observed or rather registered a few happenings around me...and then a question struck me.. are Indians an inherently servile race.?..always ready to jump at peoples feet/bow down/bend over...are we...are we...First the rajas/maharajas. then the nawabs/nizams...then the brits...and then the Policians/babus.......It actually came to me when I saw a man going totally prostrate on Mayawati's(UP CM) feet at some ceremony...there was no need to do it...i mean she was sittin on a stage at some ceremony....and did not even look at the man once.. ..But she very righteously put her hand over his head and gave him "ashirwad" with a very devi like but indifferent and as-a-matter of fact look on her face.....The sight was so pathetic that it actually made me wince thrice....
Frankly speaking I generally have this "I dont give a damn " attitude about who touches whose feet or watever else....but this really got me thinkin...Isnt this how we treat our politicians everywer in the country....Why do we do it...I mean arent they humans(mortals )who have been elected by us(so we are a power above them logically). and are paid by the taxes we give(I shall write about that later...taxes...taxes...taxes.!!)....
Why do we have to put gigantic flower garlands aroud their sweaty necks...or go prostrate werever we can wen wenever see them...wat does this signify...whom does this help...Respect can be highlighted in so many other ways.....Is it Indianness to be constantly servile and appear helpless...why cant a poor man not have the dignity to stand and say whatever he likes...I am not asking him to be rude...but dignified in his dealings......not that by going prostrate the person will get money or anything...If at all by doin that the politician may not get a chance to see the guys face and thus be not able to recognise him to help him later on in life.......But still...I guess the mantra at least currently at political gatherings seems to be :"Have head....will bow down...."
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