President, A dent per se!

The latest 'Kaun banega Rashtapati' turmoil looks like the classic Mahabharat scene from the much acclaimed movie 'Jaane bhi Do Yaaro'!Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat or Dr.Abdul Kalam?At the end of the day its,'ye sab kya horaha hai'!

Well this is what I have observed!the last time when Dr.Abdul Kalam was elected as the President of India, there was no such sensationalism or what they call "The not quite libel" kinda attitude of the media. Again the media guys are doing a great job and theres no pun intended in that statement.With the kind of competition, its fair enough to say that the white papers are painted for yellow journalism and that it cant be avoided!But wait a minute...blame it all on the Media...?na!Very inappropriate.

Lets see!The Italian born Sonia Gandhi decides that Pranab Mukherjee(The wannabe Prime Minister of India) or Shivraj Patil(The home minister, now sent home) would be the nominees for the 2007 presidential election. It was obvious that the ever grumpy BJP(Buzurk Jeevith Party) had a chance to cry again!They desperately kept searching for their candidate.I heard Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was their candidate. But no Sushma Swaraj said that we would support Bhairon Singh Shekhawat but he should stand independently!(I had no idea of what she meant).The Left(In my opinion, the critics who bare no responsibility in Indian Politics) were waiting for someone to take a move.

Suddenly the UPA says guess what its Pratibha Patil.(I immediately googled to see who Pratibha Patil was).Shes the Governor of Rajasthan. So the Left who were waiting and didnt know when to strike said oh yeah its Pratibha Patil.Now Pratibha Patil( whose known to talk to ghosts and is now the probable President of India) also has a Shekhawat in her name.But then she also has a Patil in her last name.So Shiv Sena was all for Patil. In a rare event yet again, the BJP was frustrated and thought they were betrayed by the sons of the soil.The sena supremo also hinted that he wants Sharad Pawar as the Prime Minister.But rumour has it that Sharad Pawar wants to be the President of ICC. Holy cow! somebody stop my mind from where its gonna go next.Meanwhile UNPA(Underperformed national progressive allaiance) says, wait we have a new candidate and that's Dr.Abdul Kalam. Now am sure even Dr.Kalam was surprised and thought wow I didn't know even I was in the race. This reminds me of Shehanshah Akbar making an entry in the Mahabharat scene in 'Jane Bhi Do Yaaro'!

Well the depressing fact is that, its a shame that the presidential race is being made a mockery of! The politicians could at least pretend and not make it so blatantly conspicuous of what their motive is!The commander in Chief is the supreme power and lets respect it!

A Race of deceiving pace

Walking by the darker side
I see a beautiful emerging tide.
With the moon eying the unnoticed sight
Enticing the mother to display her pride.

A human having this claim to fame
A sense of six by far to acclaim
Tracking deep through its will and desire
I feel this race burning in a fire.

Witnessing and failing to abide by her sermon
They prove rather defend their claim
A recurring battle said to be forgone
with an end of an obvious entity to blame.

Pity and mercy is something you inject
Trust and faith is what you pretend to protect
Guilt makes u build this fragile peace
and theres someone again with a new weapon to unleash.

U dig hard to find where u hid the word help
Now u desperately rely on ur sense of six
A sense.. without a practical fix..
there u stand again.... deceived by her tricks!

Understand, realize else register!
relish the last few cherishable moments of "Mother Earth"
for ur race will not deserve its rapid glory
and then shall be buried as an untold story!

Mind your heart!!!

Lately there has been a zillion definitions for the word love. They say its blind, they say its deaf and yeah sometimes its dumb. The best feeling in the world have to be felt.-Helen Keller.They clearly define why love has to be blind, deaf and dumb. I have never understood the concept of break-off albeit I was myself a victim of this weird phenomena. The mind tells your heart to pump blood, used by the former to issue commands to the later. So in a break off ur mind wants to kill and the heart wants to save the relationship.To put it in a simple way ur heart wouldn't listen to ur mind!End result is frustration.But "Practicality" which I believe is the mind's mentor is pretty strong and eventually wins the battle, weakening the heart.

People wanted to be practical for various reasons.But the strong reason I believe is that, the practical mind has a solution for every bloody problem under or over the sun, while contrastingly the heart doesn't have a solution for even the smallest issue.In this competitive world "Most" of them wanna play it safe. cuz one failure would mean that they are out of the game.There can be this another new strategy of taking things as they come. trust on the orders of the mind's mentor and assume it has a solution for everything.your heart would get hypnotised to practicality, with the mind always encouraging this transition. This would probably be the case of an ideally ever happy human being.This would mean that he/she would be pretending to be happy when they are sad.

Trust! an impression probably once tarnished shall never ever be redesigned.This i believe is a rare event where the heart wins over the mind. No matter what practical reasons the mind gives, the heart declines to accept and that's how an impression is made in your mind.SO when u lose the trust u never repent on your decision. In this interesting phenomena one thing to be noted is that the mind gives way so that the incident no longer bothers your heart.Ur minds vents frustration which i think is understandable.So... except for heart, no one accepts defeat.

They say when your in love u win their heart. which means the mind takes the backseat.cuz love is that amazing phenomenon which dares to live in this competitive world challenging the very practical guru, The mind.ur first love shall always be in your mind but there are those rare privileged souls who "might" find love for the second time and for those who have been unlucky might never know the difference of mind and heart and become practical forever. and ! I am inclined for the heart.reason is simple. without mind ur a dumb person, without a heart ur dead. u make ur choice!

Souls of Despair!

Strolling through the ill-furnished lane
Peeping out from their broken pane
I see them suffer and moan in pain.
Rejoicing my merry I enjoy my fame
failing to quit this biased game

I see,I feel, I hear them cry
I urge my mercy, It gives no try
I run, I help, I scream,I shout!
In vain. Their souls have departed out!

There I see a cherubic child
Emotions and grief have filled her eyes
Spanning to her I kiss her cheeks
Her eyes were searching for just a feast

Reading this you laugh at me
Spitting your venomous concern you flee
With that scattered concern I get her a feast
but by now shes a devastating beast..

She was a soft, tender, impeccable bud
Now she eats and rips and sucks their blood
All I know shes not the same
And for us.......its such a SHAME!

India Shining!

Recently Indias perfomance in the global market has been pretty impressive! the Tatas buy corus!Reliance on the verge of creating a walmart in india, with the left closlely monitoring every move. FDIs just flooding Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu!Vilasrao Deshmukh "SEZ" it all.The GDP growin at an exponential rate, reaching 4 trillion dollars placing us at the 4th place!

Lately we have also gained the status of a powerful nation which was evident from the fact of Russia n China joining us for discussin economics n trade in New Delhi.Be it Iran or India, Vladimir Putin is all set to help the world with the nuclear plants for energy!With China aiming at rail routes in Nigeria and gaining some oil resources we definitely see an emerging asia.If India, Russia and China form something like the OPEC we could definitely put the US on the backseat and stop the Texas kings from their "crude" penertation into the Middle East!

But I think the light of India shinig has casted a very long shadow.What we fail to realize is that India is primarily an agricultural country with around half the population working on land. The new India shining ideology has impacted the farmers in almost all the states, especially the Vidarbha district towards the northeast of Maharashtra! The US subsidy of cotton has jeopardized the Indian farmers and made their produce worthless.Ironically the CM of Maharashtra is interested in FDIs n converting Mumbai into Shangai.

A record high number of 1200 farmers committed suicides in 2006.The Deputy CM RR Patil says- the illegal money lenders are to be blamed.The stats show that it was the government showin a lack of interest.Imgine the farmers killed themselves to gain compensation tat could be used to clear debts!Undisputedly deplorable!

Community Action for development(CAD) an NGO took the intiative to train the local gond tribes by implementing major watershed programmes. The tribes are now self reliant, open to criticism and self sufficient.After the pressure from the UPA President, Dr.manmohan Singh has released a relief package for the farmers.

Does it mean that it takes 10000 lives for the center to realize an issue? If the SEZ are introduced in Maharashtra the state should be courteous enough to susidize the farmers effort! The WTO agreement could be negotiated and duty on imported cotton can be increased. I hope Mr.Chindambaram allocates atleast 1% of GDP on agricultural research.

No more loan or credit for the farmers.Let them have the 3Is(Income,Insurance n Investment).If we are developing at the cost of farmers life,we would call it negligence!Lets have humanity towards the poeple who contribute 70% of India's income each year.

The World of Light with a lack of Sight

Sitting near the pleasant shore
hearing the gentle waves that roar
depressed eyes of the red hot ore
says that he can do no more.

Today's world is of quarrel and fight
with a benevolent nowhere in sight
oh Almighty can you light
this little world happy gay n bright

Prosperity is found only in one
the one who does good deeds only to none
aiming the life only with a gun
like in a land of setting sun

Oh fellowmen don't you realize
the real power that lies
in your hand n in ur thighs
that would transform this world
into a beauty of surprise!

Journey back!

The experience in india was mind bogglin! unforgettable!I was faithful enough to keep my promise to travel in air india! my itenary was changed again by the authorities but i had no complaint. by now i had started to preach acceptance. My flight was routed through london-chicago.and from chicago there was change of carrier from air india to united.Again air india is what I would prefer!the best airlines ever for food, hospitality n practicality.

We landed at london heathrow airport. the security was so strict tat i have to say it was ridiculous. one of the co-passenger had to check in his teddy bear, get it cleared through customs and the in the process almost missed the flight!any kind of lotion should be less than 30% of its entire capacity!Big trouble for girls!we were already 4 hours late in london and I knew for sure tat am gonna miss my connectin from chicago!

The air india flight lands at Ohare international airport, Chicago. i had already missed the connecting flight. My cell phone battery had drained. There we no coins available in chicago airport(they call it a developed country). again air india had arranged for an accomodation in a 4 star ramada hotel(FREE). i call up n inform my friend and parents tat my arrival woul be delayed by so n so hour! it costed me$33(Rs.1485). ramada has telephone lines of gold with a pretty fast payback period I guess.

Next day to my surprise I go by american airlines and not united one! now I desparately need to make a call to my friend who was gonna apick me up from the airport.I tried my best! invain. i called a 1-800 number to get coins they said unless u have a billin plan with our company we cant LEND coins!

American airlines!allow me to exaggerate! it was like a furnace in there! we passed over snow clad mountains n for a moment i thought of openin the window n gettin some cold air! a glass of water costed $2. if u dare to eat its $5. air india got me addicted to good food i coudnt spend $5 for a sandwich when get free rasmalais in the Maharajas carrier.

I landed in portland my struggle to win a coin still continued!by now I abandoned my preaching of acceptance n thought would act now! i went to the help desk and said its impossible to get coins in the worlds strongest nuclear power. she got provoked and told me use her phone to call! Boy it worked. but mruphy still wouldnt leave me.I count reach her! i give up n go home!

my friend arrives at the airport. shes asks united n they say nobody by my tat name boarded the flight! she starts threatin the airline people with security issue n tat the airline has to pay not for a baggage loss but a passenger loss. The united paged chicago airport and despatch authorities for my search!i think i gained a celebrity status by now!she continues her threat n then realizes from them tat they were correct with their information. she comes home tensed n sees me online!i later did have a bad time! but at the end of the day i felt it all came back on me! where was I at fault! IN MURPHY I TRUST!

Noida Nightmare

The recent unrest in Nithari, Noida is pretty well a national disgrace for the country. when the leaders are supposed to enforce law and provide justice, we have our beloved mulayam singh sneakin to delhi to protest against the hangin of saddam,when he has people to hang in his own state! given an allowance to their political heart that pumps no blood but the ever enticin cabinet juice, they could still pretend that they have respect for humanity. The oppostion has an entirely different story tat hes just following the political superstition of avoidin noida before the assembly election!"Holy Crap" cant find an adjective to fit in the quotes! The media is an unbelievable machine whose input is anythin under or over the sun and the output is "just a political issue" they r in my good books cuz of that, serious:no pun intended!

How on earth could the police be silent even after so many children go missin! the officers are suspended, but will they learn anythin from their suspension is somethin that should be decided by their conscious!a CBI probe is ordered! I have great respect for these guys cuz they know they are goin on a road which has a dead end having to come back to the same place where they started!

aren't we now so used to whats going on! now Moninder or surinder would be sentenced to death, he would approach the supreme court, then write a letter to the president and then trigger the opposition! at least in this case hes not from the minority, unlike afzal whos now frustrated and confused as to am i gonna live or not!this time vote banks are the majority! so politicians cant really help it!the media is doin its best but at the end of the day we still stand at the same place.all the efforts n everythin gone to waters!

with this kind of population its raw peoples power to bring about a change! i know it sounds very hackneyed, but if the uneducated are not made aware of whats goin allow me to say tat its only through some spiritual power we see a happenin india :n now u know what tat means!

mera des!

Well my first ever blog ,"Finally"! In a way lemme boast that i didn't have enough time to kill in my life so this time i get one and wanna relish that feel!I return after a year and a half to India n tend to scavenge on any food that I see!Food here would mean any thing that grew in the Indian soil and is consumable.Air India is one of the best carrier! People curse it n i still dunno why! reason I Surmize:when u want daaru n u see the air hostess, she reminds u of ur grandma , u feel awkward, u like to respect her age so end up drinking a cola. But for those like me who quit drinking occasionally or every now n then , n can withstand a 32 hour dry flight: air India is the best carrier! why? Food saar!

the flight lands at chatrapati shivaji antarrashtriya vimaan adda!i just cant wait to get out and feel the desi hawa! i go to the baggage claim area to receive my two huge bags! one of the custom official keeps an eye on me and was pretty sure that he has found a moron whos gonna be fooled. he comes to me and tells"Bees dhedho samaan bahar aa jayega" i.e. give me 20 and I'll make sure ur baggage is cleared. I say i don't have any illegal possession. he uses some technical and constitutional jargons , makes me feel that I am a terrorist whose gonna get a capital punishment!I fear and give him 10 bucks to clear it! i come out of the airport to meet my friend who was patient enough to wait for three hours!

i immediately see a restaurant and just rush to have a poori bhaji and filter coffee. i then want to cross the road and head to the parkin lot, but in vain. i realised i lost my crossing skills. i just picked up the courage to barge in through the traffic and reach the other end. trust me there was a fair amount of self satisfaction after the successful cross over.

Food is somethin I miss a lot. look at the intricacies we have in our cookin! like the thadka! theres a fair amount of risk involved with burstin of kadipattha and raai, but is worth the risk! all the firangs can do with aaloo is mashed potatoes, but here it goes with anythin n everything!

I go for a movie"bhaagam bhaag" during the intermission i come out to have somethin. a coke and a burger would cost me rs75, i said am ok with a rs15 georgia coffee which had like 6 tablespoon of coffee in it. i had to drink it fast before it got evaporated.the malls here are not expensive but the price tags "OUTRAGEOUS"

I also had the opportunity to drive from nerul to goregaon which like an hour na half drive. the lights are seldom followed. at one point of time i felt that the lights are intimidated and forced to change depending on the intensity and emotions of the vehicles. They say if u can drive in India u can drive anywhere in the world!Very true!

at the end of the day its a fantastic experience to see ur friends and family. If lifestyle is what u want theres always the green bill, but if life is what u need probably for me its mera des!