tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320005532024-03-19T17:38:20.167+05:30The Blog Shall Set You FreeJourney to the center of the soul.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-21762555925992856582017-01-22T15:13:00.003+05:302017-01-22T15:14:23.448+05:30Not A Book Review.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">Truth be told I have a lot of grudges against Mr. Lal Krishna Advani. Not for political reasons at all but for writing a mammoth 950+ pages autobiography in hard bound. Now that I am reading it and also happen to be travelling with the interconnecting flights I have to carry the big book with me everywhere. I am not your usual light traveller so the excess baggage I carry in my bagpack with the heavy duty biography has caused my bag to tear under immense weight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">The book was gifted to me about 05 years back by a friend whose father happen to be a BJP leader. The giant size of book itself discouraged me from picking it up but recently on my drive to read all my unread books on the shelf I happened to pick it up.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">The most interesting part is when abord a flight or any other public place, people sitting near me would sneak in to read a few extracts and not able to contain their curiosity would ask me which book I was reading. I was frankly quite surprised by the interest shown in the thick red hardbound book that I was so intently "studying" and using a highlighter to mark the important parts. The following were the reactions I got from my co-passengers:- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">(c) Are you a lawyer? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">(d) Why are you reading this? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">(e) Is this book about Ayodhya? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">Interestingly the only time I have got such an interest in a book I was reading was while reading another autobiography. Guess the Author? Mahatma Gandhi! All of ₹30 and bought from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahemdabad it took me a mammoth time to finish the book and also one of the reason that it was a travel companion for long was due to it's small size and light weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">Both books are vastly different and of course don't merit a comparison. Mahatma's biography is full of such honestly that it strikes like a thunderbolt to you. Mr. Advani tries to be politically correct but I don't blame him. The book was released before his campaign as Prime Ministerial canditate of BJP in 2009 Lok Sabha election. A single word out of place in the media frenzy nation (orchestrated by 24X7 News Channels) would have torn him apart to bits. Thank God Mahatma didn't have Arnab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">But to read through such auto biographies is not only a journey through the leader's life it is also a journey through the story of India told by the people in first person who wrote it or shaped it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">An interesting facet about the two stories is a single thread: Hindutva. Mahatma today with all his strong religious convictions and Hindu faith would have been prosecuted as being a Hindutva communal leader by endless Media trials by merciless anchors and screaming participants of the "discussions/debate", but a misguided youth propelled by his own convoluted Hindutva ideology shot Mahatma and one of the chief architects of Hindutva philosophy and politics in independent India was Mr. Advani. It's grossly unfair to do a comparative analysis of both the books but so far for some reason these two books have evoked an unprecedented response from the people who see me consuming them. Its interesting to note how both men treated Hinduism and politics. Both men had a passionate love for books and consumed them voraciously. It is evident by the scores of book mentioned by them which shaped their thinking and personality. With an appetite of consuming books both men were a walking encyclopedia to say the least or at least Mr. Advani still "is". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">When I was carrying Gandhiji's biography and travelling through Gujarat I remember how someone walked over from a distance to me just to know why I was reading that particular book! The person turned out to be a software engineer who then did a causative analysis of my personality by asking me a 1000 questions on my life and philosophy of life. We became good friends and I had quite the pleasure of his company through the rest of the road journey. On another occasion a retd. lady professor of English Lit. from DU sitting by my side on a flight journey engrossed in deep discussions on what made me read Mahatma's autobiography and remarked I was the first one in her entire career who she had seen reading this book. Needless to say despite our age difference we had a good discussions of almost everything under the Sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">I will refrain myself from passing remarks on Mr. Advani's political career post 2009 election but one thing does merit attention is that architect of electoral success of BJP and shaping of national political landscape is Mr. Advani.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; vertical-align: baseline;">I am yet to finish reading Mr. Advani's autobiography but with such an interesting glimpse of Indian political history given by someone who was in the middle of it all makes it quite unputdownable. </span></div>
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It's been about an year and a half of my posting in Visakhapatnam
and now is the time for me to leave this city for greener pastures (not
figuratively greener necessarily but literally "greener" pastures). </div>
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The city deserves a tearful adieu. Coming to
this city wasn't really a very excited affair for me so much so that my requirement for
posting was very crisp and clear "ANYTHING but Vizag please". Then as
fate would have it (अब होनी को कौन टाल सकता हैं ?) I landed up in Vizag with no expectations
from the city and with a deep desire for a "exit strategy" ASAP. Not that I belong to Delhi/ Mumbai junta with a natural
aversion to "small city", I am myself a product of "small city"
Lucknow. then the heart has its own reason and the "कही-सुनी बातें" of the people about the city matter a lot too. </div>
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As I look back I find myself
thanking my stars who aligned perfectly to get me posted in this wonderful city. With the
highs and lows that the last 1.5 years in Vizag brought in my
life, I look at my life charting a new course with cruising speed and
with wind gushing through my hair and a happy song at the tip of my tounge. Thank You Vizag. Thou shall be
missed immensely and tremendously. </div>
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My time in Vizag has not only added to my professional front
but also personally for which I'll be forever indebted. I met the right
people whether it was workplace or be it social circles. I struck a chord with
them. I was twice blessed with all my near and dear friends were also posted in Vizag and I had the pleasure of their company around. A
privilege I don't think I'll be able to enjoy anytime soon. </div>
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I have fallen I love with Vizag. With the beaches
and with it's crazy traffic nuances. With the clear hearted and simple
people and choking pollution. With it's upmarket Italian restaurants and South
Indian affordable eateries and with many many many things.</div>
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My life's trajectory changed when I came to be a part of dramatics club quite
dramatically and which dramatically changed my life. The endless
practices and the never ending coffee nights. The bonding and the bonhomie between the members. The inseparable bond between the members which made us meet
again and again and well yet again. The dramatics club was an integral part of our lives
and even after the successful staging of 2 plays. So the birthdays and the anniversaries became
events to be celebrated together and weekends were booked in advanced with hectic plans.
This was single handedly responsible in getting a lazy person like me
out of the bed and keep me out, like day after day. I was never a person
who went out much or believed in social bonding in large numbers and here I was having an overbooked social life with party hopping
and overnight coffee nights. Man I was going places!! </div>
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The city with its endless natural wonders and
natural beauty never failed to seize me and captivate me completely in
its beauty. It's been so many times I have stood amazed and wonder-struck by the serenity the beaches of Yerada, Kalinga, Rushikonda,
Bheemli and the lonely and scantly populated/visited beach stretch
from Rushikonda to Bheemli. Astounding view of Vizag in the night
from Dolphin Hill or Kailashgiri when the whole city is lit up in
infinite lights inspired one of my friend to call it <i>Las Vizag</i>.</div>
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Hours have been spend on conversations with bum chumps on Beach Road with coffee at The Chocolate Room. Vizag has
offered me with ample gallons of coffee and they should thank me for
giving them good business! Whether it be <i>CCD lounge</i> on a lazy Saturday
evening buzzing with young crowd or be it the late midnight coffee at <i>
Novotel</i> or <i>Executive Court</i>. <i>Barista</i>'s coffee with wi-fi where I have spend
my Sunday(s) solely with my gadgets or next to it the home grown "<i>Bake
My Wish</i>" which made me feel old with youngsters hopping
it. Coffee at the <i>PCC</i> or <i>filter kaafee</i> at <i>Sai Parlour</i>, all
have stimulated me in their own fashion. The coffee from the coffee-wallah at
beach road footpath or free coffee while browsing the bookstore Pages
has stimulated my mind in countless ways.</div>
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As if the beaches, natural beauty and coffee wasn't
enough for the city. I found my own happiness in my favourite
restaurants in the city. Mentioning about each will be tad too detail
but I'll put it out briefly. Remember it's not about the restaurants which
served the best food or had the best service but the ones where I went
for the dining experience. These include Novotel's <i>Zaffran</i>, the ultimate
dining experience Vizag can offer then there is Four points Sheraton'
<i>Panache</i> the authentic Chinese restaurant which gives a commanding view
of the city, <i>Dolphin hotel</i> with just the right dosage of live music and
stylish elegant decor with a just fine top floor view of the city and
yes of course the good food, then there was my wonderful <i>Little Italy</i> oh
I loved that so much that's one place I really gonna miss. Then there was <i>Food Ex</i> near the HSBC bank taking care of me on
those late night binges, then there was <i>Eleven</i> which had quite a homely
feel to it and yes great food, it would be such an injustice to not
mention <i>Beach Village</i> at Rushikonda Beach which allows you to eat
amazing food while enjoying the luxury of sight and sound of sea well
it's actually on the beach what more do you need? </div>
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Then there are places I can't talk about because of
course I am so close so attached to them and they mean so much to me
like <i>Gallops</i>, <i>Pages Bookstore</i>. They have a special place in my heart and
talking about them would be like undermining the influence it had on
me. I owe them (only figuratively speaking).</div>
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Thank you Vizag. For the Love. For the Friendships. For the Coffee. For the Drama. For Everything. For Everything. </div>
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So recently I had the privilege of watching the movie “Sixteen” and I have already
begin to feel old almost an antique ready to be put into a glass pane
inside a museum. It's been a decade since I have been Sixteen and lot
has changed since then, I now surely can feel.
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So the movie was almost
a chick-flick with the right amount of sexual innuendo to pull crowds
into the theaters. Well who can resist the <i>kacchi-kalis </i>of the
present generation talk and act sex on the 80mm big screen cinema?
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Dev D (one of my favorites and a milestone in Indian Cinema) was released in 2008
where the character of <i>Kalki</i> is loosely based on the girl in the DPS
RK Puram scandal. Where does a leaked MMS takes her? Well all her friends
and family abandon her, she becomes toast for national media, her
family flees the country and father unable to take the shame commits
suicide. Moreover unable to find a place in the society the character
of Kalki becomes a prostitute and a porn movie artist.
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Where does a leaked MMS
in 2013 takes the character? Friends stand strong with the girl
<strike>(friend in need is a friend-indeed)</strike>, the girl storms out of the
mum-dad counseling session saying there are just too many MMS'
floating around for anyone to even notice, poor girl is thrown out of
school for misconduct (these old people as Principals I tell you with
their stone age values). Unperturbed she plans in the final scene of
the movie to go for Miss India when her friend jokes that winning the
title will get her MMS even more hits (such an insight these kids
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Another character from
the story, a teenage middle-class guy, gets beaten up by his father
routinely for the gap between his poor performance in studies and the expectations of his father is well
quite huge. He's beaten up on other occasions when he comes home
late after drinking (wtf dude? You're 16! go out, get drunk,
vomit your guts out and come back home and expect dad to sing a lullaby and kiss you Goodnight?). He's beaten when his father discovers porn in his computer,
he's beaten when he gets marks too low (by all standards not
just below his father's expectations). So what does the guy do?
Rebel! Long Live Che! He kills his own father and mother happily takes the blame
while the guy ends up joining a gang. (पर कोई ना लड़की तो मिल ही जाती है आखिर में) Okkkkkkkk.....</div>
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This girl all of 16 is pressurized for sex by her bf. Her mother nags too much with questions like
where are you going? When are you coming back home? This and that so she's labeled as a demonic mother who's so un-cool, irritating and over-protective. The girl ends up in a hospital because of
complications in termination of her pregnancy but then Indian parents
have grown-up now. It's ok for them if their 16 year old daughter
lands up in a hospital trying to get her pregnancy terminated in a
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The MMS girl has a life
to be envied, she bunks school and goes out with her BMW <i>wallah</i> bf's. Changes her boyfriend with a frequency that might make even
Mr. Hertz shameful, dumps boys cause they are small (and she isn't
talking about their phone), has enough sexual encounters to become an
expert and all the <i>minor</i> vices including smoking, drinking etc. <strike>Where
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(a) If you
are middle class and want your teenage school going son to do well
please take it easy. Don't scold him when he returns home fully
drunk like c'mon his one sided lady love was talking and flirting
and dancing with another cool guy at the club, he needs a break
he'll handle the future disappointments quite well.<br />
(b) Don't beat him if you
find porn collection in his computer, I mean he's so 16, he's
watching it not doing it with (not cause his principles won't allow
him but just a lack of opportunity).<br />
(c) Never beat him up for low marks
or poor performance that's so 90's. Gone are the days when the 90's
kid used to be beaten black and blue to get into PMT or JEE. It's
2014 economy is past liberalization days and all kinds of career are
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If you have a
teenage girl and you're living in Delhi/NCR encourage her by all
means to go and have a good time till late in the morning at the
club. I mean all these not-safe-for-woman talk is good for op-ed and
news channels discussion panels don't burden your jawaan girl on the
laborious boring talks on women's safety and coming back home soon
and not going to club. These kind of parents really take the life
out of their kids I mean like c'mon let them loose send them by all
means by all times loaded with cash and encouragement to late night
clubs especially of it's Delhi/NCR. And yeah Girls look boyfriends
of 16 are really into true love sorta thing. If they keep pressuring
you for sex even dump you for you not giving enough encouragements
for sex treat it as a surest sign of true love. They only want to
take this relationship to the next level so when they take you to
pregnancy-termination cuz of their excesses treat it as the
surest-possible sign of truest-love. Yes girls one last thing
parents are all so cool when they learn from someone that their
daughter is admitted in a major hospital cuz of pregnancy
termination complexities, they'll shower you with love and
affection.</div>
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Yes parents of
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born-with-the-silver-spoon-types-driven-around-in-BMWs-by-middle
-aged-boyfriends-girls well nothing for you, you can do what you
wish, if i had that sorta money maybe I wouldn't be doing much
different from you. I mean it's all about the money isn't it?</div>
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If you are 32 y.o and
witnessing these lives from close quarters you can write a book on
it. You'll win the bookers (like it happens in the movie, Goddamn
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Lately a lot of my female friends have been telling me how they were all freaked out by “The Great Indian Wedding Tamasha” and how they dreaded ending up with a “lazy boring guy”. A sentiment echoed by many. The reasons given for not marrying were all different and came in all shapes and sizes but in the end all arguments reached a single point like a branched flowchart ending at a nodal box saying</div>
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A friend of mine who happens to be a super secret member of the lazy boring guy community decided to take things seriously and come out in open and present a case in favour of his community. Ofcourse he was too lazy to write the whole thing so I was summoned to pass his message. I hope in the end you might just say: </div>
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“All I want a lazy boring guy. They are so cool !!” </div>
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<u><b>1. No Dowry Harassment because it requires too much of an effort</b></u></div>
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If you end up marrying a lazy boring guy believe me you are in safe hands. Our country has disturbing statistics when it come to dowry deaths. Mental and physical harassment of wives for more dowry is a common lore in all strata of society. Then their are cases of 'kitchen fires' where women are burned alive by husbands and in-laws by pouring kerosene and statement before the police is that the woman died a tragic kitchen fire death. </div>
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Now if the guy is a lazy sorts do you think he'll take the trouble? No. He'll be too lazy to even imagine the whole thing. The thought process will go something like this: </div>
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Okk I have to kill my wife. I'll go to market>> buy lots of kerosene>> wait for an opportune time>> pour it on my wife>> burn her while maintaining all precaution that no help in form of neighbours come or she might not just run to bathroom and stand in a shower when the fire has hardly burned her clothes>> what if she sees me with kerosene and runs out??? Aggghhh too much trouble I'll decide this part later>> take her dead body>> remove all clues from home >> call police >> call hospital>> rush to hospital with her >>fake sad and wailing emotions>> tell police all sorts of lies>> hire a lawyer fight lawsuits>> if all this is said and done perfectly>> get married again. Man that's too much of trouble.. why don't I just work harder at my job, get a appraisal than burning her and remarrying another>>too much effort>>idea dropped. </div>
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No LBG thinks it's worth the trouble to kill or harass your wife for dowry not that they all are hard core feminists but just that it is too much of a trouble and action so not really worth it to dispose one off and getting another. It's takes so much energy to be angry and carry the hurt around so you'll have a husband in LBG who won't mentally or physically harass you for dowry. </div>
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A LBG is usually a guy who spends a lot of time indoors he doesn't go out cuz it's always too windy/sunny/rainy/mightrain/airpollution. Now this is the No.1 nightmare of a lady. Ending up with a guy who doesn't want to hang out much, doesn't want to try the new restaurants, new malls, new pubs, new discs, new winter/summer collection, new sale offers, new this latest that. From new adventure parks to old monuments nothing makes him budge from his couch. </div>
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This my dear ladies is a blessing in disguise for you. </div>
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Each time he's not going out he's saving a lot of money and guess who's using that money? Yes it's YOU!! The more he goes out, the more he eats out. The more he goes to these new hip places the more he's obligated to spend more on his clothes and saloon trips. Add to that the sky rocketing petrol prices and maintenance costs of car due to over-use. Think of all this money saved and ready to be splurged by you only and only on you. VOILA! You are twice as rich. </div>
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So you hang out at all the cool places. You go to hotels that would normally be out of reach. You buy clothes that you'd normally only window shop and lust after. Your friends and acquaintances will marvel how much of an invest genius your husband is who is always away from banalities of life and “sansaarik moh maaya” and is applying his genius mind on higher things like stocks that give unbelievable returns. You'll be your friends envy and your ex-es will probably sulk on how you made the right choice in dumping them and marrying a genius guy who earns a lot just by spending time home. </div>
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If you are planning a normal holiday for 2 to a South-East country it'll cost you x amount of money. But if your husband likes his sleep and bed and couch too much you have 2x money and you go and travel Europe instead!! From a budget of say Malaysia for 2 you can go to Euro Trip of your own. </div>
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“Her husband is a rich guy!” </div>
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“They have so much money.” </div>
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“He's so open minded let's her wife travel alone.” </div>
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“She's single while married, who doesn't want that?” </div>
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Who doesn't have issues and isn't complicated these days? Everybody has his own issues. Everybody is inside his head more or less freaked out with all sort of mental complications meriting the attention of a psychiatrist. Some has childhood issues, someone has ex-issues this issue that issue. </div>
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Look at a LBG guy look at his face so serene, so full of calm. Complicating things, overthinking things, imagining problems (that do not exist) and dwelling in the past too much all requires a considerable amount of effort which of course a Lazy person cannot afford. Look at the quantum of energy it requires to overthink and complicate things or to over analyze the event in the past. </div>
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Somebody the LBG-type is close to enlightenment as one can be. He refuses to think much or not at all. So you as a wife are not analyzed, hidden meanings behind your actions will not be sought after. Complicated people complicate everyone and everything, So you can be comfortable that your words/ your past/ your actions won't be be playing in a continuous repeat loop inside his head keeping him awake at many a nights. </div>
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“She said she won't go to watch the latest Transformers series movie with me. What does it mean?" </div>
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Our choice of movies is different. Does it mean we are different people stuck in a marriage? </div>
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Who is the leading lady of Transformers this time? I wish they had Angelina Jolie. </div>
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“Arre yaar ab kaun baith k soche? Chalo let's have a sund sleep, dekha jaaega.” </div>
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“Ab chalo jo hua so hua abhi SET MAX pe movie kaunsi aa rahi hain?” “If I think too much I'll get really tired chalo lets quickly jump to a conclusion.” </div>
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“zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz” </div>
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One of the most common grounds for divorces is that couples are not able to spend quality time with each other. The reasons for this are plenty and well known. Job requirements, both have own careers, both have unsocial circles, both have own hobbies/social commitments. In a normal career oriented urban household couples are spending less and less quality time with each other and more and more time either with themselves or with their careers. The lack of time of each other results in lack of understanding between couples which invariably leads to disagreements and fights between them and in most cases it ends in divorces. </div>
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So what's the purpose of spending time with an totally adventurous dude when the only conversation you'll end up having is how you no longer can have a conversation. He'll be out climbing hills or diving deep into the seas and you'll be having your samba dance classes, art classes, yoga/aerobic classes, girls night outs and stuff like that and before you know it, there'll be two talented strangers living under one roof. </div>
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Marry a LBG guy, he'll have all the time in the world for you and for your nagging. He'll be there at job which he has carefully chosen (requires maximum salary with minimum input hours) and is enough to make him weary and sleepy and with no other taxing activities to fill his day - all his time *TADA!* is yours!!! </div>
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Only an LBG guy can enjoy a relaxing soothing Sunday with staying indoors having long bath and soaking sunlight singing praises of the Lord for creating such a beautiful world. So you can fill his empty days with your plans, your requirements, your conversation. Sure he'll not be able to enjoy it as fully as he was enjoying his power nap of 8 hours on Sunday noon but still what choice does he have but to bear you with a beer. Only with an LBG guy can you not have issues of not having enough conversations. </div>
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This hot dude with a guitar on his back and six pack as abs to show-off and any girl will be swept off her feet. What might start as an attempt by girls at feeble/harmless flirting with him might just turn out to be a full swing hot and heavy extra-marital affair. He might find it hard to resist the temptation to escape from the boring predictable wife and marriage to an exciting world of sin and sex of having an extra marital girlfriend. </div>
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Do you expect him to go out and start an affair all over again? He's just too lazy for that. 2 pints of beer with a football game on TV and your LBG is happy as hell and goes to sleep peacefully. It's just too much effort to manage two ladies especially when one of them happens to be your wife. </div>
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LBG is just too lazy to manage and divide his life between two women. It increases work drastically and requires meticulous planning. Who'll manage all the timings and running around to make both ends meet? Remember that movie where Akshay Kumar is dating 3 Air Hostesses. Such pain to manage the call recods, the date timings, leaving behind no traces to uncover, clandestine meetings and what not? Calm down. Your LBG husband is just too lazy to even imagine or dream an extra marital affair. </div>
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So my my friend after much persuasion is just to lazy to narrate more points. He had promised me more “an earth shattering list” to be precise but I'm staring at a list of 5. Anyways if you google top reason for divorces of Indian marriages you'll know most of them have been covered above and the other points which have not been covered would have been covered only if my LBG friend wasn't so.... well.... lazy! </div>
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Stop generalizing and stop demeaning LBG people. On a personal opinion I feel LBG's are like sarkari naukri safe and secure and CAG's (Cool Adventurous Guys) are like private job. With the Sensex and society's morals taking a nose dive everyday I feel LBG's and sarkari naukris are a pretty safe bet.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2NA17.7129351 83.2972889tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-668787079514483822013-09-29T15:57:00.001+05:302013-09-29T15:57:17.428+05:30"Susie Derkins Decoded" Guest Post by Meghana Lawate<div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i2amWPvWurI/UkgAfiTXX4I/AAAAAAAABJE/y5QhCL7Er9k/%25252Fstorage%25252Fsdcard0%25252F.blogaway%25252FSusieDerkins.jpeg"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i2amWPvWurI/UkgAfiTXX4I/AAAAAAAABJE/y5QhCL7Er9k/%25252Fstorage%25252Fsdcard0%25252F.blogaway%25252FSusieDerkins.jpeg cursor: pointer;" height="519" width="320" style="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 2px;padding: 5px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ijYC0I05J_E/UkgAeted7_I/AAAAAAAABI8/W2dl0Duyx1A/%25252Fstorage%25252Fsdcard0%25252F.blogaway%25252Fsusie-main1.jpeg"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ijYC0I05J_E/UkgAeted7_I/AAAAAAAABI8/W2dl0Duyx1A/%25252Fstorage%25252Fsdcard0%25252F.blogaway%25252Fsusie-main1.jpeg cursor: pointer;" height="342" width="320" style="border: 1px solid; border-radius: 2px;padding: 5px;" /></a></div><p dir=ltr>I’ll try to keep this post as simple as possible. Well I’m one of those in love with secondary characters type persons. I’ve always been drawn to the sidekick or any of the “non hero” characters in a book or comic. I love Obelix more than Asterix or that I love Captain Haddock more than Tin Tin, or that I love Ron and Hermione, Fred and George and pretty much every other character than Harry. I really am rarely drawn to the hero/heroine, at least in most cases.  I like Joker more than Batman but that’s a moot point because who doesn’t? and Aisha Banerjee more than Sid from Wake up Sid. </p>
<p dir=ltr>So when I first read Calvin and Hobbes I was really drawn to Susie Derkins, to most people Susie Derkins in just another character like Calvin’s parents or that big bully in school (Moe) or Calvin’s teacher (Mrs Wormwood)... But as I think more about Susie the more it makes me appreciate her. For one, Susie Derkins is very normal, she is a little girl who likes to play with her toys, study in school, and she lives in her own world. What makes her different is her friendship with Calvin. For anyone who has realistically thought of how hard someone like Calvin can be to live with will definitely understand what I’m trying to get at. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie Derkins is the embodiment of patience! After all those snowballs, those slimy descriptions of food, and all the mean comments; Calvin asks her if there’s a possum stuck under her collar for God’s sake! Susie bears it all. Why? Simple because when you are friends with somebody you sort of give them that much leeway, Susie isn’t all forgiving but let’s get to that later. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie Derkins is Calvin’s only real friend. Really through all those comics notice how Calvin is all alone with no other person he can call his friend? And Hobbes is his imagination. Good imagination, but really does he count? Its difficult to imagine a 6 year old misfit with only a tiger toy to talk to. Susie is his only real friend.That’s pretty sad as it is. </p>
<p dir=ltr>What I love about her is the fact that she exists. With all the madness and the name calling and the endless snowballs and Slimy girl accusations, she is with Calvin. I also love Susie Derkins for being “normal” when compared to Calvin (but then who isn’t?). But Susie is not all shy girl, she is fierce! At one point Calvin’s mother even tells Susie that it is not okay to pick on stupid children, the stupid kid being Calvin.  </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie really knows how to outsmart Calvin be it by making him eat bugs (trying) or throwing snowballs or threatening Calvin. She is untroubled by Calvin most of the times, she knows how to give it right back to him! Her retorts are quite something! She is smart and man! She can fight! She can be very sweet and stern. I like that about Susie; she is unafraid, what is true friendship if not the ability to say things as they are? She reaches out to Calvin from time to time. Now, of all the people that she could be with, Susie chooses Calvin. While this may be me reading too much into her character, I really find it hard to fathom why a 6 year old wants to hangout with a meanie like Calvin. Simple, Susie gets it. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie is alone herself; remember the endless tea parties she hosts? One of which Hobbes is a part of. She gets it. Imagine a friend of yours who does not have any friends (other than you), is bullied and is not doing very well in school would you or would you not want to reach out to him? Susie is simply doing that. To add to that, I also think the whole charm that gets Susie to talk to Calvin is the fact that both have stuffed animals. How many 6 year olds can you find who are obsessed with a stuffed toy? </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie Derkins really makes me think. Every time I think about a character like Susie’s, I am reminded of my friends and family who lived through my hyper activity. I mean we’ve all been kids, we’ve all be unmanageable at some point in time but thankfully most of us had friends who would tire us out. All our parents would do is gladly welcome a sweaty, stinky kid inside the house only to be fed and put to bed. These friends our parents are eternally grateful for. Susie is not the friend Calvin plays with, but she is the friend that Calvin constantly ends up with. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Susie gives you the impression of being both concerned and unconcerned. She worries in but in the right quantity, she is never meddling in Calvin’s life (if that’s what you can call what a 6 year old has). But she is also never too unconcerned, hey! She asks (rather listens) to him about what he has for lunch and she invites him for tea and that counts for something.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>Anyway, my top 10 takeaways from Susie Derkins </p>
<p dir=ltr>1. If you want to be friends with anyone, you must not be judgmental.</p>
<p dir=ltr>2. You are your own person, while you will gladly share space with your friend; you are not required to be attached to them all the time. </p>
<p dir=ltr>3. Be patient </p>
<p dir=ltr>4. You can fight! You are friends does not make your relationship immune to squabbles </p>
<p dir=ltr>5. When in a fight, fight like you mean it! Give it back to your opponent; they need a taste of their own medicine </p>
<p dir=ltr>6. Friendship is effort. So much effort. </p>
<p dir=ltr>7. There is a very strong possibility that your friend is lonely and doesn’t really know it. Be there. </p>
<p dir=ltr>8. It’s ok to be a little crazy or be with people who bring out your crazy side. </p>
<p dir=ltr>9. Friends can be awful to each other, a little humour helps. </p>
<p dir=ltr>10. If you are stuck on a project report with Calvin, you are better off doing it on your own.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>PS: What is also noteworthy is the fact the Calvin was probably schizophrenic and imagined Hobbes as real. And he also has Attention Deficit Disorder. Now, your appreciation of Susie must grow. :D<br><br></p>
<p dir=ltr>The above post is written by Meghana Lawate- her blog is here.</p>
<p dir=ltr>  <a href="http://www.itsaboutmypassions.blogspot.in">http://www.itsaboutmypassions.blogspot.in</a> </p>
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<b><u>PROLOGUE: SHIV SENA  AND ENGLISH MEDIA</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>To be honest I miss Bal Thackery. Despite his quirks, whims and excesses he was the only one in the country who had the guts to call a spade well nothing else but a spade. Some of the recent events have made me miss him even more. It has been ingrained in the public consciousness that Valentine's Day in India is less about love birds and celebration of spirit of love but more about the violent protests by Shiv Sena brigade.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>The English print media led by Times Of Bharat (name changed to avoid lawsuit :P) painted the Shiv Sena and other saffron brigade as cousins of Taliban who were hell bent on implying Taliban style religious code on the forward looking progressive nation. The nation, the youth was thinking big and dreaming big but here are some pervert religious bigots (dirty saffron brigade) with their hate agenda spoiling the celebration of beautiful and pure emotions like love and “festival of love”.  Naturally people hated Bal Thackrey and the saffron army.   It reminds me of an incident on Valentine's Day many years ago when I was in school and the celebration of “Love” was in full throttle (most of it driven by capitalist agenda).I overheard this conversation in my class between two guys.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><i>Dude 1 : Look at this Time Of Bharat dude. Lucknow Bharat Times has whole 10 pages dedicated for extolling the virtues of Saint. Valentine's Day. </i><br>
<i>Dude 2 : Yeah man. Looks like the whole paper has been painted red. All these hot babes wearing red. Yummmyy.. Yummmyy.. </i><br>
<i>Dude 1 : HAHAHA! Such hypocrites. You know that girl Shristi*? Dude 2 : Yeahh dude that girl is amazing.. Oops I mean such a decent nice girl.. I heard rumours you are dating her no? </i><br>
<i>Dude 1 : Yeah dude I was. But just look at this copy of TOI preaching love like the whole country should just come out of home and start dating the opposite sex. Such hyporites. </i><br>
<i>Dude 2 : Man! You sound bitter. What's with this “was” dating? What's with this TOB-hate? </i><br>
<i>Dude 1 : Ohhh... bhai what to say. Shristi's father is in TOB only he got to know of our affair somehow. Now her phone is confiscated, she can't even go out alone now. Her scooty keys are with her Dad - always. Man it's all shit. Just think of it,  he goes to office writes/edits beautiful dating guides for the youth of the country, comes home gives his dauther a piece of his mind for being a spoilt girl Just because she was sotted with me by her dad's friends/relatives in Hazratganj. </i><br>
<i>Dude 2 : Look at this article focuses on sex tips for a Happy Valentine's Night. Wonder if her Dad wrote this himself.. HAHAHAHAHA! </i><br>
<i>Dude 1 : HAHAHAHA!! Wait lemme read....   </i><br></p>
<p dir=ltr>(*Names have been changed to protect identity.)   </p>
<p dir=ltr>Valentine's Day celebration disruption and hounding of couples by anyone has never been a hindrance for me. Well let's end the self-pity here.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>I remember on various occassions where the Shiv Sena acted as a moral guardian and was responsible for tearing down obsene posters placed in busy Mumbai intersections for some TV shows or were busy opposing some filthy “reality-shows” forced down the neck of Generation Y. Shiv Sena in my personal opinion was in many senses more like a moral correction factor than a taliban factor. Sadly that was Balasaheb's Shiv Sena.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>GRAND MASTI:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>Recently the TV has been bombarded with promos of the filthiest movie ever in Indian cinema I guess: Grand Masti. From what I hear my friend Dozer say about the movie it is 10x times more dirty than the TV promos. What concerns me is where is our Censor Board? Just beacuse a movie has got an 'A' certificate doesn't mean it can show anything. I mean next they can start showing xx and xxx movies if all one needs is an 'A' certificate.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>'A' CERTIFICATE:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>In India as such an 'A' certificate hardly means anything. I haven't come across an incident ever where buying an 'A' certificate film ticket has been accompanied with showing of an age certificate. Even if that happens the movie will eventually find it's way to a torrent site which will then be downloaded by kids, the movie will come in pirated versions, the original DVD's will be out someday. Then the grand world TV premiere of the movie with much advertising campaign will tke place. So there's no way that an 'A' certificate will mean anything to anybody here in India.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>MTV AND ROADIES:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>Take shows like Splitsvilla, Roadies and their million cousins. That bald idiot produer and host abusing people and irony is he thinks he is a moral compass to the society, the guide to the youth. I'm sure one day they'll give him the youth icon award too. I often wonder, what kind of people end up at their studios? His certification is all they need to find a reason to be alive? What sadistic person will enjoy being humilated by him on National TV? I mean why does one need an approval certificate from him to be called “adventurous”? The sadistic people watch the show enjoying the humiliation of worthless people by a self-proclaimed prophet of modern youth. MTV has started telling the youth lookie here “it's all cool”.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>ALL IS NOT LOST: </u></b></p>
<p dir=ltr>Look at the shows by Channel V like 'Gumrah'. TV shows like this is what the youth needs, you see  and you'll know where some of the youngsters due to various avoidable reasons went wrong and misplaced there priorities. That is the reality-shows the country needs.   <br>
<b><u>INDECENCY IN DECENCY- HOMESHOPPE18:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>The other day I was watching HomeShoppe18 (don't ask me why). I sat in front of TV absent- mindedly trying to think something and there they were selling some very decent ladies suits. Few  models were standing in their studio like a mannequinin defining the classical description of “bhartiya-naari” covered from shoulders to toe. But then in quite some time  the focus has shifted on one of the female models and while the female commentator is extolling the awesomeness of floral designer kurtis what you see basically on the screen is the camera focusing utterly and completely on the breasts of the lady model. They show it so artisticly and so innantely and even a kid will know where the intent of  the cameraman lies. This is the limit of pervertness.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>SHUDDH DESI ROMANCE:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>I had recently the misfortune of watching the movie 'Shuddh Desi Romance'. A tweet describes it best- it's neither 'Shuddh' nor 'Desi' and by no means 'Romance'. The story revolves around 'supposedly new generation' which wants to sleep around but not tie a knot for any reason. The hero meets the heroine on a baraati bus (he is on his way to his own wedding btw) and while travelling and incessantly chatting just kisses her on her lips. The girl doesn't object and this starts a round of kisses while the whole baraat is sleeping behind them in the bus. So the message is if u kiss a girl while meeting her first time it's really not an issue and if a girl resists or something she is just so “uncool” (no wonder the guy runs away from his own wedding).   </p>
<p dir=ltr>They eventually move into a live-in smoking, drinking and yes sleeping together. Wow what a life!!! Who in the prime of his his life in India wouldn't want a life like that? Ahhhh they decide to marry after a drinking session but can't marry because according to the director Indian youth is fed up of moving into marriage. Marriage is a social evil imposed by the older generation on the rebellious youth of the country who only want to live in a live-in smoking, drinking, fucking all days and nights to eternal happiness. Hey so you got pregnant while sleeping with your ex-boyfriend? No issues girl. daddy is in Assam who cares? Hey cool dude so you earn by duping foreign tourists and as a tour guide and get to fuck around some of the hottest females who are okay with you not marrying them and being with you in a live-in for reasons as valid as “I'm not sure.” Yes there are people who don't move into a marriage but have a live-in relationship and our Supreme Court recognises that too, I'm aware of that but the potrayal in this movie has been beyond my logical capabilities. Weird story weird film. I don't know how the people will digest or accept or even relate to this concept but certainly this is not a country we want to live in.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>MEDIA CONTRIBUTION:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>First you create all the media image of woman as an object and when the byproducts of that happen people take to streets and start blaming the khap panchayats, the old generation, the poor perverts, politicians, Police insenstivity, Yo Yo Honey Singh like they have no job but to rape woman. What the media will never tell you how they have contributed significantly in objectifying women of the country. How the movies, the music videos, the lifestyle magazines are falling head over heels in showing women in poor light but then “sex sells”, we all know that.</p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>ONE OF US:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>English corporate media with swanky plush studios will show the gender discrimination more as a class war than a gender war and in some ways it indeed is a class war. The have-nots ganging up to show the haves what they are capable of.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>The studios demonise the working class without saying so but the gang rapes of village woman will hardly recieve any sound bytes than a story where the victim is seen as “one of us”. The idea is- how dare could they (the have nots) do this to “one of us”? We the cultured, english speaking, modern, refined people attacked by the barbaric filth living in the slums. The finger is always pointing everywhere else except the truth. Half of the country will try to impose Taliban style ban on women's clothing and timings to step outside home the rest half will sit online and express outrage via facebook status updates and sharing of pics/videos/links.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>ABSENCE OF BAL THACKREY:</u></b> </p>
<p dir=ltr>When Bal Thackrey spoke, he knew the media or be it anyone has crossed the line and didn't care two hoots in being politically correct and saying diplomatic words to please everyone in a corporate English news channel studio. The English media no wonder demonized him and in no time painted him as a senile old man leading a gang of self styled thugs. No attention grabbing man would have drawn lakhs and lakhs of tearful people on his funeral to have a final 'darshan'. He was the man connected to the masses not the studios. He knew the pulse of the people and spoke the truth when the truth needed to be spoken in the country which values hypocrisy above anything else. So when obscene posters were torn by Shiv Sainiks in Mumbai it sent a message we are not a second hand Angrezz, a nakli wannabe Amreeka, their culture is different and ours is different.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>Ancient Hindu culture never suppressed or demonized sex, we had Kamasutra, Khujraho and above all generations and generations of Hindus have been praying to Shiv ling. Sex was accepted. Hindus of the past were bold but today in the name of mirroring the mind/aspirations of the youth obsenity has replaced the boldness and it's being pushed down the necks of the whole generation.   </p>
<p dir=ltr><b><u>I'M NO FAN BOY: </u></b></p>
<p dir=ltr>I don't agree with Baba Ramdev when he says that gays are sick are people who need treatment. I don't agree with Bal Thackrey on many issues. No I don't agree with Shri Ram Sene who thinks women shouldn't be visiting pubs and discos. I'm not anybody's fan boy ready with a flag to defend any word said.   </p>
<br/><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beanie.blog"><font size="2">Posted via Blogaway</font></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jagadamba Junction, Vizag, India17.7080145 83.2954184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-65823473434908756792013-09-22T01:16:00.001+05:302013-09-22T01:16:10.513+05:30NOT A BOOK REVIEW : "THE ILLICIT HAPPINESS OF OTHER PEOPLE - MANU JOSEPH"<p dir=ltr>It was a long train journey through the countryside in which I had the pleasureable company of Manu Joseph's debut novel “Serious Men” set in Mumbai and in and around the area which happened to be my home for the next month or so. It's almost surreal to have such an experience of being in a certain place and reading a book whose plot is based in the same place too. The book had a very realistic and touching plot which explored India and it's society at various strata through the lives of various characters in the book. The book was thoroughly delightful with the humour and gripping plot which keeps you hooked.  </p>
<p dir=ltr>The book which deeply matters to you is the one which touches you, moves you, changes you, challenges you and most consequentially the book and it's characters live inside you long after the final page is read and placed in book-shelf in the company of many others or returned to  it's rightful owner or maybe lend to another friend. One such book is Manu Joseph's second novel “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People”. I finished the book in one sitting. I just had to.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>Central to the plot of “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People” is a seventeen-year-old cartoonist named Unni Chacko. The entire book is about him but he is not there as a character but rather as a fragmanted memory of various people because he is dead, beacuse he killed himself. It chroniciles the quest of a “by-day-journalist-by-night-town-alcoholic” father to de-code the enigma behind the crytic cartoons left behind by his son to eventually know as to why he “did what he did”. Set in the Madras of 90's the book takes you as a witness to the household of Chackos or what is left of them after the departure of their son.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>It's not a mystery Dan Brown thriller novel riddled with world threating secret societies if that's what you are getting at. It is a mirror to the Indian society, the society obsessed with “94% is not enough” “IIT-JEE is the only goal and America the only destination”. It is a spiritual odyssey of finding the true self and finding the true nature of reality beyond the definition of what religions accross the spectrum offer. Author's deep knowledge of Hinduism and psychology and treatment of all characters with such intense depth can hardly be found in any of Arvind Adiga's works or for that matter much of the Indian writing spectrum.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>The book is as much about Hinduism as it is about Christianity. Whereas on one hand it explores Hinduism in the depths of philosophies relating nature of truth and reality Manu Joseph on the other hand explores Christianity on the surface on the issue of conversions exploiting the gullibility of naive people, or due to financial coercion, the dubious nature of evangilists and the inherent caste system followed in Indian version of Christianity. Had Manu Joseph been a Hindu or worse a Hindutva supporter all hell would have broken loose but I personally believe that he might not be a Hindu by practice but he's certainly a Hindu by mind.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The book chroniciles the life of a family fighting poverty, fighting mental disorders, fighting alcoholism, fighting the memories of a missing family member. It's heart wrenching to see the condition of a left-over family after one of them decided to call it quits for no apparent or overbearing reason. It also made more impact on me as I had the opportunity of going through some blogs recently where people had the heart of sharing their experiences of times when their life seemed impossible to bear and almost decided to call it quits and end their lives.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>The book means much more to me than a racy novel with an intriguing plot. It was more of a spiritual journey where you pick up pieces and build your own truth. It's a social commentary on the  nature of the societal setup, about the working of the collective social mindset and yes a potrayal of some free rebellious souls who are termed “crazy” or “lunatics” by the society but they they have seen something, experienced something, known something which is beyond the comprehension of a normal mind. If you can recognise the story within the story the truth will reflect and you'll be staring into it's eyes but if you miss it then well the story is engrossing and captivating in itself.   </p>
<p dir=ltr>It's a rare book which interocks story-telling and philosophy one acting as an interlocutar to another. The truth is out there it's upto you if it reveals itself onto you or you miss. It's been one of the most satisfying reads I had had in recent times. The experience of going through the book will stay with me for a long time. Without much exaggeration I can safely say it has touched me and transformed me on multiple levels.     </p>
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So here I am with my iPhone 3 with a broken cracked screen and under tremendous social pressure.</div>
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<i>iPhone5waala: you have an iPhone 3???? 3??? Must be 4 let me look.. </i><br />
<i>Me: It really is 3 bhai mere. </i><br />
<i>iPhone5waala: Look here's my iPhone5 buy one, look here's my iPad, my iMac, here my billion GB iPod. </i><br />
<i>Me: Man who paid for all this?</i><br />
<i>iPhone5waala: 3???? You got 3???? *faints*</i><br />
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<i>Female friend: blah blah blah blah</i><br />
<i>Female friend's friend: blah blah blah blah</i><br />
<i>Me: blah blah blah blah</i><br />
<i>*female friend check's phone*</i><br />
<i>*female friend's friend check's phone*</i><br />
<i>*me checks phone*</i><br />
<i>Female friend's friend: Ewwwww.. What's that? Is it that 3 waala model?</i><br />
<i>Me: Yaa... ummmm... ummmm....</i><br />
<i>Female Friend: Ohh he bought it when it was launched you know he really loves it.. i keep telling him to change it even the screen's broken but he just doen't listen</i><br />
<i>Me: Hehehe.. yaaa <gives a="" female="" friend="" look="" thank="" to="" you=""></gives></i><br />
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<i>Female friend's friend: (shrugs) whateva.</i><br />
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I bought this phone when it cost-ed 21k. No big deal considering the last Samsung smartphone I owned I had just thrown it really hard and crushed it to pieces making it absolutely necessary for me to buy a new phone without any procrastination. iPhone4 was costing around 45k and it made absolutely no sense to me to spend a fortune buying it. Considering I drop/lose/break-by-throwing my phones at my fancy whims and moods. </div>
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I had just bought my iPhone "3S" when immediately afterwards I happened to be at dinner with a SOB who had an iPhone "4S" bought recently and he tried to show-it-off before females present in our vicinity. But then that's where the difference lies I knew I could have bought it but i didn't it was a conscious logical decision not something that I had forced upon myself.</div>
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I have my own rule a phone's price must be directly
proportional to the number of months I'll use it. Example a 12k phone
will last for 12 months in my hand nothing more nothing less. 21k phone
has to last 21 months before I officially declare it dead or by
destroying it "make-it-dead" instead. So my iPhone 3 bought in Mar 2012 has to survive till December 2013. No matter what. </div>
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The different reaction's I suffer due to iPhone 5 launch and materialism:<br />
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<i>Person1 : Toothpaste Meswak liya hain? Paisa bacha rhe ho naya iPhone lene k liye?</i></div>
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<i>Person2 : Dude you should totally buy iPhone 5 it has technical wonders like blah blah blah blah... itna GB utna pixel ye processor wo speed.. </i></div>
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<i>Person3 : Arre yaar you don't have a credit card or what? Credit card se le lo..</i></div>
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<i>Person4 : I'll get you a super 2nd hand kissi ko pata nahin chalega ki 2nd hand hain.</i></div>
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<i>Imaginary Girlfriend: Naya phone? Mjhe kaunsa gift karoge?? My bday is coming you know I was wondering ki dono k pass same phone hona chahiye. </i></div>
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<i>Mummy : Itna mehanga phone tod bhi diya tumne? Kya naya phone lena hain? Paise bachaya kar beta...... </i></div>
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<i>Papa : Ye aaj kal ki generation pata nahin kya hain phone par hi lagey rahte hain jisse dekho........ hamare zamane main.... </i></div>
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Apple people are stupid none of their adverts show that their products can get a girl. Look anything that is being sold in India is sold on the following two premises:</div>
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<u>1. The product will get the customer a lot of hot skimpy clad women.</u><br />
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<u>2. Kids love the product and their entire childhood happiness depends on it.</u><br />
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I'll elaborate only the first point for now. Everything from ENO to motorbikes/cars to deodorants to almost any weird product you can imagine you buy in India any product may it be a ceiling fan or cement the only thing that qualifies it of being worthy of your wallet is it's surprising ability to be a chick-magnet. You buy this suitcase all the hot women come running to you, you travel in TATA auto (what was it called magic i guess) and you'll find true love with a hot girl there. See everything eventually in the Indian advertising industry leads you to <strike>a hot woman</strike> many hot girls. Which if I'm not wrong is a subtle message for sex. So basically all the advertisers are selling sex isn't it? Buy this car, this phone, this watch, this home appliance, this insurance, this coffee, this soft-drink and you'll get unlimited sex. It isn't a bad deal atleast it's better than dying for what's left of Osama bin Laden's gang and gaining <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/72_Virgins" target="_blank">72 holy virgins</a> after death in heaven.<br />
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So what's wrong with Apple? They have no Indian ads. There iPhone5 isn't promising me unlimited sex with hot women even when I'll be spending a bomb on it. Naaahhhh... I ain't gonna spend my money on a product that tells no scintillating lies. </div>
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<u><b>Conclusion:</b></u></div>
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My whole self worth isn't dependent on the phone I carry, well, it depends on how I carry myself with the phone. So if the sole criterion of self worth is a smartphone than I think we are living in a seriously crooked up world. Now most people will say ohh no we don't judge people by their smartphone they own. Well think again :)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-64117338730957013492013-07-21T20:46:00.003+05:302013-07-21T20:53:32.942+05:30FACE THE FACEBOOK SLAM THE SLAM BOOK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">मॉन्स्टर एंड मॉन्स्टर !!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">You know
this is the age of Facebook girls upload their pics on fb and then guys check
out and save them in their computer. More the pics uploaded by them more the
saving frequency by boys. Then for classification purposes they get separated
in folder name wise. So one there is a girl uploading her pics online and here
boys are saving her pics offline folder wise name wise. So you open a New
Folder and then it has sub-folders starting from girls with A and so on and so
forth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So a girl’s
every activity, mood, party, trip, weekend is suitably quantified and
qualified. You know what she’s listening to, which restaurant she’s having
dinner at, which people she’s spending her weekend with. Stalking at your
laptop screen you just have to “Log in”!! Big Brother </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">doesn't</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> have to do
anything here we are willingly standing in queue knocking at his door telling
him our every minute-est detail of our life. Well we can have George Orwell
discussion time someday else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But then
there were the 90’s where only information you could have about the girl was
through a tiny little </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">colored</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> book called “Slam Book”. The usual protocol was
that you used to get in filled when you are leaving the school or somebody is
leaving and you get it filled from him/her. A is friend with B who is friend
with L who is closed friend with W and A has a crush on W and wants to
know/research on his subject the only way he can get such written authoritative
information was through “Slam Book”. If W has filled slam books of say L,G and
R. A will try getting hold of all the slam books “by any means necessary. You
know they say in साम, दाम , दंड , भेद !!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was just
in junior school when we were playing our innocent game of chuppan-chuppai and
I was hiding in a secluded spot when I heard two guys from senior section
trading a slam book to get insider-info about a girl. It was like a deal
between gangsters exchanging stolen diamonds. It was something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 1:
Hmmmm.. So is it done?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 2:
Yeahh.. you know I’m on talking terms with her.. She was a little reluctant at
first but then I pushed it..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 1: Yeah
yeah. Did she suspect anything?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 2: Naah
Naah.. I got it filled with almost 10 people before her including 2 other
girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 1: Did
she ask you as to why you were getting it filled?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 2: Yeahh
she was suspicious. It’s only middle of the term our session is far from over I
just said “Zindagi ka kya bharosa”.. hahahaha.. smart no?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Boy 1:
IDIOT. Should have just said that your b’day is coming and you are getting it
filled by all your close friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The deal was
struck and the slambook exchanged hands. The slambook contained the whole
character sketch of the girl. You know from the address (if she has given that)
to her Dream Date (which hero/actor she prefers) her friends (the social circle
which has to be acquainted with) her favourite movies, her favourite TV shows
(which invariably always included F.R.I.E.N.D.S) her, favourite food, best
moment of her life, this and that but the most important entry was “Love
is____________” or “Love to me means_____________”. This single entry was the
most significant in assessing the compatibility of the applicant with the girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See if a
girl writes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Love is a <u>FOUR
letter word.<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>Assessment:</u> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Very cold girl with
very less chances of success or she pretends to be cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Love is
<u>something I’m not interest/who knows, who cares?/ We’re too young.</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This was usually filled by girls who already knew they had 0.00% chances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3. Love is <u>a
beautiful feeling shared by two souls.. (blah blah on those line)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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knight in shining </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">armour. She’s open to relationships. She’s the one target you
have to lock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alas! Those
were the days!! It’s like connecting dots which you have to connect the dots to
make out the mental sketch of your “crush” and then device your strategy
accordingly. All information was always through other people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Boy X:</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> भाई I saw her yday with her family in the market at xyz shop. She was wearing red
colour top with mickey mouse on it and a dark blue jeans with black sandals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Boy Y: </b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">भाई</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">my friend lives near her house. He saw her in the evening on the rooftop
wearing a yellow kurta and white pyjama and chappal. She was talking for whole
45 minutes on the phone. All the time laughing and giggling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Boy Z: </b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">भाई</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I went to a wedding yday she had come there wearing an orange saree. She was
really looking wonderful. Nice choice bhai you are really lucky. She is very
nice girl didn’t talk to any guy. She was with her mother all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All this is
when the girl doesn’t even know who this "</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">भाई"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> character is or if he’s alive,
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times of the slam book!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-23696834116332180762013-07-07T22:47:00.002+05:302013-07-07T23:25:56.554+05:30Not A Movie Review: Go Goa Gone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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movies I recommend to them. They have full faith in the movies that I tell them
to watch. The list of such movies is few and includes both of English (including
Final Destination 5 and The Inglorious Busterds among others) and Hindi. My parent’s
movie calendar is usually over-shadowed by their social calendar and the few
movies they watch based on nice promos and blitzkrieg marketing campaigns often
turn out to be torture sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Being an ardent fan of Zombie
literature and movies it was no doubt super-exciting to have zombies in India. Level
10 comics had bought Zombies to Bangalore in <u><a href="http://www.level10comics.com/category/titles/rabhas-incident/" target="_blank">The Rabhas Incident</a></u> and
<a href="http://samitbasu.com/" target="_blank">Samit Basu</a> bought them to Delhi in <u><a href="http://samitbasu.com/2012/01/26/unholi/" target="_blank">Unholi</a></u>. This was their debut on the Indian
big screen for the first time and that too in Goa. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Since it was more of a Zombie comedy (or a Zom-Com) I
thought it was perfectly harmless to recommend the movie to my parents. (It
was the first movie that I recommended without seeing- Zombie prem!!). They
eventually did manage to follow my suggestion as usual and ended up calling me
in a horrified state.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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was lamenting how I missed the first Indian Zombie movie which even my parents
have seen. As fate would have it I got a chance to see the movie (I dare not
mention the pirated downloaded version it was). And I saw the movie through my
parents eyes *sadly*.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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swimming pool and mind you she has a good look at his.. well..., winks at him makes fun of him and
of-course is not at all embarrassed when the guy tries to put his swimming
trunk on, standing next to her. Then she invites the dudes to a rave party organised
by Russian Mafia on a lonely island full of drugs and booze, meets this guy
again and asks him if he wants to go out somewhere. They go out someplace
lonely near a beach, now what ideally should happen is what happens in every
English movie : <i>Ding-Dong-Sing-Along</i> all night. But no here the <i>bhartiya naari
</i>in the girl emerges like <i>Jhansi ki Rani </i>when the guy tries to kiss her and he gets
a long lecture on morality. Okk another scene she is surrounded by 5 guys almost all
unknown to her till recently, Saif Ali Khan asks her to take off her clothes to check if he’s
infected and ohh yes she does that in half a second with a little formal
hesitation. No problem in that, but when dudes try to hit on her when she’s
sleeping alone there there again a big Moral Lecture for the dudes. Either the
lady is Schizophrenic or the director could not afford her fees for the more intimate scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the movie I’m not pretty sure if Goa lies in Republic of India jurisdiction or
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Zombies in the movie.. They didn’t turn out to be the poor man’s zombie (you
know the Ramsay Brothers type evil-dead’s) but they turned out to be very well dressed
and with just the right amount of make-up. Very convincing! Almost as good as
we see in any Hollywood movie. Hats-off to that. Moreover only the firangis were shown as
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with sexual innuendos and yeah drugs everywhere. Pot culture, sex, curse words
and Bikini Babes it has almost everything that will make an Indian Parent’s
worst nightmare so my parents have seen the worst of Indian youth may be they
believe that is what happens in Corporate India. This of course is a good
thing! My parents must be now thinking how their own son is on the safer side on
the Indian Youth decency curve! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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toys, comics and books so he hardly has any money left for those expensive
drugs, expensive Goa trips or paying the expenses of maintaining a hot
girlfriend. Our son is safe from these evils!” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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If there ever was a person diametrically opposite to me, you
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<i><u>Cheeni & I </u></i>had been
acquaintances in school and for obvious reasons we were not the best of buddies
or even good buddies for that matter. She was just one of the attractive girls
I was in touch with! So it was only
about an year after school had ended (as fate would have it) & my course poetry
book due with her got us in touch and despite our every human characteristic in
direct contradiction to each other we became friends and continue to be(or try
to be :P). Some friendships complete you. Getting in touch with people
introduces you to a side which you never had but a side which you sometimes
wish you had.</div>
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I’ll give you a brief idea about Cheeni: In my
entire life each time I have called her (especially after we joined our respective colleges) 95% of the
time chances are she’s partying outside and the rest 4.5% chances are she’s
partying in-house. The usual protocol or
the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) of our call is: </div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Me: Jai
Hind!</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: WHATTT?? (Loud
noises in the background, people laughing, music blaring)</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: red;">Me: I
SAID JAIIIII HINDDDD!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: Hahahaha!!
Okk where are you?</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: red;">Me: (shouting): No the question
is Where are you?? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: You know I’m at this place and there is this
party... (this is usually when I get distracted by the background noise or the
blaring music) blah blah blah…. Something something something…
<inaudible></inaudible></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Me: Good
for you! Call you later then.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: Yo
yo! But do call me at <inaudible><inaudible></inaudible></inaudible></span></i></div>
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To be honest I call her sometimes
just to be rejected like this which gives me great moral authority later in
playing the victim (I call you so many times but you're always soo busy. *sigh*
*sigh*) but sometimes she startles me by picking up the phone and telling me
she’s NOT partying:</div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Me: Jai
Hind!</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: Jai
Hind Popeye! Hw r u?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Me: <confused>
there…is..no..noise…in…the…background??</confused></span></i></div>
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<i style="text-align: right; text-indent: -70.9pt;"><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: Yaa
I’m at home today.. I’m not that much of party person as you make me out to be.
You just happen to call always at the wrong time.. Say wazzup?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">Me: <damn>
okyeah that means I’ll have to talk?</damn></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<i><span style="color: red;">Cheeni: Yes..
are your notes ready?</span></i></div>
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OK the story behind the notes is.
When we became friends Cheeni was a big talker she’d just chat chat chat like
birds chirping all day in a garden and as for me- I could hardly come up with
anything to say at all. She'll just finish off a story in middle and tell me:</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Cheeni: “Okk
I have been talking for a long time your turn to speak” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Me: “Ummmmmm”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Cheeni: "Anything
idiot.. just open your mouth and say. Things like what did you do today? What
did you eat? Are you planning to go somewhere, if at all?”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Me: “Ummmmmm”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Cheeni: “Yes come on you can do it”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Me: "Ummmmmm”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Cheeni: “I’m not talking till you are.
You give me a feeling I bore you to death”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Me: “Ummmmmm”</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: red;"><i>Cheeni: "Grrrrrrrrr…
AGGGGHHHHH…. !@#$%&”<hangs phone="" up=""><hangs phone="" the="" up=""></hangs></hangs></i></span></div>
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So after some of these conversations
she told me I have to keep my notes ready for talking. I was however instructed
to keep a diary ready with all the conversations that I have planned to
undertake while talking to her. With my un-happening indoor life I had nothing
much to say to the highly extroverted and outgoing uptown party girl. I was
aware, through her, that a world does exist outside like they sometimes show in
movies. So I call Cheeni always after I
have lived a sizable amount of my life and I have few stories to throw around and
also I make it a point to make Cheeni aware of my whereabouts if I'm at a
place even remotely interesting. </div>
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<b>Text:</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>Hi Cheeni yaa u were so right about this movie. This movie
is awesome. </i></div>
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<b>To be translated as:</b></div>
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><i><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">You told me about a movie and I was paying
attention.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I have followed your advice and
actually/physically gone out to catch the movie.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I agree
with your choice (Voila!)</span></i></li>
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Despite all these years we have met very few times in
person and as expected we have always ended up as tragedy friends. Cheeni is
not a text person not even a facebook person so my interactions are only
limited to calling via phone. As fate would have it
(as you know it always has it’s way) <i><u>Cheeni & I </u></i>have met very very few
times and after every single meeting (I assure you without a rule) we have ended up
not speaking to each other for months at end. It has gone sometimes as far as
termination of our friendship but you know distance mends and we are still on
threshold of calling each other “friends”.</div>
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Cheeni doesn't know the name of the State I
am in. (her geography isn't really upto the mark I’d say) and then ask her
about the Mango stores in the NCR region she'll act like google maps to you.
Take a right from that then a left from this second lane third shop ground
floor and but the manager of that branch is not a nice guy. You go to the Mango
store there you just take this right and that left this building that floor and
Bang you are there. </div>
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Believe me six months I was in
Goa and Cheeni could give me directions, almost like a smartphone GPS voice app., where she has been a tourist quite a
few times. Okk where are you? Alright then you can go to this this and this
place if you go that place you can go here here and here and I'm not talking
about the beaches or the churches. She can tell you the best of places to have
exotic foods and places you can buy expensive clothes.</div>
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Cheeni is always <i>“on the go”</i> she has a shopping
list ready, places to go list ready, next travelling plan ready and the things
to cook list super-ready. See no wonder she has so much to speak about. I on
the other hand speak about which Osho book I have read which book I will be
reading next and what did I think about the world. My life is so interesting
inside my head. </div>
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I wonder many-a-times how come <i><u>Cheeni & I</u></i> are still friends at all!</div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having fashion sense has never been my forte you know. That's why I’m
lucky to be in a job where I don't have to wake up daily and look at the
perplexing phenomenon my closet is and think... Hmmmm.. What am I going to wear
today? Now that I am spoilt by the variety of choices but my choices usually
have the set <i>not-wearing-this-today</i> criteria:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ol style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><ol>
<li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"> W</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;">hat was I wearing yesterday? </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"> Which one is the least wrinkled?</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"> Which one has not been washed in
last two weeks?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt;">Which one has been mercilessly
persecuted by SP?</span></li>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ask
SP (Stoned Philosopher) she'll tell you in minute details all the embarrassing
fashion faux pas I have committed in the four years of my college life. In fact
I sometimes believe that she's just too much passionate conversing on it.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">This
one time (after almost three years after college and her getting married in
meantime) I was at her home for dinner with <b><i>her</i> </b>company colleagues
cum friends and as usual I was building up this repo of me being this super-cool,
witty, entertaining dude <i>(hitting at some
of the females in attendance there!)</i>. SP just couldn't take it anymore,
after seeing me winning over the attention over <b><i>her</i></b> friends. So </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><s><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">as-always-and-as-usual-and-as-expected</span></s></i></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> she kicked in with two of her favourite stories <i>(read: buried bygones)</i> about me which
she uses <i>(successfully)</i> to clip my
wings and deflated the inflated ego I pretend to have. Okkk I believe you have
the idea about how wicked this woman SP is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">So
SP kicks in and starts narrating about the paucity of fashion sense <b><i>I had</i></b>
( please note the past tense) and how I used to be the laughing stock in her hostel
room with her equally well-dressed and devilish girlfriends. The story usually
works and then the same group laughing <b><i>at</i></b> my jokes now is laughing <b><i>at</i></b>
me. Then the standard protocol happens: I start avoiding attention and the
centre of attention shifts to SP. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> (Keep
her the cynosure of attention and live in peace & harmony)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(p.s. no I’m
letting you know the details of those stories so don’t expect them in rest of
the article)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">See
the history is I was always <i>told</i> what
to wear- first by my mother, then by my sister. Mummy's taste in clothes
couldn't catch up with Youngistaan (wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt to a teenage
party wasn’t cool anymore) and then my sister got married. So i was a fashion
orphan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Also
I was "<u>in and out of relationships</u>" so no-one could grill in
me the much required and always deficit fashion sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(See I learnt this phase </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">"<u>in and out of relationships</u>" <i>in my Orkut career. Look if someone with
oh-my-God!-tall-very fair-smart-handsome-dynamic personality like me declares
he's without a girlfriend it will raise serious questions about his sexual
orientation. So when anyone asked me my relationship status all I could come up
was that "</i><u>i'm in-and-out of relationships”</u><i> and don’t you doubt me on this for this always worked like every
single time)</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">People
in stable relationships respected you- “Oh my God he's at the advanced level of
relationship he even has relationship issues." <i>refer to my point 4 in <a href="http://parvkaushik.blogspot.in/2010/02/10-sonic-ways-to-be-super-cool.html" target="_blank">this article</a></i>. It also worked in gaining
sympathy tears from girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">She</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!! blah...blah...blah…
So Parv you dating someone???? :P <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">: hmmmm.. don’t ask… ahhh.. my life isn’t
stable you know.. just in-and-out of relationships… you know how weird some
people can get </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">She</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">: "Awwww.. Poor you. What happened?"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> "hehe.. Yeah poor me.. Don't ask.. Dnt
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">She</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">: “Awwww…. Okk *hugs*… Now smile </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Me</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">: “Thanks sweetheart you are so nice </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">... so what you doin this weekend??. I was hoping
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It
also allowed me to dodge further personal and probing questions about my
hypothetical relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I
have already introduced you to this wicked woman called Stoned Philosopher
(SP). I now can’t resist winning your sympathy by narrating the excessive
wickedness I have been subjected to by SP (My officially enemy No.1) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes
the scene is again at a party hosted by SP in honour of her arrival on earth on
that day some two and a half decades years back. I was there hanging around
this really pretty girl I once had my prying eyes on, few years back and I
believed she had shortlisted me too for the coveted and then recently vacated
post of one of her boyfriends. After some animated discussions (which went on
for a little too while) the girl remarked </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on earth I never knew my horoscope <i>(janampatri)</i>
or the time of my birth was of any significance till I got into the “<i>great Indian shaadi mela</i>”. <i>(A big round of applause for the prospective
Groom - ME!)</i> I realised how lucky I have been to have parents who till
recently didn’t even remember the exact time of my birth. <i>(They had to dig out old records)</i> See you can’t blame it on them
when I was born in Meerut on 21 May 1987; there were riots underway throughout
the city between the Muslims and Hindus. When the labour pains started my
mother was taken to hospital in a car having a special pass which could pass
through the curfew. In such an eventful arrival of my glorious soul in all my
magnificence who expects to be worried about the exact time of birth I popped
out and started wailing? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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innocent me saying “Wait, let me check the time first.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Feminists for the above careless remark of the nurse can imagine saying to my
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So I popped into earth and
found myself to be in India </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">(Damn! I was
supposed to be delivered in California. GOD DAMMIT this FedEx, you can never
trust them at all. Let me get old enough to sue them.)</i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> So hopelessly I carried out my life giving
exams each year, getting bashed up quite often for not keeping up with my
Indian counterparts. I saw tele-series and movies of </span><b style="line-height: 115%;">US of A</b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> imagining all the fun </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">I'd</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> be having at the beaches with the
babes instead of slogging day-in and day-out with the books here. </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">I think I got off </i><i style="line-height: 115%;">the topic didn’t I?</i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Oh
yeah I did, lemme just get back to what I was saying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So I grew up peacefully
without ever inquiring about my birth nitty-gritty’s you know the time, the
hospital et al. I knew for sure I was born in Meerut and on 21 May 1987 because
that information was asked at school like a million times. The teachers asking
us to even write essays every year on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“THE CITY OF MY BIRTH
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write something. Everything else was of
practically no importance since date was all you needed to read the Sunday
horoscope in the Sunday Times.</span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Yes </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">I'm a</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Gemini now tell me my lucky day, my lucky gem and my lucky number of the week)</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Or while doing a horoscope match with a dream date by reading Linda Goodman. </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">(Wow she’s a Leo we can really hit it off.)</i><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Just that Linda Goodman never did me any good in getting me </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">any</i></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of my dream dates.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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marriage <i>tamasha</i> and you realise
doting parents asking you not your salary or education first but “What my son
is you exact time of birth?” <i>(Now I’m
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“Thou
will telleth me the exact moment in time of thy delivery and if thy stars are
in unification with my holy-est honourable-est daughter’s star thou shall
answereth additional nuptial inquest.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Only time I was interested
in my time of birth was when I wanted to get even with a girl who shared my
birth date but certainly not my wisdom of humility in one’s own superior endowment
in intellect over the rest of dim-witted populace. She was haughty and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">egotistical</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and I had to make sure I was born before her even if by </span><u style="line-height: 115%;">10
minutes</u><span style="line-height: 115%;"> for in childhood such seniority means a lot. That girl today is a
part of one of the Ivy League colleges in the </span><b style="line-height: 115%;">US of A</b><span style="line-height: 115%;">. While me on the other hand... </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">I'm</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> still counting humility and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So this is cheating right?
You study all through your life, missing TV shows and cricket matches, slogging
to reach somewhere in life and it turns out people are more interested in your
time of birth than your marks. When somebody actually recoiled in horror
telling me I’m a <i>“mangalik”</i> and
remarked that I might be a threat to my prospective wife’s life I could not
logically arrive at that conclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">haven't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> visited mental correction facility since 21 May 1987 </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">(though a lot of friends will remark that I
should)</i><span style="line-height: 115%;">, thankfully I have never been recommended for counselling by a
psychologist, no person or eyewitness can remark that I have hurt anyone
physically </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">(shameful, since childhood I
wanted to be a feared Don among other dreams). <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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8 on tivo and this <i>Pandit-ji</i> asks the
<i>Aunty-ji</i> if her daughter is a <i>“mangalik”</i> to which the poor woman recoils
in horror denying it like a charge of paedophile has been slapped on her son.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Am I psycho in the making?
Am I sleepwalking at night and killing people at whim? The <i>Dexter</i> in me just was waiting for the dawn of wedding to wake up and
then he will graduate to be a full-fledged cold blooded serial killer? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">My parents didn’t seem much
concern with this fact. <i>(Which caused
more concern- do they know something and I don’t? are they hiding something
from me?)</i> They would give my <i>janampatri</i>
to anyone who asked and say “Please check for yourself, if you are happy,
content and satisfied we can talk further on more relevant topics like about
your daughter’s interests.” Fascinatingly some people said I’m not a <i>mangalik</i> some said I was <i>partial-mangalik</i> all in all the debate
has not yet been settled. Different sources quote differently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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want to give a big moral lecture on how we should embrace modern thinking and
not get too trapped in the old-conventional-orthodox mindset and move on with
the evolution of science and technology. But yeah we all know that. Blah blah
blah…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frankly I’m getting late you see~ today is a Sunday. Let me check my horoscope
first in all the newspapers then I have to do my online weekly tarot reading.
(Chao) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First things first. I don’t think <i>“Pyaar ka Punchnaama”</i> was a movie in the real sense, it was a
documentary. A soul stirring, tear inducing, emotionally disturbing true story
of the young men of our generation. The movie has nothing that you can call
“exaggeration” or “inspired by true events” the movie itself is “true events”.
I earnestly hope/dream/desire that in near future the movie will be shown by
parents/schools/colleges to the young men entering the delicate stages of live for
saving them their <i>“emotional attayachar”</i>
which all varieties of women might put them through. Mark my words one day the
parents will force their sons to <i>ratto-fy
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astounding results. As per his account the above-mentioned movie was very
poorly reviewed by ALL women movie-critics (of course who’ll like their secrets
to be out like this so publicly). I believe Dozer completely for his interest
in movie-critics is more than the movies themselves (his own dream of being a
movie-critic bite the dust, sadly) You are open to contest the above claim and
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dozer and I were having deep philosophical discussions about
the socio-economic evolution of Indian females of our generation (which we have
been doing since childhood). When we compiled the data of the females of our
environment we came to a conclusion that the social development of Indian women
has been proceeding in a strikingly similar fashion. Girl’s are suddenly
finding virtues in night outs, being cool by all means, being too much
extrovert and flirting with guys, weekend trips to exotic places; drinking/smoking,
long bike trips/long drives and other some issues not fit for description here.
(So before you think I’m propounding Taliban style Shariat Law for women
illuminating high moral standards and degrading the <i><u>nayi nari</u></i>- you got me all wrong. I’m all for “open women”
you know for obvious reasons. Imagine being born in India of 1960s- I’d so
prefer to die.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The one movie whose dialogues have been <i>ratto-fied</i> by almost every girl in India is of Kareena Kapoor’s
character Geet in “Jab We Met” (personal experience so no contesting this claim
at all). So much so that when a friend showed me a video he had made of his
girlfriend (no it’s not that type- you filthy naughty minds) it was of a girl
mimicking in exact same way the dialogues of Kareena Kapoor from the movie- the
whole dialogue with expressions and exact same voice modulation presented
before me by an unknown female- an act I have seen duplicated in the women of my
generation. After this movie a series of movies came (or may be some before
that- don’t hound me on timeline I’m not much of movie chronicler like Dozer).
But look at all these successful movies Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Naa, Break ke Baad
and many many others. (I should call Dozer now to get the list we discussed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All these movies portray men as some really nice, cute, dormant
kind of person dominated by wild, devil-may-care,
I-don’t-care-for-society’s-status-quo kind of women and then the girls start
believing “OMG That’s me! Let’s go party!”. So the women of our generation have
found their role models (thank God it was not Sunny Leone!) in Kareena Kapoor’s
portrayal of Geet and like characters in other movies. So far so good. So what
am I exactly cribbing against?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In fact for men the status quo has remained the same since
the Stone Age, may be it has got even worse than that taking into account the
screwed-up sex ratio in our country. The best hunters and gatherers well – “get
the women” for they can provide them with food and security. Look at it now
it’s still pretty much the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to make an impression on girls in schools, then you get into a place called <i><u>girl-is-in-future-after-this </u></i>mode.
The lies you tell yourself then are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ll get good grades in boards I’ll impress girls prove to be a good hunter
(capable of providing them with food, shelter and security in future) and then
get a super hot girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get into good engineering college- proof that my future is bright and secure
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lie 4:</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I’ll
get into a mind-fucking-blowing MBA college which has best marketed it’s
highest salary package and hence my superior hunting skills I have inherited
from my fore-fathers will shine brightly in all it’s glory and then in the
glory of my awesomeness I’ll find a girlfriend. You know any girlfriend. This
is the break-up season; I’ll hunt on newly single girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Supreme Truth:</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Beta tumhare liye hamare gaon waali Champa
ka rishta aaya hain. Suna hain BA pass hain aur khaana bahut badiya banaati
hain. Ab toh teri naukri lag gyi hain aa teri shaadi kara doon.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well unless your father worked hard to crack the IAS exam, or
started a business empire, headed a criminal gang, was involved in a Scam et
al; for a general category student life is tough and getting a girlfriend
tougher. Amen! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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extremely relaxing Sunday for me while I was in ____ (name of city withheld due to
security reasons) but a long lost friend (yes yes a girl!!!) happened to ping
me (m really not lying) and a program was fixed to catch up over brunch. I told
her to select a restaurant of her choice, for I heavily rely on
female in-depth knowledge on local cuisines. She happily mentioned some place
"nice" and BAM! We were meeting that some place "nice".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hotel. (DAMN!) Thank you HDFC for the debit card you gave me I didn't had to
turn around and run for an ATM. It was too late to tell her how suddenly my
bowel movements have developed irregularity neither could I instantly
remember that it was <i>ashtami</i> ka <i>aadha chaand</i> which is an awesome <i>nakshatra</i> to keep a fast for reasons
best known to my <b>babaji</b> who has
advised me to not even look at food. I did think of fake-fainting on the road
and fake a heart attack but it would be too much dramatics and poor girl was just
too small to lift me, what if she calls the guards of the hotel and I’m
instantly booked a room at the hotel? I might then have a real heart attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grief stricken heart I slowly crawled my way into the mammoth opulence of sheer
brilliance of interior designers. The feeling of euphoria of entering a place
as affluent like this ended when I began to think of the bill. With dad it was
fun to visit places like these, now with my own hard-earned money on the line, I
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stomach. You have to eat thrice your capacity. I'm not eating or feeding you
anything for the next 48 hours. Just chew chew and chew. As I flex my jaws for
an endless diet to justify setting my money on fire because of the woman with
me. Ohh… I remember all this has been happening and this girl has
been continuously blabbering and chattering. I have no clue how many
characters have <i>“come-scrutinized-gone”</i> in her conversations by now. Pay
attention. Pay attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Ohh no... We can still go someplace else... They are giving a Batman free
with Happy Meal at McDonalds"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can't disappoint you... You have so far to meet me and you must be
hungry... We'll not waste more time. I’m sure YOU'RE starving, at least I
AM"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Me: "NO, not at all... Its
okk we can go anywhere else that's better... what was that Dhaba you were
talking about?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madam: "It's okk alas! Such
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I know what comes next... Trust
me I do. I have been through this a lot many times now. Girl comes starving
like she's about to die if she's not fed within the next 30 seconds and her
location by the hand of destiny is always around the choicest (and
costliest) of restaurant. The girl then orders like she hasn't had food
for a week and ends up <b>not</b> eating
what she has ordered for it didn't suit her… I don't know why… "taste
buds" I guess? The more exclusive the item, the less likely it is to be
eaten at all, sometimes not at all because dear dish you weren't gorgeous
enough to be devoured by a gorgeous woman. The same girl who was about to die
of starvation is now revived for the whole day by just tasting
the exclusiveness of the dishes and of course not paying. Aren't you a
gentleman?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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everything there is to eat and as much as you can eat. So I filled my plate
with every item. Everything in Vegan section from soup to paneer tikka to mix
veg to pizza to kadhai panner to appetizers to main course to starters... all piled
up on my plate- right, left and centre. Nothing missed, nothing taken just once
or twice or thrice (yes I’ll eat them all). This is my strategy to dent the
hospitality industry. They're gonna make the ‘leastest’ profit from my payment
of Buffet. I pinkie-promise myself that today these looters are gonna regret
letting me in their corridors through the elevator on to the roof-top for their
special buffet which my dear guest and host has declared inedible and is
determined to prove to these guyz that their culinary skills are not impressive
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madam: "The food really is
awful... I don't like their buffet preparation at all... The last time I was
here with a friend it was the same menu too... I just felt like jumping off from
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chop... well your plate is totally empty what you gonna eat?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madam: "I don't feel like
eating much. I'll go home and have something. It's ok."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Me: <i>thinks*oh God...
kill me kill me kill me* can I claim a re-fund or something?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"It's totally cool... but I
think you'll like the pizza it's very Italian." (I only meant it's less
spicy)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madam: "How much will you
eat? I liked the soup, I think I'll just hop to desserts... I like them though...
they are better… but they don't have many choices."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Me: <i>thinks*dessert
section was next to salad section... ohh God I had to take the salad again I
better grab that egg-something-something that was kept there then with virtue
of patience and persistence… insha-allah I’ll raid everything again and stuff
it in my stomach for future digestion*</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Actually I haven't eaten
since yesterday night; you know work-related issues and all, so I’ll just fill
my stomach... And all this physical labour they make us do we need to
supplement our bodies with a lot of fibre, fat, protein... necessary for health
and all yaar."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madam:"Awwww… Govt makes you people work so hard naa... "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And then… </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The most anticipated moment of
bill arrives. And I slowly opened the dreaded bill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY S<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY SL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY SLO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY SLOW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY SLOWL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SLOWLY SLOWLY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I can hear my heart beats
thumping against my chest. My heart pumping blood through the arteries,
circulating throughout the body and I can feel the pulse on my fingertips
vibrating with the heartbeat. Has the world started spinning faster or is it
just me feeling dizzy. There there. I can hear all the sounds and noises on top
of this multi storied concrete structure. The edge of the roof calls me. I
might as well jump and then with a sudden realization it hits me: This is what I
pay for two months as my food bill in my excellent and efficient
mess. <i>Agggghhhhhh…. KILL ME… KILL ME…
KILL ME…</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Two months of my food bill...
gone *poof* from my card in just a Sunday buffet. Due to this wonderful female
who hasn't eaten at all and as per my estimate would be going back and cooking maybe
a 2-minute Maggie at her flat. <i>All is
well... All is well... Om shanti shanti shanti...</i> What were those effective
methods to <i>“keep yourself calm in high
stress situation”</i> article I try to remember. There goes my money... hard
earned money and the thought that usually follows such incidents is a common
one;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What
could I have bought with that money?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I probably won't even be taking
my wife there to that place where I had just eaten the (truth be told) inedible
buffet. My mind flashes images of all the desirable objects I had intended and
yearned to owned but forsaken for the sake of decency of my salary. Most of all
the Batman action figure which was supposed to be imported from US and which
was costing exactly the same amount as the bill that I had just unwillingly
paid. The big remote-control cars/helicopters which I had planned, planned and planned
some more but eventually given up on the decision to buy. Some of them cheaper
that the amount I had just debited from my bank balance. Monstrosity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I can so relate to the
character in the TV Series "Dexter". I can so relate to his dark
passenger. Perfect legitimate reasons I guess to chop up people into thin
slices. After my mind had gone through all the items that I could have bought
with the just thrown money my mind races to next best option: How to recover
the lost money? Should I take this lady to a secluded spot and tell her I need
her to refund my money... at least her share. Wait a sec she’s still talking continuously
about something let me check what is she saying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Yes lady I'm all ears about
your relationship issues, please go ahead I’m listening. I'm a trained psychiatrist...
I love people opening up their hearts to me. Ohh you got some parental issues
too? Wowww I’m so warmed up to hear you. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I think I’ll have to cut down
on my expenses and probably in around next 06 months of strict austerity
measures I could claim to have recovered 3/4th of the money I have just
burned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Yes now you are talking about
what? Career? My heart is still thumping against my chest. Great meeting you
girl. Catch you later. (hopefully never) :P</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-45067366725819073352013-02-22T04:18:00.000+05:302013-02-22T04:18:15.308+05:30नेति नेति<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">तत्त्वमस्यादिवाक्येन स्वात्मा हि प्रतिपादितः ।</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">नेति नेति श्रुतिर्ब्रूयादनृतं पाञ्चभौतिकम् ।।</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">tattvamasyādivākyena svātmā hi pratipāditaḥ /</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">neti neti śrutirbrūyādanṛtaṁ pāñcabhautikam //</span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">नेति = न + इति means नहीं है इतना that is beyond description. That means the God can not be defined in words.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;" /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-62468137729399959432012-10-29T15:57:00.001+05:302012-10-29T19:20:14.863+05:30In This Caravan Of Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In this caravan of life people come and go but seldom one touches the soul<br />
Who'll hold a candle in your darkest hours and stand by you in your lethal wars<br />
Solving the complex riddles and the symphony of chaos & confusion in your head <br />
The caravan of your life taking its bearing and course on words they have said<br />
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<i>Alas she's none of it!!</i><br />
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She's the <i>'been through there'</i> &<i> 'done that and got bored'</i> girl you'll encounter<br />
So probably she'll unlit your little false lamps of hope & mock you as a jester<br />
She'll add her own chaos in <i>'E Minor'</i> to yours making symphony a rhyming rap<br />
And all the bearings you took from her will have you ending up in Devil's lap<br />
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<i>Alas she's not so evil!!</i><br />
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She rebelled against the world a long time before she even gained her senses<br />
Claimed her independence from the society in which she pretends to be within the fences<br />
All these million rules and laws lie shattered & broken in a corner of her head <br />
If they read the minds she'd be outlawed long ago saying <i>'wanted alive or dead'</i><br />
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<i>Alas she's not Che Guevara!!</i><br />
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She's as enigmatic as some Scorpio can be<br />
Smiling at the lesser souls trying hard not to get preachy<br />
Setting her own ways for sailing through life breaking free<br />
May many more birthdays compound your joys and shopping spree<br />
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<b>HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHA SINGH!!!</b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-48484719083589697092012-04-14T09:52:00.000+05:302012-04-14T09:54:56.472+05:30Turning A Kid Again And Indian Comics Industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To turn a kid again, innocent, simpler in this convoluted consumerist world is nothing short of a miracle. The mind now filled with thoughts, desires, regrets, past, future. It is difficult to push them aside and remember "I'm not my thoughts, I'm not my desires, I'm not my Mind"<br />
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Lately I have been a kid again - reading comics, playing video games, watching cartoons (from chotta bheem to fullmetal alchemist) reading YA stories.<br />
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Buying comics (indian and western) & graphic novels (indian, manga, DC) is no kid's play. I'm sure kids today can't afford these comics with their pocket money even if it's adjusted with inflation!! Maybe they can if they their father is a 2G Raja or they inherited a fortune as vast as Uncle Scrooge or Richie Rich.<br />
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Vimanika, Jump10, Campfire, Pop Culture Publishing, Raj Comics, Amar Chitra Katha, Holy Cow, Top Cow, Virgin Comics, DC, Marvel, Manga. I have been laying my hands on every kind of comics/Graphic novels I can lay my hands on. But at last the days of Indian comic industry look as bright as the sun shines on a clear day in mid-June over Delhi (The city which recently hosted the <a href="http://comicconindia.com/">ComicCon India</a>) at 02 00 PM. The only dark cloud that might come floating by is the 'Price Tag' of some of the comics and DC/Marvel graphic novels which might eclipse the bright sunshine but then these comics are also for adults like me.<br />
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It's not that the price deters people like me from buying but usually it's the new customers/fan who'd like to give it a shot but give it up after seeing the price tag. The comics to be successful has to reach the masses creating a cult like following.<br />
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The quality of the Indian comics(except some) is undeniably at par with the west. The story line, the art, the concepts, the details, all is worth spending your time and money on. I have stumped to see how the Comic-industry in India has risen from the ashes re-inventing itself. Most of them borrowing from our own mythology but then we are the country of original superheroes. Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Hanuman and kick ass bad guys and monsters. We just need not to invent them!!<br />
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The disappointment however for me has been Raj Comics which after all these years have failed to move on the next level. More on this well another time.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We live in a world constantly rejecting it. Look around - we reject almost everything around us! Rejecting, rejecting and rejecting! In fact, rejection has become the root cause of all our displeasure, pain, and insanity. We reject our imperfections, our less than perfect bodies, our kids who can’t get 100/100 in every subject, our spouse who seems too self-centred, our politicians who are too corrupt, our society which is inherently flawed, and our bosses who are too insensitive! In short we keep rejecting every other thing in life!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You as much as anyone else in the world deserve your love and affection." ~ Buddha</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” </span><br />
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rejections</b><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> how many times were you left heart-broken, teary eyed by your
love? Someone didn't accept you in their lives, rejected you. Someone threw you
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rejection which may or may not have been fault of yours but it did happen and
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I first noticed <a href="http://www.flipkart.com/">Flipkart.com</a> at World Book Fair 2010 New Delhi. They had a big stall of which I walked past by quickly glancing with the side of my eye since the stall, as far as I remember, had no books and it wasn’t a publishing house. Later I stumbled upon the website after reading a <a href="http://vikas-gupta.in/2010/03/27/having-bought-120-books-i-recommend-flipkart-com-to-buy-books-online-india/">blogpost</a> about it and discovered the unbelievable, plethora of books at rock bottom prices add to it superb packaging and FREE to home delivery.<br />
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The love affair with the much applauded and hugely
successful website followed before it became the household name. Till recently
almost all my online transactions had been through flipkart. The discounts were
so tempting that I stopped buying books elsewhere. A person who loves bookshops
more than anything turned into a <a href="http://parvkaushik.blogspot.in/2012/02/blues-book-store-and-iskcon.html">tourist at bookstores</a>. Noting down name of the
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When flipkart went
multidimensional selling everything from electronics to books et al. it did
pinch me somewhere. It killed the thought of relating flipkart as an exclusive
bookstore fanning my fears that somehow it will dilute the book
business. Going through books in the books section of say big bazaar is such a
sham. It’s there for the heck of it. Colouring books rubbing shoulders with
chetan bhagats , shiv kheras, chicken soups and other extremely popular titles. Superficial and skin deep.</div>
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Some days before I had to order Samit Basu’s The Simoqin
Prophesies for refrence purpose which was for some reason not available at
flipkart. I Googled and found <a href="http://www.bookadda.com/">bookadda.com</a> a miraculous site which had books
cheaper than flipkart and that too by a good margin. It was a like discovering
a talisman. A dedicated bookstore with cheapest books I had ever seen. It was
then I did it… Ordered the book through bookadda.com on 21 Feb.</div>
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On 22 Feb I received
the SMS from bookadda intimating me that my order had been shipped from their
end through AFL Couriers (who are they?) It’s 29 Feb and I have fairly no idea
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The AFL website gave nothing to my tracking id telling me
nothing except that my courier has not yet been delivered. I called
bookadda.com customer helpline number which was few times busy, sometimes
unanswered. Finally I could get through the helpline chakravyuh. The call
attendant was very professional though and took personal interest in my query.
She called back after updating the status of my order with the courier company.</div>
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I formally wrote this on the customer feedback section on
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:36 PM,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><</span><a href="mailto:customercare@bookadda.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">customercare@bookadda.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">wrote:<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I ordered Samit Basu's book from your website which was shipped shortly
but unfortunately the courier company AFL has not been able to deliver the
shipment promptly.. i had posted about your website on my FB wall and
recommended it highly to my friends since it offers better deals than
flipkart.... that too after many years of ordering through flipkart.. i cannot
receive my shipment details too through AFL courier website by the tracking
number which only tells me that my courier has not been deliver (which of
course i already know) it's advisable if u your courier company can be prompt
and informative it'll help the customers and inspire confidence to order more
books on a regular basis. thank you.<br />
User Order Id -</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
from email -</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><a href="mailto:parv.kaushik@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">parv.kaushik@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I got their sincere apologies but not my book despite
complaining. The courier company has taken some corrective measure (pun
intended) with now the Status is showing “With Delivering Courier” as if the guy
is out there with my book on his way and will be reaching me anytime while in
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-41923908384518868672012-02-08T23:52:00.001+05:302012-02-09T00:08:51.230+05:30You Rock Richa Singh!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's a<i> supposedly</i> happy event and a extravaganza when your friend gets married. Apparently in this case it does not appears to be so because for me a friend married indeed is a friend lost!<br />
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With my dearest friend Richa Singh entering the holy matrimonial phase of her life I stand to lose a mentor, guide, philosopher, counselor (career, relationships and otherwise), fellow party animal, comrade-in-arms, <u>future political rival and business associate</u>. The last two very probable to happen! :)<br />
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Richa Singh and I started with an entrepreneurial venture- a youth magazine called <i><b>'Sub Zero'</b></i> in NCR but as fate would have it we two outcast-ed creatures in socially awkward college setting teamed up to preserve our intellectual and moral sanity resting on the pillars of our schools <i>La Marts</i> and <i>CMS GomtiNagar </i>respectively (she hated my school, she still does but it was better any given day- except the girls!!) resulting in a secret war against our social environment.<br />
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Dearest Richa Singh is tying the knots <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">today</span></u></b> with Vikas Agarwal and I'm not there for her at this important event of her life. She's not talking to me at all. I'm waiting for her to calm down and slander me filthiest insults in her vocabulary followed by a fierce hated speech on my misconduct and unbecoming of a friend and eventually forgiving me for the unpardonable sin I have committed.<br />
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Then one fine day we'll be chatting about anything and everything that has happened in our lives. crossed our minds, some news we have read, some opinions we have formed, some philosophy, some books, some movies, some memories, some future plans <i>but alas! </i>I guess she'll a married lady now. Now is there DO'S and DONT'S on how to talk to former best friends and now married lady? On what topics should I talk?<br />
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"Who does the dishes when maid is not there?"<br />
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"Did maid come today?"<br />
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"Ummmm... Are you happy?"<br />
(For the record me and Richa Singh are never too happy- our standards are too high for mortals and earthlings!!)<br />
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Lucky Dearest Richa Singh has found a wonderful husband and him a wonderful soul mate and companion for life. May God bless you both with health happiness and wealth(also friends like me ;) ) and as you walk around the holy fire swearing love and companionship for next so many births once again may God bless you both!<br />
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How do you chase the blues away? When things are not going your way... People are not reacting the way you want them too?? World crumbling down... hopes crashing... dreams tumbling... mental breakdown... thoughts collapsing into black hole of despair and nothingness. I know I have painted a gloomy picture but this is how you feel and may be a hell lot worse. Then you leave the little world behind and enter a world to forget everything leaving all dark thoughts in the rear view mirror.<br />
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Some go shopping, some go bar, some go long high-speed drives, some eat till their tummy explodes or wallet gives up doling out currency, others will torment their facebook friends by posting all sort of weird non-coherent updates. What's your escape?? We all escape our pain, our emotional wretchedness and sentimental over weariness.. Yes that's exactly what we do.. escape our pain.<br />
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Corporate book stores where the attendants are too busy/lazy/self-absorbed to bother you or ask if you need help. Bookstores are the only place where I have never been approached by anyone asking what I'm looking for. Tried walking into cologne section of a store? They pounce on you like vampires low on human blood supply, like wild rapists given a license by government to unleash their havoc! (More of that experiences in another post)<br />
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Book stores are my answer to wonderland of Alice. It's a whole world of knowledge in a cave. so much so it overwhelms you with the amount of thoughts and ideas coming to you from all sides and directions. So many books on so diverse issues and subjects. Each book with it's magnetic pull attracts you to delve into it's secret and in no time you are surfing the ocean in a small kayak and letting the waves take you where they want you to go. So you start at top-sellers and navigating through strange channels you pass through new-releases, architecture, photography, Indian writing, self-help. comics, kids, romance, classics, fiction, non-fiction, management, biographies, computer, western philosophy, religion, on sale books, magazines, poetry, fantasy, chetan bhagat, health et al.<br />
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Each book each section drowning you in it's wealth, engulfing you, a universe in it's own with all the secrets unknown and truths waiting to be unlocked, and then your lost lost in thoughts, lost in philosophies, stories, fantasies, classics. I am lost to say the least and overwhelmed. You feel like a speck of grass in the vast constellation of stars.And yes I forget the pin haunting me, tormenting me, torturing me. I doesn't exist at all.. in fact for the time I'm in the book store there is no world outside the book store. No world No time exists. It's me, my thoughts and my reason.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What's your escape?</span></b><br />
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<b><br /></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-35205634276544417162012-01-19T21:19:00.000+05:302012-01-19T21:19:19.050+05:30Midnight Madness.... Why Is The Sky Blue?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgML6bta3cCOcxpCy4LvH4wqN-W-1fBTVLeYOsXlRfCcujqIDNPSIax7Ndzg5_PJ07rDgOhOoe0XYNuk9xdFJHF0I8F-0J0tm8ScvxIM5CoPPZrQTaygI2TzN0J_sCWjLcSKlvwtA/s1600/23072009119.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgML6bta3cCOcxpCy4LvH4wqN-W-1fBTVLeYOsXlRfCcujqIDNPSIax7Ndzg5_PJ07rDgOhOoe0XYNuk9xdFJHF0I8F-0J0tm8ScvxIM5CoPPZrQTaygI2TzN0J_sCWjLcSKlvwtA/s400/23072009119.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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I was still in my teens in high school and infinitely curious about everything around me. Curious like a child who's in awe of the world around him. Startling at every new knowledge he gains of the world around him. It was like I'm a child again learning there is a sun, a moon, infinite stars and the earth revolves round the sun.<br />
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It was a phase when you are analytical, questioning and scrutinizing every piece of information fed to you. Puzzled at the facts of life inspecting all facts of life trying to decipher the mysteries of the universe. Why is the sky blue? Why do we sleep? Why are stars so far? How does a dog drink water? Why is donkey funny? Why do others have bigger houses and cars than me? Why can't i fight with girls?<br />
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It's like when you show a kid new animals, look at his eyes. His eyes pop out, he stares in amazement in wonder, in fascination. Seeing a monkey jumping across trees or a butterfly shuttling between flowers is nothing short of a spectacle for him, a stunner. Take a child to a zoo and he sees with all his being forgetting everything else in else, everything in his memory and mind fades away to nothingness. He shouts with the monkeys, runs with the deers, fears the python almost becoming part of their kingdom.<br />
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I was in a somewhat similar state of mind once. It was when I had discovered spirituality and was tampering with the enigma of mind. Nothing served me better than connecting with nature. It were the noises and voices in your head that prevent you to experience your true self in full divinity. It was then that I felt a strong urge to connect with nature. I spent a lot of time alone on top of my roof with my own being connecting with nature.<br />
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In the morning I used to feel the soft sunlight warming the skin of my body. Absorbing the electromagnetic rays of the Sun or the photons (Quantum mechanics I know I know!!) taking eight and a half minutes to reach me produced by nuclear fusion process. The zephyr touching my hair and passing through me. The chirping of birds sending my spirit into trance.<br />
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In the night standing on the rooftop under the umbrella of million stars connecting with the moonlight and the twinkling stars. It's then in that moment when the memory and mind fade into oblivion and all the being comes to life making one aware of one's existence is the moment of truth is also the moment of madness.<br />
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It was my Midnight Madness.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-21937042423052247362011-10-22T20:19:00.000+05:302011-10-22T20:19:19.670+05:30Fairest Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBWNXc5hx8h7oz5j3B7GKH9z9b4RJfeJXfxg59bRkJi2pF82qXspK_YFNZtWMxCwOkJv92zroq7bVGFnoOQT05zNybJccb6Ktk6la6Qh-4E-kpwEpCAoiqds_uJphQIKJ_JdYJA/s1600/ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBWNXc5hx8h7oz5j3B7GKH9z9b4RJfeJXfxg59bRkJi2pF82qXspK_YFNZtWMxCwOkJv92zroq7bVGFnoOQT05zNybJccb6Ktk6la6Qh-4E-kpwEpCAoiqds_uJphQIKJ_JdYJA/s640/ab.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br />
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To smell the fragrance of Godly union of souls<br />
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To hear the 'til death do us part' vows<br />
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To see two people but one life before them<br />
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To taste the nectar of fairest love from heaven<br />
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To touch the universe two souls possess together<br />
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Saarah and Yasir request your presence to shower your blessings on this sacrosanct matrimony.<br />
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<i><u>* written for my dear dear friend Saarah. May God bless you both!</u></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32000553.post-70870232819816256492011-03-03T21:46:00.000+05:302011-03-03T21:46:00.291+05:30Some Truths<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Friends, fellow bloggers, fans, ladies, casual visitors, earthlings, space aliens, zombies, and netizens you are all welcome here... today hereby I welcome whole heartedly with open arms and open dakshina-daans (charity box) here to today’s sermon that might give you some spiritual, religious orgasm you might have visions of enlightenment so don’t be afraid just let go and take deep breaths.. I hereby declare that the following potentially life changing flow of words can alter the trajectory of your life and transport to the super expressway of everlasting happiness, super mind-boggling success, inner peace and everything under the sun other Gurus, cults, religions, books have been promising.. So here we go:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Is<i><u> Is it music or is it noise? </u></i>I have been around a lot of people who treat music as a background score. The music keeps playing with higher and higher volume in the background and people are busy in their own work. I strongly resent such attitude for in such manner people convert music into noise just to block out the emptiness in their head they are not ready to face their own thoughts and hence the noise to block out all type of thoughts and emotions and feeling.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <i><u> </u></i></span></span></span><i><u>Death is around the corner</u></i>. Yes it’s true as I contemplate my own mortality and become aware that I may die any moment it drives me to better utilize my time and achieve my goals. Usually in the daily chores we forget about the life’s clock tickling and forget all about the death but the more you think about it the more you’ll be focused on the things in life that really matter after all.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><i><u>“I’m at peace with myself”</u></i> this is probably the best and the most meaningful thing you can say to yourself. You have to be at peace with what you are or have right now this very very moment not after to reach that position or get that new object of desire. Being at peace with yourself is probably the best thing that you can do to yourself.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <i><u> </u></i></span></span></span><i><u>Emptiness is not ugly</u></i>. Emptiness is when you let go of past, of future of guilts and of expectations. There are too many life gurus in the market the only simple path is to give up your mind’s complexity and be simple, be frugal, be empty.</li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thus Spake Parv. Little things in life can offer a paradigm shift to your future sometimes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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