In an unprecedented manner, what has occurred in India in last 4 days with jantar mantar as its epicenter has been extra-ordinary, to say the least. Just when we thought, we had seen it all in the egyptian and tunisian uprising aptly christened ‘jasmine revolution’, Indian had its glorious mass struggle what people are now calling as “Doosra revolution”! (No bhajji din’t deliver this one and his off-form bowling continues even after the the world cup)

On april 5th it started with one gandhian man threatening to go on fast against corruption that had crept into this nation’s ethos. Obviously, there were 1000 reasons to support this man’s call who had done a “Anna-tyaag-unto-death”. People support kept coming in with out of work techies tweeting away their time for the cause. Even students who are usually engrossed in all things unholy were suddenly debating about “Jan Lokpal” bill as against who is hot and who is not in the campus. People were coming out in candle light rallies all across the nations- infact the sales of candles had even surpassed the last hourly blackout in the country, which as a matter-of-fact happens every day!

On the third day, the movement looked to have reached its peak and some action was expected any moment with pressure coming in from all quarters of country- middleclass, poor, actors, wannabe-actors, models, rich-with-no-pasttime, schoolchildren and Humanities course students who apparently had to do compulsory field work for grade.

However amidst all this hoopla, what came as a surprise to many was the support it garnered from the IPL team owners and media houses. As the 4rth season of IPL was scheduled to begin from 8th april, there was an increasing pressure from the team owners who felt that there would be none left to watch the games if geeks and middle class with no social life start participating in rallies. On condition of anonymity, one of the ipl team owners said that the teams had jointly solicited the help on a certain Miss Rina Nadia for forcing the government into acceding to the demands. Also there were news of one starlet miss Punam pondey offering to go without clothes in support of the movement. She said,  and I quote ” .. am a gandhian throughout. I am all for green notes and no clothes. Don’t you know that it was gandhi who said to go swadeshi and you know how difficult it is to find Indian clothes these days. This would be my ultimate sacrifice for the country“.

With all the heat turning up on government, On the fourth day of the protest government gave into all the demands and has said that they will have a bill/draft tabled in parliament in monsoon session alongwith the JPC report and the PAC report and the Women’s Reservation bill and 27th Pay commission for the ministers for their salary hike. They also said they are confident of passing atleast one bill this session.

Over to you mike..

This movie is about a Autistic person suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome who goes against all odds to show the world the real unadulterated side of humanity, a side we normally tend to forget. There are similarities with Tom hank’s starrer “Forrest Gump” and that is in the way our world is shown through the eyes of a certain individual who has not yet been moulded into the “Accepted” way of thinking. Shahrukh plays the part of Rizwan Khan to the hilt. Although, In some parts of the movie he does get back into his usual charming self leaving the character aside. Like the one where he miraculously leads the rescue operation amidst all chaos. But such instances are few and far and in general the acting was good. kajol does a very good job too portraying the angst of a mother separated from her husband and child. Even all the child actors have done their job perfectly and not a single cast looks out of place. Though, personally I feel jimmy shergill was wasted in the small role of rizwan’s younger brother.

“There are only two kind of people in this world- Good people and bad people”

Hats off to Karan Johar and Shahrukh khan for making such a magnum opus with a message possible. A definite entry to our national awards. And those who think these recent controversies(Strip search/IPL/Shiv-sainiks) is all about getting a good opening and a publicity stunt, Just watch the movie. The message is enough to clear all your doubts.

Overall Ratings:

Direction- 4/5

Music- 3/5

Acting- 4/5

Cinematography/Locations- 4/5

Pace of the movie- 3/5

Novelty Factor- 5/5

Bollywood masala- 2/5

Treatment of the Subject- mature(5/5)

ah! what a prude…

or really did I falter,

or was it just my alter.

nevertheless the writing was clear..

she dumped me, whom I held dear.

was it painful.. oh! yes sir it was..

thousand swords in my heart crossed

all crying out for peace,

love eternal and  a little bliss.

but no for a broken heart its all amiss

yearn in every bit, every torn piece.

time heals everything,

and so it did

life was once again lively, full of bling.

I had nearly forgotten her,

her memories hid

until the day she came up to me

told me how much fun it was,

yet strangely I had moved on!

for once rejected, I had been dejected

but with her memories ejected,

life was once again rolling on.

so morale of the story, if any there is

life never stops, you have to move on

for what was yours, will come back

and what din’t was just a mirage,

essence is to dream on and on and on ….

So, why am I ranting this time. I guess you tend to do this at crucial junctures of your life. Life after school for me was to try and shift into a new gear, a new avatar, learning from the past and looking onto future. Same is the case 4 year hence when most probably I would be driven into the competitive corporate world out there or two years more to reinvent myself, though I hope for the latter. So, whatever I decide now will at least be my driving passion in the coming years. Ahem .. tough to decide just right now. Well it could be anything. It is not research, that is a hundred and 10 percent sure. It can be backpacking and travelling around the world but that is also a distant dream till I get a stable profession.

So you must have guessed that I am pretty much confused right now, basically my present state is akin to a vagabond 22(21.5) years old trying to find his calling and meanwhile compromising and adjusting to situations as and when they come. Well not bad still a semester left for me to think, still a semester shy of becoming responsible, still a semester left before I chose a new path. Cheers!

Yes you may know what thing will make you happy that very instant. Or what work or deed will keep you in good stead couple of months down the line. But can that really translate into those life changing decisions you are forced to make, or rather you have to opt simply because this world aint an elysium where you can be rest assured of a place of solace and rest away from the frightening pace of race one has to run every single moment, every single hour.

So if you cant have all, you chose, you make a choice and you stick with it. Someone may say that is wrong or outright foolish. And it may be. It may be or may be not. Who knows. But yes It was a choice you made.  It was a choice that reflected how you tried to face the situation. A choice that may very well spell the death knell or a choice that will echo in the surroundings forever for the absolute eternity, at least for the time till you will live and will speak of a person who did what he thought was right at that time. Not absolutely right, Not relatively right. Right for that man that made it.

1) Law 1   – If you happen to be on a road, just go along the direction of destination. There is a high chance you will reach it, finally.

2) Law 2  -  Its an altered version of the first law, applicable only in some special cases. It says “Watch out for parallel roads, you may need to apply law 1 many a times before you get to destination”.

3) Law 3 – When you have nowhere to go, follow that chick on scooty pep.

4) Law 4 – Whenever in doubt, Don’t ask your pillion rider. Most of the time that idiot would be sitting idly watching that scooty pep girl that passed along in the last crossroad.

5) Law 5 – If no one is following road sense and the complete traffic is in disarray, there is absolutely nothing to worry. Welcome to Ganganagar.

PS : If you are still lost, you can try asking auto wallahs, chai wallahs, Pan wallahs and even traffic police wallahs, It works almost every time.  However, there are certain cautions one must follow, Firstly Never ask the traffic policeman near any of Indian Festivals because that is usually the time they catch “easy prey” for some ‘quick’ money. Secondly, be prepared to have the road directions told in such incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo that its better not to ask. But don’t lose hope because there is always that scooty pep chick to follow!

Jokes apart, point is one fine day this guy and  I were going to give our AIM MAT test and we had no clue whatsoever of when the exam starts.  So, I asked him to  call TIME center and confirm the timings in the morning, the previous night. On the test day, he woke me up at around 8 in the morning. Fortunately, he dint have the number. And an idea came to my mind. I thought prank at this time would be a good way to liven things up. So, I opened my cell phone’ address register and gave him a mobile number of one Ms X. Let us call her Ms X only.

However, my plan failed. Someone pinged stinky and told him the exact venue and time. I cursed myself for failing myself even in such simple endeavor. However, a smart man once said “Hope is a good thing”. I hoped that if I dont tell him the truth today, then one day either he will get to know from somewhere else or he would fall in my trap.

And that fateful day came around 15 days back. This guy had gone to hi-tech city center to give a test. When he returned he found his compass box missing. Naturally, he called up the time class( Ms X’s number). Here is what transpired between them on phone, as he unsuspectingly told me today innocently in between a bakar session.

Stinky: Hello!

Ms X   : Hello! Who is this?

Stinky(excitedly, on hearing a girls voice on the other side): Hey, I have just left my (pink) compass box in the hi-tech city center and I don’t actually have their number. Can you please contact them and ask them to keep it safely so that I can collect it sometime later?

Ms X: Sorry, I dint get you.

Stinky(sheepishly): (Repeated the same thing twice).

Ms X: Hey! Listen please do not disturb me. Don’t you have some work to do other than calling up girls and disturbing them. Pervert.

(And she hung up on him).

Stinky: :O

Stinky, till at the time I disclosed the facts, was still under the impression that the number had changed.

And came my first post. The post was about one such person’s story, but wasn’t in anyway only his story. It could have been any one of the several people who would have had in their life an innocuous crush ever. In fact, even In my JEE days there was a girl I always thought I should have talked to, but never could. So in a way, this is a story that I wrote for my own self and not a least bit for any other ulterior motives I was accused to.

But people need a hero. They need someone to pinpoint to. So the namehunt started and a simple memory that would have been anyone’s and should have taken like that, was blown out of proportion. But I guess things get out of control. So its best to not try and associate this and subsequent posts that I write with anyone in particular.

Mea Culpa.

PS1 : I gave in to my weaknesses when I tried to spice things up by putting up a pic of him and me, intention of which was humor, but wasn’t taken as one. In fact, the person was coaxed into that pic against his wishes by me and several of my bakar loving friends.

PS2: Stop taking blog seriously. Its all for memories that one likes to remember when one’s memory cells fade away.

The first time he saw her nothing extraordinary happenned. She was just one of the other of his classmates. Days passed. He was pretty decent in his academics, She was spectacular. He always managed to get good grades without effort, she strived for excellence. For him it was a question of sailing through effortlessly, for her it was to make her mark  in this big world.

What he thought was that she was trying too hard. She was missing the important things in life. She seemed always lost to him, in her own world searching for something, that even she dint know what it was.It stirred a protective feeling inside him. A feeling to care for someone. A feeling so strong in some way he started taking interest in her. The more he thought about it, the more fascinated he became. Somehow, he felt something empty inside him and was sad for not doing enough about that.

He lacked courage to go out of his way to ask her out for friendship.  If she crossed her path, he would look the other way. He always pitied himself for she never looked to notice him. Years passed and though they were in the same class, they talked only once, that too she asked him his marks as if that was the easiest ice-breaker around. He couldn’t reply much, though everytime thereafter he remembered that day and wait for a similar happenstance, so that he could change how things stood, but god didn’t relent to his wish twice.

Was it love? He didn’t know. Was it just an infatuation? He was not able to make out. Couldn’t he just try and help her as friend? He doubted that. Did He ever again talked to her? I doubt that. More Importantly, Would he ever be able to talk to her? Maybe sometime in the future their path cross they will. But is he patient or rather foolish enough to wait for that to happen, he could never decide. However, for her it would be always good to know that there lived a person so caring and protective. For him, had he acted differently in the past, things would have been for the better right now. But, that is a reminiscence, which each time he recollects will play out a little differently from the last time.

PS1  :  Not my story, so dont fuel the rumor machines.

PS2  : I have overstretched my liberties while taking an inspiration from a real life story, so It might not be not true at all!

PS3  : If you still want to know the guy’s name, hint1-> my Batchmate.

Tuts status on Facebook: “Today the security caught me red handed with 2 bottles of beer in my laptop bag… they seized the bottles as well as my ID card … I want my money reimbursed tommorow  “

Nuts(to tuts): you couldn’t keep quiet, could you!

Tuts: na… pepl need to know oder wise they will have to face the same trbl again !! … aur ek gareeb pyasa mar jayega

Nuts: BTW what’s with TWO bottles .. man! things to happen the same way twice is just two ** much! And people who need to know already know!

** A little history will help here. Nuts was bringing a couple of beer bottles the previous day on request of his friend. However, to his surprise security guards commanded him to get his bag checked. He was startled. However, before anyone could force him to get checked he instinctively walked out of the gate, only to leave the guard fuming with anger on his inability to catch a “suspect”  red-handed. Nuts was not so nuts afterall! Huh!

Tuts: then.. its for potential newcomers and 21 turners

Nuts: better turn 21 thn before trying out new “stunts” .. All the best for tomorrow! Hope IIIT has a money-back scheme

Tuts: If there isn’t then there has to be made one… IIIT can’t keep seizing bottles from us and saving it at guest house for parties

Nuts: “us” dude correct that u were alone 2day .. I agree .. even I was wondering what these people do with seized bottles .. A JV party!

Tuts: haha… A JV after party

Nuts: I kind of remember reading somewhere that Homeopathic medicines, especially the swine flu vaccine they are giving us, work best when taken with chilled beer! I think the two “fosters” would go a long way against the “swine-flu” *** fight, so called allpahty-allergic docs of IIIT are running!

*** This was in reference  to the recent recourse to the alternative medicine system IIIT took for their fight against swine flu.

Tuts: ah!… dat makes me realize why all of a sudden these guys started hunting for beer bottle

Nuts: I regret not getting caught yesterday .. I just hope that they have enough alcohol to survive the swine scare

Tuts: if this trend continues… i am sure they wont … they are scaring the junta too early too short

Nuts: I remember that there was a “Blood-donation” camp on Independence day. Why don’t you just float the idea of “Alcohol-Fest”, to be held inside, possibly this sunday! I mean there are enough drunkards around who can pitch in

Tuts: guess…IIIT has opted for the old robinhood way…”U take from the rich and give to the poor” … only the rich arn’t rich enuf here…

Nuts: yeah .. thn that’s their way! I can’t possibly fathom, why have they not started the alcohol-distribution drive yet! Some campus life bungle huh!

Tuts: Not a bad idea…. but i have betta things to do then social service… show me the business… will sure make it a big hit

Nuts: and the ba**ard continued! some men just can’t do social service huh.. shame on them!

Thus, came to an abrupt end for what could have been the ultimate offence against the pig who flew.

PS: This is an Interesting Article that somehow relates homeopathy with beer. I hope that there is a homeo solution for people on whom this kind of humor fails!