"DOGS FIGHTING IN THE NAME CATTLE-CLASS"

Media needs a story and our great politicians leave no stone upturned
to be the main protagonist of the story !!
This is in reference to the recent chaos caused by Shashi Tharror's tweet."Austerity Drive"
So what's the harm if someone says "cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!”.
If it was not Mr. Tharoor but someone else it would have been OK. What's the harm
if he uses his own money for five star stay? You have it so might as well use it.Atleast he is not faking it , unlike most of his collegues.

Read two artiicles in TOI today. One by Shobhaa De and one by Chetan Bhagat. They are right in their own ways.Instead of wasting time why everyone is not doing their work.I am sure all this goddamn politicians have got lots and lots of work to take care of. We should be happy that finally after so many years we have got people who are educated and can connect to we youths. How many of these cryin politicians know what TWEETER means !!! Forget it...How many of them actually know the meaning of " Cattle Class" ???

Jus' because someone is protesting so even u will go ahead and protest !
Jus' beacuse "Austerity Drive " is the in-thing so you will travel in economy class !!

Do these guys actually trying to save money for the government? I am sure these publicity stunts cost more than you traveling " Cattle Class"...Will you just get a life? You can instead put some more efforts in controlling "SWINE-FLU" rather than making an issue of the "CATTLE CLASS" statement !!
Will you stop arguing and concentrate more on the economy state the country?
Will you stop making a mountain of a mole?
Don't you think there are thousands of other important issues to take care of?
Can't you keep all these petty things aside and have a sense of humor?
Please Don't criticize people if you can't appreciate them.
Finally it's amazing to have few people up there who are technologically sound and well educated.

I am not supporting anyone over here.Just that we have lots to take care of instead of mud-slinging and finding faults in others.It's about time that all these politicians come out of that cocoon and behave like responsible grown up adults...I am sure nobody is listening.Nor do I expect them to.It's just that I don't have any other way of venting out my frustrations (Thanks to the articles in the papers regarding this cattle-class dung)..

"BLOODY DOGS FIGHTING IN THE NAME OF CATTLE CLASS"

NGOs : So cool to be a part of it !!!

NGOs.....
Of late I am seeing this craze about people joining NGOs for some cause or the other.

My foot !!I wonder how many of them are actually fighting...Oops working for a cause.Maybe because you want some instant fame so you need to be on the limelight and you don't have any other ways to do it!Or is it the fact that your college credits and honors programme largely depend on the fact that how many hours you put in this so called NGO?Or you want to be in the limelight so why not join an NGO?Recently met a friend...well...so called friend.Working with Teach India Foundation. There are so many cool chicks...might as well.Social work with a Cause !! Over here it is Social Work with purpose.I don't want to take potshots at anyone as I know some out there would definitely feel that my whole purpose of writing this is to put them down.No ...It's not like that !!You work for some NGOs dealing with orphans but you have a ten year old maid servant at your place working from 6 in the morning to 10 in the night.You work for some NGOs dealing with the Environment but you burn gallons of oil commuting and some dozens of cigarettes and joints thinking about the cause.I decided to work for a NGO dealing with cancer patients...Everyday i smoke more then twenty cigarettes and the person I am working with gets affected by my habit.I can't handle this double standard.I am not working anymore!! I don't want to portray myself as a saint ...I would rather be a sinner. At least my conscience won't prick me again and again everyday.I am sure most these so called hypocrites,do-gooders wont be affected by anything.
You will keep on littering this whole city and still keep on shouting " Clean Mumbai - Green Mumbai"
You will keep on abusing children (lesser children) and still vouch for upliftment of slum-kids right?How many of you don't ask for the "cutting chai" from "chotu" at the tea-stall?

Working for the environment...well when all you swines out there are raping it from right left and centre..
You will shout for woman empowerment but you would hesitate to give your bus-seat to that old lady?
You will be an active member for some damn NGO dealing with gay rights...but you surely have a problem if your sister's tendencies are not straight.
I can't mend my ways but atleast I won't be a part of something which I don't support from my heart !! Atleast at the end of the day I won't be doing something for limelight,college grades or simply to hangout at some cool places with fellow wannabes..hypocrites..

Why so much of Hype and hoopla regarding "Kasab"

Do I need to tell who the hell I am talking about?
Ajmal Kasab...this guy has spoilt my mood for three days in a row AGAIN..Thanks to our media who are always on a look out for a scoop.They just need something or the other to feel their pages.First they came out with an article that he needs "rakhi" to be tied as he was missing his sisters.What about the dozens he killed.I am sure quite a few sisters lost their lives. Then he asks for Biryani....I mean do the newspapers need to mention it? I am sure people who were directly affected by his act must be wondering which was worse: they loosing their near ones or the cheap publicity this guy getting? Today I read an article that he needs safety from Swine Flue. This BLOODY SWINE needs to hanged immediately or knowing that our system is so lax atleast Media should stop this slip shot fashion of publishing "Kasab's Problems" and making a mockery of our feelings.All these news reports are just adding insult to the injury. Will someone take a note?

Mumbai Rains...Mumbai Pain...Everytime

Mumbai:The greatest city of India...Shanghai dreams..well well...here we are ...all set to become better than Shanghai. At 11 in the morning, I just crossed the Hindmata channel (in case you don't know,its a place in Dadar,Mumbai).Maybe I am exaggerating a bit ,but I wouldn't be lying if I say that it was quite close to swimming.It took me forty minutes to cross that stretch of road and now I am all soggy and super drenched.All thanks to the flooded roads !!

Nothing has been done all this while.The so called BMC(Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp..or whatever) is so incompetent that sometimes I feel if they deliver half the things they promise. Open manholes, flooded roads, blocked roads are just one of the few SMALL (pun intended !!!) problems we Mumbaiites are facing. Just one goddamn bloody rain ...and the whole city has come to a standstill ...well almost.Still the government,the so called bureaucrats,everybody claim that they are doing enough for our city. Everything is in place and B'bay can't be flooded this time.

But it did!! Again ! Just a few hours of rain since yesterday and I am stuck here...completely drenched and frustrated sitting in this Goddamn manhole of a cafe. Shanghai dreams....Not happening !!! I cant even think of one place where I can enjoy the monsoon rather than cursing it. Maybe my thought process has gone bankrupt!!!

RACISM: We are Tasting our own Medicine

When India is complaining about racist attacks on Indians in Australia, Mizoram's Chief Minister Pu Lalthanhala added fuel to the fire by saying that we Indians are racist too. He stressed on the fact that people from North East are referred either as Chinese or as Nepalis.

Being an Indian from North East (Assam), I completely understand his views. There has been soo many instances when the so called educated people ask me if ASSAM is in Nepal...? Is it just the lack of knowledge or just the seeds of racism embedded in our mind?

Why do we call anyone with oriental looks from North East as CHINKIES?Why Maharashtrians are called GHATIS?Why people from U.P. (Uttar Pradesh) or Bihar are called as BHAIYYAS?Why every Muslim is a MULLAH?Why people from the southern states of India referred to as MADRASIS, irrespective of whether they are Tamil, Kannad, Malayalee....etc?

The comments made by Mizoram's CM are drawing quite a bit of negative publicity. However, I don't think that his statements were baseless.

When a few questions like the one stated above, 'Is Assam a part of China/Nepal?' came to me, and answers which I am forced to give leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Either we seriously lack basic geographical knowledge or we simply are racist. The latter looks like the most probable answer.

This doesn't mean that I don't condemn the things happening in Australia. However, I feel that it is about time that we get our own acts right, to begin with...

Selfish Us !!!

What's wrong with us? If the wounds of recent terrorist attacks were not enough, people started digging on the same wounds making us feel all the more pain.Everyone is making new songs dedicated to the victims.Tom ,Dick ,Harry and Harry's brother are busy glorifying the whole incident and getting publicity.However recent news report says there is a movie coming out with the B'bay terrorist attack theme.It's called "TEN".People can go down to any level to get some free publicity.What's the use of making this certain movie when our wounds are still afresh.Go to some music websites ,you will come across hundreds of songs dedicated to this incident.I am sick ,tired and disgusted with all these cheap stunts.People its high time that you should refrain yourself from making or viewing such songs and movies.We don't want to make a mockery of our system.We have enough problems on our plate and such acts do us no good.Instead,the make us feel all the more vulnerable.If only all those idiots writing songs and making movies read this...alas no one will !!!!!!!!

Why???

At times some weird ideas run through my head.Probably they come when I am all dfazed and confused and can't think of something else!!! Probably thinking about unthinkables...contradicting myself !!!

Why Calamities are of two kinds?

misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Why do I believe in luck?

how else can you explain loosing out everything you tend to loose !!

Why nothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory as the wish to forget it?

Why we never say that we lost the game? Why do we say that we ran out of time?

Why do always cherish the misconception you have about someone you know?
Why is it that only I can provide something which you need badly : My absence.

Maybe I will say I don't want you to read this...But why am I writing it anyway?

Mr. Antulay...What's wrong with you?

It happened before and it has happened again.News of the day: Minority affairs misnister " A R Antulay" demanded a probe into the shooting of ATS chief Hemant Karakare on 26/11.He claims that it was a cover-up as he was supposedly involved in the probe of Malegaon blast.I am simply annoyed and surprised at his allegations.Where was Mr.Antulay when all the terrorists were going bonkers?Is he aware of the fact that quite a few NSG commandos died fighting them?To get his facts right ... weren't there quite a few cops who laid their lives saving our skin?Maybe he didn't think about it...Agreed ...Mr.Karkare was investigating the Malegaon blasts , but isn't Mr. Antulay just supporting some Pakistani scribes who are claiming that the whole 26/11 episode was a handiwork of Hindu Zionists.I think he is wrong. All for some bloody publicity Mr. Antulay has hurt the sentiments of all the people who suffered during this carnage directly or indirectly.

"Sir !! Please get your facts right and then speak out.You have some responsibilities so please SHUT UP...when you really can't talk any sense."

Sum of all Fear !!

Sick and tired of looking at all these newspaper showing numbers and 
stats of everything and anything.X number of people died in Y number of 
blasts with Z number of injuries. Numbers in politics. How many more 
candidates do we require to form the government? Everyday I read these 
set of TEN questions put forward by a local daily about what Mumbaiites 
are asking? How many soldiers are dying everyday? For how many months 
the investigations will continue? How many innocent lives? How many 
broken homes ? I am fiddling around with numbers as well ...how many 
buses I should miss so that I get the least crowded bus? My fears and my 
beliefs...crowded places attract more terrorists.Will it be OK if I miss 
THREE more locals so that I get a slow train? Why I feel that a fast 
train might have a bomb? Why have I started feeling that the SIXTH and 
the SEVENTH (Saturday n Sunday) day are more prone to attacks ? Its been 
more than TWO weeks... SIXTEEN days to be precise since 26/11 and I am 
still scared. Still not sure if everything is alright.I can't say that I 
am not scared.I seriously am !!!However I wont keep quiet .I wont let my 
anger calm down...not so soon..even if I am ONE of those numbers who are 
suffering.


PS : I am the saddest person today as my Boss (The coolest Boss on 
Earth) is leaving for Australia. Hope he comes back soon !!!! Maybe , I 
have to start counting the number of days he will take to come 
back....again these bloody numbers !!

I am A POLITICIAN

I am a bloody Politician.
I came and I left , but my legacy remains !!
The same tarnished image
So full of lust , so bloody insane !!

Doesn't matter if my city burns
Doesn't matter if everyone dies,
Nothing can change me , nothing can move me
Be it your dying daughter or my mother's cries !!

I may say that you can't stay in my city
I forgot that some of you died saving the same city
"I Will face your calamities" Am kidding !!
I wouldn't dare !!!
I am there for all of you,
Have no fear !!

Got no respect for laws,coz I am the Law !!
Wherever I go,make sure you make the way
Don't you forget to bow .
Doesn't matter if you get shot on your way home
I am your protector ." Yes I am the one"

Your home was gutted,your mother was raped !!
You were there and I was always hiding behind you.
Why are you complaining now?
Wasn't it you who got me here ?
Don't regret !! Of Course . It was you !!

Is there any way out?

Every time I go and sit in front of the T.V. same pictures come to my head.Someone running away from the chaos,someone hiding in some corner or someone who is so shocked that he doesn't know where to go or where to run.Boom boom...Bang !!! 

Irrespective of such huge losses..nothings gonna ch

ange ! Life moves on right? I am surprised at the fact that all politicians are more concerned about earning some brownie points before the elections.Home minister has resigned.Seems like he took the moral responsibility.Was he sleeping all this time? Deputy CM of Maharashtra has the audacity to say that such small incidents keep on happening in a big city like Mumbai.What was he thinking when he said so?Is that we keep waiting for 

a bigger disaster where more than a thousand die.Someone is always busy making the North- West divide.Did he realise that there were lots of non-Maharashtrian cops who laid their lives protecting us ? Hope he has some bit of shame inside him.Maybe I am wrong.

One of my friend told me that "Every country deserves the government it has" . Maybe he is right coz we are so indifferent, least bothered about what is happening around us . Who takes the responsibility. Its about time that the citizens take responsibility,as Government is doing nothing.If needed we should take the law in our hands and I don't think that will be a bad idea. I can't see any other way out...what about you?

                                                                                                                                            

Just another blast...Big Deal !!!

Another busy day filled with news reports of death,blood and tears.God only knows how many died and how many more are going to die.We will forget soon...afterall they are just numbers.It really gives me creeps thinking about the fact that someone next to me is planning to create a major chaos ...mass destruction.Someone I saw in the train is going to blow the whole goddamn train.Someone partying in a disco is actually planning to blow the whole thing up...Can you believe it? Naaah...I am just kidding darling !!!

No matter whatever happens India is shining.Crap !! Its burning !!

We will fight back...bull shit !! We will let some innocent cops die.

What about the SPIRIT OF MUMBAI ? We will drown all these pain with some beer in a nearby pub...if not tomorrow ,then next week !!!

What happens to the country? Our politicians are there for us baby!! So many of them.They have found a hot topic for election debate.You know all of these mayhem was due to some foreign forces.How lame !!

What happens to Mumbai stalwarts claiming that Mumbai is for only for the locals.The great North - West divide !! What about those guys who laid their lives just to save our arses? Well maybe they are an exception...aren't they? Our h'norable ministers found enough time to hog the limelight in the prime time television.Every body wants to be a part of the action ..no matter what.Everyone's got a great story to talk about...oops I forgot to mention that they are the main leads of these stories. Damn...they are so cool...I mean the politicians.

Let the country burn !! WE are there to enjoy all of it.The politicians wont mind the country getting screwed Right,Left and Centre !! Oh!! They are so good at that.

So where do we go from here?

Is the government going to do something about all  these chaos ? Maybe till the time this news gets old ,they will forget.I don't blame them!! They have too many things on their plate right now...so lets not bother them at all.

Maybe some zillion years from now we will have a safe and secured life.Till then.... !!!!

When will it end ????

Another day aand another mayhem.B'bay was rocked by one of the worst terror attacks and we all are helpless.Some crazy lunatics went on a killing spree here killing hundreds and injuring thousands.Buning quite a few places and wiping thousands of dreams and hopes.

Its not about how many people died but the way they died.I am going through mixed emotions...that of sorrow..anger and frustration.Hostage drama is still going on.Feeling sorry about the brave cops who died in the process.I have just realised how wrong I was in criticzing cops all the time.If only I could have done something.

Me and my friends were lucky.Otherwise I wouldn't have been itting here writing this page.I was near Oberoi hotel waiting for my friends.Luckily I met them in Marine Drive opposite the ill fated hotel.Firing started after fifteen minutes.We were lucky. Then we decided to head off to another place to have dinner.Couldn't make it.Unfortunately there was a blast at that place also.We wre lucky for the second time.By the time I reached home it was two in the night.Luck was surely with us.

When this chaos going to stop? How long we will keep quite?Why can't we make them taste their own medicine? They will hurt us no matter what we do,so might as well hurt them and get lkilled.I know for a fact that I am fighting for a lost cause.Isn't there anything we can do? How long do we wait? Can't anyone help us? Can't we fight back? Heaven only knows !!!

Random quotes

Packing , unpacking running off to this place or that are the only thing I am doing these days.Frustrations at office and top it up with the chaos at home.It surely is taking its toll.There is a saturation point and I feel I am the threshold.All these anger and frustrations might bast up anytime and I am really not looking forward to it.Nothing seems to work out and I hate being at the back foot.I really wonder why there are so many hypocrites and selfish people surrounding me.Getting kicked around all the time is not a pleasant thing.Things I want to forget keeps on coming back.The past starts haunting me whenever I am in my comfort zone.Graves are dug again and again.Things are going haywire and I cant find any remedy to it.

Enough of my cribbing.God !! I sound like one old complaining granny.

I am in a very abstract mood.Sometimes when you feel something about someone, you just hope that the feelings are mutual....but the irony is that it never works out with anyone.There is a constant feeling of mistrust.If only all such things existed then life would have been so much better.Oh!! Whats wrong with me????

PS: Why the two faces of a coin are so different from each other ? Why cant people come clean? Why do people talk behind our backs? Why there are so much of complications? Why all of us are hypocrites? Why is it that I am the only sufferer?

BADMAN and The Assam Blasts

Guys I don't know whether it is the right thing to address this issue over here again and again and how Bangladeshi migrants have over populated the whole place and how they are creating a breeding ground for terror not only in Assam but all over India.How our indifference is killing us through and through and how nothing has been done about finding the people involved.This needs to be seriously tackled and maybe all of us can come out with something concrete.

A News article says that one can't also rule out the BADMAN theory which was circulating on the net a few months ago.This theory propagated has come to fore yet again with the Assam Blasts.The user who posted the topic - many believe he could be one of the terrorists - abbreviated the words in 'BADMAN' in serial order of the target places i.E. Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.
What next?

Who will it be?

When will it be ?
Maybe some place with "N" or maybe someplace which we can't even think about.
What happened to our so called awesome Intelligence ?
Maybe all we will do is the most convenient thing..by forgetting whatever happened.If that happens then I will pray that we all " RUST IN PEACE "

Present : Imperfact Future : Tensed

New Delhi, November 9 :
A congratulatory message from Bangladesh, intercepted a day after the serial blasts in Assam, holds the key to the investigation into the bombings. The intercept suggests the main planner was in Agartala and adds to evidence against the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami, which New Delhi will soon take up with Dhaka.
INDIANEXPRESS.COM
Guwahati, November 1 :
In an SMS message sent to local ‘News Live’ television channel, the ISF-IM claimed responsibility for Thursday’s blasts and threatened to carry out more bomb explosions in several parts of the country. “We, ISF-IM, take the responsibility of yesterday blast. We warn all of Assam and India for situation like this in future. We thank all our holy members and partners. AAamin,” the SMS read.
DNAINDIA.COM

These are a few snippets of the terror looming over our head,over our state..over India.The mere thought of someone appreciating for such an act is good enough to send shivers through your spine.Are we doing something about it? Practically No.Today we might catch some of these gentlemen behind this act but tomorrow they will be running Scot-free,killing more in the process.For how long we will adopt this liberal view? For how long we will follow the principle of peace and give a blind eye to such things?

Reports suggested the involvement of ULFA.At first I had my doubts.Can the same people who cry "Assam-Assam" at the simplest provocation join hands with an outsider to carry out such a ghastly act?Maybe I was wrong.I never supported ULFA .Being an Assamese you cant go ahead and burn your heaven.Maybe all these news reports will open our eyes.These terrorists cant be any one's friends or brothers.
Why so much of hatred? Why so much of innocent blood.Had we approached this problem with an iron fist we wouldn't have seen this day.So many families lost their only hope ,the light of their life.Its darkness everywhere.Innocent children for our better tomorrow were killed on their way to school.We were so shattered seeing violence for last 20 years,and this incident will make it all the worse.
Nothing will happen,till we do something. Writing about this issue is not worthwhile either.All we can do is keep our eyes and ears open and do the damage control before its too late.

A silent prayer for all those who departed
&
Hatred for the people who gave us darkness.......

Wake Up

Still can't get over the Blasts.

Why do they have to do something so terrible? I don't want to point fingers,however can't really get stop blaming the so called jehadis.The way they are killing so many innocent people,we don't have any option but to go for the kill.I would also like to thank our Govenment for screwing our lives so much.Was it so necessary to allow all the Bangladeshis to stay in Assam ,just for a few votes.Dirty and disgusting politics.We are the one to suffer for their blunder.Assam has filled with our so called neighbours and I feel thT the day is not far when Assam won't be a part of India.Assam is alrady so full with such refugees that we , the locals will be a minority soon.Why are we fighting to throw I ndians from our state? Instead we should throw all the refugees from our soil. Things which we can do today for the damage control:

1) Stop employing all these refugees for different manual work

2) Stop issuing voter IDs to all these people
3) Once and for all stop all the aids and assistence of these dirty rotten scroundels

4) Put in a serious effort (by hook or by crook) to eradicate these pests.

5) REMEMBER: These people will always try to put us down.If we don't fight back today then we will have no tomorrow. Kill 'em all !

JOI AAI ASOM

Jus' another day

Sometimes you curse your luck for the fact that you have too much of work and wish that your day gets over soon as soon as possible. However today is just the opposite.Lack of work or rather no work at all is making my day miserable.After a sleepless night I was expecting that work will keep me occupied. However here, every minute looks like an eternity.The new place is a total chaos.People are doing everything except work.The lack of professionalism shows irrespective of what clothes you were.I never expected this place to be so unprofessional.Maybe I am true or maybe I have the wrong attitude.Days are becoming really different days. Lots of catching up with certain someone and I hope that such changes don't change at all.

A trippy trip !!!

Finally after struggling for three months we shifted to a real corporate set up.It's not that I didn't like the previous place , but at least I get a chance to work peacefully.The last one month was really hectic, so full of surprises.The number of places I visited during this place. The whole month was full of setbacks, surprises and eventual joys. The joy of meeting new people, old people and the comfort of home. Setbacks...well I wouldn't say there weren't any.There were quite a lot of them. The harsh reality of life ,the fact that human life has no value.The bitter truth that someone's loss is someone's gain.The indifference of people like us and how we have lost all the innocence and ethics.I realised all of them when someone I met the other day is no more.The whirlwind tour of North-East and all those beautiful places.Going to Kohima and Shillong will be forever embedded in my mind.Maybe after several years ,I will remember everything that happened to the minute details coz it was so challenging.Got to visit home for a couple of days and it was such a welcome change.The peace at home and the comfort.Finally got to meet people whom I missed a lot all those while.Realisation of existence of something so pure and finally experiencing it (!!!).Maybe all these days were one of the best days of my life. An experience of a lifetime and memories to be cherished forever.

Dazed and Confused !!

Things at times change so drastically that it becomes difficult to keep a track of what's right what's wrong.It becomes difficult to know when the past left you and the present blows you hard and the future looks so bleak.

Reality:
An Illusion Or was it just a bad dream?
Was sailing in the sea of ecstacy,
With dozens of liitle sparkling bubbles
Remembering those days of agony
And the subsequent moments of happiness
Wondering if it was happening for real
Or the long wait was over.
Take:2
Heaven hasn't opened its door to me
My gem was nobbled
Was caught in my deep slumber
Completely unaware of the imminent catastrophe
I got was what I dreaded the most.
Looked at the mirror and
Saw Someone I hated the Most !!

Now memories are my only salvation
Not sure whom to lean on?
The sinful THEN?
Or the knavish NOW?