Fiesta D'urine

On a rare winter morning, I waited and waited
Till my bladders were just about to blast
I ran off the train and rushed
Till I found a loo atlast!!

the sight was mesmerising
as people relished the fiesta D'urine

It was an ocean of men so merry
Relieving their stress, ready to take on the world
No faith, no belief was bigger than
The greatest pleasure known to man

the sight was mesmerising
as people relished the fiesta D'urine

Anonymous faces, unanimous pleasure
no one was deprived of that celestial leisure
Hours of misery, wait and unease
All gone in a few seconds of relief

It was a celebration, A carnival
At the restroom in VT station

Unlearn

Isn't it ironic that half our lives, we're taught many things and we spend the other half unlearning most of them. When we're small, we're taught to be nice. Then we learn how useless it is to be nice. The competitive and "rat race" world we live in, preaches nastiness. We later realise, it's all about convenience.

We're taught to be content with what we have. Later life makes us realise that complacency is a crime. Being content brings frustration and disgust towards a stagnant life. Children are always taught "Early to bed, early to rise". I seriously don't know why, when it can never be implemented later in life.

"Bad Company" is another cliche which doesn't make sense to me. Because the line separating Good company and Bad Company keeps going away further as we move ahead in life, quite like a mirage. We later get to know that those who used to fit into the earlier set "Bad Company" criterion are those whom we need the most, as they are the ones who can help your work get done. No offenses to "Good Company", but why have a benevolent friend who's of no use to you. This, in other words, is the same nastiness vs. nice i mentioned earlier. Moreover, if you avoid "Bad Comapny", you would have to settle for solitary confinement.

Well, what exactly is the reason to unlearning and why is it so important? Unlearning, is actually the first step to the everpresent "change". So unlearning is a sign of adaptability and receptiveness. It, in other words, is a sign of willingness to progress. So, if you're ready to make mistakes and proactively unlearn, you would probably be the fastest learner.

I would also like to mention that by unlearning, I do not mean forgetting one's values and tradition.

Technological Colonisation

Yesterday I was talking over my mobile phone while I happened to catch a glance of the Television. My roommate was watching some series on The History Channel. All I saw was a glimpse of the episode where a character was using a 19th cetury Telephone which consisted of a different earpiece connected by a wire and the mouthpiece was connected to a huge stationary box. Looking at the difference between the phone I had in my hand and the phone I saw on the screen, I said "Boy have we come a long way!" It's amazineg the way things have changed

Let's take a situation where our mobile phone gets stolen. How do we manage until we get ourselves a new mobile. The restlessness gets onto us. Doesn't it? This is because what started as a simple way of communicating has now become an integral part of our live. The phone has now become a reminder, an alarm clock, a camera, a walkman etc., to name very few applications, a technologically challenged person like me can remember. The loss of a mobile phone nowadays is less of a material loss and more of an emotional and social void. Even if our mobile battery goes down or if it stops working, it gives us a feeling of being in an ivory tower untill the problem is solved.

Coming back to technology, the changes that have taken place in the last 10 years are much higher than ever. Who thought even ten years back that we could carry a device in our pocket which could carry so much data that it could even include an entire library of movies. Definitely this change in technology is a very welcome change. But what make me rather sceptical is the pace of changes

Now moving from changes in electronics and Information Technology, we are now entering the world of biotechnological advancements. We have successfully cloned animals and possess the potential to even clone humans. This, though one of the most controversial Science topics, is for sure too welcome a change to be accepted. Cloning of cells to cure genetic diseases, Using genetics to cure diseases, Cloning humans. How far will this go on?

Earlier in Hindu mythology, a sage who was in search of the ultimate knowledge would go to a forest and meditate until he came face to face with god. But now the gods relax and so do the sages. All a person now has to do now is type http://www.google.com/.

Man made and used technology to have certain luxuries and facilities at his disposal. But technology has now taken it's toll.
The most crucial question at this point of time is- Is technology all set to replace God?

The fog of illusion

The breeze and the winter chills
Came with a fog so blissful
which brought hopes and dreams
in times so beautiful
Till the vengeful sun dissipated it all

As we walkd through our fog of illusion
The look in your eyes gave my life new reasons
Your looks so gorgeous, after a fight
Shall remain with me through the seasons

And the world looked more than gorgeous
when we smiled and had fun
The world was never as beautiful later
as ambitions and obligations came in our way

Now the fog comes again
bringing hopes and dreams
We know we might not
make it through these times

The fog would soon be gone
And the sun would rise
in our separate worlds
But the memories shall still remain
As beautiful as dew drops on a rose

Indian English

In India, we are teached English since childhood but still our English is very different and very Indian. Why our english is so? Why we are making small small and different different mistake while speaking? Because when we will talk in English, first we will think in our mother tongue and then we will translate it to English. That is why we will drink cigaret and we will do "Frandship". This frandship request, we are very commonly finding in Indian Orkut users. Indian English is also dramatic because our superlative degrees is becoming superduperlatives. When we are becoming thinner or richer, we are not only becoming thinner or richer but we are also becoming more thinner or more richer.

We are having the art of making a sentence longer, more redundant and overexpressive. Since we are having the capability to write too many words in a sentence, therefore we are having the capability to make it very long. In India, we also used to do things that we are used to doing. Confusing na?? I will explain. In india when we are saying "used to" we are meaning to say things that we are doing and we are actually meaning to say we "are used to" doing that certain thing. Actually , our sentences are also filled with basicallys, actuallys, so on and so forth. We are also matlab..using Hindi/Other language words in between our English language.

you can like it or not. But here I am liking to quote a punchline which is very correct in this situation. This punchline they "Used to" show in channel V. The punchline is
V are like this only!

audio driven indians

A few weeks back, I was sitting on a friends motorbike when we had to stop and wait at a railway crossing as a train was about to pass through that junction. While we were waiting there for the train to go and the jam to ease, we were looking around and at people all around us. A pretty lady sitting on a neighbouring bike caught our attention. My friend told me she was imported(foreign, Irani to be specific). I did not agree with him because she didn't look non-Indian. But later as the train left and the traffic started moving, I was proved wrong. The traffic started moving and with the sounds of honking and vehicles allover, the lady plugged her ears with her fingers and got highly irrate. If she were Indian, she would've been used to it as we were. And believe me, as per Indian standards, the noise was nothing close to noisy.

We Indians come across as noisy or to be a bit harsh, even audacious. It may sound harsh but it is an inevitable part of our culture. The very foundation of our culture of civilization is the "Aum" which is a collection of all the cosmic sounds. Our celebrations are also very noisy. The thrill of Diwali, the festival of lights is the noisy crackers.We like lighting the noisiest of crackers to satisfy our audacious egos. And if there is a marriage in the neighbourhood, God save the neighbours with the noisy and sleepless weeks before the marriage because the brides or grooms family is celebrating.

Our metros are amongst the noisiest cities in the world. Our days start by the noise of the garbage collectors and the blaring music of neighbours loudspeakers. Then, the streets have "vrooms" of bikes and noisy vegetable vendors and pushcarts in store for us, apart from the noises at places of worships, the temples and mosques. After a noisy day, we plan to retire to our beds just to hear the tunes of latest bollywood numbers playing from cars reversing. And then when it's finally time to sleep, the watchmen makes their presence felt by tapping their sticks and blowing their whistles. There is no way you can get away from noise in india. If you feel running away on an open road can get you any far, you won't be too glad to find out truck bumpers which read HORNS PLEASE OK!!!

media- perception creators

Talking about the basic difference between reality and perceptions, one can relate to those optical illusions we get in our mails where a single image can be percieved to be two different images or a static image can be seen to be moving etc.. These images are similar to how the apparent truth goes unnoticed. Media creates these illusions or perceptions as you would like to call them.

How does the media do this? The media reflects or moulds facts according to it's convenience or should I say profitability. It sensationalises, ignores and delivers facts as per it's convenience. They say that history is written from the winner's point of view. It remains an eternal truth. These historywriters are the media. Propaganda remains one of the guiding rules of media.

There are Journalists who present news facts which would give them TRPs, PR professionals who gain goodwill by covering all the foulplay, advertisers who mislead the audience to gain profits for companies. Advertisers, I know would like to defend themselves(Being a prospective advertiser, even i would). But if that weren't the case, what explains the highest ad sales expenditure for "Fairness Creams"?

They say that the media is the mirror of the society. I don't know how true it is, but one thing is for sure. the media doesn't act as a plane mirror. And beware!!! " objects in the mirror appear to be larger (or smaller) than their actial size."