THIS THOUGHT HAS BEEN CROSSING MY MIND ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE KASHMIR VALLEY? THIS WAS A PLACE KNOW FOR THE CO-EXISTENCE OF THE MINORITY HINDUS WITH THE MAJORITY MUSLIMS. THEN WHY HAVE THE HINDUS SIMPLY RUN AWAY? THE SIMPLE REASON IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING... REFER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing#21st_century
ON MY RECENT VISIT TO THE VALLEY I HAVE NOTED THAT THE ISLAMISATION OF THE VALLEY IS COMPLETE AND IS NOW AN IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS. THE MUSLIMS ARE READY AND WILLING TO ALLOW HINDUS AS GUESTS (IN THEIR OWN NATION) BUT WOULD NOT TOLERATE THEM SETTLING IN THE STATE.
I THINK THE REASON BEHIND THE KASHMIR PROBLEM IS SIMPLE. WE HAVE BEEN MOLLY COLLYING THEM FOR FAR TOO LONG. WHT DO WE NEED TO HAVE AN ARTICLE 370 IN THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE STATE? WHY CANNOT PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER STATES OF INDIA BUY AND SELL LAND/ PROPERTY IN J&K? ISNT THIS ISOLATING THE ALREADY ISOLATED PEOPLE OF THE STATE EVEN FURTHER? THE POLITICS OF APPEASEMENT IS THE REASON FOR THE SITUATION THAT WE FIND OUR NATION IN VIS-A-VIS J&K.
THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT TO BE A PART OF THE INDIAN UNION GET MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE EXPENSE OF TAX PAYERS LIKE ME AND THEN THEY LAMBAST THE NATION.. THEY ARE ALIVE BECAUSE OF THE SECURITY INDIA PROVIDES THEM AND THEY LIVE BECAUSE OF THE FOOD WE PROVIDE THEM.
I HAVE SEEN THESE THANKLESS WRETCHES LIVE LIFE IN THE MOST COMFORTABLE MANNER, OWN THE PLUSHEST MALLS OF THE CITY, SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE BEST COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND YET THEY HAVE THE MORAL COURAGE TO BAD MOUTH THE VERY NATION THAT HAS RESULTED IN THEIR EXISTENCE?
SOMEONE NEEDS TO ANSWER... OR ELSE I DO NOT SEE THE DAY FAR WHEN U CUD SEE THE PERPETRATORS OF DISORDER AND CHAOS COULD BE AT THE RECEIVING END OF THE STICK...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
I BEG TO DIFFER
I must confess that when I started writing this piece I was very skeptical if should actually be writing this. I mean it is not very easy to write something that you are almost assured will rankle quiet a few feathers and may even brand you as a social outcast. However I do not really mind this since all that I am trying to do is what is better and more widely know as self evaluation albeit at a community level. I also confess of having the advantage of being what is depreciatingly called as an outsider Kashmiri i.e. some one who has not been born or ever lived in Kashmir (I have also had the distinction of being branded as pseudo kashur by some esteemed members of our community); advantage since it gives me the leeway to look at my subject in a pragmatic and practical manner and removed from some distance minus the emotional baggage that some of us have due their being born and in some cases brought up in Kashmir.
As a community we Kashmiris have the habit indulging in self praise or self pity; somehow giving the impression that we as a community are in some manner on a higher spiritual pedestal and therefore are embodiment of all that is saintly on this God’s green earth. It is here that I say Sir; I beg to differ.
At some point in time our community MAY have been this and much more; however what I see around myself today is at best a very poor reflection of our community’s cumulative ancestral wisdom. The existence of an average Kashmiri Pandit today revolves around the following
1. Going to what is irritatingly called DUTY and not work. My observation on this very mundane usage of the word is that our community members do not consider what they do in the office/shop etc as their work; something that they ought to do but as duty i.e. something that are to made to do.
2. Discuss politics thread bare in a manner that they would appear to unaware like my ilk as the modern embodiment of Kautilya. However have any of us ever thought of entering serious politics for serving the society? You don’t need to even answer this; we all know. What shocks me even more is that we expect to be taken seriously on the matter when we are so seriously irrelevant in the current political scenario of the nation.
3. Get their children to do any of the following:
a) Engineering (IT is the only option- anything else is blasphemy)
b) Medicine (Read MBBS since BDS is only Dand Dactar and a physiotherapist is merely a malishwol).
4. Any young Kashmiri child after completing his engineering (please don’t ask the grades; we always top the university- in fact don’t even ask the university) has to be working in what is vaguely referred as an MNC. The credentials of this MNC are such that more often than not the parents are left covering up by saying that it is a famous company however they are unable to recall the name.
5. The next stage is the inevitable – khandar. Well in case the prospective bride/groom has not fulfilled criteria No 3 and 4 they are not a very safe bet in the matrimonial market. Ladies (more often) themselves having managed to barely scraped through BA (Hindi) (this is only by way of an example and in no manner depreciative of the course) can be heard commenting that such and such is not a worthy match for their child since the prospective bride/ groom is not an engineer or a doctor.
Again I say, Sir I beg to differ. Are we an enlightened community that we swear from roof tops when there are such shameful hypocrisies rampant in our society?
While I am on this topic I cannot fail to mention the deplorable situation of our community when it comes to giving/ taking dowry for marriages. I would like to put it thus that giving of dowry is akin to selling your own daughter. But we don’t mind; do we? In fact we are proud of the fact that we sold of our daughter at a high price and do not miss even the slightest opportunity to tom tom the same. Likewise it is even more shameful for the grooms parents because they have happily sold off their son to the highest bidder in a vulgar auction devoid of human values and emotions. Yet they have the nerve of saying aisya rot na kihin ti… naush hindy malinyavan dyut tamish panin kushi seith… come one people we are more mature than this. But then we take no step to eradicate this vice; in fact the general refrain of the community when some one takes a stand of not taking dowry is that this is just for the public concumption. Ultimately the groom’s family would take the entire dowry in one form or the other. This is how deep and engrained in our DNA this filth become has, on this I say, Sir I beg to differ.
Another issue that has been pricking my inner self and prevents me from believing in the greatness of our community is very sensitive issue from some of my brethren. Although I do admit to an extent that the single largest travesty to have happened with the Kashmiri Pandits is the exodus from their homeland, I again beg to differ. I believe a person who cannot stand up for his own home, his own abode, is the most spineless of all creatures and therefore does not deserve any sympathy, in fast such persons deserve all the sufferings that they have to undergo. One does not have to look far to draw support for this argument. Punjab has probably seen worse blood shed and more pitched battle with terrorism than J&K. However the Sikhs never once abandoned their homeland and today live happily where their ancestors lived. The reason for the same is very simple; they loved their home enough and had the mental strength to stand up for it in the face of adversity. As against this what are our people doing? The answer though painful is true – they are living on dole. Most of them refuse to report to their works and are happy to receive handouts by the government. Any self respecting man sure of his ability would rather wither away in shame than to avail dole; however our enlightened people do not think a minute to rush to Kashmir House to get their ‘salaries’ without so much as having spent a minute earning it. This shameful act has percolated to such level that people who actually never had to leave the valley get migrant card to ensure that their children get admission in engineer colleges/ management institutes under migrant quota and we have the audacity to look down upon people from other reserved categories. And why is this – just because we are fair complexioned?
I have been often wonder why has none of the so called leaders of kashmiri pandits made it big in national political scene, in fact not even on state level (please don’t jump up to claim Pt Nehru as your own for he was not) and the answer stares me back in the face… we simply do not possess the necessary spine or gumption to stand up and be counted. We are like the climber plants that we studied in primary school science who perpetually need support to have them stand up.
The bitter truth of the matter is that we as a community are fragmented into such unexplained and irrelevant differentiations as karkun and gore. The state that we are in now requires that all of us, including you sir, stand together and be counted and work as a unit for the requirements of our community, forget the classifications therein for a minute.
Please pose this one simple question to yourselves – who in this nation of 100 million gives even a minute of serious thought to the problems of our community? The answer to this is also not far to see. NONE. The reason if one has had the courage to search is also not all that difficult. It is because we have not as yet formed a power block, a cohesive unit to fight for our demands; commanding enough leeway to make the leaders pamper to our demands since they are then assured of a substantial chunk of electoral benefits. The biggest example before us of people who have clawed political relevance for themselves are the gujjars in Rajasthan. I do not support the methods used by them however they are now a very relevant political force in Rajasthan and can call the shots. I fail to understand why we are not galvanized in such a seamless manner when our problems are admittedly greater than the gujjars. The reason is again that we are more driven by petty individualistic goals and fail to see the larger picture.
If the readers feel that what I have just written is incorrect, irrelevant and the standard response is yeh chhu kuss???? Yamis kya chh kabar…. I have just one response again – Sir I BEG TO DIFFER. NAMASKAR.
As a community we Kashmiris have the habit indulging in self praise or self pity; somehow giving the impression that we as a community are in some manner on a higher spiritual pedestal and therefore are embodiment of all that is saintly on this God’s green earth. It is here that I say Sir; I beg to differ.
At some point in time our community MAY have been this and much more; however what I see around myself today is at best a very poor reflection of our community’s cumulative ancestral wisdom. The existence of an average Kashmiri Pandit today revolves around the following
1. Going to what is irritatingly called DUTY and not work. My observation on this very mundane usage of the word is that our community members do not consider what they do in the office/shop etc as their work; something that they ought to do but as duty i.e. something that are to made to do.
2. Discuss politics thread bare in a manner that they would appear to unaware like my ilk as the modern embodiment of Kautilya. However have any of us ever thought of entering serious politics for serving the society? You don’t need to even answer this; we all know. What shocks me even more is that we expect to be taken seriously on the matter when we are so seriously irrelevant in the current political scenario of the nation.
3. Get their children to do any of the following:
a) Engineering (IT is the only option- anything else is blasphemy)
b) Medicine (Read MBBS since BDS is only Dand Dactar and a physiotherapist is merely a malishwol).
4. Any young Kashmiri child after completing his engineering (please don’t ask the grades; we always top the university- in fact don’t even ask the university) has to be working in what is vaguely referred as an MNC. The credentials of this MNC are such that more often than not the parents are left covering up by saying that it is a famous company however they are unable to recall the name.
5. The next stage is the inevitable – khandar. Well in case the prospective bride/groom has not fulfilled criteria No 3 and 4 they are not a very safe bet in the matrimonial market. Ladies (more often) themselves having managed to barely scraped through BA (Hindi) (this is only by way of an example and in no manner depreciative of the course) can be heard commenting that such and such is not a worthy match for their child since the prospective bride/ groom is not an engineer or a doctor.
Again I say, Sir I beg to differ. Are we an enlightened community that we swear from roof tops when there are such shameful hypocrisies rampant in our society?
While I am on this topic I cannot fail to mention the deplorable situation of our community when it comes to giving/ taking dowry for marriages. I would like to put it thus that giving of dowry is akin to selling your own daughter. But we don’t mind; do we? In fact we are proud of the fact that we sold of our daughter at a high price and do not miss even the slightest opportunity to tom tom the same. Likewise it is even more shameful for the grooms parents because they have happily sold off their son to the highest bidder in a vulgar auction devoid of human values and emotions. Yet they have the nerve of saying aisya rot na kihin ti… naush hindy malinyavan dyut tamish panin kushi seith… come one people we are more mature than this. But then we take no step to eradicate this vice; in fact the general refrain of the community when some one takes a stand of not taking dowry is that this is just for the public concumption. Ultimately the groom’s family would take the entire dowry in one form or the other. This is how deep and engrained in our DNA this filth become has, on this I say, Sir I beg to differ.
Another issue that has been pricking my inner self and prevents me from believing in the greatness of our community is very sensitive issue from some of my brethren. Although I do admit to an extent that the single largest travesty to have happened with the Kashmiri Pandits is the exodus from their homeland, I again beg to differ. I believe a person who cannot stand up for his own home, his own abode, is the most spineless of all creatures and therefore does not deserve any sympathy, in fast such persons deserve all the sufferings that they have to undergo. One does not have to look far to draw support for this argument. Punjab has probably seen worse blood shed and more pitched battle with terrorism than J&K. However the Sikhs never once abandoned their homeland and today live happily where their ancestors lived. The reason for the same is very simple; they loved their home enough and had the mental strength to stand up for it in the face of adversity. As against this what are our people doing? The answer though painful is true – they are living on dole. Most of them refuse to report to their works and are happy to receive handouts by the government. Any self respecting man sure of his ability would rather wither away in shame than to avail dole; however our enlightened people do not think a minute to rush to Kashmir House to get their ‘salaries’ without so much as having spent a minute earning it. This shameful act has percolated to such level that people who actually never had to leave the valley get migrant card to ensure that their children get admission in engineer colleges/ management institutes under migrant quota and we have the audacity to look down upon people from other reserved categories. And why is this – just because we are fair complexioned?
I have been often wonder why has none of the so called leaders of kashmiri pandits made it big in national political scene, in fact not even on state level (please don’t jump up to claim Pt Nehru as your own for he was not) and the answer stares me back in the face… we simply do not possess the necessary spine or gumption to stand up and be counted. We are like the climber plants that we studied in primary school science who perpetually need support to have them stand up.
The bitter truth of the matter is that we as a community are fragmented into such unexplained and irrelevant differentiations as karkun and gore. The state that we are in now requires that all of us, including you sir, stand together and be counted and work as a unit for the requirements of our community, forget the classifications therein for a minute.
Please pose this one simple question to yourselves – who in this nation of 100 million gives even a minute of serious thought to the problems of our community? The answer to this is also not far to see. NONE. The reason if one has had the courage to search is also not all that difficult. It is because we have not as yet formed a power block, a cohesive unit to fight for our demands; commanding enough leeway to make the leaders pamper to our demands since they are then assured of a substantial chunk of electoral benefits. The biggest example before us of people who have clawed political relevance for themselves are the gujjars in Rajasthan. I do not support the methods used by them however they are now a very relevant political force in Rajasthan and can call the shots. I fail to understand why we are not galvanized in such a seamless manner when our problems are admittedly greater than the gujjars. The reason is again that we are more driven by petty individualistic goals and fail to see the larger picture.
If the readers feel that what I have just written is incorrect, irrelevant and the standard response is yeh chhu kuss???? Yamis kya chh kabar…. I have just one response again – Sir I BEG TO DIFFER. NAMASKAR.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
THE LEAGUE OF THE POTTERATI...!!!
WHO ON THE GODS GREEN EARTH HAS BEEN IMMUNE TO THE PHENOMENA CALLED HARRY POTTER... I GUESS THE ANSWER WOULD BE CLOSER TO A MINUSCULE MINORITY... HOWEVER THIS DOES NOT MEN THT U NEED TO LIKE THE WIZARD.... HOWEVER IN SUCH A CASE U RUN THE RISK OF BEING LOOKED DOWN UPON AS A RETARD... WEIRDO... CRAZY.... ETC...
IN THE RECENT TIMES I HAVE HEARD THE ADJECTIVES RATHER FREQUENTLY WHILE PPL REFER TO YOURS TRULY. BUT I HAVE JUST ONE SIMPLE QUESTION (WHICH PPL FIND RATHER IRRITATING)
THE THING IS AFTER ALL A FANTASY STORY FR THE KIDS RIGHT???? SO WHY ALL THE FUSS GUYS?? I AM SURE IF RED RIDING HOOD GETS ADAPTED AS A MOVIE.. IT WOULD NT GARNER EVEN 1% OF THE EYE BALLS THAT THE WHACKO (READ POTTER) GETS...
WHATS SO GREAT ABT THE GUYS???? I MEAN HE AINT THE SMARTEST WIZARD, THT WUD BE THE CHICK WITH THE RED HAIR (THNX TO MY WIFE I KNW THE CHARACTERS)HE AINT THE MOST POWERFUL THT WUD BE TOSS UP B/W THE OLD MAN AND THE BALDY...HE AINT THE BRAVEST THT WUD BE A TOSS UP AMONGST A HOST OF OTHERS... BUT NOT THE WHACKO... YEAH ONE THING HE WAS SURE AND THT WAS BLOODY LUCKY..!!!
ANYWAYS THE DAMN SERIES IS OVER AND THE WORLD CAN BE NORMAL AGAIN... I HAVE HAD TO SUFFER ABOUT 3 OF THESE THINGS THEY WANT TO MAKE US BELIEVE ARE MOVIES...AND IT TOOK EVERY INCH OF MY PATIENCE NOT TO GO BARKING MAD AFTER WATCHING THIS....
GUYS JUST REMEMBER POTTER IS JUST A KID STORY.. WUD YOU AS GROWN UP PPL TOM TOM THE FACT THT U ARE A GR8 FAN OF RED RIDING HOOD???? NO... SEE SIMPLE... GET OVER IT POTTERATI!!! WORLD IS NOT COMING TO AN END.. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU SOME CRAZY GUY WOULD MAKE A FRIGGIN PREQUEL OR A SEQUEL TO THE SAME OF EVEN EXPLORE OTHER CHARCHTERS IN GREATER DETAILS ETC... BUT THEY NOW U R ADDICTED AND ARE MINTING MONEY OUT OF YOU.. SO PPL ARISE AWAKE AND REST NOT TILL POTTER IS OVER...!!!
PLZ LET PPL LIKE ME FEEL NORMAL AGAIN!!
IN THE RECENT TIMES I HAVE HEARD THE ADJECTIVES RATHER FREQUENTLY WHILE PPL REFER TO YOURS TRULY. BUT I HAVE JUST ONE SIMPLE QUESTION (WHICH PPL FIND RATHER IRRITATING)
THE THING IS AFTER ALL A FANTASY STORY FR THE KIDS RIGHT???? SO WHY ALL THE FUSS GUYS?? I AM SURE IF RED RIDING HOOD GETS ADAPTED AS A MOVIE.. IT WOULD NT GARNER EVEN 1% OF THE EYE BALLS THAT THE WHACKO (READ POTTER) GETS...
WHATS SO GREAT ABT THE GUYS???? I MEAN HE AINT THE SMARTEST WIZARD, THT WUD BE THE CHICK WITH THE RED HAIR (THNX TO MY WIFE I KNW THE CHARACTERS)HE AINT THE MOST POWERFUL THT WUD BE TOSS UP B/W THE OLD MAN AND THE BALDY...HE AINT THE BRAVEST THT WUD BE A TOSS UP AMONGST A HOST OF OTHERS... BUT NOT THE WHACKO... YEAH ONE THING HE WAS SURE AND THT WAS BLOODY LUCKY..!!!
ANYWAYS THE DAMN SERIES IS OVER AND THE WORLD CAN BE NORMAL AGAIN... I HAVE HAD TO SUFFER ABOUT 3 OF THESE THINGS THEY WANT TO MAKE US BELIEVE ARE MOVIES...AND IT TOOK EVERY INCH OF MY PATIENCE NOT TO GO BARKING MAD AFTER WATCHING THIS....
GUYS JUST REMEMBER POTTER IS JUST A KID STORY.. WUD YOU AS GROWN UP PPL TOM TOM THE FACT THT U ARE A GR8 FAN OF RED RIDING HOOD???? NO... SEE SIMPLE... GET OVER IT POTTERATI!!! WORLD IS NOT COMING TO AN END.. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU SOME CRAZY GUY WOULD MAKE A FRIGGIN PREQUEL OR A SEQUEL TO THE SAME OF EVEN EXPLORE OTHER CHARCHTERS IN GREATER DETAILS ETC... BUT THEY NOW U R ADDICTED AND ARE MINTING MONEY OUT OF YOU.. SO PPL ARISE AWAKE AND REST NOT TILL POTTER IS OVER...!!!
PLZ LET PPL LIKE ME FEEL NORMAL AGAIN!!
Friday, July 15, 2011
SHAMBHU SHIKAARI...
I JUST LIKE THIS NAME.. SHAMBHU SHIKAARI.. BRINGS BACK GOOD OLD MEMORIES OF MY TINKLE DAYS, EVERY BODY HAD TINKLE DAYS RIGHT??? (FR PPL BORN AFTER 1995 THIS DOESNT APPLY)
OK NOW I JUST WANT TO SHARE THIS SECRET... I HAVE THIS TALENT A SUPERNATURAL GIFT I GUESS.... I MIGHT EVEN BE THE ALTER EGO OF PIED PIPER....
YEAH U GOT IT... AM VERY PROFICIENT WITH TRAPPING MICE IN TRAPS.... HAVE BEEN AT IT FR A LONG TIME NOW AND 24 HOURS HAVE NOT PASSED BEFORE MY HARD WORK HAS BORNE FRUIT. THE OTHER DAY IN THE OFFICE I NOTICED A MOUSE SCAMPERING AWAY IN AND OUT OF MY WORKING SPACE.. I HAVE A HELL OF A LOT OF IMPORTANT AND OFFICIAL PAPERS IN MY OFFICE (YEAH THE COMMUNICATION EXISTS OUTSIDE EMAILS AS WELL)WHICH SCARED ME THT IT MAY FALL PREY TO THIS NASTY THING... (THE MOUSE NOT THE EMAIL, SILLY!!) SO I HAD TO REDO MY SHAMBHU SHIKARI AVTAAR... AND LO AND BEHOLD AFTER I SET THE TRAP @ 9PM BEFORE I LEFT THE OFFICE (PLZ NOTE THT I WORKED TILL LATE... HARD WORKER U KNOW) I WAS REWARDED WITH THE HUNT WHEN I REACHED OFFICE @ 9 NEXT MORNING...
NOW MANY OF MY FRIENDS HAVE BEEN PESTERING ME TO FORMALISE THIS PROCEDURE OF SUCCESSFULLY HUNTING FR THE PREY... AND SHARE IT WITH THE SUNDRY... THOUGH I HAVE BEEN SCEPTICAL BUT FR THE BETTERMENT OF MAN KIND I HAVE DECIDED TO SHARE THE SECRET WITH ALL.. AND IN A FEW EASY STEPS.
1. TAKE THE MOUSE TRAP.
2. WASH IT WITH RUNNING WATER... (COLD WATER WOULD DO JUST FINE... U ARENT PREPARING A JACUZZI FR THE MOUSE AFTER ALL)
3. LET THE TRAP DRY IN OPEN AIR.
4. BURN SOME NEWSPAPERS ROLLED UP IN THE FORM OF A TORCH.
5. KEEP THE NEWSPAPER TORCH INSIDE THE TRAP.. (IN CASE OF WOODEN TRAPS BE CAREFUL)
6. MOVE THE BURNING TORCH ALONG THE ENTIRE OUTER SURFACE OF THE TRAP.
7. KEEP A PIECE OF FRESH BREAD IN THE TRIGGER OF THE TRAP... (DONT USE OLD FUNGUS INFESTED BREAD, U DONT WANT THE MOUSE TO SHIT ALL AROUND DO U?)
8. KEEP IT IN A SECLUDED PLACE PREFERABLY AT THE CORNER OF THE ROOM OR IN AREAS WHERE U HAVE NOTICED THE MOUSE FREQUENT.
9. LEAVE THE TRAP TO DO THE REST....
IN CASE THIS DOESNT WORK RE START FRM STEP 1.
IN CASE THIS DOES HELP THEN..... ABANDON SHIP COZ U HAVE A VERY SMART AND BY NOW PISSED OFF MOUSE ON YOUR AREA...
HAPPY HUNTING.!
OK NOW I JUST WANT TO SHARE THIS SECRET... I HAVE THIS TALENT A SUPERNATURAL GIFT I GUESS.... I MIGHT EVEN BE THE ALTER EGO OF PIED PIPER....
YEAH U GOT IT... AM VERY PROFICIENT WITH TRAPPING MICE IN TRAPS.... HAVE BEEN AT IT FR A LONG TIME NOW AND 24 HOURS HAVE NOT PASSED BEFORE MY HARD WORK HAS BORNE FRUIT. THE OTHER DAY IN THE OFFICE I NOTICED A MOUSE SCAMPERING AWAY IN AND OUT OF MY WORKING SPACE.. I HAVE A HELL OF A LOT OF IMPORTANT AND OFFICIAL PAPERS IN MY OFFICE (YEAH THE COMMUNICATION EXISTS OUTSIDE EMAILS AS WELL)WHICH SCARED ME THT IT MAY FALL PREY TO THIS NASTY THING... (THE MOUSE NOT THE EMAIL, SILLY!!) SO I HAD TO REDO MY SHAMBHU SHIKARI AVTAAR... AND LO AND BEHOLD AFTER I SET THE TRAP @ 9PM BEFORE I LEFT THE OFFICE (PLZ NOTE THT I WORKED TILL LATE... HARD WORKER U KNOW) I WAS REWARDED WITH THE HUNT WHEN I REACHED OFFICE @ 9 NEXT MORNING...
NOW MANY OF MY FRIENDS HAVE BEEN PESTERING ME TO FORMALISE THIS PROCEDURE OF SUCCESSFULLY HUNTING FR THE PREY... AND SHARE IT WITH THE SUNDRY... THOUGH I HAVE BEEN SCEPTICAL BUT FR THE BETTERMENT OF MAN KIND I HAVE DECIDED TO SHARE THE SECRET WITH ALL.. AND IN A FEW EASY STEPS.
1. TAKE THE MOUSE TRAP.
2. WASH IT WITH RUNNING WATER... (COLD WATER WOULD DO JUST FINE... U ARENT PREPARING A JACUZZI FR THE MOUSE AFTER ALL)
3. LET THE TRAP DRY IN OPEN AIR.
4. BURN SOME NEWSPAPERS ROLLED UP IN THE FORM OF A TORCH.
5. KEEP THE NEWSPAPER TORCH INSIDE THE TRAP.. (IN CASE OF WOODEN TRAPS BE CAREFUL)
6. MOVE THE BURNING TORCH ALONG THE ENTIRE OUTER SURFACE OF THE TRAP.
7. KEEP A PIECE OF FRESH BREAD IN THE TRIGGER OF THE TRAP... (DONT USE OLD FUNGUS INFESTED BREAD, U DONT WANT THE MOUSE TO SHIT ALL AROUND DO U?)
8. KEEP IT IN A SECLUDED PLACE PREFERABLY AT THE CORNER OF THE ROOM OR IN AREAS WHERE U HAVE NOTICED THE MOUSE FREQUENT.
9. LEAVE THE TRAP TO DO THE REST....
IN CASE THIS DOESNT WORK RE START FRM STEP 1.
IN CASE THIS DOES HELP THEN..... ABANDON SHIP COZ U HAVE A VERY SMART AND BY NOW PISSED OFF MOUSE ON YOUR AREA...
HAPPY HUNTING.!
Thursday, July 14, 2011
MUMBAI....... MERI JAAN.
I HAVE BEEN HEARING THIS SLOGAN MUMBAI..... MERI JAAN FOR AGES AND I ALWAYS USED TO WONDER WHY IS THE WORD 'MUMBAI' SEPARATED FROM THE WORDS 'MERI JAAN'. THIS GOT A CRUEL TWIST YESTERDAY... COZ THE HUMAN LIFE (JAAN) IS NOT SAFE IN THE CITY...MUMABI
THIS IS THE SAME CITY THT WAS BOASTED AS THE CROWN JEWEL OF INDIA... OF COSMOPOLITANISM... OF THE MODERN INDIA... OF TOLERANT INDIA... OF RESURGENT INDIA...
TODAY IT LIES BATTER AND BRUISED AS THE PICTURE OF A WEAK INDIA... OF A SCARED INDIA... OF AN INDIA THT IS THE FREE FOR ALL GROUND OF ALL KIND OF TERRORISTS AND DESPOTS....
ALL IT TOOK THE USA WAS ONE 9/11 TO HUNT DOWN THE PERPETRATORS AND TAKE THEM TO THEIR LOGICAL CONCLUSION EVEN AT THE COST OF A FEW NATIONS.... THT WAS THE SINGLE MINDED DOGGEDNESS OF THE NATION HURT... AND SEETHING TO AVENGE ITS PPL
AND WE IN INDIA ARE SO USED TO THE THIS THT WE DONT EVEN TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ANYMORE... THE PEOPLE CLAIMING TO BE THE LEADERS OF OUR NATIONS ARE SO ABSORBED IN THEIR MONEY LAUNDERING TRICKS THT NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THEM SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME A WASTE OF TIME... WHERE IS THE WALKING PRINCE NOW???? NO STATEMENTS??? NOTHING TO SAY??????
PPL IN MUMBAI MIGHT BE REALLY GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF BEING CAJOLED TO TAKE YET ANOTHER WOUND IN THE GARB OF THE SPIRIT OF MUMABI.....
GUYS WHO ARE WE FOOLING????? WE ARE A NATION OF WIMPS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE COURAGE TO PROTECT OUR OWN PPL..... AND THEY WOULD WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO BECOME A SUPERPOWER...
I AM ASHAMED OF BEING A SILENT SPECTATOR TO THIS TRAVESTY... I AM INDEED ASHAMED OF BEING AN INDIAN....
HOMAGE TO THE DEPARTED BRETHREN...!
PEACE BE UPON YOU!!!
THIS IS THE SAME CITY THT WAS BOASTED AS THE CROWN JEWEL OF INDIA... OF COSMOPOLITANISM... OF THE MODERN INDIA... OF TOLERANT INDIA... OF RESURGENT INDIA...
TODAY IT LIES BATTER AND BRUISED AS THE PICTURE OF A WEAK INDIA... OF A SCARED INDIA... OF AN INDIA THT IS THE FREE FOR ALL GROUND OF ALL KIND OF TERRORISTS AND DESPOTS....
ALL IT TOOK THE USA WAS ONE 9/11 TO HUNT DOWN THE PERPETRATORS AND TAKE THEM TO THEIR LOGICAL CONCLUSION EVEN AT THE COST OF A FEW NATIONS.... THT WAS THE SINGLE MINDED DOGGEDNESS OF THE NATION HURT... AND SEETHING TO AVENGE ITS PPL
AND WE IN INDIA ARE SO USED TO THE THIS THT WE DONT EVEN TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ANYMORE... THE PEOPLE CLAIMING TO BE THE LEADERS OF OUR NATIONS ARE SO ABSORBED IN THEIR MONEY LAUNDERING TRICKS THT NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THEM SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME A WASTE OF TIME... WHERE IS THE WALKING PRINCE NOW???? NO STATEMENTS??? NOTHING TO SAY??????
PPL IN MUMBAI MIGHT BE REALLY GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF BEING CAJOLED TO TAKE YET ANOTHER WOUND IN THE GARB OF THE SPIRIT OF MUMABI.....
GUYS WHO ARE WE FOOLING????? WE ARE A NATION OF WIMPS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE COURAGE TO PROTECT OUR OWN PPL..... AND THEY WOULD WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO BECOME A SUPERPOWER...
I AM ASHAMED OF BEING A SILENT SPECTATOR TO THIS TRAVESTY... I AM INDEED ASHAMED OF BEING AN INDIAN....
HOMAGE TO THE DEPARTED BRETHREN...!
PEACE BE UPON YOU!!!
Monday, July 11, 2011
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY...!!!
till was in school or even in college i used to enjoy sundays.. in fact my whole existence revolved around a sunday... as one sunday went i dreamily waited fr the next....
however last few years...my life is different .. although the common denominator is still sunday...wht is different is tht i want to avoid the sunday.. its not as if i have suddenly transformed into this workaholic maniac who wants to work and work... naah.. i am the same sluggish, lazy person tht i always was ...
sundays freak me out coz of the truckloads of home chores tht are lined up for me... there has been a slight role reversal in my life... now my dear wife waits from one sunday to the other ticking off chores frm her never ending and regularly replenishing list... and these scientists would want us to believe that there is no perpetual machine in this world..
like many other sundays before, this sunday i had made grand plans of lethargy which were rudely shattered by the already referred chore list... i was virtually kicked out of my slumber and made to go to market... of the female type which includes clothes.... shoes..... etc...there i had a life altering revelation....
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THAT I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS TORTURE ZONE... THERE ARE MANY MORE IN FAR WORSE CONDITION....
MORAL OF THE STORY: I THOUGHT I WAS THE MOST UNFORTUNATE MAN TO HAVE NO SHOES TILL I SAW A MAN WHO HAD NO FEET...
CHEER UP GUYS... SUNDAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!!
however last few years...my life is different .. although the common denominator is still sunday...wht is different is tht i want to avoid the sunday.. its not as if i have suddenly transformed into this workaholic maniac who wants to work and work... naah.. i am the same sluggish, lazy person tht i always was ...
sundays freak me out coz of the truckloads of home chores tht are lined up for me... there has been a slight role reversal in my life... now my dear wife waits from one sunday to the other ticking off chores frm her never ending and regularly replenishing list... and these scientists would want us to believe that there is no perpetual machine in this world..
like many other sundays before, this sunday i had made grand plans of lethargy which were rudely shattered by the already referred chore list... i was virtually kicked out of my slumber and made to go to market... of the female type which includes clothes.... shoes..... etc...there i had a life altering revelation....
.
.
.
.
.
.
THAT I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS TORTURE ZONE... THERE ARE MANY MORE IN FAR WORSE CONDITION....
MORAL OF THE STORY: I THOUGHT I WAS THE MOST UNFORTUNATE MAN TO HAVE NO SHOES TILL I SAW A MAN WHO HAD NO FEET...
CHEER UP GUYS... SUNDAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
CORRUPTION - THE FAD
i have been noticing in the last few weeks tht all and sundry consider pooh poohing the corrupt ways of us Indians a fad. this obviously means that the pseudo-intellectuals (read out of work writers, playwrights, irrelevant politicians, diplomats etc) are having a field day.. gleaming to the camera and huffing and puffing over the current scenario of the corruption in the nation.. i feel from their expression is that the only thing that they are really sad about is the fact that they are not getting their share in the pie.
i am not condoning corruption or conceding it a the way things in India work. NO.. corruption must eradicated.. or atleast brought within manageable limits (wht does tht mean????) so at least the citizens can afford to pay the desired bribe to the concerned people.
but the only thing that is really bothering me is the vigilante custodians of the society, the Hazare, Ramdev et al.... tell me who the heck gave this ppl the right to call them my representative and negotiate on my behalf???? if it is indeed the mandate of these people to help teh general citizenry of the nation why do they not come up for elections and get elected from amongst the people. they shall then be the representatives of the people in the rue sense..
they could then go raise these issues in the parliament like civilised people and not blackmail the nation (including the lame govt) by sitting on dharnas, fasts etc which are nothing more than image building exercises and a massage for their own egos because tell me WHAT HAVE THESE PEOPLE ACHIEVED FOR THE NATION OUT OF THIS GIMMICK??? AND THEY CALL THEM SELVES..... CIVIL SOCIETY .. wudnt civil society mean that the respect the law of the land????
i am not condoning corruption or conceding it a the way things in India work. NO.. corruption must eradicated.. or atleast brought within manageable limits (wht does tht mean????) so at least the citizens can afford to pay the desired bribe to the concerned people.
but the only thing that is really bothering me is the vigilante custodians of the society, the Hazare, Ramdev et al.... tell me who the heck gave this ppl the right to call them my representative and negotiate on my behalf???? if it is indeed the mandate of these people to help teh general citizenry of the nation why do they not come up for elections and get elected from amongst the people. they shall then be the representatives of the people in the rue sense..
they could then go raise these issues in the parliament like civilised people and not blackmail the nation (including the lame govt) by sitting on dharnas, fasts etc which are nothing more than image building exercises and a massage for their own egos because tell me WHAT HAVE THESE PEOPLE ACHIEVED FOR THE NATION OUT OF THIS GIMMICK??? AND THEY CALL THEM SELVES..... CIVIL SOCIETY .. wudnt civil society mean that the respect the law of the land????
Friday, July 8, 2011
rootless nostalgia
i was to go to Srinagar on work. OK confession time... i was a little apprehensive about the security scenario there but then work is work.. plus added advantage of visiting my home town. Excuse me??? did i just say home town??? sorry about that.. i have visited the town (the catch word being visited) 5-6 times; the last such occasion being a little before i celebrated my 9th birthday...
it's then that it struck me.. people like me do not have a place to call home town in the real sense of it.. we are the classical case of rootless people. so let me just say i was to go to my ancestor's city.
after the tired journey when i reached the place... it was a disappointing to say the least. Srinagar was like any other city.. i might as well have been back HOME in Chandigarh.. same old dust and grime...
but i felt a strange sense of belonging there.. some peace as if i was a part of that area... though i speak stuttering Kashmiri at the best of times.i felt energised to be there.. i dragged my co-traveller to go visit the Dal.. and next morning was up @ 6 to visit the Shakeracharya temple..
it felt so nice to hear the language of my ancestors (Kashmiri) be used as lingua franca there.
i was pining to go visit my ancestral home place where my dad and before him even my grand dad had played and lived.. but then i was warned by the army ppl that i was visiting that Rainawari (thtz where i wanted to go) was not the safest place to visit in the city... that and the lack of time sealed the fate of my rainawari visit...
but some time... some time later...
I WILL BE BACK (sorry fr the cheap rip off from terminator)...
it's then that it struck me.. people like me do not have a place to call home town in the real sense of it.. we are the classical case of rootless people. so let me just say i was to go to my ancestor's city.
after the tired journey when i reached the place... it was a disappointing to say the least. Srinagar was like any other city.. i might as well have been back HOME in Chandigarh.. same old dust and grime...
but i felt a strange sense of belonging there.. some peace as if i was a part of that area... though i speak stuttering Kashmiri at the best of times.i felt energised to be there.. i dragged my co-traveller to go visit the Dal.. and next morning was up @ 6 to visit the Shakeracharya temple..
it felt so nice to hear the language of my ancestors (Kashmiri) be used as lingua franca there.
i was pining to go visit my ancestral home place where my dad and before him even my grand dad had played and lived.. but then i was warned by the army ppl that i was visiting that Rainawari (thtz where i wanted to go) was not the safest place to visit in the city... that and the lack of time sealed the fate of my rainawari visit...
but some time... some time later...
I WILL BE BACK (sorry fr the cheap rip off from terminator)...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
EXCITED
i am really feeling excited... buzzing may be a better word.. off the srinagar tomorrow... or rather late night today.. never been there since 88.... lets see how it turns out to be....
HEAVEN ON EARTH (???) HERE I COME!!!
HEAVEN ON EARTH (???) HERE I COME!!!
Friday, July 1, 2011
FINALLY I DO IT!!!
i have been meaning to this for a while somehow the things simply didnt work out. blogging is something that i find cool... coz it is allows you the freedom to express... to exhale...
have been going through a lot of blogs of ppl who want me to read it and be a part of their follower list... i have no such aspirations...
this blog as most of the things i do in life is for my satisfaction without trying to please anyone...
ok i have laid the groud rules.. he he he
this blog is on random thought things that i want to talk about.. no specific field of genre...
oh yeah i am really bad at the spellings and punctuations.. so these wil be given a general go by...
have been going through a lot of blogs of ppl who want me to read it and be a part of their follower list... i have no such aspirations...
this blog as most of the things i do in life is for my satisfaction without trying to please anyone...
ok i have laid the groud rules.. he he he
this blog is on random thought things that i want to talk about.. no specific field of genre...
oh yeah i am really bad at the spellings and punctuations.. so these wil be given a general go by...
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