Famous Five

13-Oct-2008

5 questions i dread !!


1. Where do you belong(Native place)?

I start mumbling, jumbling, fumbling, the moment this question is thrown at me. I think i am too open minded for this. I was born at a place, brought up at two other, i work somewhere else, and I have loved every place i have been to. I have thoroughly enjoyed the transition. I guess I look stupid when I answer back with a smile or a grin, or tell people that i dont know.

2. Aur batao.. Kya chal raha hai?

I hate it to the core. Its disgraceful and boring by all means. It has an advantage though..Ask me this n i will leave you alone .. :-)

3. Are you still working with 3i?
As if its sacrilege!!! ..Yes I am with 3i that is untill the next monday..

4. When are you getting married?
As if i would entertain you when i hook up with someone..

The last..

5. Hey..You are looking happy ..dont you think you have put on some..i mean a little weight recently..??
Pure terrorism i say.. I start running..in the opposite direction.

who d **** is alice..oooppsss...bhaujji???

10th Oct '08

Sorry guys..i had to write this..i have taken an enormous responsibility of "shristi ki raksha" from this disaster.. just saw this mother of all ****ing movie and cant wait to share some of the most innovative dialogues hindi cinema has ever produced..ok...so here we go... the opening line and the best.."yeh kahani us samay ki hai jab samay khud ek bachcha tha, infact samay tabhi paida hua tha" ..(oh yeah??)..
Next your super hero is treated with words like "pishach ki aulad"..the villian gets a better deal.. and is the "khoonkar asur"..(so i wondered ki fight kya hai !!.. )
..then there is priyanka who has been given one hell of an intro scene..yeah she drives in a stunning yellow ferrari to save the pishach ki aulad..ooops the super hero..and all steam becomes water when she opens her dialogue with .."bhaujji ne kaha tha.."...yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnn
Not to mention the brilliant and multicoloured "woh raaz ..raazpur ke chauthi chattan ke basanti dvar ko laangh kar prapt kiya ja sakta hai"..tht deserves an oscar man...
and one for the villian..and by this time i really needed some help.."kabhi kabhi upar se sab kuch saaf nazar aata hai"..(what the **** is that suppose to mean???)
Then there is the perennial.."shrishti ki raksha ke liye"..
but on the whole i thought abhishek did a fanatstic job..he hardly spoke..thts the catch..a dumb superhero..got it?? the villian defended himself well..at least he kept saying "gustakhi maaf" throughout the torture..and bhaujji will agree with that.
:-)

Maine Gandhi ko nahi mara..

2nd Oct'08

Maine Gandhi ko nahi maara..

I am having a pizza. Something is not right but. I am feeling kinda sick. I am eating and thinking. So i dont know which one's the culprit. Bad.. cant sue the pizza outlet :-).

if you ask me what i dread the most right now..well, it is the US elections.how and why, you might question..it scares me when people around me discuss obama and palin more than gandhi..when questions like did gandhi die on oct 2nd hit me..i feel my stomach churning.

When i see enormous posters containing colorful prose in praise of raj thackerey as he goes about protecting the marathi manoos, against not a single poster of Gandhi, the pizza that i just ate, launches a desparate Quit Lalita movement..I gulp down some water and the use of "water force" crushes this uprising.

I hold Gandhi in high regard. His simplicity is his most endearing quality. Simplicity in thoughts, actions and appearance. His quest to get closer to god, his being a stickler for cleanliness, his struggle to find purity, his belief in truth, his struggle for ahimsa, his idea of satyagraha as a weapon, the value he gave to education, his detest for textbook knowledge, are all qualities, at least, i struggle to inculcate in myself.
So when people tell me gandhian ideals no longer relevant in today's contemporary society, the pizza does a "Nach Baliye" again.

I read his autobiography and was pleasantly amazed to find Gandhi ate nonveg food for a while and stole money for smoking. And he quit, only when it dawned upon him that it was doing no good to him. While today's "contemporary society" debates the ban on smoking so vehemently. And so he calls his autobiography "My Experiments with truth". How much more non preachy can anyone be? His transformation from a shy and gullible man into a strong, determined leader is truely inspiring. He spoke against every evil that exists even today.
Racism, Caste based violence, wars, socialism..give me a break, whats not relevant now? Infact, I think, the need to stand up and speak against all these issues is more so than ever before.

But strange are ways of this world..where any form of aggression gets media coverage. Only a heart breaking image of a man pleading for his life in the Gujarat riots can shake up this nation perhaps? How many movies do we have on Gandhi? On peace? On satyagraha? We have simply not understood the Mahatma.
When he says "Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility","there is no god above truth", I am left intimidated by their meaning.

So on this Oct 2nd when my colleague tells me that the moment gandhi asked to show the other cheek to a person who slaps you, he almost ruined India, I rush for the washroom..the pizza's demand for independence is now out of control.