Diwali: Festival of Lights or Pollution?

Diwali is one of the widely celebrated festival in the whole country. The skies light up with different colours and make u smile. Today being the day, i intended to stay indoors due to the mad busting of the crackers but as luck would have it i had to step out to buy some stuff from a nearby store and i decided to go on foot as i was afraid that on a vehical i might be hit by some rocket as people bust crackers at any damn place without bothering about anything and when u are walking u are more flexible to those stuffs. So as i started out i was invited by the deafning noise of crackers busting back to back and the rockets whining into the sky and then the thick smoke which almost choked me to death, i agree that its a festival of lights but not this kind of toxic form of lights. It made me wonder that are people aware of the alarming global warming or are they simply ignorant about it. This is what v inhale the fumes of the busted crackers. I still curse the guy who invented crackers. I am not against celebrating festivals but this is harmful and is gonna only kill us slowly, some one has rightly said that humans arent the most intelligent but the most stupid animals.............

Golden Moments

There are times when u are into a dilemma as what to do and what not to....u start feeling that the condition never existed. I recently went through such a hard dilemma wherein one of my best friends was in an emotional trauma and i knew he needed me to be there with him but bang i was in Mumbai and he was in Ahmedabad, i curse these situations so much when i am not there for my near and dear one's when they require me to be with them. It hurts when u know that u cant be there even though u know your presence will have a very deep impaact on how things turn out. I really feel that development in the world has only brought material happiness to the people and the fell good factor of a good life is often lost in this race for development. Now a days every1 has to run after money not if to fulfill their own dreams but the dreams of those dependent on them.......being career oriented is good but whats the point if u have big bucks but dont have the time to be their with family and friends during stressing times.....its useless but now its a way of life and ever1 accepts it.........i remember the care free days that i had with a couple of my close friends all we used to do was play cricket and watch movies the whole day............those were some of the best days of my life......but now every1's apart one guy is in the U.S. in search of better prospects and another works in Google both in very demanding spheres of their own life........and i am here in Mumbai trying to do the same the world is doing, pathing a better career prospect for myself........v are in touch as a blessing of the mobile world but its only seldom that v catch up as most of the times our schedules of going back home is not the same. I recently on a very happy occasion on my part missed my brother a lot but he was away in delhi studying MBA.........he will surely come back in a couple of months but there wont be that 'missing' element that i had for him for the occasion. We in the struggle of life and being one of the best are constantly loosing on very important bondings of our life with friends and family. I still remember how as a kid going to school in rickshaw v used to play silly games like antakshari, vasir, the red car etc i all seems stupid sometimes but those times really captured our innocence as kids........carefree.......minus responsibilites of life........people used to tell me these are the best days enjoy it to your full but during that time the school homework was a big burden........and now i really feel i can do a week's homework in a day if i get to live that life again...........i want to completely enjoy my last year in college so that sometime in future i dont compare my professional life full of commitments to the carefree days of college when i did not have enough fun........ I just wish this moments to come again so that what we missed in our 'struggle to be the best' is not repeated.........deep inside a know its not gonna happen because time is like the Mumbai locals once gone is never gonna come back..........wish this world was enclosed in a cycle of monotony......

Shameless GRPs!!!!

I was browsing through the papers yesterday when a particular incident caught my eye. The news was about another unfortunate man who fell off the local train and lost his both legs, in a city like Mumbai almost 90% of the people use local trains as their public transport this incidents are reported almost every alternate day. The railway police are presumed to help people when anything this serious happens, some are good officers who ensure that the victim gets to hospital on time and that his relatives are informed, but some just turn out to be black sheeps. In this particular case after the man lost both his legs he became unconcious and the GRP at Dadar station took his body and kept it in front of the station masters office and when the station ambulance was summoned to take the man to the hospital it refused for no reason and when the GRP had to sum up Rs. 700 to call up a private ambulance they just did not pool in money for the victim to be taken to the hospital. The incident happened at 1 in the morning and the victim was kept in front of the station master's office till 9 a.m. when some commuters gathered and staged a protest it helped in summoning an ambulance and the most pathetic conduct was when the body was taken in a cart provided to the porters at the station to ferry luggage instead of a strecher. When the body reached the hospital the doctor declared him dead. The man had died within one hour of the incident, had the GRPs and the station officials not wasted anytime and if they had pooled in Rs. 700 they could have saved a priceless life. I have myself witnessed such an incident when a man fell form a running a train and his leg was cut into peices i must say its easy to say that we must help but when you see blood and his bones sticking out of his leg it can make any one dizzy, the people called the GRP to help him after all they are trained for such mishaps but they just took their time and came in well after 10 mintes of the incident. This left me numb and i got jitters when i used to board or get off the locals for almost a week. I personally feel that the GRPs should take thier duty seriously because its people's life they are dealing with here and we pay for them damnit through burdened taxs.........

Siba(sim)lifying Education.

Our HRD minister Kapil Sibal also a well known lawyer of the Supreme Court brought about another significant proposal to uphold the education levels in India. After making 10 Exams optional he has already lessened the burden of the new generation students but now he has proposed a plan wherein there will be one subject of law mandatory till class XII, i being a law student feel this would be a great step to erase the ignorance of law that many in the country face, even if a student grows up to be a succcessful professional then also he wont be having even the basic knowledge of law. Including a basic subject of law in the syllabus as the Constitution or the History of Courts would be enough to make the New Generation aware of the basic utilities of law. In a wide country like India to spread the knowledge of law is a difficult task which can be simplifed or sibalified as i say by implementation of this plan. Also Mr. Sibal's secondary proposal is, that there should be a graduation degree with law in every field which gives us the hope of eradicating ignorance of law in the Country. He says that like the five years course which i m currently doing offers me a law degree then in the normal graduation degrees like B.A., B.Sc. etc can also have one basic subject of law relating to their field and theirs degrees can be given as B.A. ( Law) or B.Sc. (Law), this according to me would help professionals in their own respective field to have a basic knowledge of how law governs their field as every field engineering, medicine, etc is governed directly or indirectly by law. This would in many ways also help in the awarness of an individual's right; as a B.A. grad would not know what is Article 22 of the Constitution which i know is Preventive Detention and this being the fundamental right should be known by all. The new proposed plan promises to eradicate this problem. But the only problem i see is that limited awarness has lead to this many arrers in the various courts then what would happen when people are completely aware?????

Monopoly City Streets: A chance to be a property magnet

The morning newspaper today had a brief news of some game called monopolycitystreets which was an online version of the popular boardgame monopoly. Though i had never played the game ever before i though of givin the online version a try. The site was jam packed as reported in the news paper it took 10 minutes to open the homepage. I liked the game's concept of buying roads from around the world and then building structure's on it and to accumulate rent from the property on the owned roads. Google maps provided with the map courtesys. I started off by searching for streets in Mumbai where i currently reside, i tried going for Peddar road on of the most important roads in Mumbai housing many VVIPs.....but to my horror the road was already bought and the price had soared up to $7 million dollars. My dream of none the less of even owning it in the game was not fulfilled. All the prime locations in Mumbai city had been taken up as in the real life. the places left had sky high prices and low rent. I was hellbent that people would not have attacked ahmedabad but to my disappointment the poularity of the internet had even destroyed my only possibility of buying in a known city. Even the road outside my house was taken up. I was relieved when i came to know that v can even make offers for owned streets i placed two offers that according to me are delecious but my fingers are crossed. Over all the game is sure to make u rest your ass on the with such curiosuty that time is sure to run out. A good game, smart concept, time sucker but worth a shot.

A Friend in need is a friend indeed.

Life is a journey of uncertain events that leave us perplexed sometimes, leaves us fighting in a situation where v dont know what to do and how to do. A group of friends is bound to have an altercation in any trivial matter but how to face and solve the matter is what makes it complex rather than simple. Like knowing one day that a friend of your group is one of the people in college who is famous for not returning money once borrrowed for some stuff from others, generally these small matters persists in a group but when it also spreads to the outsiders thats when things become a bit uncomfortable. People always move away when it comes to money matters and want to show others that they are not the types who would go on to ask from such a famous friend to return the money when borrowed from them but its always this people who are robbed off for showing true spirit of friendship and it feels bad to know that such a small matter as money would come in between peoples perspective but v cant also forget the lesson v are taught as kids "100 paisa is equal to 1 rupee". Not minding such an act of friend goes on till a peroid when the other members of a group are full with bucks but what if they require the money? Thats when such an issue surfaces and more over v are not the bread winners of our family at 20 and nor do v stand in any realtion to the Ambanis, Tatas or Birlas. Such an act on part of such a famous friend who does not pay back is encouraged every time others let go but as the saying goes "theres a limit to everything and the limit should not be crossed", thats when things go a bit out of hand. In such conditions the other members should put their foot down and not take any kind of shit they dont deserve after all who better to remove vice of a friend than other friends.........this is a kind of situation where u cant talk things out but have to act. A friend who has such a habit is diseased and the others should make sure that the diseases is cured by action or words......its not related to money only, it could be smoking drugs or even engaging in prostitution, any such vice should be removed from a friends life by others. After all what are friends for??? Right............I always say everyone is born imperfect its up to us that v decide to look upto their imperfection or to look over their imperfection.......

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Life compromises all the the natural elements required to survive but the most important important element that makes life livable are the people around u who in the begining were total strangers, whom u probably eyed suspiciously if he was a boy or lustrusly if a girl and never would have thought that in sometime they would be a part of your life. Friendship is seldom done intentionally and mostly happens naturally with the passage of time. As time goes by and u get to know your friends better, u influence them and vice versa. They always come in varied forms and peculiar habits like one of my friends has the habit of strumming his guitar loudly when he's angry at something. A very good medium for letting out frustration but wierd, another one has a habit of never accepting his fault and ends up making the most stupid execuses to hide his embarrasment, another friend is completely forgetful and absent minded even if u go to met her at someplace and when u talk about the previous meeting the next day she would not recall the meeting, Another friend hits people just like that, u are hanging around with her and suddenly "SLAP".....another friend is so curious about things going around him and world that he is sure to find a job in any popular news channel if he tries there. But some poeple are serious when it somes to guide me i have been blessed with a couple of friends who advise me constantly with what has to be done and all. Well thats the kind of people that compromises my friends list. I agree that friends are the spice of life but some friends can be a real pain in the ass like one of my friends has the habit of calling me up everyday in college and asking me where i am when he preciesly even knowns which bench rest's my ass, another one always pretends he is broke when u can actually see the green Rs100 note coming out of his back pocket. Another close friend of mine whom i have known for almost 6 years now suddenly goes out of touch for a month without attending your calls nor returning them when u really want her advise or want to talk to her about something really important concering your life and
then suddenly calls up one day and excepts u not to be mad at her for going out of touch without any reason even though this routine happens once in every 3 months, another friend of mine has this pissing off habit of always braging about anything from his new "undies" to his new wall-clock, a very popularly hated guy i know calls up people only when he wants to get some work done and he can go to any extend to force people to do his work even losing his self respect in the process but still he does it. Guess some people just dont change.
Some friends v make are worth a life time because u end up spending more time with them then with your family and are pretty comfortable sharing anything from sex to career without hesitating and some friends make us regret our decision of having been friends with them. All are peculiar in their approach and views towards life but they in someway or other do influence u in some way or the other change your view points about things. What makes me feel sad is that friendship is never done to gain anything out of anyone but as v grow and face the world not only do we see people making friends for a purpose but also see that people whom v dearly called our best pals are too busy in their life even to think about the time that v spent together and their priorities change completely after a darn girlfriend or boyfriend walks into his/her life. But thats the way it has happened till now so i guess its natural for poeple to change once they are in a relation all i have to say is ..........i hate this natural process of life!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunate incidents

There are certain incidents which happen in life but for some they just change the lives of people associated with the incident. As of a 9 year old child being diagnosed with juvenile diabetes who with growing age becomes aware that she's different from others and cant enjoy everything in life, an old mother who carves love from her grown up children but cant as they are to busy in their lives to spare a minute to talk to her, of a middle aged father who is on verge of retirement has spent his whole life making ends meet to fulfill childrens demand and now when all his friends have a 4 wheeler he cant buy one becasue he cant afford it as he is retireing in a couple of years and has to still support his family, the look on a boys face who shops with his friend where his friend buys a reebok bag for Rs. 2500 and that amount is the monthly budget of that boy's house, the desparation in a man's eyes when he eagerly eyes a car zipping by him a thing he has loved to posses since he was 5 but he cant becasue everything in the world comes at a price and not every1 is lucky to buy one, an aspiring child who cant study more than just basic degree because his family cannot afford to spend more money after him while his dumb friends go out of country to study specialization only because they have money. A bright cricket aspirant who couldnt clear the Ranjit cricket selection as his dad was not able to fill the selectors pocket even though he was the best in his class kind of a player, such incidents leave people desperate in their own manner. As the law books say "Justice is always done"........i dont think so.