Congrats to Indian politicians!!

   My heartiest congratulations to all the Indian politicians in wake of the recent Gujjar stir that has been seething in various parts of the country now, and just yesterday reached te capital, Delhi. Seems like all their efforts of dividing the country, in keeping with the British colonisation, are paying off finally. The Gujjar's in Rajasthan are up the govt.'s arses, trying to forcibly gain ST status to get reservation benefits. At the same time, the Meena community, which enjoys the status exclusively in Rajasthan, are totally against it for obvious reasons of not having to share their benefits with any other community. Want something more interesting? The Gujjars constitute only 6% of Rajasthan votebank, and the Meenas constitute 12%. Haha! Poor poor Vasundhara Raje, she thought she could get away with false promises made to Gujjars... and now the Gujjars are truing to hold the whole North India to ransom, with support from Kashmiri counterparts having recntly come in. 
    I had recently read somewhere that reservation had to be strategically phased out from India, after all the so called backward communities would be raised in status and blah blah shit. I don't see that happening in my lifetime at least. Somewhere down in Southern India, politicians are trying to push past the 50% upper limit of quotas, once again for votebank politics of course. Just today, there was this inset in one of the Gujjar voilence related reports that now the Meena community from Madhya Pradesh wants ST status. Hahaha! I seriously hope more such communties rise up pretty big and pretty soon (pretty voilent will come naturally with it), so that not just the Indian politicians, the whole damn world gets a free show of how votebank politics and divide-and-rule comes to haunt the very people who tried exploiting it to the hilt , thrived on it and didn't see all of this coming. 39 lives have been lost in the Gujjar stir till now, but I won't be surprised if the numbers rise exponentially, what with all the 'backward class' people standing up and demanding this and that. All the best to Indian politicians and I hope that these communities nail their asses to the wall ....
   Just a doubt - the Gujjars have stopped virtually the entire North India in it's tracks, students had to miss their career marking exams, pregnant women couldn't reach a safe and careful place, innocent lives have been lost, Railways have suffered immensely, so has the workforce of tourism industry, and with all the barricades put up by these people everywhere - whoever said they were backward?Any answers......  

Night out @ Ranazeee... :p

         Have just returned aftre spending a night at Rana's. yup! he was back, pretty well and pretty soon. And needless to say, he was constantly abused for acting like a jerk and leaving everyone midway, and running away from all of the friends to a place hundreds of kilometres away. And all these guys got drunk, save for me and Rajdeep who won't dare touch alcohol! And as usual Kapil the great was taking potshots at each an everyone. Kapil baba ki jai ho... he not only made us all have great fun, especially at the expense of 2 personalities, but also talked sense most of the time, noticeably when he was making another one of those efforts to make Anuj understand why he should reduce his drinking.
      At the same time, I wanted to ask Anuj just one question; as the only child of his parents, he said that the reason for his increased drinking in the past few days was the fact that he felt alone. This is a guy, who is the most close to each and everyone (the genuine ones) in the YDI group, and everyone has come to share everything with him only because all of us know how much friendship means to him: it means above everything else to this hell of a cartoon network in flesh and blood. If he so f!@#$%g cares about his friends, why the heck can't he stop/reuce his drinking, even as everyone feels the closest to him? He talks about how his life would suffer as and when all of us move away to our respective workplaces in a few months. What about us Anuj? What if something happens to you and we are left suffering forever? As usual, he won't listen...
         As for Kapil, he was the one making Anuj understand the ill-effects of booze, and he himself has been puffing away heavily all this while. The only respite in his case is that he doesn't do it each time feeling sentimental, and he is still willed enough to be able to control himself as and when needed. At least that's what appears to me. Even he has been countlessly told to stop smoking, yet he doesn't. I still remember his words from another night out at Rana's, where he said that he wants to listen from the doctor, that he must either quit it or die. When he'll reach that brink, only then will he stop it.
          Meanwhile, Varun aka Valun was at the recieving end of numerous sarcastic comments by Kapil and I must say that we hadn't had this much fun in one single night, in a long time. The amazing thing was none of us felt sleepy till about 5:30 am, and this since UD had got heavily drunk and ended up a total mess, he was the one who was forcibly put to rest first of all, around 3 I guess. Worse, he won't even remember one f!@#$%g thing about all that happened with him... rather us handling him! For the first time he scared the shit out of me and I am extremely angry to say the least. Screw Stryker, and screw Rajdeep's words. All of you started behaving like total jerks with your booze shit. Thanx to Ankit, I could pass some time ... rather thanx to his I-phone ;) A lot more remains to be said, but I guess it would be better to say it on their faces for once, than venting my anger out on my blog...

Anuj's sketch...

It was due since that fateful day, which ironically was his birthday too. Only those who were there know why i am saying fateful... (screw you delhi police :x) and though i am not too happy with this sketch of his, i hope i'll be able to bring a smile on this cute hippo, the cartoon network and soon to be ... well that's a secret he'll be sharing with all only after tmmorow! Just hope he liked it :)

Khushboo's songs...

Was listening to the songs of Khushboo today, some of them are pretty good. Have already written an article on http://bollywoodtadka.com soon! The new girl is pretty too ;) Songs of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Aamir are out too, but more than these two i am waiting for the songs of Haale-e-dil. The title track composed by Vishal Bhardwaj is awesome as far as the promos are concerned!

http://bollywoodtadka.com/2008/05/25/music-review-khushboo/#more-312

At Rajdeep's

Well day before day before yesterday (:p) was a beaoootiful day. The rains were good, like for the past four days and more and till noon, sunlight was rarely seen. I loved it. Took the stuff from Nikhil's. Bihar Singh was there too , haha! He has gone to his home and won't be back till the 1st of June. Well i headed for Anuj's place at around 12 i guess, and wasn't expecting a silver BMW z-series to come and start honking right behind the bus which i was trying to board till Uttam Nagar Terminal. My eyes popped out as usual cause rarely have i seen such costly pieces of exceptional engineering in an area like Tilak Nagar. The last time saw one was about 10 weeks back, when a white Nissan 2-door convertible quietly passed by me on Jail Road, and it was a-w-e-s-o-m-e! Don't know the name of the model though. Well the honking by the BMW was arrogant attitude of a super-rich either trying to get your attention or just telling you that with that bomb of a package it deserved every inch of road space and your gaze as well. And it couldn;t be more ironical for me, who was always growing up dreaming of buying the ultimate in power, style and engineering yet was boarding a rickety unfamous killer Blueline of Delhi. But then it struck me, that all this while i have been trying to fulfill a dream which will ensure this and a lot more, and that honking was just another signal for me, a reminder that "hey dude! you want me? don't give up..." sad yet true and meaningful! Thanx Babaji for that shining peice of reminder.
Anyways, I luckily got a seat in 883, which i wasn't expecting because of the damn crowded buses i usually saw on this route. And all this while waiting for the delicious lunch prepared by Anuj's mom was worth it, worth everrrry second of it. The lunch was awesome!! Burrrppp!!! hahaha! And thankfully Udit too joined us. Gaurav had said it perfectly back then that UD was the most (and maybe the only) guy to be missed that day on his birthday party. So right! And guess what? Rajdeep turns up over an hour late, that too minus the photographs. Ullu ka ... forcibly took me to his home, where he played the monster of an elder brother to kiddo Gurpratap! heheh! Damn shithead, doesn't even know as much about his brother about computers :p Jugaadu engineer!!! hahah! And once again, i enjoyed one of the most tasty dinners ever, all thanks to his mom again, (none to him, even if I was dragged along due to his mistake :p). We, as usual, discussed the ups and downs in our lives , and while he was talking to Robin (because i have free calling on Vodafone), i fell asleep and how! Lame ass, wasn;t even ready to get up and close the door behind me while I was leaving. And thankfully, we have posted the stuff, even as it will reach right on the last day. Enjoyed the view of Metro's construction near Inderlok junction on the way back,and the new Volvo dealership at Moti Nagar too. Babaji, jaldi se ek Volvo dila do yaar! :p Right now i am cursing Sify, and preparing all the posts i can, so that whatever little blessed minute Sify will provide me, I'll have to use them to the hilt. Anuj was soon coming over, and had ordered me to make nimbupaani..:p Pichli baar pilaya tha, itna vaahiyaat tha!! :p

Sify Broadband sux!

The internet service of Sify and only Sify has to go kaput each time Delhi faces a thunderstorm or showers, while all the rest of my friends enjoy the uninterrupted services of Airtel etc. And Sify has the worst servie too, the connection just fails to provide you the requisite speed, especially when you need it the most. I have finally got my connection back after 5 f!@#$% days ... sify people should have a crashed train's pic on their login tabs, instead of a bullet train!

whats with blogger... and Infy... and these friends...

 
the time below all my posts is appearing almost 12 hours behind, dunno what's the problem!! anyways, i am looking forward to meeting Anuj, Nikhil, Gaurav, Robin and i am not looking forward to meeting Rajdeep today.. hahaha!
i sooo wanna join Infosys only but with the recession in U.S and the ramifications of that being the delayed joining dates of fresh engineering graduates, i am feeling so screwed. the problem is nothing more that the fact that my family doesn't want me to be sitting around for long, since we are in the midst of our own itsy-bitsy financial issues. hell! i myself don't want to stay in Delhi anymore, and i just hope that the joining isn;t as delayed as May 2009, the words which some one from 04 batch spread around. Infosys' campus is too tempting to let me go somewhere else.. and the irony of it all is that today i am going to fill the form of not just that major Oil company, but also the Stryker recruiters! (who could be more confused?) well i dunno what to do! guess, i'll just screw up the exam so that i dont get thru... as if i am hopeful of getting thru! :p again confused!!!
amidst all this is the dream which i returned to after more than a decade, coz back then it wasn't just possible. but just when i thought everything is in my favour, the glut in that sector starts making waves throwing cold water on my plans. but since i haven't stopped dreaming, i just hope i'll finally, someday and somehow get in there!!! can't wait anymore :( i just love the idea of sharing most, if not all, of my thoughts on this blog. it's so damn easy and the topic wouldn't steer away from the baseline, though it would if i would be discussing this with either Rajdeep or Robin, coz it generally does.
talking about Rajdeep, he is seriously a shitty person, coz of the way he's been behaving ever since the engineering (re: friendship) ended. the dog says he's preparing himself for living without us all, by severing all contacts with us. f u! but if there is one person i totally enjoy being with these days, it's Anuj, the cartoon network. i can't believe that i actually got upset with his antics long time back. i just feel blessed to have him though. same is the case with Supriya and Nikhil, though both of them are screwed up too, in their own ways :p
    the pic above, from one of  our last days in college is seriously funny. Anuj and Sup are picture perfect nuts :p

Its raining again :)

Lord Indra is seriously generous these days... Last night, at around 10:15, strong winds started blowing and were followed by a light no-on-now-off showers till the wee hours, and right  now, it's 6:35 am and it has started raining again... awesome man! Considering the fact that i have to go out today to get those drafts made, i'll be more than happy to set out. The above picture is from a a few days back, 14th May actually,  when the sky went dark at 10 am! And Nikhil ans Supriya were in no mood to give that exam, which had just started at the same time... haha! They didn't leave the examination hall, but I guess I would definitely have left... :)

Great articles... love you TOI

Times Of India's Delhi edition had these really awesome articles (as usual) on the editorial today , pg no. 26 , but i loved the way both Gurcharan Das and Jug Suraiya presented their takes on the same issue, the screwed up BRT corridor in South Delhi. Jug Suraiya is soooo funny!
  Another complete page which made for a great read was pg no. 20, especially the story by Jyoti Punwani about a Muslim man who brought up 2 girls as Hindus. And on the very next page you'll find something that you'll never forget, Brigido Viggiano slum tour experience in the largest slum of Asia, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai. Be ready, coz your ideas (especially negative ones) are  about to go for a toss, more so towards the third column. Right above it is your claim-to-shame, an article on Indian dont's embossed into do's of their daily lives by Priyanko Sarkar, and the Politics of Chhat, by Mohammed Wajihuddin, another great one.
   I loved the words by MJ Akbar, whose new column 'Crescents and Croissants' started today, on pg 8, especially the last para, which is a fitting sentence to make you feel good. Both Mr. Akbar and Ms. Brigido's articles made a statement about India's great secularism, which is these days at the hands of screwed up politicians, yet comes up strongly each time they play divide-and-rule like during the British colonisation.
   P.S - India rocks, and so does Times Of India!!! :)

must-read quote!!

Anonymous said -

"tears can be more special than smile, for smiles can be given to anyone but tears are shed for people we love"

so true!

Gaurav's sketch :)

"arre tum bhi aaye ho??" :p - Gaurav's pet dialogue

he is one of those guys whose attitude has perhaps never changed all this while i have known him. Gaurav's smile rarely goes missing and i had wanted to sketch him for long, and after a failed half hearted attempt, some success has been achieved. special thanx to my facebook friends Ethan Derry and Daryl Batan, and loads of other amazing photographers and artists like Daryl Batan and Ani Habib for encouraging me simply through their awesome work. you guys rock! period. coming up - Anuj's sketch!!

i am back... and happy :)

well, i am back and feeling really happy! this despite a spat with an old 'friend' yesterday, as she thinks she rules the world, but this was probably the first time in a long while when the aftermath of what happened, didn't hover above my head all this while. i was more at ease with some1 else's f@#$%d up piece of shit, than anything else. moreover, since engineering ended officially the day before yesterday, i was back to a promise which i had made to myself: of coming back to sketching big time. i sketched gaurav, freestyle (i.e without using the graph), and was happy with the result. more so because when i had started making his sketch, the left half didn't quite look like him, and i was extremely doubtful if this would turn out to be a good one, or a botched up version, like the first time i sketched robin. another thing i was happy about was that i had managed to do justice to the lips part of the sketch coz that's what i make worst as was the case with dilpreet's sketch. and guess what was the inspiration behind it all? the amazing works of persons like ani habib and daryl batan etc. which they had posted on the facebook group. my work is zilch compared to them! and ani habib is just wow!

anyways, we enjoyed big time at rana's place though missed udit big time. it would surely have been more fun to have him around, and a few dragons to slay (who didn't turn up un/-fortunately) hahaha! the monk who sold his ferrari rules my head even now and i wonder what all i can do with the power that i have got now. the book is so great that yesterday while i was having an exchange of words with an ungrateful idiot, i kept my calm effortlessly. even though it pains to know that some1 you have always thought of as a friend and cared about, has tried to spill over her screwed up messes into your life, it feels happy to know that the picture is clear now. ha! and what an awesome weather it was yesterday. i still remember what kinda heat we had to face last summer, and there was hardly any substantial rain till this time of the year in 2007. but 2008 has turned out to be good if not great so far, as far as the weather goes. i love rains coz firstly they bring the temperature down of not just the sorroundings but also of many people around you and secondly, when someone wants to cry without being noticed, try the rains! pour your heart out and trust me, you'll feel a lot better.

the impact of the fact that yaari dosti incorporate, my group which i named so painstakingly (yeah right!), is going to be dispersed big time, hit me hard right on the 15th. i still can't get it down well, but as they say: everything will be fine! my site is back to work, bollywoodtadka.com, and i have just finished my work in an effort to try and meet the greatest human being to inspire me in life, Mr. E. Sreedharan, the MD of Delhi Metro. i just hope i am able to do what i have planned. and yeah! all the talk on this blog, i am not gonna discuss with most of you ppl who are a part of my personal life, so you can bitch and 'bhau' behind my back with all the due permission. lol! for i just wanna enjoy a pasted inner smile :)