True colors...

A Man to his Life's Challenges, as is a Ray of Light to a Prism...the result always shows up the true colors- Me

Colorful Problems...

Problems are like Rays of Sun's light, One fails to predict their arrival, one can sense the heat they bring along, all one needs is a Prism's eye to see their simplicity and the Colorful Goods they bring along... - Me

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"Never say something for the sake of it...say what you mean and mean what you say...for it would Mean Mean on your part if not so..." - Me

Love=Drug

"Being in love is analogous to being involved with drugs, when you start
you don't want to stop, and when you want to stop, it makes sure you
cant stop..." - Me

Fools Paradise....

"I'd Rather be in a Fool's paradise, rather than a fool in a Paradise" - Me

Not givin up yet...

"A Failure's still a Winner until he fails to see the reason in being one, you win some you lose some, but when you'll win, the prize will
know where you've come from" - Me

Can you... ?

"I can't remember the last time I said I can't for anything...until
...now..." - Me

I for an eye...

Being innocent yet Posing "Turn the other cheek..."

is a Diplomatic way of simply saying..."I can't...and Iam Weak"...

lets not be diplomatic while our politicians stay static...

lets get a grip on life and lets not panic..

for we wish we would die in peace looking at the sun...

and not by the bullet from a mad mans gun..

and wish our remains in a river be cast...

and not being searched for in the aftermath of a blast...

lets be bold, lets for once be Fair...

lets clear out this dense suffocating air...

This is not how I want to see a generation die...

get up on your feet...stop the sigh

lets for once pose "A High for a Cry...but and Eye for an Eye..."

Break the Cycle...

Yes, I know you are angry...so am I, from the past 12-13 hours or so...post the holocaust at Mumbai i have been hearing people swearing @ the politicians, calling them names, blaming them for all that has happened...I agree with you all my friends, but the very fact that you cannot straighten out a dogs curvy tail is analogous and ambiguous to our politicians behaviour... look at our politicians like Mr. R.R. Patil...making such a pathetic and a unforgiveable statement saying "Such small incidents are bound to happen in big cities such as this"...a straight pull off from a bolly wood movie eh Mr Patil ?... I pray you are never to loose something valueable in such a small incident ever in the future...!

Ok...Im done with now...I can go on about this rage and fire burning inside of me... [a piece of my mind]...but deep inside theres a sane voice that sqeaks in and tells me...this wont help...every time i counteract telling it...look...I need a vent to let it all out...I guess thats what each one of us is doing ? arent we ? just let it out !

Now its time to pay heed to this inner sane voice of mine...look, lets get this straight my friend...you and I are not going to be in this hot state of boiling water any more than when it all turns to steam...times now come to sit and think about "What can we do now ?"...lets leave out our fellow politicians out of this quest...they are far more smart and efficient than us...they are surely bound to come up with something concrete after a decade and a half of thinking [Comfortably Numb]... but you and I have an intellect level enough to understand that we cannot die by a butchers knife any more !

Ok...Guys ready to get your pistol and riffle licences ? what was that I heard you say....? no...no...thats not as sane as i can get...but probably many of us would get one for our selves...but thats not what one would call a preventive solution...its a mere cure...its time we did something that would break the cycle.... a vicious cycle of "Death/Terror" >> "Remorse/ resolution" >> "Silence/Resilience" >> "Forget and Farewell".

That's what every invention and every discovery has ultimately lead to hasn't it...? they've all thought a way to Break the cycle...and evolved in ideas...as much as you would hate me saying this... i dare say this...but these terrorists actually did break the cycle this time around didn't they ? bombs...bombs...bombs...assault.... there you go...!

So what can we do...? im not really a smart guy...nor am i a man with supreme intelligence (that's what these IAS and Politicians are supposed to be ?)...but hey...im smart enough to know that no Political party existing today can help us...no BJP...no Congress...no mayawati...no Modi...no Laalu...It has to be some one else...So what can i and you do about it ?

Every year we go out and vote...to a party we hope would work things out for us...but now it so happens to be that these holocausts occurred at every major party's rulings...! now whom will you vote for ?...I have news for you... Vote for "Section 49-O" whats that ??? ok so you are as new as I was a day ago... [this is what it is], what...? you are not a registered voter... ? ok its never later than now [Register yourself here] just go ahead and vote...

This is when you can make your vote count...every vote you make will add to a crack to this silence...for too long have we been sitting in the darkness...for too long have we been silent...if you feel this rage, if you respect the cause of those who died...if you feel you are at this very moment living a life in debt to the death of our martyrs... this is the least you can do... Break the cycle...

Eat, Strive, Live & Evolve to Die another Day...

War on Mumbai, Mumbai under siege, Terror attacks on Mumbai... written in bold, coloured with all sorts of frantic shades and painted on the huge 40 inch canvas of my living room.

Shaken I was...but not shocked, I guess most of must have NOT had our knee jerk when the first words of news on the recent Mumbai Tri holocaust penetrated our ears, there was a time when one would listen to these things and interpret, but we as humans evolve and adapt in every possible way... we have Evolved the listening to a Hearing now... I had heard of the blasts at Gate way, I had heard of these blasts in Mumbai Locals... I Heard...

You and me no longer need to interpret...quite astonishing for a human who is generally born "Caring and Kind" if I were to quote so... to have a un wavered reaction of the sorts "Where exactly ?" ... "How many dead ?" .... "Is it Big ?" rather than "Oh God !" or "What ?" after Hearing of these acts.

Charles Darwin theories said..."Animals must evolve to adapt to survive... it's the way of life for one to be a superlative of your predecessor.

well we have evolved haven't we... ? Look at us... We are the Fearless Breed of Mumbaikars a Decade & a half later... since 1993 we have been evolving... Mr Jadhav(a fictional mumbaikar) who almost with difficulty got back to mumbai which he fled from to his native place after 1993 mumbai blasts...has now left for his office the very next day after the Mumbai 7/11 blasts in 2006... what a remarkable evolution !!!

But I'll tell you what...there are some things that dissolve away with time as one evolves...we lost our tails didn't we ?...well now Mr Jadhav has lost something more than his friends & his city...something that belongs to him and aided his Fearlessness, he has now lost his patience...he has now lost his temperament...

I once over heard a local guy tell a foreigner replying to his question on "whats the best thing about mumbai ?"...the guy replied "its people man !" people here have an attitude dude... we are Bindaas ... "Bin... what ?" he said... "Chilled dudes, cool about stuff around us dude !"...but this was a year back ...aaah did I hear you say "The Spirit of Mumbai !" of course now... cheers to the High spirits man...!

Spirits yes...but not of the ones living damned damn it !! , to those spirits which were once a living bunch of joy and happiness... to those people who were sacrificed and died a death of butchers lambs in this decade and a half long time of evolution... !

My damn foot this is evolution !...I choose not to be a part of this ever evolving breed of "resilient" Indians and Mumbaikars... over the time I have lost my patience and evolved it into Hate and Anger... I AM AN ANGRY EVOLVED MUMBAIKAR, I HAVE MY EYES WET WITH ANGER AND NOT SORROW !

For once and as Ironic as this sounds... I Choose not to be a part of an Evolution, I don't want to dawn the Colors of "The Spirit of Mumbai..." I am an Indian who is resilient not to the attacks, but to its attackers...Iam resilient but not to the Fears of dying in a Bomb Blast....but to the people whose intolerant and irresponsible behaviour leads to those Blasts...

I strive day in and day out...I work hard to live...I live to Evolve...but I Will choose to Die as a result of my own actions, not a an Irresponsible act.

Its time we Re-defined the spirit of mumbai, Its time we re defined the term "the Resilient Mumbaikar"... me & you my friend; fight day in and out to live...but not to live this day...not to die like this another day...

Just one of those Situations...

"Oh...!" was the first word I uttered this morning...when a Sharp Ringing sound pierced the silence my ears were enjoying a few seconds before...it (the clock) said Loud and clear... 10:30 AM ! Wow...that was one good voyage I had...though I hardly remember even a bit of it, so here it was, another Sunday...brings joy to most and gloominess to some...the daily chores were done...and I was on to the next...nothing like a good ol' Coffee...with a sprinkled bit of cocoa...and add to that a Good company of Crisp Piece of Toast.

While all this is enjoyable and the first whiff of coffee wakes my conscience...I picked up the daily and ran my eyes through the Headlines...nothing much was different...the same old stuff...Terrorists, Disease, Greed, Power all shouting and spelling that one word...the word we all come to terms with one day or the next...

I decided not to make a bad start to my day and flipped through the pages in search of something more constructive...something that adds more to life...this was difficult...the writers these days are also running out of topics that are different and find it difficult not to relate their topics to anything that's different than the headlines itself...my coffee was almost over...as i sipped on the last drops of the remains...I saw a column on "Space Walkers"...It was about China...being the third country after U.S of A and the then U.S.S.R to have conducted a success full Space walk... Bravo !

But that wasn't it...that small column...spoke much more than this...apart from the much highlighted effort and the striving that the crew of china made to this achievement...it spoke of a situation which most of us face at least once in our lives...in one form or the other...there were about 14 Team members who were destined to achieve this Feat, to do their country Proud...but out of these 14 members only 6 Members could do this...the reason being the others were either too old or were just not ready to get there...they were asked to either look for other jobs or go back home...so whats the Big deal about this...? they failed right ? there is no place for failures...!

That's what you and me might think of at first and dispose off this piece of news...but that's not the case here...it surely is more than this hypothetical assumption... these 14 members all had passed through Years (6-7 yrs) of Space Training and learning's...they had been through the ups and downs together and all had passed the tests and various feats which are required to get there...but when it finally came down to the division bell...it played a different tune...the other 8 members were not failures or had not failed on any testing grounds...yet their destiny was different...ask one of them who was given a reason of "Too Old for this..." he would probably say..."my age is not a judge of my Will and Power"... should it be ? I say no...If we were to count our abilities on our age...we would Limit our Chances ...but that's how I see it.

This is just one of the situation that leaves one staring at the odds in the face and your conscience screaming inside of your head "Nothing I did was wrong...yet I was made to lose what I cherish"...what should and what could one do in this situation ? you have all but two choices... "Give up" or "Give up, but not Give in"... the reason I speak of the second one is cause in such situations I might never be able to Space Walk ever again...but that does not stop me from flying into the Space...situations like these arise every now and then in our lives...but we can always measure up and re-measure our chances to achieve that ultimate Goal in our lives...in one way or the other... ! "So Dream...Believe...Strive...for the fire that Burns within...shall Measure up to the Light of the Sun...and shall Light up the Road to Glory for the others to follow you in the Dark...!"