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...