Saturday, April 18, 2009
Weirdo...:D
Just go through what Solanki Halder (मेरी प्यारी classmate) has written in her blog...scenes in our class! Yeah, well, all that does happen...we are all crazy people doing crazy stuff...:D To hell with our पागलपन hehehe... By the way, I'm not posting anything 'cause I'm really busy. Guess...yeah, right. Goddamned second internal exams. If I could just fry either these WBUT people or the "supposedly" cute puppies living on our college campus (adored by Sola, Mona and ESPECIALLY Shubha)... UFF! One of these freaky days...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Thank You...
Well...yesterday was my birthday. :) Yeah, okay, I was feeling all special and happy. अरे, साल में एक ही बार तो आता है, ना? And yeah, I had to stay up for the messages and calls at 12... First of all, Asmi called. That also on my landline! Reason? Airtel से मेरे phone पे कोई call लगता ही नहीं है! I don't know why though...some दुश्मनी they have among themselves... whatever. Somebody forgot as I expected. Then messages came(...though the Airtel ones didn't get delivered). आज कल लोग treat के लिए क्या क्या नहीं करते... I went to college, entered the classroom and almost a dozen people wished me "Happy Birthday"! O_o That was something. Then, without me knowing, Monalisa, Solanki and Shubha brought a cake for me! (And no, they didn't do it for a treat... "Mind it") Then a lot of stuff happened... we didn't have a knife so i had to cut the cake with my scale which I later discarded though I had thought of keeping it for memories' sake... there were no candles so these people stuck two ice-cream sticks in the cake (as if I'm a 2 year old kid)... Sola grabbed my arms and Shubha applied lip-gloss on my lips saying "You need to look good today, come-on!"... lot of pics, a weird video taken by Mona and them finishing the ceremony by taking dollops of multi-coloured cream from the cake and sticking it on my nose to make me look like a clown! :D Sola and Mona have just recovered from chicken pox so they said "No" to a treat. Though the guys in my class were continuously bugging me for that... today also they went on for the entire first half. So, at lunch time, I managed to get out of college and get a 2 litre bottle of Sprite (as Kaushik had said "हम काला पानी नहीं पिएगा") and a packet of chips and banged it in front of them when they were having lunch. Then another नौटंकी started. "तुम्हारा birthday है...तुम भी साथ में पियो वरना ले जाओ...हमें नहीं चाहिए..." No matter how much I protested it didn't make a difference to them. So in the end (after Amitesh and Kaushik decided to pour the entire bottle on my head with me climbing on the bench and jumping down on the other side trying hard to escape...though I couldn't, as five of them were surrounding me and Mona and Sola were laughing their heads off) I did take 1 sip (termed as "Formality") and fled from the spot. But still... whatever happened, it was a lot of fun and to tell you people the truth, I loved every moment of it. I don't remember the last time I celebrated my birthday with my friends by cutting a cake. I'll remember this... and I'll miss college. :)
Monday, March 30, 2009
I Have Got Nothing To Say... x-(
Nowadays I don't even feel like reading the newspaper. It's just too much... a father raping his own daughter??? A FATHER?!!! मुझे बस यह समझ नहीं आ रहा की इंसान किस हद तक गिर चुके हैं... इंसान कहलाने के लायक ही नहीं रहे हम। Screw this goddamned world... x-(
Friday, March 20, 2009
Hope, Fear and Courage...:)
Well...to tell you the truth, I'm sick. I have a really bad cold and didn't feel like studying and suddenly thought of sketching this.:P बहुत अच्छा तो नहीं बना है पर मेरे ख्याल से चलेगा. Didn't have a very good grip on my pencil.:( Will try to put up a better one next time...:) See ya!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
The Hate Brigade
I have been following the newspapers very closely for the last one week after THE Mangalore incident. The reason? Yeah, right. The war between the moral police and urban India over Valentine’s Day. I checked the sidelines, the editorials, letters of readers, etc etc etc of two different newspapers and came to the following conclusions-
1. Shri Ram Sene activists (and other sentimental groups) are both wrong and right- Why wrong? There are many reasons due to which Gen Y is infuriated, me included. One, they are imposing their personal opinion on us. Two, they are beating people up in the name of culture. Three, they are saying they are doing all this to protect women still they are threatening them only against celebrating Valentine’s day. Four, holding hands is affectionate, not obscene (this is for Mr. Gehlot). Other reasons are not coming to my mind right now. And why right? They are right when they say there are enough days in our own culture to celebrate love, why go for Valentine’s day which is- definitely- an imported one.
2. Renuka Choudhary (I hope I’ve got her name right, she’s a minister after all) too is wrong as well as right- Why right? Obviously she’s against the assault on women and everyone in their right senses should be, since nobody said beating up women is a part of our culture just ‘cause they were drinking. Come on, men also drink. Acceptability and tolerance are actually good, if it’s not too much to ask for. Why wrong? Because of the Pub Bharo movement. She, under any circumstances, shouldn’t encourage drinking. Let’s face it- drinking, smoking and drugs, they do more harm than good (in fact, smoking doesn’t do any good at all, unless you want to do away with your lungs).
3. The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women (they started The Pink Chaddi movement)- Right for protesting against Shri Ram Sena. People, who are living in this country, they should always speak up for themselves and fight for living life on their own terms, unless they have committed a crime. Personally, I don’t wear spaghetti-tops, skin-tight jeans, I don’t drink, smoke or go to pubs (I am not old enough to do these *chuckles* but given a chance, I don’t think I will…it’s a question of comfort and any sort of addiction is bad) but I don’t think if anybody indulges in all these they should be beaten up. That is plain stupid. Just let them be. None of your business who does what. But, it would have been better if the mode of protest was different instead of sending chaddis. That might have got more supporters. Some people are already calling this obscene and indecent (not me…I was thinking of joining this group at first! As long as it works on fringe-groups, anything will get a thumbs-up from me).
4. Couples indulging in PDA- Holding hands is, as I said, not obscene, it’s affectionate. I don’t think people should mind much, not nowadays, when society is becoming a bit lenient. It might just bring a smile to your lips and a memory to your mind. I have seen guys holding hands, nobody says anything. But whenever it’s a couple, that becomes a talking point. Marriage seems to be the ticket to everything. If a man abuses his wife physically that can be passed off as a small household tiff, but if a guy holds his girlfriend’s hand in public that is oh-so-un-Indian. But, but, but… keep hugging, kissing etc confined to private spaces (or if you are too eager, try a movie hall…hehe!). Our society is not that liberal and most people find the all-over-each-other-in-public situation really awkward. These acts are bound to raise eyebrows and too much of sugar might make you sick!;)
5. Some people are so dumb, I didn’t realize. Some principle of a school reportedly said about sex-education in schools, “Why do you need nude pictures of boys and girls in class? Just teach the boys that they have to be brahmachaari till the age of twenty-five. Just tell the student AIDS is contracted from syringes and blood transfusion.” Very educated, eh?
6. Moral police is neither moral nor police. Nobody appointed them to protect law and order in this country, they are all self appointed and are opposing rapid changes in this country which they think is against our tradition. And they are not exactly very moral. If they beat people up, blacken couples’ faces, burn cards, threaten women with dire consequences against their will in the name of protecting them, stop people from different communities from talking to each-other, harass normal people leading normal lives and do God-knows-what-else which don’t make it to the newspapers then I will rather call them immoral. All they are doing is causing trouble and creating a wall of hatred between different communities living together in harmony in the country.
7. Valentine’s day is just too commercialized. I don’t believe in celebrating this day, except saying “Happy Valentine’s Day” to my friends (after all I love my friends and family, this day is for everybody, not just lovey-dovey couples). Love is not just for one day in a year and it certainly doesn’t reside in ‘V-day Special’ cards and gifts. But if people want to celebrate, I’m happy.:) Celebrating something never hurts. Gives us a reason to smile, doesn’t it?
8. Khushwant Singh- He’s awesome. He made Valentine into velan-time which is an Indian tradition originally from Gujrat! The story had me smiling…even in this hate-each-other season. Yeah, it’s not the season of love. It’s hate all around. Self appointed upholders of Indian morals and values hate the Gen Y for aping the west. Gen Y, in turn, hates these people back, and then these people hate Gen Y even more. Love, you say?
Why am I writing all this? Even I don’t know. One of the reasons, as always, is bugging you.;) My cho-chweet hobby…hehe! All I would like to say is- be brave enough to accept the truth, be honest to yourself and…DON’T TAKE INJUSTICE LYING DOWN.
1. Shri Ram Sene activists (and other sentimental groups) are both wrong and right- Why wrong? There are many reasons due to which Gen Y is infuriated, me included. One, they are imposing their personal opinion on us. Two, they are beating people up in the name of culture. Three, they are saying they are doing all this to protect women still they are threatening them only against celebrating Valentine’s day. Four, holding hands is affectionate, not obscene (this is for Mr. Gehlot). Other reasons are not coming to my mind right now. And why right? They are right when they say there are enough days in our own culture to celebrate love, why go for Valentine’s day which is- definitely- an imported one.
2. Renuka Choudhary (I hope I’ve got her name right, she’s a minister after all) too is wrong as well as right- Why right? Obviously she’s against the assault on women and everyone in their right senses should be, since nobody said beating up women is a part of our culture just ‘cause they were drinking. Come on, men also drink. Acceptability and tolerance are actually good, if it’s not too much to ask for. Why wrong? Because of the Pub Bharo movement. She, under any circumstances, shouldn’t encourage drinking. Let’s face it- drinking, smoking and drugs, they do more harm than good (in fact, smoking doesn’t do any good at all, unless you want to do away with your lungs).
3. The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women (they started The Pink Chaddi movement)- Right for protesting against Shri Ram Sena. People, who are living in this country, they should always speak up for themselves and fight for living life on their own terms, unless they have committed a crime. Personally, I don’t wear spaghetti-tops, skin-tight jeans, I don’t drink, smoke or go to pubs (I am not old enough to do these *chuckles* but given a chance, I don’t think I will…it’s a question of comfort and any sort of addiction is bad) but I don’t think if anybody indulges in all these they should be beaten up. That is plain stupid. Just let them be. None of your business who does what. But, it would have been better if the mode of protest was different instead of sending chaddis. That might have got more supporters. Some people are already calling this obscene and indecent (not me…I was thinking of joining this group at first! As long as it works on fringe-groups, anything will get a thumbs-up from me).
4. Couples indulging in PDA- Holding hands is, as I said, not obscene, it’s affectionate. I don’t think people should mind much, not nowadays, when society is becoming a bit lenient. It might just bring a smile to your lips and a memory to your mind. I have seen guys holding hands, nobody says anything. But whenever it’s a couple, that becomes a talking point. Marriage seems to be the ticket to everything. If a man abuses his wife physically that can be passed off as a small household tiff, but if a guy holds his girlfriend’s hand in public that is oh-so-un-Indian. But, but, but… keep hugging, kissing etc confined to private spaces (or if you are too eager, try a movie hall…hehe!). Our society is not that liberal and most people find the all-over-each-other-in-public situation really awkward. These acts are bound to raise eyebrows and too much of sugar might make you sick!;)
5. Some people are so dumb, I didn’t realize. Some principle of a school reportedly said about sex-education in schools, “Why do you need nude pictures of boys and girls in class? Just teach the boys that they have to be brahmachaari till the age of twenty-five. Just tell the student AIDS is contracted from syringes and blood transfusion.” Very educated, eh?
6. Moral police is neither moral nor police. Nobody appointed them to protect law and order in this country, they are all self appointed and are opposing rapid changes in this country which they think is against our tradition. And they are not exactly very moral. If they beat people up, blacken couples’ faces, burn cards, threaten women with dire consequences against their will in the name of protecting them, stop people from different communities from talking to each-other, harass normal people leading normal lives and do God-knows-what-else which don’t make it to the newspapers then I will rather call them immoral. All they are doing is causing trouble and creating a wall of hatred between different communities living together in harmony in the country.
7. Valentine’s day is just too commercialized. I don’t believe in celebrating this day, except saying “Happy Valentine’s Day” to my friends (after all I love my friends and family, this day is for everybody, not just lovey-dovey couples). Love is not just for one day in a year and it certainly doesn’t reside in ‘V-day Special’ cards and gifts. But if people want to celebrate, I’m happy.:) Celebrating something never hurts. Gives us a reason to smile, doesn’t it?
8. Khushwant Singh- He’s awesome. He made Valentine into velan-time which is an Indian tradition originally from Gujrat! The story had me smiling…even in this hate-each-other season. Yeah, it’s not the season of love. It’s hate all around. Self appointed upholders of Indian morals and values hate the Gen Y for aping the west. Gen Y, in turn, hates these people back, and then these people hate Gen Y even more. Love, you say?
Why am I writing all this? Even I don’t know. One of the reasons, as always, is bugging you.;) My cho-chweet hobby…hehe! All I would like to say is- be brave enough to accept the truth, be honest to yourself and…DON’T TAKE INJUSTICE LYING DOWN.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Had Fun...But Got Tired Too :)
Hi ho hum… Kolkata Book Fair, huh? I just returned from that crazy place. Well, crazy ‘cause of the number of people who go there… I shouldn’t complain, given the number of people who live in this metro! Hehe… It was good. No, seriously, I mean it. At least for us- me, Solanki and Monalisa- it was good. We didn’t have much trouble since it’s a Monday and we arrived there at two in the afternoon (that’s when it starts). Pretty empty stalls and a map with each of us made it quite convenient (actually the map was VERY confusing…half the stall numbers were not legible). What did we see…umm…lot of books, lot of policemen, lot of food, lot of dust (it clogged my respiratory tract…I’m still coughing), lot of couples (for heaven’s sake it’s not the LAKE) and the American president (nah…that was Obama’s cardboard cut-out). When we got to the food park it looked like more people came there to eat than to buy books. For the first time I saw Sola hogging without a care in the world. Mona का तो पता नहीं कब किस देवी का व्रत लगा रहता है. Today non-veg was a strict no-no for her. Me and Sola had some weird ‘butter-fry’ (sounds like Pokemon’s Butterfree, I know, but this one is made of fish) which made me feel sick later. And most importantly what did we buy? Sola bought the heaviest book- रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर का उपन्यास समग्र (Bengali), Mona also went for a Bengali book, a pretty thin one, some story by सत्यजीत राय and me…I don’t want to look like a complete loser so I guess I won’t tell you guys the name of the book because the only reaction I’ll get is- YOU STILL HAVEN’T READ THAT??? I’ll just say one thing- I got a spiral drawing copy by Navneet. :) Hasta pronto…adios!
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