i possess the greatest predictor of monsoons known to humans. My respiratory system. Forget the met department, the shedding gulmohar trees, the pied-crested cuckoo etc. A day before the monsoon hits Bombay, i get atleast a cough and cold. Depending on the severity of the first rains, this could be as mild a barely-there case of sniffles. So you can imagine what must have happened this time... i got viral fever which necessitated two days of bed rest. And lo and behold, the monsoon starts 2 days before the met departments predictions.
5 THINGS NOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS MONSOON:
1) Muck
2) Water logging
3) Huge, massive cyclone style 'cloudbursts'
4) Smelly wet socks
5) Stalled cars
5 THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS MONSOON:
1) Holidays due to water logging
2) Pakodas and chai
3) Raincoats and windcheaters in all possible colours
4) Getting soaked in a drizzle
5) Lush green leaves on trees
Happy Monsooning!!
29.5.06
Once Again...
Its been seventeen days since the doctors at AIIMS have been on strike. And still no favourable response from the government. Has democracy been reduced to electoral politics? A game of monopoly. The more number of castes one controls, the more 'secular' or the more 'democratic' one is. Here is a minister hell-bent on fucking up the future of the country and all the prime minister can do is keep quiet and pray the matter boils over and once theres no hope of that happening, issue hollow statements which stink of government apathy. While thousands of students all over the country protest. It doesn't make a difference to most of the protestors whether reservation is increased or not. All of them are halfway down their graduation and if they wished not to care, it wouldn't have affected them. But it hurts when one sees someone (doesn't matter what caste) get the much desired seat in a prestigious college when that person doesn't deserve it. It hurts to see someone drive up in a Honda City and take the Rs. 10 SC/ST reserved quota admission form. It hurts to see someone with a callous attitude and a carefree life get ahead of you just because that person was born to a 'disadvantaged' family.
www.youth4equality.org. Support the revolution.
www.youth4equality.org. Support the revolution.
26.5.06
New old faces...
Travelling back from work in Bandra for the last three weeks has resulted in a recognisable mass of people all of whom wait for that god-forsaken 222 to come on time for atleast once in its warranty period...
1) Girl who always and without fail fiddles with tangled mess of earphones
2) Quiet, nose digging guy who seems to be waiting for someone
3) Cranky old man who always fights with conductor for change
4) Polite guy who always asks in shuddh hindi whether the bus has come
5) Pav aunty with rosary in her hands all the time
6) Bandra chicks who giggle all the time. One of them has 4 piercings in her left ear
7) Girl with laptop who gets off at Gagandeep
8) Loud cell phone user guy with cool Omega watch.
If any of you guys read this and use the same bus stop as i do (im sure by now you would know if you do) then say hi to me on Monday.
1) Girl who always and without fail fiddles with tangled mess of earphones
2) Quiet, nose digging guy who seems to be waiting for someone
3) Cranky old man who always fights with conductor for change
4) Polite guy who always asks in shuddh hindi whether the bus has come
5) Pav aunty with rosary in her hands all the time
6) Bandra chicks who giggle all the time. One of them has 4 piercings in her left ear
7) Girl with laptop who gets off at Gagandeep
8) Loud cell phone user guy with cool Omega watch.
If any of you guys read this and use the same bus stop as i do (im sure by now you would know if you do) then say hi to me on Monday.
23.5.06
Evil Plans...
Saw an article in the paper the other day which said sharing gossip helps in building better bonds of friendship. Hmmm....
A few weeks ago, a few friends and i decided to make use of the little information we have and minute observations we make about other people in the class and put them on cyberspace as a blog. Just for fun and maybe as a reminder of what we were like and what we did in college. Of course no names. And lots of innuendo. And a promise that we won't tell anyone about this and to let people find out on their own. Then somewhere down the line, we all decided not to. Maybe certain people's comments to certain stuff written about them on someone else's blog made us realise people were touchy after all, however much they may try to create an image of the opposite. Maybe we were afraid it might turn out to be malicious. Or even the fact that we're all too lazy too indulge in something like that....
But the question is, how do we decide what gossip is? ive realised that invariably when one talks about another person, it ends up being 'oh i heard that this person...' or 'this person is so (fill with adjective)...' which might get construed as 'gossip'. But most of it is harmless, it makes no difference to anyone in the world and no attitudes or perceptions of people are changed.
So does that mean the minute it changes people's perceptions of someone, it becomes gossip? Or when you make up stuff based on little fact and lots of imagination? i know people who've become the world's worst enemies just cos someone had a bad experience with them and decided to tell everyone within earshot about it. Or the other way round, where someone is hated by everyone just cos that person bitches about everyone. Maybe the news report ain't all that right.
Where does one draw the line?? Could someone temme fast cos i have this juicy bit of...
A few weeks ago, a few friends and i decided to make use of the little information we have and minute observations we make about other people in the class and put them on cyberspace as a blog. Just for fun and maybe as a reminder of what we were like and what we did in college. Of course no names. And lots of innuendo. And a promise that we won't tell anyone about this and to let people find out on their own. Then somewhere down the line, we all decided not to. Maybe certain people's comments to certain stuff written about them on someone else's blog made us realise people were touchy after all, however much they may try to create an image of the opposite. Maybe we were afraid it might turn out to be malicious. Or even the fact that we're all too lazy too indulge in something like that....
But the question is, how do we decide what gossip is? ive realised that invariably when one talks about another person, it ends up being 'oh i heard that this person...' or 'this person is so (fill with adjective)...' which might get construed as 'gossip'. But most of it is harmless, it makes no difference to anyone in the world and no attitudes or perceptions of people are changed.
So does that mean the minute it changes people's perceptions of someone, it becomes gossip? Or when you make up stuff based on little fact and lots of imagination? i know people who've become the world's worst enemies just cos someone had a bad experience with them and decided to tell everyone within earshot about it. Or the other way round, where someone is hated by everyone just cos that person bitches about everyone. Maybe the news report ain't all that right.
Where does one draw the line?? Could someone temme fast cos i have this juicy bit of...
21.5.06
Fall from grace...
i feel so sorry for one Sean Preston. Poor guy. Must be a pain (literally) having a mom like Britney Spears. First there's the intense media scrutiny. Then theres the pain of having a dad who prefers strippers to him on his lap. And if that wasn't enough, he gets dropped as often as a badly-performing stock. First he fell off his high chair and fractured his skull. Now his mom drops him while trying to save her bottle of Pepsi (or whatever she's paid to endorse). Thanks to her personal bodyguard, he avoided major injury. Wearing platform heels and jeans that would invariably come under those heels may not be bad mothering but it surely points to dumb mothering. One glance at her and 'oops I did it again' doesn't seem misplaced. Maybe globe-trotting, orphan (??)-rescuing, general Hollywood do-gooder and UNICEF ambassador Angelina Jolie has place in her house for another child?
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