Random Thoughts

Its an ugly scene, I don’t know why.

There’s all hatred within, and I want to cry.

These lively creatures, suddenly seem so fake.

I feel they don’t deserve to be friends to make.

It was you, whose shoulder, I took for support.

But never knew, to this level, you would distort.

And now I feel miserably detached,

That’s maybe because I didn’t think before being attached.

There’s another guilt, that throws me down from cloud nine.

I should not have put my hands on the ones that were never mine.

But then what strikes me all over again, is the strength that the divine has bestowed in me.

I have to see through each color of life, even if the darkest of all it be.

IPL not at home! Sad??

I'm a big cricket freak and thats because of the fact that I belong to cricket crazy family. Cricket is special, coz thats one major reason for my Mom and Dad meeting each other for the first time. So, this proves, how i completely LOVE cricket. So as this whole hearted cricket freak, when i heard the news of IPL, thats the Indian Premier League being shifted to South Africa, my first reactions included disappointment, anger and irritation over the nation's government. I'm sure all my fellow citizens had similar feelings.

But then i sat down patiently, i went through the news, i went through the facts and after a lot of observations, I realized that we cricket crazy people have just been blaming the government. We haven't really heard and analyzed the government's stance properly. Have we? If we go on to some Logical thinking, I don't think it is a bad decision. After all, what can be more imporant than the security of the players we all worship... what is more important than the givernment elections in a nation...

It might just sound boring to be this 'seriuos patriotic' citizen, but then boring or not, the fact remains,,, Elections are the top priority at the moment. IPL can be enjoyed on television sets too... and it will anyways be back next year... y b worried?? Just be ready with your drinks and snacks and have fun watching IPL on that couch of yours! :)

Community or Party? What do we chose in elections 2009?

As elections 2009 take command in the nation of over a billion people, India faces one of the most communal elections in the history of the government. Godhra riots of 2004, Sikh riots of 1984, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar’s election ticket and Varun Gandhi’s ‘eternal love’ for Muslims have all taken away the limelight from other important and growth oriented agendas of the country.

The Indian voter has no option but to become a silent spectator who sees what each party has to offer. The scene becomes even uglier as the ‘aam aadmi’ is still thinking if he is given a choice for communities or parties. This is a nation where during an election campaign, our political leaders promise to build structures like Ram temple. This is a nation, where our politicians make statements about killing a person who acts against the Hindu community.

The India of twentieth century where the citizens have started understanding the concept of ‘unity’ we have ‘netas’ still trying to fill their vote banks in the name of communities.

And this is not the only facet of the present Indian political race. They talk of community and unity at the same time, but do they really care?

When the Godhra victims got justice, Sudheendra Kulkarni of BJP, very lightly, defending his party or, in literal terms, proving his party better than the other one, commented during an interview with a television news channel that, “It took ‘just seven years’ for Godhra victims to get justice.” A long seven years’ wait of the victims became ‘just seven years’ for our very own ‘netaji’.

Varun Gandhi, in his speech disgraced the whole Muslim community, made fun of Muslim names and even said that he’ll sword off the heads of anyone who acts against the Hindu community. From then to now, his party has left all agendas behind and their most important agenda has become ‘defending Varun’.

That was about one party. Congress is not far behind. They did not cancel the tickets of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar (both have charges against them for inciting Sikh riots in 1984) until Jarnail Singh of Dainik Jagran hurled a shoe on our very own Home Minister P. Chidambaram, for CBI giving a clean chit to Tytler. What an ironical situation it is. A person was not wrong until there were ‘shoes’ all set to hit the party hard.

Such is our political Tamasha. An Indian citizen stands helpless. He has to choose a better option from the worse of options. He is trying to figure out if he is electing a political party or a community as his nation’s leader. The question boggles his mind: Party or Community?

WORDS

When I see within,

I see words wandering.

They help me speak myself,

Whether in summer, winter or spring.

A support system, they seem to be,

Even when you’re in the midst of worst.

From all the bounds, they make you free,

As they pull it all out, right from the thrust.

As randomly those words come,

I smile with them, I wipe my tears.

They make me feel, they make me speak,

They help me fight away all fears.

I thank them for being with me,

For making me what I am.

For describing me, for rejuvenating me,

And for expressing me time and again.

Inspiring Myself

I stand firm, facing it all,
Playing away those hardships, just as I play a ball.

Yes, my life is also typically humane,
At times, trying to make me so insane.

But keeping myself so strong within, I betray all betrayals,
I carry my sunshine on my palms and give all mishaps a revival.

They call me strong as the iron lady, and wish to be emotionless like me.
But, I want to tell them, I’m no emotionless being, I handle my emotions, I travel through my life, I face whatever it brings.

Its not solely my strength, but there is much more to it,
I have the best of family and friends, who make each moment a lovely gift.

So, my dear life, I’m ready for all your turns,
Coz I have a good for every evil of yours, and I’ll see that each of your challenge burns.