Mumbai Mayhem

Mumbai - Oh god !! Not Again...
It was painful to watch what all happened in mumbai.
And, btw i just want to understand where is Raj thackrey these days ?
He keeps shouting for the cause of marathi manoos, maharashtra, mumbai and what not ?
Why did he not rushed his MNS team to save/rescue those who were caught. Or his team could have helped in some other way if not doing the commando job. His team could have taken care of family members of those who were killed or provided help to the families of commandos who were killed.
Ooooooh !! sorry - I misunderstood the entire stuff. His team is only capable of terrorising the innocent common people who are either north indians or some other people who want to live a peaceful life in mumbai.
Mr Thackrey - If you want to terrorise somebody, pls go and terrorise LeT, Al Quaida, Dawood Ibrahim, Osama, Pakistan......... We will be grateful.

OK - Now i will stop discussing Raj Thackrey.

I have mentioned in my earlier posts also that its a sheer lack of political will that we have to face such shameful events. Because we allow the culprits of previous blasts to live, its our punishment to face such things again and again.
Why is Afzal stil alive ? So that, one fine day some terrorists will hijack a plane with 300 indians - take it to karachi/kandhar - kill 15 of our citizens and ask the indian govt to release Afzal.
Will the Home ministry answer this ?

Oh - The home minister has resigned. Its a symbolic depiction of accepting non-performance. But, the non-performance was of the entire govt - not just home minister. Will his resignation bring back the lives of those dead ? Can his resignation fill the vaccum in lives of families of those dead ? No. Not at all.

But that RK Laxman's poor common man continues paying taxes (on time) to the irresponsible govt.

Further, there were more deaths in Delhi/Ahemdabad/Jaipur blasts than what happened in 5 star hotels in Mumbai. When Home Minister did not resign the last time then why only now ?
Why is there a lot of extra hue and cry this time then last time ? Probably because this time a lot of influential and socially upward 5 star crowd was attacked.
In this country a common man is a common man - Who cares ?
But if there are VIPs suffering, then things move.
Thanks to the terrorist for not attacking the local markets and other crowded places but choosing 5 star hotels. Atleast things will move now.
Why did they not target Hyatt, Marriott, other 5 star hotels and posh colonies ?
Why did they not target Lalu, Mulayam, Mayawati, Raj Thackrey and other such so-called leaders ? This country could have got an opportunity to have new leadership.

May be we were not lucky enough..

I received a sms last night.

"Do not worry about those who have come through boats. Our forces can defeat them.

But worry about those who have come through votes. They are the Real Enemies."

I wish this country will become golden bird again and we all will live peacefully.

Cheers

The Indian Story

An Old Story:
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The
Grasshopper has no food or
shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press
conference and
demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be
warm and well fed
while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the
shivering Grasshopper
next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home
with a table filled
with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can
this be that this poor
Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the
Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other
Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during
winter .

Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on
Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the
Indian Government for
not upholding the fundamental rights of the
Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking
support to the
Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting
Peace for prompt
support as against the wrath of God for
non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for
' Bengal Bandh' in
West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants
from working hard
in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty
among Ants and
Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers
on all Indian Railway
Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the '
Prevention of Terrorism
Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from
the beginning of the
winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for
Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and
having nothing left
to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated
by the Government
and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony
covered by NDTV.


Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the
Downtrodden '

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN
General Assembly.

Many years later.....

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a
multi-billion dollar
company in Silicon Valley ,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite
reservation somewhere
in India ,

...AND




As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and
feeding the
grasshoppers,
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..
..
..
..
..
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..India is still a developing country !!!

Thoughts - Contributed by Ashok Jain

1. There are two things to aim at in life.

First, to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Only the wisest of the mankind has achieved the second.

2. Never measure the height of mountain until you have reached the top.

3. Attempt is the only solution to all the problems.

4. Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life ...

Relationships work best when they are balanced.

5. If everyone is happy with you, surely you have always made compromises in your life.

6. How we see things outside depend on how things are inside us.

Rs 500 look so big when we go to a temple & so small when we go to a Pizza hut..

Is'nt it ?

7. When flood comes up, Fish eat ants...

When flood goes down, Ants eat fish...

Time matters....

God always gives everyone a turn to bat...

Just wait for your turn...

8. To be successful, you need friends,

But to be very successful you need enemies...

Cheers

Millennium City - Pathetic Infrastructure

This place is meant to pour out my heart for each and everything i feel. Hence, today i chose to write on the "state-of-art" infrastructure in millennium city. Today, it took me 55 minutes to travel 8 km of distance in this city. I drove - sorry - i hardly drove - I crawled at 10-15 kmph. There is hardly any road left between the potholes. By the time i reached my destination - I was suffering with stomache ache. Mind it - I was travelling in a luxury car with a nice suspension system. I dont know - what happens with people travelling in buses and other public transports, people on 2-wheelers and people in not so luxury cars, pregnant women, elderly people, Oh god.

My city boasts of costliest properties in the country, huge buildings, lifestyle, malls and what not.
I wish all of our ministers should be made to travel in public transports and on these very roads.

We pay all the taxes (on time) to get this shit out. Looks like the taxes are absorbed by fat politician pockets or there is sheer lack of will to improve on situation.

The infrastructure is poorer than what we get in rural areas of my home state - Rajasthan. Atleast they take care of filling the potholes with mud.

Electricity - Its a 50% chance that you switch on a fan, tubelight or AC and it will start just because electricity can go and come at its own sweet will.

Water - Still better.
Locals - Rude, unfriendly, uncooperative
Administration - Rude, unfriendly, uncooperative
Safety - Hummmm..... Somebody tried stealing my car's stereo a few days back. I was lucky...
Police - God knows. My father once taught me not to become friends or enemy with police. So, I just avoid them. Try dialing 100 and you will realise.
Air - Polluted because of the excess construction and industrial activity across the city.

And My city is known as Gurgaon...
I hope HUDA's top guys read this. Haryana CM reads this.



(I strongly believe that its we only who are responsible for our state. Half of our population sell their votes by accepting blankets and liqour during elections. Thats why we get this shit for next 5 years.)

It Pays to be unreasonable...

Being reasonable is just ordinary. Being unreasonable is extraordinary. If we want to excel, we must be unreasonable to ourselves. We need to have unreasonable expectations from ourselves.

Reasonable is comfortable. To excel we need to leave the comfort zone and become uncomfortable (become unreasonable). Being unreasonable helps in realising one's own potential. Being unreasonable gives that extra push required to achieve the extraordinary.

All of us have watched sports on television and have seen players making that extra effort to score a goal or take an unbelievable catch, just because they had that unreasonable expectation from themselves.

Nobody ever scored 175 runs in a one dayer before Kapil walked in with that unreasonable expectation and he ended up creating history.

Most of us have seen Lagaan - The famous Amir Khan movie. Thats the power of being unreasonable.

Being unreasonable exposes the potential.

Cheers . Lets be unreasonable in life and achieve the unachievables.

Good Luck

A Wednesday

Just saw this movie and felt like writing about it. Wonderful movie.
Hats off to the entire team who made this movie.
After a long time I saw something which is thought provoking and carries a clear message.
A common man - yes a common STUPID man can change the track of the system. What if he is a common man - he is still powerful enough to take system to the task.
A common man refuses to die of terror and the terror gets terrorised. Each one of us has the capacity to TERRORISE THE TERROR. We need to wake up, simply refuse to accept terror and then see the result.
We do not need a government or police to fight with terror. We just need will.
Its a beautiful feeling to see terrorists under terror. We need to show them the terror of a common man.
If we start attacking , killing terror, it has to die . No other option.
I hope lot of common men will wake up after this movie , take lessons , realise their potential and fight for the good of society.

"If terror makes our life tough , let's make terror's life miserable"

Cheers

Delhi Blasts have shattered me

Its painful to hear about delhi blasts. God knows how many more will be killed in the name of Jehad. I strongly feel that the best way of defence is offence. We the common people of India, the government and the cops need to rise up and instead of waiting for terrorist to do something and then we taking actions - we should be proactive in getting behind these guys and finishing their networks, resources, etc. Its not possible for an outsider to come to delhi and effect such crimes without support of locals. Hence, the locals who have supported them should not be allowed a trial in court. They should be straight away brutally killed.

Because we have not punished Afzal, we have to face such blasts. Since, we allowed the bastards of previous blasts to live , we have to face such incidents. We need to act and finish each and every person who was involved in blasts in which ever way.

Look at US. They were behind Osama for years after 9/11. Though they could not catch him but even Osama was not able to strike again.

We also need to have similar determination in fighting terrorism.

Long live my country. May we all live peacefully.

"Jai Hind"

Bihar Floods

Year on year - its the same story. North Bihar gets flooded. Lakhs of people migrate to save their lives and to live their life. I dont understand what the government and authorities have been doing since years., sorry decades. Since childhood i have been hearing about these floods through newspapers and news channels. What has been stopping government to create a plan and put it into action so that the extra volume of water can be nicely managed? If its Nepal, I am sure we being India can manage Nepal and that too for a cause wherein thousand of people die every year.There is a heavy lack of political will that the poors are made to suffer every year. I recently read about some families who have lost their homes due to floods 14 times in last 60 years. Can the politicians even imagine what must be going on in these families. They have been loosing homes every 4/5 years. I read about a family wherein the husband was sleeping on the roof of house with one kid and the wife was downstairs with another kid. They were owners of a kirana shop. Floods came and in minutes wife and the kid were drowned, house collapsed and the husband ran to save his life with his kid. Now, he has arrived at New Delhi railway station in hope of new life. I wish such things should have happened with lalu prasad, mayawati or mulayam singh. Then they will realise the irony of being poor.The heavy taxes we pay get pocketed by these politicians and our brothers and sisters who should actually get the benefit keep waiting. We should have a system designed in a way that taxes collected should directly be sent for the purpose they have been collected without passing through the control of corrupt politicians. Crisis management may be privatised or whichever way. ...May god bless all who are suffering from floods in Bihar.

New Business

Hummm... interesting business....

Divine

I have believed all my life that there is a necessary interaction that occurs between a person and the divine. This interaction does not come only to prophets, bodhisattvas and other great spiritual masters, it also comes to us – ordinary people in our ordinary lives.

It is part of our natural human capacity to call out one of the thousand names of “God”, and our capacity to perceive and interpret the response. We know there is power in spirit but we put off our willingness to entertain spiritual transformation day by day.

Sometimes, I think of the connection to spirit as being like a phone line. The connection is always open – its our half of the relationship to stay available for incoming calls. Sometimes, I turn the ringer off. Sometimes, I ignore the ringing. Sometimes, I pick up the phone with suspicion. Sometimes, I hang up in anger. Sometimes, I get impatient at the interruption. Sometimes, I have no idea how to respond. The problem is not in sending. Its in receiving.

And unlike a lot of other calls, the one from the spirit is the one we are hoping to receive. If everyday the divine is attempting to communicate its larger wisdom, then one of the most important things we can do is find a way to listen to spirit; maintain peace of mind; move at the pace of guidance; practice certainity of purpose; surrender to surprise; ask for what you need and offer what you can; love the folks in front of you; return to the world.


PS : This was written in July 2004 ( 4 yrs back)

Impossible

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion. Impossible is temporary. If there is something which is not easily possible some people term it as impossible, not knowing that impossible itself says "I M POSSIBLE". Impossible is nothing. Impossible is potential. Its not a declaration.
Some of the greatest feats in this world have been achieved by people who were not intelligent enough to understand that they were impossible. So they went on and achieved them.
So, guys - go on and achieve the impossible.

Cheers

Failures

Its very important to fail in life.
Failures are ladders of success.
Failures make one strong. A failure establishes that the determination to succeed was not strong enough.
There is a great practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Failures keep you humble.
Our glory is not in never failing but in rising everytime we fail.
Success is failure kicked to pieces by hard work.

कुछ शायरी

१ तेरे महखाने का अजब दस्तूर है,
जाम उसे मिलता है जिसे पीना नही आता ।

२ वही मुंसिफ वही कातिल , अजब दौर यहाँ देखा,
अब अंधेरे फ़ैसला करेंगे उजाले की वफ़ाओ का।

३ मुझसे मेरी कहानी मत पूछो हमदम,
इस में कुछ पर्दानाशी लोगो के नाम भी है।

४ जिसे फूलों से नफरत हो गई हो, जिसे काटों से उल्फत हो गई हो,
जिससे जिंदगी बेखबर हो गई हो, जिसको मरने की फुर्सत हो गई हो,
समझो - उसी की मोहब्बत ठुकराई गई है।

५ तू कही भी रहे , तेरे सर पर ये इल्जाम तो है,
तेरे हाथो की लकीरों पर मेरा नाम तो है ,
देख कर तुझे लोग नाम मेरा लिया करते है ,
मेरी मोहब्बत का ये अंजाम तो है।

Cheers

Life is about timing and confidence.

Most of the human beings are capable of doing most of the things. But its about time. Who does it at the right time ?

Today if I were to sit in class 10th exams I might end up scoring highly. But if only I had done it at the right time when I was actually in class 10th , Life could have been different.

Timing is important because opportunities do not knock the door all the time.

Confidence is an outcome of preparation. If there is right preparation, confidence is automatically generated.

Luck is a marriage of opportunity and preparation.
Be prepared all the time so as to have confidence and when opportunity knocks, just hit it hard.
That’s why they say fortune favours the brave.

Cheers

Welcome

Today ,
I am writing the first post on this blog. I hope this is the start of a long journey. I have chosen this way to express myself and pour out my heart. I hope this journey will be long, enriching and fruitfull.
Here, I will try and talk about life, my experiences, ambitions, truth and its face, my country, etc.
Cheers
Anurag