wut an idea sir ji !!

i just loved the idea mobile advt on "batien karne ke liyeh basha ki jaroorat nahi hoti" ( loosely translated : you dont need to understand the launguage to communicate with eachother)

this reminds me of the incident my mother narrated to me long back, since my parents are bengali when they came to bombay 35 years back, ma did not know a single word of hindi and baba's vocab was bare minimum but ma and her two neighbours one maharashtrian and other south indian too dint have a common language but would have animated discussions whenever the ladies had time....

its amazing that we can communicate not just with other humans but also animals and plants without knowing their language and yet we refuse to communicate at times with our loved ones...

at home too we celebrate ganapati durga puja christmas with the same zeal and freak out on da biryani we get at friends over eid......

so in this case food knows no language ... ha ha

our ganapati this year

tick tock ...big talk !!!

i love to read quotes everyday.. and each time i read a beautiful line, i am amazed at the wit .. sometimes the wisdom and yet other times the pain behind a sentence that either tells a story and yet makes you laugh .. some make you sit back and think and realize the thought could not be better communicated and yet others awaken you to a new world of thoughts ..... ya quotes really make me want to be one the people who would be made alive through the smiles. the thoughts. the tears, the empathy of others from time to time..... 

but honestly i hate the preachy kind of quotes teaching the value of time...  of course time is ticking away and we need to make good use of it but talking about accounting for seconds even with the poetic or quotic license is like going tooo far .... come on.. 

thank god then the people dint know bout nano second else in the quotes they would ask us to keep track of that too....

and how much time is wasted in keeping track...... so how do i make use of the time ?

simple.. sit back .. relax .. do what your heart tells mostly and other times listen to your head.... even if odds r against you... u become more odd and beat it in its game.....

i think life is not how you make it or what you do with it... its more about what you discover and what you learn and know what to unlearn... you waste time but gain wisdom... you make little more but gain peace.. 

i think a person is successful and accomplished in life only when you give more than you recieve and yet know you have more to give ...

some day i sure will get there... am not in a rush to climb up the ladder ..i know i will stay up long ...  am not scared to fall ..  as i know the path up again.... while i go ... i learn to learn more ... while i go i learn to give more .... while i go i enjoy the while i am here ... while i go i smell the road... while i go i know you are there by my side ......

hafta wasuli !!!

dexy has a fixed quota when it comes to food. meaning his breakfast consists of 4 breads and 1 cup milk and 4 marei biscuits followed by lunch of chicken and rice and he repeats the same for evening snack and dinner.

but the moment he sees any of us eating his favourite food (2 blog post or mayb more could b dedicated to that list !!!) he would not leave us unless we offer him his share.....

the way he does his hafta wasulii with those lovely eyes and "o am so cute" pose is so heart warming that i am the first to give into this emotional atyachaar and my bro would yell at me for spoiling him.

well if devil had a cute face it would be dexter and if munna bhai could learn something more about "emotional hafta wasuli" again dexter would be his mentor .....

coz its cold in bombay coz of the rains, his new fav snoozing adda is our couch .... hail dexter !!

raju ban gaya gentle man ?? !!

 its ironic that we celebrate 63 years of freedom and yet we are bound to corruption,red tapism, bigotry and many others such evils, faces would have changed but the devil lives and trives !!

i was surprised to see on 16th august on papers just a news article on raju of satyam being released on bail. I was surprised that not much news coverage by news channels was done on the same who otherwise sensationalize something as gory as pedophilia !!

we have made a mockery of " of the people, for the people and by the people"

& media that is getting powerfull by the day is dominated by the money pundits

nothing looks real and no one there to trust ..

I dream of an India that is stands for its rights
I dream of an India that is united by its belief and divided by only geography
I dream of an India where knowledge is transparent & reward is directly proportional only to effort
I dream of an India where smile is real and tear evaporates into hope
I dream of an India where each Indian is proud to be an Indian ...

hiding from me !!

i was off on work tour and dexter gets real mad at me when i go, i have to wait for him to go off to sleep before i start packing else he gets upset the moment he sees my travel bag down.

this time too i did the same thing and as usual when i was back i was wrapped in my dexters arms and down on the floor with him petting me :)


but what really touched me was usually in the evening i take him for his evening walks and when am on tour my bro takes him out but the next day i was held up at work so my bro took dexter out for walk and this boy refused to budge !!


he waited till i came ie almost 2 hours after his due time to answer nature's call. he welcomed me and then ma told me the story. i was very touched with this unconditional love he showed !


we had one of the longest walks, he is an ace at emotional atyachaar !! but i so enjoyed it though by the end of it we both were tired, our hearts were warm with love and camaraderie


that's when it struck me, we always hide behind our invisible walls,hiding our feelings, sometimes from our loved ones, sometimes from people we cannot stand and sometimes even from our ownselves !!

the false pride, the fear of taken advantage of,  the image to maintain, the aftermath of our action.. the bitter feeling at the bottom of stomach, the wanting to let go ..all are justified and yet the feeling of flying by doing what you feel like cannot be second by any feeling in the world !!


and still we are so good at convincing our own selves that what we are doing is good that after some time we loose touch with reality, feelings are to be shown towards ones we love and sometimes even towards ones we dont...


what is life without a touch of madness.. without a touch of pain.. without a touch of wickedness , without a touch of sin, without a touch of silly pride, without a touch of greed for more, yes life is all about this and more .......


so i did grab my little bit of the moon, smiled at a stranger, hugged my mother, ragged my brother (ok that one is routine), waved at someone i usually ignore ......


changes... life is full of them ...

Sholay the finest definition of a Legend !!

Its been 35 years since sholay was released and still its fresh in every indian mind,

the gaonwaloan,
the angresh ke jamaane ke jailer,
the dhannou,
the kyun ki yeh kaoun bola,
the ramgard,
the chakki peesing,
the bachhoun ko kahani pad kar sunana,
the tera naam kya hain,
the mujhe gabbar jinda chahiye,
the soorma bhopali,
the kuttoan ke saame mut nachana,
the dosti,
the kitnein aadmi thein,
the yeh haat mujhe de de thakur,
the itna sannata kyun hain,
the toss,
the mouth organ,
the latein bujhana,
the chakki ka aata,
the kitne aadmi thein,
the tera kya hoga kalia,
the aree ou sambha,
the bhaag dhannou,
the suicide kya hota hain bhai,
the romance, the betrayal, the love, the passion, the horror, the pathos, the anger, the depth, the lust, the rage....

i could just go on and on.. salute to you sholay the finest definition of a Legend !!

i have so many memories of my past life attached to sholay..

as a kid i would cry every time i would see amitabh been beaten up and my parents would have to take me out of the theater before the last scene as they were scared i would bring the house down with my howling

as i grew and understood this is just a movie, my throat would always have a hard lump which was very difficult to swallow watching amitabh die but i started enjoying the jai veeru dosti and hoped i had that scooter with a side seater and a friend who would do all these cray things with me...

then during my adolescence, always hoped i meet someone who is crazy bout me as jai and veeru were about their lady love ...

as i grew older and wiser realised this really is a movie , men are crazy anyways ... ha ha kidding, then i started relishing every scene for what it was...

tx all those who dreamt and made sholay....... never another movie can touch so many hearts of generations to come ....

sunshine here i come !

A promise to keep,
a road to travel,
a smile to dazzle,
a song to make,
an answer to find,
a surprise to give,
a mystery to unravel,
a hug to receive,
love to give,
a wing to find,
a truth to learn,
a rule to make,
few to break,
an old friend to find,
many new to make,
a gift to make,
many more to spread,
a bitter pill to swallow,
an old habit to break,
a new me to discover,
some old secrets to uncover,
to unlearn,
to relearn,
to return,
to break free,
to be and yet let go,
to remember to forget,
to cry out loud so that i can hear,
to hide and find,
to return to a new beginning,
yes life sure is more than hand full,
but then you never get it fully!
Learning to live than just living,
sunshine here I come !!