Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Lover's Cove Challenge #4

It's that time again! Time to head on over to apd-loverscove.blogspot.com, other wise known as "Lovers' Cove" and take part in this week's challenge! Please read the Guidelines and Q's & A's thoroughly before entering! In short, you must come up with a line of 15 words or less and your line must continue on in thought based on what the previous person on the linky wrote!



Andy


"Behold! I am renewed again, for the spirit of love has descended upon my heart!"

Crystal


"Years, I've wandered aimlessly through the midst of the shadows trying to elude the dark."

Elen


"Darkness isn’t always so dark becomes hope when our imagination wants to look for a light." 

Radwa


"A light that has been trying to find its sight through such darkness night."

Kriti

"This darkness becomes me, I am but the light of our shadow that quivers."
  
Eclipse


"Yearning for a flight towards the dream, away from the claws of fear." 

Lubaina


"And I rise, rise towards destiny till what the heart wants seems so near."

Nilanjana

"Yea, and  so I rise, wearing this darkness that’s also light, like sapphires beyond price."

My Line

"I would rise and fly high till I touch the sky, conquering an eternal bliss.”




Sunday, August 26, 2012

55 Words - Fiction


Sakshat was standing on gate, screaming continuously.

His cry was so deeply loud that it can move mountains, pierce anyone’s heart apart.

His eyes were blood-red, tears were rolling down his soft cheeks, and he was devastated being there.

His dad was consoling him.

It was saddest day of his life, first day in school.


Sunday, August 12, 2012

Shaadi Ka Laddoo

“Shaadi Ka Laddoo”, its a bitter-sweet dessert, the dish which everyone wants to eat or try at least once in life and even if anyone doesn’t wants to, then also he or she has to eat it. So you don’t have any choice unless you are very dominant on your family but only to a certain period. Early or later everyone has to try and should try it because ‘one should try everything at least once in life’ whether it is something bad or good.

And it turns out to be good or bad for you it’s your destiny no one can be completely responsible for the fruit because you yourself are the gardener and it is in your hands what you make it or break it.

And if you want to eat the ‘Laddoo’ then either you will make it yourself or if you are not able to do so, your family will make the dish for you. But I think one should make it himself or herself according to their tastes and preferences, and if you don’t make it yourself and let your family do the honors for you. Then either you would be happy with the ingredients and will happily eat it. But in case you don’t, then you will blame your family whole your life for the wrong Laddoo choice, so it is better to choose your own Laddoo and be satisfied with your choice, rather than blaming your family.

But sometimes it happens that we choose our Laddoo and our family doesn’t want us to eat it, either because their culture and custom doesn’t allow it or they are afraid of what society will think and say about it. Someone has very rightly said it “sabse bada hai rog kya kahenge log” (the biggest disease is what will people say).

But I never understood how come parents can compromise with their kid’s whole life happiness over the society’s usual gossip. People never come to anyone’s help if something unfortunate happens but still family care about what will people say.  For the society marriage is a free party to enjoy, eat and gossip about others. But it is the couple who have to live with it till they die.

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I think love marriage and arranged marriage is like suicide and murder, respectively. In love marriage we jump into the well with our own choice and happiness, thus suicide (khudkhushi). While in arranged marriage our family and relatives push us into the well, thus a planned murder (sochi samjhi saazish). In both the cases you die and enter into the hell :P.

In either of the case the couple has to make the compromises to continue the marriage with a slow pace and in India, the girl is expected to make more compromises than the boy. Thus I feel for me it is a total suicide, love or arranged it is still marriage.  I will have to leave my old lifestyle and adapt the new one according to others (Huh.. my not so liberated freedom will also be lost :( :P).

PS:- This is my entry for Love Marriage ya Arranged Marriage! contest on IndiBlogger which is organized by Sony Entertainment Television and IndiBlogger team.

It is the new show started on Sony Entertainment Television with the most debated topic "Love Marriage vs. Arranged Marriage". To know more about the show click here.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Politicians - Constitutional Criminals

This morning I read in the newspaper the headline on the front page “MPs charged with serious crimes get guns from Government”, and I was like “wow, so responsible”. Giving guns to the criminals that too with legal permission for their self-defense?  Politicians (criminals), who are already given stringent security by the army and police, how logical is it to provide them a personal gun? They should get them under custody instead providing pistols, but unfortunately, the corruption and weak Indian law system give them bail only to commit more crimes with a legal weapon now. It is a sheer waste of public money which can be used in many other ways for the betterment of the country and public.

It is laughable to read such news, at the same time it is also a serious issue. It is like government themselves giving them guidance and support to play with the life of a common man and laugh at the laws. This is why thousands of cases are pending in the courts when the government consists of criminals how anyone can attain justice? In India, politics is referred as the business for the goons, criminals and rich. No educated, honest and good individual wants to become a politician it is a well-known fact in India, but unfortunately, only politicians have the power to bring change on a large scale and no honest people want to go into this dirty game of politics. Thus, our country lacks good politicians and less development.

Atiq Ahmad, a criminal-politician of Samajwadi Party from Uttar Pradesh had 44 criminal cases pending at the time he has been allotted a rifle by the government which costs Rs 3,15,000 and much more such allotments have been made to such criminal-politicians. These criminals get into politics just because they have lots of money and these political parties allow them to fight in an election. Such actions ruin all hopes of the public in government and law. First, they allow criminals to become politicians and have constitutional power and allotting them guns is like feeding the monsters. Such acts are disrespect to the constitution, leaders and freedom fighters who had fought for the independence of our country.

Criminalization of politics is an evil in the democracy for which seeds were sown long before and now even the government is taking part in growing this tree of evil in our country. But, nothing is shocking in this, after all, we all know who the government consists of - the politicians or the criminals. Though all of them are not criminals few are real good people who are doing good things for the public, but they are so less in number which is almost like nothing in the gang of criminals.

Murdering an innocent man, using their constitutional power for illegal activities, use of muscle power to win elections, watching porn in the state assembly are some of the things which our politicians do without any fear and from whom will be they afraid of when the law and government are under them. This evil is spreading like cancer and destroying the democracy. If only they had done something good, our country would have been most successful democracy instead of just largest democracy with longest written constitution, but an impractical one. 


Image Courtesy: TwoCircles.net

Politicians - Constitutional Criminals

This morning I read in the newspaper the headline on the front page “MPs charged with serious crimes get guns from Government”, and I was like “wow, so responsible”. Giving guns to the criminals that too with legal permission for their self-defense?  Politicians (criminals), who are already given stringent security by the army and police, how logical is it to provide them a personal gun? They should get them under custody instead providing pistols, but unfortunately, the corruption and weak Indian law system give them bail only to commit more crimes with a legal weapon now. It is a sheer waste of public money which can be used in many other ways for the betterment of the country and public.

It is laughable to read such news, at the same time it is also a serious issue. It is like government themselves giving them guidance and support to play with the life of a common man and laugh at the laws. This is why thousands of cases are pending in the courts when the government consists of criminals how anyone can attain justice? In India, politics is referred as the business for the goons, criminals and rich. No educated, honest and good individual wants to become a politician it is a well-known fact in India, but unfortunately, only politicians have the power to bring change on a large scale and no honest people want to go into this dirty game of politics. Thus, our country lacks good politicians and less development.

Atiq Ahmad, a criminal-politician of Samajwadi Party from Uttar Pradesh had 44 criminal cases pending at the time he has been allotted a rifle by the government which costs Rs 3,15,000 and much more such allotments have been made to such criminal-politicians. These criminals get into politics just because they have lots of money and these political parties allow them to fight in an election. Such actions ruin all hopes of the public in government and law. First, they allow criminals to become politicians and have constitutional power and allotting them guns is like feeding the monsters. Such acts are disrespect to the constitution, leaders and freedom fighters who had fought for the independence of our country.

Criminalization of politics is an evil in the democracy for which seeds were sown long before and now even the government is taking part in growing this tree of evil in our country. But, nothing is shocking in this, after all, we all know who the government consists of - the politicians or the criminals. Though all of them are not criminals few are real good people who are doing good things for the public, but they are so less in number which is almost like nothing in the gang of criminals.

Murdering an innocent man, using their constitutional power for illegal activities, use of muscle power to win elections, watching porn in the state assembly are some of the things which our politicians do without any fear and from whom will be they afraid of when the law and government are under them. This evil is spreading like cancer and destroying the democracy. If only they had done something good, our country would have been most successful democracy instead of just largest democracy with longest written constitution, but an impractical one. 


Image Courtesy: TwoCircles.net

Friday, August 3, 2012

Togetherness

When his big eyes and my small eyes meet which for the whole year talk though computer screens. Mine are searching for those big eyes in the crowd of thousands on the metro station and as those deep eyes found mine, I feel it is the best moment ever and wishes it just pause right there.

The feeling of being with those big eyes, holding those hands which tapped the keyboard every night and chatting with me sacrificing his sleep forgetting his tiredness and tensions.

When we breathe in the same ambience, I realize it is the same air which might have touched his face just now. Standing in the same metro together just a few inches apart made me remember the times when I had talk to him on the phone while travelling on the same route alone, when he is thousands and thousands of miles away from me.

When we walk the same paths hand in hand as our fingers cross each other’s filling the gaps in between. When those big eyes always follow and watch me as I watch others, outside the metro, then at the route map. I realize they are staring at me and I return the watch back to them with small ones and they looked away.

For the whole year we ate two different meals of two different cuisines German and Indian from two different dishes, and now we are eating from the same dish, the same food. When we sit together on the same table sips the drink from the same glass and straw. When I can tell those thoughts right at that time when they come in my mind, which I used to remember till the time we talk at night.

When I realize we are breathing in the same city and same country, when the sunlight falls on us  and we are doing the same things at the same place and same time.

When he put his head on my shoulder and then I rest my head on his shoulder with my eyes closed and I wish this moment to stop right there for the eternity, so I could sit like this for the rest of my life without anyone’s fear of catching us.

When we compare the lines on our palms and when we compare who is taller (though I always know he is taller than me but still I love teasing him and saying we are equal in height). When we walk on the pathways holding each other’s hands listening to the tweeting sounds of nightingale  sparrows and cuckoo.

These rare days, these rare feelings, these rare realizations of togetherness and sameness come once in a blue moon and that is why they are so precious and lovely. We cherish them forever and wait for them to come.