Sleeping Souls

There is something really weird going around with the people around.




With all due respect to individual education, personal experiences and teachings of the learned;



Footpath makes for a decent view for a fight outside the society, humans see humans suffering and stand there thoroughly entertained and appearing as perplexed as ever. Let them have the Oscars.



Windows and a cup of tea make up for the most comfortable place for enjoying a heated exchange of words soon to culminate into a fight in the premises . and this is usually followed by the again 'oh-my-god comments'... "What language!".. next evening.. "Did you see that yesterday?".. and the evening later... "What happened later?"



Religion and mythology was for introspection, learning and leading a life they thought us. and what is it today?



and the biggest,

Language after all was just a means a effective communication and which was latter used for de-marking states for efficient administrative.



All these words are neither a work of art nor a work of fiction. This subtle form of presenting facts in open ended statements of concise words and phrases is my favourite pastime. I neither acclaim to be righteous and godly and a saint-man. But a bit more socially aware and 'un-political' than the common man. Any relation or deemed constructive reference to any person, animal, thing or organisation is completely and purely intentional and certainly not co-incidental..

Sushma Swaraj, tweeter to jail!

Sushma Swaraj.. A journey from tweeter to jail!

The so called named ekta yatra is I think going to turn the republic day in to the most violent republic day ever. How the BJP has used the situation to gain ovr the congress is really breath-taking.

There are some plain questions need to be asked to everyone:

• The BJP makes it look like a true patriot will attend a flag hoisting ceremony. So if today I don’t cry out in support of their so called EKTA yatra that means I am a traitor of the country. But isn’t flag hoisting one of the symbolic gestures of potryaing your love to the country? It definitely cannot be said as a criteria for patriotism. Don’t these BJP fuckers realize about patriotism during the other 363 days of the year considering they act the same way at the Independence Day too.
• Its so clear that BJP is trying to politicize the issue. There isn’t an iota of doubt un my mind that they are trying to make it emotive and express their sudden ‘love’ for the country. Its utterly shameful that they are trying to gain ground from the ruling party over the issue of tricolour. Its such a disgrace to the party. The same brains who master minded the Ayodhya & Godhra massacres today are fighting for National Interest & National Integrity. Is it really necessary to start a yatra right from West Bengal and spend so many resources and show the world with so much carnival that J&K is an integral part of our country?
• Wasn’t Advani himself in talks with separatists till a few months ago? Some say because they burnt the Indian Flag and hoisted the tri color, BJP is doing this. Agreed its bad and it hurts my patriotic sentiments too but look at Jammu & Kashmir over the last 2 years. With the state government hardly able to control and central government sleeping for months, the tension itself has been so tremendous.

This for sure is going to lead to an escalation of tension and I really hope that we don’t see a blood bath on our republic day. I think atleast tomorrow let your ego step down for the greater good of the country. Just because a set of hooligans (read separatists) behave like monkeys and lunatics.. doesn’t mean that we put our hair down and emulate them!

And sushma swaraj… atleast don’t tweet when you are doing something as stupid as this. It is really damaging the little ijjat that you have in the minds of the common man.. God bless you..

Ohh the news just came in that she is taken into custody. Our opposition has failed miserably. They could have taken off the government after issues of price rise, inflation, medi-ocre growth, corruption cases, some more corruption cases and even more corruption cases..

Praying that there isnt a blood bath tomorrow!

Year 2011

Some-things that I want to accomplish before the end of this year:

1. Keep ca final books neat and complete and be regurlar in classes
2. Save money on Xerox copies and not to resort to xeroxed notes unless there is a fatal need of them
3. Do well in the B.Com final examinations.
4. Decide what you want to exactly do academically in life.
5. Gate-Crash one wedding by year end.
6. Train and participate in the Bangalore Ultra-Run 37.5 kms and complete it successfully. November 2011          
7. Train and participate for the Full marathon January  2012
8. Learn the basics of how to play one musical instrument by year end.
9. Hit the gym.
10. Learn Jive & Salsa
11. Get a D-SLR by hook or by crook! And click amazing random black and white pictures.
12. Learn to cook only exotic dishes – chicken varieties, salads and mocktails and serve it to friends
13. Always be positive and not give a fuck to what the world thinks about you
14. Mutter “I am the best” everyday five times in the morning while making the bed right.
15. Be a little decisive about the confusion and indecisiveness rampaging in the head.
16. Have a vacation only with friends.
17. Get the entire series of How I Met Your Mother and try to find why people like it so much.
18. Do some social service and get attached to a NGO which teaches under privileged and marginalized children
19. Spread YTN as far as you can.
20. Attend the Kala Ghoda Festival.

A girl and A guy

A little sunny and warm

A cold breeze,

Perfect day and a perfect season.

A sweet maroon dress

A black shirt and blazer

A perfect church set for a wedding

A Reading of love

From the book: Song of Songs.

With jive and waltz and flowers around.

The stage is set

The lines are written

They are revised

The dance floor is empty and calling them

But the guy gets busy

The girl gets conscious

They enjoy the wedding

They hug and leave.

At night,

The guy curses himself,

Couple of days later.

The guy thinks  *its now or never..*

In the afternoon

Rewrites the lines,

Byhearts the lines,

Revises the lines,

Gets the flowers,

Searches for a private and cozy coffee outlet,

Rubs his shoes clean,

Tucks his shirt in,

Eats his nails short

Empties the deodorant bottle and eats mint.

Time scheduled for the proposal : 630pm

While packing up and leaving from work,

The downfall starts:

Gets a sms from the boss,

Is called for some urgent work,

Forgets the flowers,

Dirties his shoes,

Ironed shirt looks all cramped

By the bus rush

Meeting last for an hour.

The girl luckily has some work,

Both leave together,

The guy realizes theres no time for coffee,

Then realizes the flowers are under the table at office,

Looks at this shoes and his shirt,

And gets all disspointed.

The roadside dahi puri replaces the cozy coffee,

The walk is hurried

They take the cab and there that’s it.

At dadar station

An overflowing dustbin gives company

A rush hour crowd gives some rave looks

With all the courage of the world

Says “I need to tell you something”

Her phone rings… Ma calling..

Guy thinks in split 2 sec “ everything going wrong.. flowers gone, chat = snacks, appy and majja tetrapacks = expresso, crowded dirty station = cozy & private place

Lets not do it…God is showing signs.. L

After the call

The girls says: you were saying something…

The guy in mime: Its now or never..

He starts: You need to know something..

*determined* He says..

You need to know something

I like you

And I really like you.

I think from the day of the prom you swept me away

Next 5 secs…

The insides crush against each other

He starts smiling and confused and ackward

His wisedom tooth is not allowing him to complete the smile

He is feeling too many things at a time..

He looks at the girl.

She is smiling, astonished and confused…

He forgets all the lines…

He is blank…

He looks at her

Says : “ok bye.. lets go home and think about it!”

Hugs and leaves no..

Actually hugs and runs away!

An Interesting Eight Year Old and a 30-min Journey

The other day I met this kid, Rishi traveling in the train with his dad. He was sitting on my lap and his dad was a little distance away. I started speaking to him, asked him his age and school and his ambition and also about his new year plans. Then I asked him to tell me some of his new year resolutions. He was a little confused at first as he dint know what are new year resolutions so I explained to him about his plans for the new year about behaving like a good boy and etc ete. For the next 30 mins till Malad he went on telling me about his plans for 2011.

Rishi     : First Bhaiya, I want to be a good boy. My mom shouts at me when I misbehave  (*becomes sad*) but then I make a Sorry greeting for her and she forgets everything. Now drawing and painting will get boring na?

Me       : why re?

Rishi     : Arre didi tells me only kids do drawing and painting. Next year I will be 9 (smiles proudly) so I ll behave a ‘little’betterso I ll have to make less cards.

Me       : Ok.. that’s interesting.. what next?

Rishi     : I ll talk less in class, wont pull Meghna’s hair (I m *surprised*) and wont eat other’s Tiffin. Priya miss gives me negative remarks (sad again)

Me       :But why do you do mischief?

Rishi     :arre majja atta hai bhaiya, tum nahi samjoge!

Me       :Achaaa theek hai.. why do u trouble Meghna and eat others tiffin?

Rishi     :Simple na bhaiya, others get paav bhaji and dosa and I take morning theplas and aachar! (sad again) and Meghna (smiles), she is my best friend.

(others in the train start smiling at him)

Rishi     :Bad boys..! Friend only! Meghna cannot be my girl friend she is two inches taller than me.

(everyone is embarrassed and amused)

 Me      :Okkkkk… What else?

Rishi     :I ll come second in class this unit test in January and submit my worksheets on time

Me       :Huh? Why second? And not first?

Rishi     :Meghna is very smart. I think she copies during exam. Bhaiya how can u get full marks in each paper then? I get full marks in science, history and maths and geography.

Me       :That’s very good. What rank do you get?

Rishi     :Second only bhaiya.

Me       :Then whats so great about your resolution?

Rishi     :Maintain karma difficult hai bhaiya.. class mein competition bahot hai. Voh Patel addha mark peeche hai total mein

Me       :Hmmm… Correct..

And many more things he told me about life, but then this was the last and the best one…

Rishi     :And I want to keep only one girlfriend.

I along with others  are surprised cause he is just 8.

Me       :Only one as in?

Rishi     :Arre bhaiya, in class my teacher and other girls love my curly hair.. they keep staring only.. then one day I have my tiffin with some girl and the other day with some girl.. Meghna gets very angry… she is jealous I think..

Me       :Ok Rishi.. it was fun and interesting meeting you.. Bye happy New year.

Rishi     :Stay in touch Bhaiya. I ll add you on facebook. I have 18 friends only.. L

I was not only shocked but happy that I ll be in touch but he hasn’t yet sent me a request.. he mite have just forgotten cause like me he might be having many more fans of his curly hair, cute smile and humorous straight forward talk.

i got the knowledge of going around in the 8th grade. i  got my FB profile in the 11th grade. And here we this 8 year old has lived life faster than.. I really adored him.

Tribute to a Friend

people want us to date each other, people want us to be together always, people want us to do so many things., thank you.. we like being teased with each other :)

there are these sweet lines which urvashi vishrani a common friend put up :

Dedicated to Parag Vaidya and Radhika Karadkar "Perhaps,after all,romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare,like a gay knight riding down;perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways;perhaps..perhaps love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship,as a golden hearted rose skipping from its ...green sheath."
          -Anne of Green Gables

and some more sweet lines by Priyanka Kanani aka Shakespeare:


You guys are like writing a novel... Parag you are like a comprehensive and a very good book and Radhika is your table of contents.....




Thank you......


To Radhika,


your support for the last 5 years has been terrific. we have fought only once on the last 5 years and we share a relationship which others are jealous of. all guys want a Radhika in their life :) From being waving friends at Sudhir Sir's 11th standard classes to BBMing the full day today. Same college, same CA class, same office, same cell phones (:P).. the only thing is we were never alllocated to the same audit place except for one day at Benetton :)


Love you,


PV

Life at Podar

The last 5 years have been just perfect. Life at Podar was something I dint imagine after stepping out of school. Still there are a few firsts and other notable things in college which I would like to list down here,

• Sidhesh Raut: sharing the same institution with you for the last 18 years has been excellent. I ll miss traveling with you, bunking together, having a crush on the same girl and most importantly fighting at home and covering up for each other for the same thing.

• Radhika Karadkar, Miloni Mehta, Preeta Mondkar and Mitali Marolia: The bond that we have shared over the years has become strong with time and I am grateful to you that you have beared with me all through these years and not once got irritated by my no-nonsense and short tempered attitude in class or even my sad jokes. Talks on katta, the usual last minute preps for the Sunday tests, the stories during coffee, and the countless plans that we made but dint work out., I ll miss them all!

• Priyanka Kanani and Apoorv Modak: I wouldn’t have come up with The Photography Club had you not given me the nod to do it. Its been quite a journey with you from the Confused and complex Piyu of FYJC to the still confused and complex piyu of TY Bcom. As for Apoo, you ll be a dear brother... i can connect with you very well!

• Kush Maheshwari and Satej Rao: The beautiful years of Junior College are all because of you. Missin the first economics paper wouldn’t have been so much enough without you around. The way we cried on our way to the station and the way we laughed in the train back… is something very few and ‘lucky’ folks like us can  experience.

• Rochil Nichani: FYJC without you would have been incomplete! Will always miss you around.

• Pratik Jain, Rohit Dube and Shreyas Guntuk: Right from playing for the soccer team in junior college till organizing RAPPORT RETRO, its been so wonderful. Just amazing. There are no other words which I can think of right now to explain my feelings about you guys.

• Rajiv Iyer: The Ladies Man! You ll marry me na? :P From the time your cell phone sang ‘kava kava’ when Anik was firing us together for bunking Petty Cash Book lectures to cracking some lame PJ’s. Life has been fun!

• Priyank Savla and Rebecca: Thank you for everything over the last two years! wasnt life much more beautiful then?

• Hanita Malharkar & Sharayu Sardesai: I know you guys will love me for writing your names together. Honey, you are one crazy girl I have met in my life. And sharayu, managing celebs so easily during Enigma you did a stupendous job!

• Jairaj Vaidya: Last day of rapport, some one walks up to me crying and telling me that he is going to miss me and hugs me saying: “I have passed two years because of you, salya!” Exams wouldn’t have been half as interesting and adventurous if not for you. J

• Pooja Shah, Kritika Matolia and Lavita Cross: Junior College was so much fun together. You guys will always be special!

• Niyati Dahisaria: I loved your sugar cube. And I ll always find time for you. No matter what. You have been my closest junior and I ll treasure the time we spent together though it was in G6 only. :P There is this bond that we share and we can connect with each other very well. Love you always. J

• Sayali Arte: You asking me to fail for 3 years is the sweetest thing that anyone has ever told me. Thanks for everything. I ll miss you more than you ll miss me.

• Noopur and Kanika Thanawala: You’ll are some brilliant talented all rounders and your kidas with Shety are so hilarious.

• Manali Patil: You ll always be special for the confusion!

• Nishant Khombadia: Hemlya, scoring for Enigma and Rapport was interesting only because of you. And the girls’ stories in and out of your life can make up for a best selling book if you author it!
• Bhagayshree Dave: The most responsible girl around. And the most misunderstood also. Thanks for everything. :)
• Priyank Sanghvi: The DJ of our batch and I really mean it when I say that i loved your mixing.
• Megh Doshi: I ll never forget you for that dialogue on you and also for the creatives of enigma and rapport! :)
• Mayuresh Kambli: Your dance moves especially ghati and contemporary are etched in my memory for ever.
• Gauri Ghag: I a really sorry for being mad at you in the admin room and i really regard you very highly for the way you took all the jokes cracked on you as they came... :) but for your bows :P
• Pranav Loke: The ride on your bike in that thandi at 3 am and having idli sambar, wada sambar and coffee and parle buscuits will be one of my most beautiful memories of life in podar!
• Vijay Chauhan: I haven't seen a funnier person than you when you are drunk. But everything in moderation is good :) love you brother!
• Pushkaraj: We had no one for comparing and hosting events. You were God sent! very talented! :)

And to all seniors who made my stay at podar memorable, a big thank you! And to those who has worked with me in the Cultural Committee for 2010-11, its been a pleasure to work with you. And to all juniors and batchmates who pured out their hearts while writing sugar cubes..... I am going back home with a treasure!

Best year of My life - 2010

An exciting year draws to and eventful close:

I think I had everything this year. January gave me this feeling that 2010 is going to be great and this will definitely be till now the most memorable year in my life. I had an exciting January with the Mumbai marathon, a boring February with books, a anxious March and April because of approaching exams, a pictorial and fun-filled June and July in college activities, A little sad and a lonely August, a disturbing yet a curious and confusing pre October, an anxious post October and November, and second half of November and December have been the really the best days of my life except for some minor depressing glitches.

As I watch this year go by and as I see the year ahead.. its going to be definitely one of the most important years of my life.. With my graduation year ahead, my send off from my second home – Podar,  my last year in a protective and loving office, its going to be painful yet path changing

      

The Social Network

i dont think i have ever come across a movie like this. i was so engrossed into the movie that when the credits for the movie came in the end , i was like shit this shouldnt end man.

i wanted it to go on and on. mark aka jesse is awesome so are the other charecters but what one must remember is that the director&producer of the movie is one great story teller.. and yes justin timberlake can act...

you must catch this one guys... without fail...

PS: just out of one more round of exams... not that great but some respite for the coming months. we have some great things coming up ahead. i ll fill you in with them soon!

Watch out for…

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Watch out for…

A future Leader in Adi Thackeray? And a present Teacher in Dr Welukar?

The idea that the principal of my school writing a negative remark in my school handbook would terrify me as I would think about their implications at home and the reward that I ll receive from my parents. Imagine your college principal writing to the entire city what a pathetic student you are and he being disappointed by your Hitler-style-behavior of burning books. My parents would have hammered me but wait hold your breath, The Thackerays would have patted Adi’s back and said, “Well done, shabaas we are so proud of you!”.

Descending from a family of power, sorry actually inheriting the trouble-making-power, one more Trouble sorry Thackeray entered the scene. (The T sound gives me pronunciation problems at times) I fail to understand why he can’t think differently? Hasn’t he noticed that the educated hate Shiv Sena? Hasn’t he noticed that the people have progressed while his party is still stuck to their stagnant criminal idiologies from 1966? Guys, you need to change :P

There are still some questions which the common man would like him to answer!

•  Don’t you come from an Indian family which respects books and more so worship it? Dint you think about this while you burnt books?

As you go on burning more and more books to raise some unwanted negative publicity for yourself and your party, try and look back to what you have done. Try for some remorse! I m pretty sure as copies are burnt down in tens, hundreds and thousands, are you so stupid enough not to understand that you are creating more curiosity and more advertisement for the book! Two positives -  that I can see from this criminal act of yours!

1.      Rohinton Mistry will go on adding some more thousands and lakhs to his bank account benefiting from your campaign and the normal human tendency of curiosity-induced-buying.

2.      People all over the world will realize that the soon-to-be-best-seller book potrays the truth how shiv sena is brewing trouble right from 1966 on petty issues which they claim to be untrue but still get largely affected by it!

My teacher had once told me. “Every human being is entitled to be stupid. But some people are idiots to abuse it!”

• Your family has a weird idea of gaining publicity. Your grandpa used to visit the jail. Your father takes helicopter rides around the state to click photos. And I must say that you have very well entered the league of doing something unusual right from the word GO. Dint it occur to you that instead of getting so much negative publicity, you could have used your name & power & resources by helping the needy, feeding the hungry or teaching the illiterate? You could have at least gained some respect but I think thats against your family tradition. As of now you have even lost the respect of authors, poets, bloggers and even the common man who appreciated your poetry!

You are heading the youth wing i.e. you are going to be portrayed as leader of tomorrow! We want a leader who understand the power bestowed on him, a leader who knows that power brings great responsibility, a leader who works to gain respect and love by doing justice to this responsibility. A leader who has a vision of the future which is not limited for the next 5 years of re-election. A leader who can prioritize and move ahead with times.

As for our Vice-Chancellor words fail to find me. All I can say is that there are only two possibilities:

·         1.Giving due respect to his credits, degrees & a doctorate, achievements over the years, he has reacted as if he has reached a stage of  professional incompetency!

OR

·         2.He was under such immense political pressure that he had to work overnight, read all rules and regulations of the university and find a rule never used in the history of our 153 years old university! Quite a task, Sir!

With such extra-ordinary trust that I have on the Thackeray khaandan, I think the second is more befitting!

Enjoy your Sunday Adi Thackeray.. Try for some remorse.

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