tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31951788845817771972024-02-07T11:43:02.532+05:30A'Political ViewOf and about - us! Our emotions, passions, fears.. what drives us, corrupts us, uplifts us... humanize, personalize, politcize! Not about power, influence or taken as a horde... about each of us, all of us.. a person at a time!!Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-3781576394672200142015-10-29T17:18:00.001+05:302015-10-29T17:20:19.482+05:30Always One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No
country’s perfect and neither is mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what’s
with the obsession on what I dine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While you
were too focused on my plate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone
just slept hungry, cursing his fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Born into a free country were we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">But now killed for exercising choices we’d be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">How much more easier is coexistence to define</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">I'll respect your freedom and you respect mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">Heck with what I eat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">Or with the choice of my meat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">How have we forgotten, that</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Without one another we're both incomplete</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">We needn't swear by the same God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Or not swearing by any should make one odd</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Don't be in such a rush</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">To color everyone with different brush</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;">For we love this land and love you too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">You might be plenty and us too few</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Wish us away or call us any name</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">We'd always be the brothers, always the same!!</span></span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-38846442762678107842014-05-03T09:56:00.000+05:302014-05-03T09:56:42.978+05:30That Missing Spirit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That missing
spirit of ‘at any cost’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That you’d
find me while I was yet lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The
assurance that everything was possible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">However the
situation seemed implausible!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That missing
spirit of ‘I can do it all’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That you’d
catch me, if I were to fall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The
assurance of your loving arm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Around my
shoulder to keep me calm!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That missing
spirit of ‘Christmas everyday’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That you
were never too far away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The assurance
of you being there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Keeping
company with love & care!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That missing
spirit of ‘yes right now’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That you
held me together like a bough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The assurance
of your gentle hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">No matter
what, you’d understand!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That
missing spirit of ‘who really am me’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That I was
always what you got to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The assurance
of my anchor in you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Aside from
thee, have really no clue!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-65288153376481998342014-01-01T16:24:00.003+05:302014-01-01T16:35:16.649+05:30New Year: 'Moving Ahead' or 'Going Around'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An old year has left us behind and a new one beckons in front of us – as we count in terms of numerical years
we move ahead on a linear trajectory but in a more realistic and cosmic sense,
we’ve only come back to the same place that we had visited one year ago. Our
path is more circular than linear – after all a year is primarily the earth
completing one revolution around the sun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it is good, noble and
certainly more celebratory to think of this as a new beginning but in a more
deeper sense its taking another round of the same ol’ road – albeit more
carefully, more knowingly and hopefully one more time wiser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life has one beginning – right when
we were born, the remaining are all milestones and check-points. This year
would soon turn old, everything about it would be the same mundane and usual –
and it’s not wrong. After all, that’s exactly how it is. Life will throw the
same set of opportunities, challenges, fears and euphoria. We may find it at a
new place, a new time or a new set of people – but at the heart of it all – the
emotions would remain alike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every component of measuring time
– seconds, minutes, hours, dates and months – everything follows a circular
path, everything reoccurs – it’s only the factor of an ‘year’ that moves linear
- ahead in one direction, never to come back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A New Year therefore reminds us that
there’s possibly one more chance – to correct, comprehend and collaborate! To love,
lose and learn! To accept, acknowledge and appreciate! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new year is more about
looking at things afresh, taking a fresh approach and having a new sense of
purpose. The earth would take the same circular path around the sun that it has
done since the beginning of father time, and yet it offers scope for us to see,
experience and live something new. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Novelty lies not in the ability
to find new things all the time, it exists in the inherent desire to see
something new in what we’ve been seeing all along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A New Year would make for
enough novelty, even if everything remained the same and all that changed was
me & my perspective! Every day would still be new, and every experience would
be one I hadn’t had before. However, each new year we like to be the same and
wish for the world around us to make it more new. We seeker newer pastures, new
people and new horizons – none of which actually exist!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each existing individual in our
life is a new person waiting to be discovered, a layer waiting to be unwrapped,
new facets of them to be unraveled!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each past event in our life is
a new experience waiting to be re-lived, a road waiting to be ventured again, a
painting waiting to be re-looked!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each unaccomplished goal is a
new challenge waiting to be re-attempted, a problem waiting to be seen from a
new perspective, a territory waiting to be re-claimed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Very little of the New Year
will remain new in a week, but plenty of me could be renewed while the year
unfolds. In a matter of another 12 months, we’ll be back at the same place – a year
older hopefully it’d also be richer in terms of experience and wiser in terms
of thinking! Or it’d be just a dreary jaunt across the cosmos and we’d hardly
have moved an inch forward! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which of the two is true for us? 'Cos that would determine if we're we ushering a year of moving ahead, or are we just going around one more time!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-91459645896464608002013-12-05T16:31:00.003+05:302019-06-24T12:32:11.601+05:30India’s Rape Epidemic – We Need 'A Man'ly Solution!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Trampled,
plucked and squandered away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">By
dozens and scores each day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We’d
see them not; we felt them even less,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pain, and horror – of both mind & flesh!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A casual scan of the some of the recent headline grabbing news items in the country
reads somewhat like this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tehelkha editor accused of rape,
arrested<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Asaram Bapu held for sexual assault,
son arrested for rape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mumbai records 229 rapes in
Jan-Aug of 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Two held for techie’s rape in
Kerala<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Teacher booked for alleged rape
of minor in Andhra Pradesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Four men rape, kill a 31-year
old woman in Assam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">CBI Director in the dock for
suggesting, ‘enjoy rape if you can’t prevent it’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This would
have been bad enough if these were news items that were to have shocked the conscious
of a nation over the period of an year – yet, even more shockingly most of
these ‘high-profile’ incidents have occurred over just a couple of weeks or
about a month! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And therefore, it shouldn’t and doesn’t, come as little surprise
that the one of the Time Magazine's <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/12/04/world/slide/top-10-international-news-stories/" target="_blank">top 10 news stories of the world is aptly titled – ‘India’s Rape Epidemic’</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">There’s no
other way to put it really, other than rightly calling it an epidemic! Looks
like we Indian men can’t hold that libido! There’s no state, city or even an inch in this country that
seems even remotely safe for woman. And sadly, there is little realization that such brutality is just way over what is
acceptable for a civilized society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A civilized
society has just enough room to tolerate atrocities such as murder and rape –
while even a few is few too many, we can accept and thereby be willing to
correct or punish those who indulge in these crimes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sample this - a recent report compiled by the National Commission for Woman pointed out that
1/3<sup>rd</sup> of all woman employees in India faced one or another form of
sexual harassment. By what virtue is that under the limits of acceptability for
any civilized society? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The nation’s financial capital - Mumbai - is soon acquiring the
moniker of being the nation’s rape capital as well! With as many as 237
incidents of rape cases reported in the year until August this year. Delhi meanwhile
continues to have the numero uno status with 1,036 reported cases in the same
period! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">That, by my
rudimentary math, is well over one reported incident of sexual harassment on each day for Mumbai and four for
Delhi. If I were to extrapolate the same for the entire nation, would I be too
off the mark to suggest we are raping and abusing thousands of women each year? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Even in a nation of ½ a billion women that’s way too much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Still unconvinced?
Why not take a look at these numbers – the year 2012 began with a total of 13,221
registered cases of crimes against women across the country. Through the course
of the year convictions in these cases were a meager 3,563 while fresh cases
ballooned to 79,476. The nation ended
the year 2012 with 101,041 pending cases of crimes against women and by all
means 2013 must have added a hundred more thousand to that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Why? Is a
question that stares ominously upon us!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Surely, this
is not just a case of a few men gone astray – this is an entire generation of young
men of this great nation who just can’t hold on to their horses!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Reasons peddled include sociological to economical to legal - all are
pertinent and all so relevant! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They said a stringent legal system would help,
but no! They said changing social paradigms would help, but no! They said
increasing income levels and employment should help, but no! Nothing has
quelled the raging thirst of an Indian man to lord it over a woman and nothing has
helped her hapless cause to be able to escape it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Going back to
the case of the 237 rapes in Mumbai, if the numbers alone don’t numb your
senses then scratch the surface and it should! Most of the rapists were the
victims’ own friends, lovers and/or neighbours! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Read that again, and ask
yourself as a man if it doesn’t make you feel skivvy? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Or as a woman doesn't make you squirm
in disbelief!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The UN
Population Fund states that close to 2/3<sup>rd</sup> of married women in the
India have been at some stage been beaten, raped or forced to provide sex! If
the same person who is charged with protecting your identity and dignity becomes the
predator who wants to just satisfy his carnal senses – by hook, lunge or slap –
where shall thou turn for solace or justice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What is wrong
with us Indian men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For a variety
of reasons we are well past the time and age of rationality! We are well past
the stage well a bunch of well-intentioned sociologists could redraw our social
athematic or a battery of jurists could re-align our judicial underpinnings to
find solution to this epidemic. We have to find individual solutions and find
them fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The fact of
the matter is that we have a terrific record of being able to pass the buck! Why
do so many rapes occur in India? – the list of reasons is exhaustive and endless
– from provocative clothing to Bollywood to the lack of policing and
legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Seldom does
it occur to me – I am the cause! It never hurts personally, it never bothers
personally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We are all culpable
– directly, indirectly or intentionally and unintentionally! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Whether we like
it or not we need to take a stance and one for the better, I hope! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In our
relationships with a woman we have to find the right balance of purity and
passion; reason and romance; and sense and submission! Each of those elements is
essential for every relationship – not necessarily in the same order or mix,
but certainly in one form or another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We cannot
endlessly seek a momentary, blind pleasure in all our interactions with the
female specie! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The momentary, blind pleasure needn’t necessarily be of the
sexual nature – it might as well be of submission and subjugation – in essence
it is one of sadism! We’re filled, or worse, fed with a hollow sense of
machoism that somehow suggests that ‘its ok to grab from or at a woman if she doesn’t
give when asked!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Our vision is
often skewed by a sense of a dominant male-ego that prevents us from having the
right relationship with our mothers, sisters, friends and wives! It is this
right relationship that will unequivocally determine our right attitude to the
women at large!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Imagine - if I can find
the right relationship with my mother, sister, friend and wife! I could prevent
that one case of abuse or rape! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "maiandra gd" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And even if ½ of the ½ a billion Indian men
could do that? What a change we would have ushered into our society. </span><span style="font-family: "maiandra gd", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A manly solution isn’t one where I have to be the guardian of the ladies in my life, its one where each one of us can stand up – as and for himself – and just treat the women whose lives we touche everyday - with love, dignity & respect!!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-5875062177111927672013-10-14T11:52:00.001+05:302013-10-14T11:52:48.406+05:30A New Place<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish I could make some space</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That could be your own special place!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where each moment, you could just be</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Find everything just as you want to see!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A place for you to find</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The beauty in the thoughts of your mind!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where you could play all day in the sunlight</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where you arent judged for wrong or right!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A place that lets you be the child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where problems don't get piled!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A place to hide you in warm embrace</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That opens up new & exiciting ways!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A place to see that you're fragile</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A place to make you smile!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where there's plenty to love and care</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where someone is always there!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I thought, "Wait I may know such place!"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One that's all yours each one of the days</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's yours in wholeness not just a part</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the place that lies right in the depth of my heart!!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-81942694220311345052013-08-07T15:12:00.000+05:302013-08-07T15:12:07.978+05:30I'm afraid!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid to tell you what bothers
me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid to admit that I do not see!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The logic and all the myriad sense,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The very emphasis on intelligence!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid to tell you I do not know,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid to listen to ‘I-told-you-so!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The rational and everything that’s ‘right,’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">What you have come to term - foresight!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid of being scorned or judged,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid, to a side, being nudged!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Amidst all logic and perfect sense,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Would I be termed an irrelevance?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid of listening to silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid of watching bloodless
violence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">It all rings of a deafening disquiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Like a unsettling and quelling riot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid that this is not my place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid of the emptiness of space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Which end of the road do I follow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">For each only seems to end in a
hollow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid because I feel alone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I’m afraid for its all unknown!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">There’s a whole world and its populace,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">And yet I feel, am an alien race!!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-10181953549145100282013-08-04T23:46:00.000+05:302013-08-04T23:46:27.145+05:30I'd Miss You Much!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At
the crack of dawn when I rose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Time
still felt stuck & froze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I
wished for night to come soon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With
the twinkling stars & moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
rays of the sun, oblong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
birds of the air, in song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Almost
everything around me such<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Told
me, how I missed you much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After
a while I took the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thoughts
wandering; feet strode<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walked,
I did not know where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My
vision squinted from the sun’s glare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
blue of the endless sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
horizon that seemed so nigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thoughts
from my deepest hutch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Told
me, how I missed you much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then
the dusk came up at last<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Much
later than it did in past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Into
the farthest I’d stare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While
the breeze ruffled my hair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
setting sun into the twilight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And
the dark of the impending night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
gathering clouds & the thundering Thorr<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Everything told me, I’d
miss you more!!</span></span></div>
</div>
Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-39208158593267847422013-07-30T19:18:00.000+05:302013-07-30T19:27:55.186+05:30Cheated of our Unity and Oneness!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“A divorce is like an
amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Creation of Telangana: We haven’t
created a state but a farce! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I hate to be a
party-spoiler but what exactly are my Telangana friends celebrating? Being
cheated into a false new dawn?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">At a time when we need to
stand more united than ever, we fight and kill – each other. It would be the
stupidity of those who celebrate because this decision is not made for its
right but it is made because it serves the complicit interests of some. The
government has blatantly pulled wool over the eyes of the people – diverting attention
and dangling carrots of fake hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Those who sought the
division of the state did so for selfish interests and the ‘masses’ who
supported it did so out of sheer ignorance. The culmination of all of this is
today’s ‘decision’ – that smacks of highhandedness and cheating. There have
been media reports crying their lungs horse that the decision is being taken to
shore up Congress’ electoral gains, are the pro-Telangana folks to desperate
that they couldn’t care less whatever the costs?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And what about those of
your own brethren who are opposed to the division of the state? Not those from
Andhra but the very natives of Telangana? Are you too selfish to ignore even
those – if so, what is so kosher about the very sentiment you claim to stand
for? As a child, each morning I pledged that each of our fellow countrymen were
brothers and sisters! Guess that is just a good line to utter, in the adult
world there is no place for fraternal sentiments if they were to come in the
way of petty political gains!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">A country, a government and
its leadership is defined by doing things right. A state is far greater than
the individuals and those in power must rise above selfish motives. And time
after time after time, our country has been treated quite to the contrary!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To the commoner that I am,
on the face of it, the division of the state or otherwise makes no difference
in the real world! I will still have the same routine, same joys and same
challenges. And yet in the deep of my heart, I have been torn right down the
middle! The joy of being one nation, one state, the very </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">essence</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of oneness being </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">wilted</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> away by senseless politicians. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The only gains from this
would be made by a few who will claim power, to the rest of us who are commoners
(both who celebrate today and those who don't) nothing will have changed
tomorrow - the challenges of each day will remain the same, and yet the joy of
unity will have been torn apart! How ironical, that both classes elected the
same government to do the exact opposite!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Those of us, who believe
this is a victory, please think again! Yes, it’s a victory for those who fool
us time and again and continue to fill their coffers while we put in the hard
yards!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">If indeed the demand for
Telangana is so widespread, I welcome the decision, but alas, we all know it wasn’t
– it was at the heart of it a selfish, self-centered call! We’ve just been
cheated out of our wits one more time, and some of us sadly don’t see it! I
would welcome the decision if it were to have been made with the right intent,
desire and the right objective – sadly, none of it even crossed our political
folk!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">So, here we are then, as in
the words of Canadian poet Margaret Eleanor Atwood, each one of us will survive
this division/amputation but we will soon figure that there's is now a little less of us than before!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">PS: There’s still a long
way to go for the actual division, I would hope there’s still chance for us to
call quits to this farce!!</span></div>
</div>
Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-36095076132290407552013-06-13T15:21:00.001+05:302013-06-13T15:21:17.290+05:30Drops of Rain On My Window Pane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drops of rain on my window pane,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Take me back by the memory lane! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The giggles and the paper boat, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the puddles we'd make them float!! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The gust of wind in my face,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Takes me back to the holidays!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Carefree, we'd play all day long, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life was all a lovely song!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shadows cast by the summer Sun,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All our endless plays and mazy run!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Laughter from then still rings my ear,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our mischief knew no bounds or fear!! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the cold of the night, by the Christmas tree</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Festivities, friends & family!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Flashes from childhood as good as gold,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just like Christmas they're never too old!!</span></div>
</div>
Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-43170356322918220442013-06-08T18:16:00.000+05:302013-06-08T18:18:17.004+05:30There's still time to grow!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are paths unexplored</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wood that are yet unseen</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lands to which I haven't been!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Creases on my brow too few</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The world still feels so new!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seas so many to cross</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rivers I'm yet to come across!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Scenes I'm yet to savor</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of myriad colors, hues & flavor!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are promises I am to keep</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fruits I'm yet to reap!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are ways much unknown</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And emotions yet unfelt</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Prayers for which I haven't knelt!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There even promises to claim</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm yet to make a name!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So much I'm yet to give</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few, I'm yet to forgive!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are those I'm to go back to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there are things I still wish to!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many I'm yet to meet anew</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Forever with me, will remain a few!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are territories uncharted</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And places I'm yet unaware</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feelings those still feel rare!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plenty years ahead to grow old</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stories aplenty to unfold!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love that I haven't fallen into</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So much yet under 'to do'!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm fine that I'm yet a child</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">May be untamed, even wild!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So much more yet to know</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For there's still time to grow !!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
</span></div>
Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-45963658118144655272013-03-08T11:30:00.003+05:302013-03-08T13:51:07.965+05:30Only by You were truly made whole!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>“</i><i>Said it was that you were made out of
a rib,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But more likely it was from the soul!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Else how would it be that the entire
creation,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Only by You were truly made whole!!</i></span><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">”</span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-------</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Along with each Woman’s Day comes the
sometimes cynical, at times snide and often a light-hearted query – why only a
Woman’s Day when there’s none for the men folk?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now there could be plenty ways to answer it
but often its best left alone, but then again I wondered myself why? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Going back into time to the second chapter
of Genesis, where the Bible describes the creation of a woman and there I see
this verse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
man said, “This is now bone of my bones<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> and flesh of my flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">she
shall be called ‘woman,’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> for she was taken out of man.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sure, it’s pretty straightforward and may be
most of us hardly see anything wrong. But the lines preceding this one say that
it was God Himself who identified the need for a man to have a companion, a
helper and therefore made someone to fit this role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While God made this person with a role in
mind and yet the man named her out of the process she came from – he said <i>she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was
taken out of man. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Indeed, God placed the onus of naming all
creatures on Adam’s shoulders and he did carry that out, and while I wonder
what rationale he used to name all others… clearly in case of his companion I trust
he could have been a little more fair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And thus we men carry on the thinking of our
greatest grand dad’s and take women to be inferior specie because we take it
that she was derived out of a man, she was not the first to be created and etc
etc etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In reality though, nothing could be further
from the truth! The lady was meant to be the final piece of the zig-saw called
Creation! It was the pinnacle of God’s imagination and above all, she had a
definite role in the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be really fair, man was only the second
last item to have been created, the best as we often say is left for the last
which in the creationist scheme of things happens to be, yes a woman! The story
of creation is incomplete, and so is the case in the life of a man - but for
the existence of a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Take for instance a 100m race, you could run
the first ninety-nine but if you fail to run the last one all else is
immaterial. No, I’m not saying that the first ninety-nine are not important; its
just that when you get to the end, the last one becomes as relevant and
important as all others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Going back to the zig-saw, while you may
have all the pieces the picture is still incomplete and dare I say – not so
pretty – without the last one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God in His infinite wisdom identified the
incompleteness and loneliness of a man and God’s best solution was a woman. The
Bible beautifully illustrates that God found no suitable companion for the man
in all of His creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And to put that into context, one must
factor in that at the end of each day, God looked at all his creation and Himself
remarked – ‘It is Good!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beyond all that was created so beautifully,
a person had to be custom-made to complete God’s creation and man’s life! God Himself had to think better than his own creativity to come up with a woman!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And yet
father Adam chose to think of her solely as someone who came ‘out of him’ …
rather as ‘out for him.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A woman surely came as a consequence to the
man but did so only to make him whole! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never mind that she can be comparatively weaker
in physical terms, but everything she is, is geared towards helping her fulfill
the role that was identified before she was created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And therefore, as we realize her right place
in the universe and the perfection she brings, we celebrate not just the day
but the person that a woman truly is - Only by Her we're made whole!</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-90493378609989300472013-02-14T15:13:00.001+05:302013-02-14T15:13:45.179+05:30Wasn't meant to be!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For love was in the air,</span><br />
And it seemed so everywhere!<br />
Oh how I could have missed?<br />
Couldn't even if I wished!!<br />
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And so I fall in love,<br />
It seemed sent from above!<br />
Oh how I tried with my heart,<br />
To keep together not apart?<br />
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Soon the magic evaporates,<br />
And the feeling dissipates!<br />
Oh how I stayed steadfast,<br />
Yet the dye was already cast!!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Without you it felt so alone,<br />
No messages await on my phone!<br />
Oh how it all fell apart,<br />
And I knew I had played my part!!<br />
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Looking back it all seems fine,<br />
This love story wasn't quite mine!<br />
Oh how much it had taken me,<br />
To know it wasn't meant to be!!</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-38603040564091266692012-12-29T19:23:00.003+05:302012-12-29T19:23:57.136+05:30Unknown Hero, Unwanted Eulogy!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Do not stand by my grave and weep.</span></i></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<i style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am not there, I do not sleep.</span></i></div>
<span style="color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am a thousand winds that blow,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am the diamond glints upon the snow.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am the sunlight on ripened grain and</span></i></div>
</i><i><div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am the gentle autumn rain.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">When you awaken in the morning’s hush,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am that swift uplifting rush,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Of quiet birds in circled flight.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am the soft star that shines at night.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Do not stand by my grave and cry,</span></i></div>
</i><i><div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">I am not there, I did not die.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Author Unknown!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">She’s termed a ‘brave-heart’ and an example to every young Indian - eulogy well said and even well intentioned and yet to the one for whom we sing all this might sound rather too grandeur, alien even! She was a normal young woman, with simple dreams and a simpler life. She hadn’t aspired for masses rooting for her in life, let alone death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">She sought a life – of her own, safety – that she deserved and dignity – that was promised!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Close to four decades since the fundamental duty to protect the dignity of a woman was inserted into the very constitution that we hold sacred and stand by, where is that dignity? And if we find no trace of it what are we protesting today? What are we mourning today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The young woman was no martyr – she never chose to be, she was cannibalized by the demons we have perpetrated in our society. For decades, if not centuries, we have killed, hunted and raped – may be with lesser force and intent – but with just as similar consequences!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">What gives us the right as a society today to become so self-righteous and demand death for just those six who were involved in this very incident – why let every sanctimonious man and woman scot free who is as much a part and perpetrators of this system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Do these protests, and so called justice, in the name of that nameless, make any difference to her? Why are we hell bent on giving her something she never wanted when we have conveniently denied to her everything that she did?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Every day, almost every woman in this country puts up with abuse – great or small – what have we done to eliminate that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Are we to punish these six men on the gallows, or castrate them and feel we’ve atoned for everything? And will lustful men stop just because the media goes hammer and tongs on one case?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">We just don’t need more laws and better implementation, we need a societal change!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT Act) was enacted back in 1994 and the success rate if not pitiable is surely laughable! In two decades of this existence it has resulted in meagre two convictions with a combined penalty of less than Rs 4500 … I know, exactly, I am going the same – Are you freaking kidding me!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">We kill girls before they are born, we abandon after they are, and if we don’t either of those then some son-of-a-gun would have molested the rest of those before they blossom into the beautiful people that God intended them to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The fault lies, not just with those who indulge in these heinous acts, it is all of us – equally and squarely. We are the society that breeds and tolerates this menace, we allow it to happen, we turn a blind eye, a deaf ear and a hollow conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">And one fine morning, when a young one, who never wanted to die in the first place – actually does – we cry our throats horse, in eulogy, in cries for justice – as though it’s our one symbolic act of redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">As the sun comes up tomorrow, nothing will change, because we have never wanted asked for change, we’ve only gone jingoistic for justice that will never be meted to the girl gone and past. We never looked in the mirror and said I need to change; of course, we’ve been busy ‘cleansing’ ourselves by singing eulogies and seeking justice!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Tomorrow – we’ll be the same, and so will the scores of those who’ll do the same to other woman - we’ll never know who it is until much later when we decide that as a society we need a fresh round of conscience cleansing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The one who left us, will never be affected by anything we do now – let us not aspire to give her what she never sought. We may be better of channelling our energies into allowing these little buds to blossom, have their normal lives, be the simple people they wish to be!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">They don’t want to be heroes, or martyrs or brave-hearts – let’s not kill them first and sing them eulogies later!</span></div>
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Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-3059264433482126922012-02-02T18:00:00.000+05:302012-02-02T18:00:04.513+05:30On the other side of morrow!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It might be a lonely road,
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And rather heavy feels the load!
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Yes indeed you must be weary,
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Nights so long and days dreary!!
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Souls that feel frozen in cold,
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Troubles seemingly unheard or told!
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Sure it seems an unbearable test,
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Troubled times of unrest!!
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You gain not what you sought,
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You win not for what you fought!
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Indeed, it feels down in the dump,
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Throat choked in many a lump!
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Like the darkest hour before sunrise,
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Toughest test before the prize!!
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Surely a bottom to the cycle of sorrow,
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Hope lies on the other side of morrow!!
</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-14282962196537022722011-12-26T16:11:00.000+05:302011-12-26T16:16:59.873+05:30Waiting Game!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a kid growing up, for a large part I used public transport to travel back and forth. Had a lot of other kids for company, made a lot of friends, used to be a riot ride every day; but there was one problem – the wait. Sadly, the proverbial “no bus for hours, then two in a row” isn’t something that just London can boast of – surely my laid back, then-home-of-the-nawabs-and-now-mine can stake as much claim to it. Anyways, so the point was that often I ended up waiting at the bus stop, for quarter of an hour, half hour, three quarters and sometimes longer – never ending! And there began my deep dislike for waiting for something and it continues to this day. There are things I enjoy less and some even lesser, but of most things ‘waiting’ has to be one of the least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I thought of myself for most part an impulsive and impatient kid, and thought may be waiting wasn’t something that I was meant to – it wasn’t in my scheme of things. But then I realized that there were in fact some scenarios I did wait, I could wait. It was then I realized that it wasn’t the wait but uncertainty that bothered me. Every day after school, my wait could be anywhere between five minutes to well over an hour… I realized it was the underlying uncertainty that was the bane of my existence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And as days went on, I realized that many times in my life, I bore uncertainty myself! I enjoyed a few unknown, surprises made me happy and challenging the unknown horizon wasn’t that bad after all. So I crossed out ‘waiting’ I crossed out ‘uncertainty’ and I was staring back at nothingness again! So why was it that I found it so difficult to wait for the bus? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The answer lay in a line that goes “every time I want to give up, I end up thinking about every moment I’ve held on for” … and then the fog clears up. Yes of course! I wait for five minutes… the moment I think of giving up, I realize I’m five minutes into it guess another five couldn’t be bad. Another five, another quarter, another half… every hour put into wait, it seemed to pull me further away from the desire to pull out of it. In case of a bus, I put a very small part of me into the wait, in case of other things much significant or all of me into it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some say that certain things are worth their weight in gold! And how easily it could be that some things are worth their wait in gold!! Sounds so similar, doesn’t it! But I’m not hoping, or was ever hoping to strike gold! The wait, is difficult because I don’t know how to, when to! It’s a struggle – logic suggesting that anytime is a good time – the longer the unsuccessful wait the greater the clamor to pull out, but then there is a heart that doesn’t quite know the same. It waits and waits and waits… hoping it doesn’t wilt or wither! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Like with love-making, you dont wanna pull out too soon - whats the fun; or too late - opps! And the fact that, if you keep thinking, you are less likely to enjoy it! And you can stop thinking only when you know its surely what you want to be doing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m with my heart – because quite often I end up in a wait – sometimes by design, sometimes by accident… and that’s why I guess I don’t enjoy it as much! Its often a tussle, it is always a question that I don’t have answer to… its always a catch-22, always devil and the deep sea… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Always lonely and unsettling… </span></div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-76525788971129322582011-12-22T11:39:00.000+05:302011-12-22T11:39:03.890+05:30Sunrise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Touches the world,
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Yet feels so mine!
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Of the simple joys in life,
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Surely one is feeling the sunshine!!
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It could scorch the earth,
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At its peak and height!
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Yet on a winter morn,
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Nothing like some sunlight!!
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To our ordinary lives,
<br />
Springing a new surprise!
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His gift each day,
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Is a bright new sunrise!! </div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-55729329278594240682011-12-21T19:35:00.000+05:302011-12-21T19:35:08.038+05:30Always!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in vein so light</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in a bitter fight</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes by the roadside</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in just my inside</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes I’d shout</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes I’d sit stout </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes moody</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At times touch broody</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At all times I’m loving you!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes there’s no measure</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Never a bigger treasure</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even when I want it my way</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes I yell</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cried when I fell</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes desperate</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes that I don’t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in my cry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Till the moment I die</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in a whisper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes may be crisper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes I moan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Times I’m on phone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At all times I’m loving you!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the hour when it rains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even when it pains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in my sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Always from my heart’s deep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes in sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Times when we have fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes calm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Always as I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Always I’m loving you!!</span></div>
</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-37930874857901565752011-12-21T18:27:00.001+05:302011-12-21T18:31:40.413+05:30And it all began, where it started!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Long time ago, there were those who believed that the earth was flat… that if you travelled long enough in a straight line, you would sure reach the precipice from where a drop would take you down the great unknown. And then it was discovered that actually the earth wasn’t quite a table-top it was in fact a sphere, so if you started from point A, and travelled endlessly in the same direction you would actually end up at the very same spot. Now for the philosophically inclined it would mean that you would have had all the experience of having travelled the world, but from a Physicist’ point of view all your work would equal zero. Work = Force*Distance, and having reached the same spot you would have essentially made zero progress and therefore all your force (or energy spent) wouldn’t count for much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sure, it would appear a very cynical approach! But actually, there is some merit to delve deeper along this line. For instance, I would think we usually have a journey from Point A to Point B, so if I were to end up at Point A, having started at the very same place, it could be because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">- I didn’t know from where I started</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the first case it is quite possible that when you begin you don’t quite know where you’re going or want to go – could be for a variety of reasons, the most obvious one being that you’re looking out into the unknown and uncertain, so being a lil unsure cant be so much of a sin. And if that uncertainty stays long enough, you end up where you started and you cant be peeved about it. After all, you didn’t have anything in mind so you cant quite complain about what you get.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Also, there could be some who wouldn’t give much of a thought where they end up, for them it could be all about the experience, about the journey, by choice or otherwise they could give it a philosophical fillip to their ignorance and ineptitude and none would really give it a canter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Guess it’s the final category that appears to have lost out most. For one, they had a goal, and two did work towards it and yet to have the efforts nullified is sure a hard pill to swallow. And this is where the ‘earth is round’ principle comes in, it shows that every goal is relative and nothing is this world is an absolute value. For you to know and very well achieve your end goal, it is just as important to know where you stand as it is to know where you are headed. You could be making every effort for progress but having no understanding of your standing you will end up coming back to the same place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then there are other connotations to think about, it could be that you goals are alright, but you are starting at the wrong place. It could be that you don’t see where you started and when you come back to that place, you are in just a dilemma of having made progress, your actual movement is nil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Or it could be that you do not know how much, how far and how long you need to go before you reach your destination. You may be blindly surging forward, there is effort but without a vision! To know where you stand is often half the battle, if you see a sprinter before a race he will never start off looking at the finishing line, he will first set his feet firm at the starting point. When the race begins, you don’t want to be faltering – know where you stand and stand firm on your feet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Finally, given that the earth is round any direction is a relative direction. You head far enough on the left and you’ll end up on the right. And that’s why the three wise men followed the star that led them to the Messiah; and some other wise men said, “Aim for the stars and you’ll at least end up in the clouds” … for they understood that true progress is neither left or right, it is actually upward. Upward to being something greater than yourself!</span></div>
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</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-15558070378164390062011-12-14T20:17:00.000+05:302011-12-14T20:17:01.737+05:30Time Coagulated!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What a day it’s been!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though I knew they existed</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never quite had actually seen!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The roads seemingly endless</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So much felt alone!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The sun that shone</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So majestic and bright!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then there were faces</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A mighty multitude!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nothing matched my solitude!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Into a stillness unknown!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And my heart inside me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Weighed as much a stone!!</span></div>
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</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-69246739812634109542011-12-05T11:10:00.001+05:302011-12-05T11:19:34.228+05:30"R" We Ready!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The dreaded R word is back in our consciousness, though it’s debatable whether it actually ever left us. But now that it appears more likely to here than not, ironically the news coming in pretty much simultaneously to that of unemployment going down to its lowest in the US for two years now. However, given the pulls and pressures of the globalized world it’s quite unlikely that anyone is exempt from any consequences when a huge chunk of the world economy, called the Euro Zone, is having the sort of paralytic fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Forget the climatic and apocalyptic hullaballoo; there are enough real and present indicators that suggest that 2012 could be a<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/World-on-brink-of-another-economic-meltdown-UN/articleshow/10954262.cms" target="_blank"> “make or break”</a> year, this no less coming from the UN. And making the news more morose is the fact that India and China – the two torchbearer economies of the new world, who led the world out of recession last time are now seem to have run out of steam and will face much of troubled times themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The UN report categorically blames the “failure of policymakers, especially in US and Europe, to address job crisis, prevent sovereign debt distress and escalation of financial sector fragility” as the reasons for the impending “double-dip” gloom. Cut through the jargon and the phrase that stands out is “the failure of policy makers”. What should bother the common man is not the fact that we’re having another recession, instead it appears that it may well have been averted, at least we’d be better prepared, if our policy makers were more focused on resolving the problem than becoming more partisan, divided, narrow-visioned and downright senseless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Against such backdrop what’s currently seen in our country can only be termed at best callous and indifferent. <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/article2373336.ece" target="_blank">These are difficult times for us</a>, our GDP has been at the bottom of its growth percentage in two years, the currency is performing as worst as it ever done, the forex reserves are down, employment hasn’t kept pace with needs and inflation still a worry. Add to it the impending recession in 2012, due to the crisis in Euro Zone and fragile US market, it has all necessary ingredients for the perfect storm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And yet our policy makers have no time for any of this, the Parliament has become the epitome of how most things function in our country – <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-hopes-Parliament-will-function-from-Wednesday/articleshow/10987485.cms" target="_blank">dysfunctionally</a>! The executive branch is busy firefighting the opposition and allies alike, while the much heralded ‘growth story’ is very much slipping away beneath our feet. If the failure of policy makers in US and Europe is the cause of the impending recession, sadly our own policymakers would be the reason for making it worse and difficult to find a way out of it. Key policy decisions need rolling out, and legislative matters discussed – neither have happened and worse wont in the near future. The FDI in retail and aviation sectors can go a long way in helping employment numbers. Other reforms of the insurance sector etc are very much essential. The state needs to stop itself from bleeding in companies like Air India. Public infrastructure needs a push, agriculture needs a helping hand and petty politics a kick on its rear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not everything envisioned by the government ought to be good, but surely everything stalled by politics must be a curse! Sure, this crisis is driven more outside-in, but the solutions need to be the reverse – both to placate the effects of the current crisis and also avert future ones. We don’t need outsiders to tell us our <a href="http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=mahathir+mohamad+ht+leadership+summit&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2FIndia-news%2FNewDelhi%2FLess-democracy-better-for-India%2FArticle1-776912.aspx&ei=IlrcTojMF4XxrQf47c3_DQ&usg=AFQjCNG5RftHMzCFyZpCLMIqjCsqA5-_3g" target="_blank">democracy doesn’t work</a>, its better we realize it ourselves and correct it before fingers are pointed at us – both within and outside!!</span></div>
</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-55289677887119098192011-12-04T17:38:00.001+05:302011-12-04T18:09:37.958+05:30You're special & I can't wait to be back!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yash Chopra might have made Switzerland synomous with his love stories and New York is the place Karan Johar swears by! But for everything that is so mundane about you, I have to confess there are few places that stir the kind of heart-racing emotions in me as you do. Like Panda says, we just have to believe that something is special. I believe you are - for you've given me the experience that very few have, and honestly very few can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The very mention of you wells such emotions in me, my heart can feel the pounding and only I know what it is was like the first and last time I was there. The anticipation, the element of surprise, the wait and the sense of longing. For all the pain that had been before was now to be set behind, for all the wait that was, was now to come to an end. All the plans I had made, they were just minutes away. I could see it coming, I knew it was coming! I can still hear the sound of that day, annoucing the imminent arrival. I wanted to run, scream, hide, surprise, embrace! Just wanted to see, feel and know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The long journey to get to you, was to embark on a longer journey - only this time it was a happier one. You got me the love I sought! I remember everything, like it was just yesterday. I've thought of you so often since, and will do so ever more. I can't wait to come back to you. For everyone else in the world you might be just another place - mudane, regular, everyday, been there; not for me, never! I hope you know it! You mean a lot to me. Just thinking of you, wells tears in my eyes. I cant wait to see you again... soon, I'm hoping!!</span><br />
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</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-57563885485374720152011-11-27T10:37:00.001+05:302011-11-27T11:27:19.532+05:30Dont make it worse!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br>It's bad as it already is,
<br>Please don't make it worse!
<br>It's a minor blip I'd hope,
<br>Don't make it sound like a curse!!</div>
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<p><br>Being right or may be wrong,
<br>Why are you so quick to judge!
<br>All this while it was good,
<br>Why today you bear a grudge!!</div>
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<p><br>How quickly forgotten,
<br>All the good times we had!
<br>Just how quickly,
<br>In a second, you labeled me bad!!</div>
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<p><br>I wish you knew,
<br>This is so hard on me!
<br>How bad this hurts,
<br>Wish for once you could see!!</div>
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<p><br>I don't expect you all nice,
<br>Yet you needn't be rude or terse!
<br>As I said, its painful as it were,
<br>Please don't make it worse!!</div>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-33355233094038824232011-09-01T11:59:00.000+05:302011-09-01T12:00:21.958+05:30Another Today!!<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Who knows what’s coming ahead,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Would I be around or long gone dead?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">No one’s seen the morrow,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Then why should I hold any sorrow?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">How should, what might or may?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Define how I live today!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">When everything is so uncertain,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Isn’t my grief for future but vain?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Here’s is my moment,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Here I am now!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Now is the moment,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">To live, wonder and wow!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Would be great, if all plans shape up<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">The way we see them in our head,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">But often they can,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">And sure do, go another way instead!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">For I know not the end,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Nor can I change it for what it is!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">For He’s the author <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">And all that’s written is His!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">So I must, live and love <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">In all that is today!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">‘Cos even if the morrow comes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">It would still be another Today!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Script MT Bold""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-88096679195547642612011-08-03T12:31:00.001+05:302011-08-03T12:48:13.135+05:30Forgotten India<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">August 15<sup>th</sup> 1947, at the stroke of midnight we changed from a colony to a country, breaking allegiance to the crown we made the citizens of this then fractured nation the rulers of what we hoped was to be a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, vibrant, diverse and above all a unified nation that while respecting the differences will pave the way forward for collective growth and prosperity. Close to Sixty Four years since the Freedom at Midnight, much water has passed under the bridge and it seems the idea of a unified nation has been callously undermined, ignored and at worse forgotten!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">The birth of a nation is sure to have its own share of teething issues, we went through a period of our own ‘integration-issues’ but eventually we seemed to have settled into being one-nation. Coming off from an intensely difficult separation at birth (the creation of Pakistan) and still having to face the remnants of its scourge in terms of terrorism, as a nation we should have by now understood and better appreciated the virtues of togetherness. Why is it then every day we find new reasons and avenues to fight and stay apart? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">From a Telangana, to a Gorkhaland to Bodoland, from being BJP to Congress to I-am-aligned-to-anyone-with-power, from show-off-secularism to cultural nationalism… why do we continue to fragment ourselves into as-many-as-possible segments? And why are such segmentations so marked and defined?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">If you disagree consider this<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">A UPite or a Bihari in Mumbai is a ‘migrant’ – lynched as cattle by rightwing activists<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">An Andhrite in Hyderabad is an ‘outsider’ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Recently the leader of a national party termed a leader of an opposition party as ‘untouchable’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Kandhamal, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri">Gujarat, 2002<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">It appears as a nation we’ve only grown to the stage of being an unruly teen. Unsure of who we are, much less of who we want to be – we’ve forgotten our roots of unity and thus we do not know road to collective prosperity. Feels like its back to the future case, just that we are no longer fractured as kingdoms and princely states, we’ve evolved our fragmentations to religion, region, caste, economic & cultural affinity, political inclination etc… we’ve also evolved ourselves to be part of multiple fragments at the same time. Multiple fragmentations only leading to greater isolation!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">The greatest ail for any nation has to be when we start to focus more on our differences. When self and individualistic interests override common goals! Today more than ever it appears we’re hurtling down the individualistic road. Sure there are differences, they are bound to be, but do they erase our common bonds? We have greater challenges outside; greater still are opportunities that surround us. Acceptance of diversity was intended to have been woven into the very fabric of our nation, so its not like we cannot iron out our differences – just need the earnestness to do so!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri">Abraham Lincoln once said that a house divided against itself cannot stand! Speaking against slavery, Lincoln said it was time for the nation to veer one way or the other… the operative word being ‘one’. Today standing on the cusp of world leadership we cannot be slandering, abusing, lynching and cutting ourselves into smaller fragments. Our greatest strength is our unity, our diversity is our USP, and the idea and ability to fuse both into one is the beauty and wonder that is India!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195178884581777197.post-60311793859906969962011-06-27T18:11:00.007+05:302011-06-27T19:04:33.157+05:30Twinkling Lil Star<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRuH545H-d3WlDsNc1Y740YTU8C8x8rcwvxiLcuBHijgHRGaygLRM3D46EqaMHQLBbSD9lpdJTeGU5CfE8CaiRQLzxjhAmShqOnTv0k70UedOZEOR1_Tb7aPZYVueX392q-CDX0N0y_g/s1600/stars.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRuH545H-d3WlDsNc1Y740YTU8C8x8rcwvxiLcuBHijgHRGaygLRM3D46EqaMHQLBbSD9lpdJTeGU5CfE8CaiRQLzxjhAmShqOnTv0k70UedOZEOR1_Tb7aPZYVueX392q-CDX0N0y_g/s320/stars.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622890030119530738" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Rage Italic'; font-size: 27px; "></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20.5pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">I’d gaze up at the sky each night</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">and find a twinkling lil star!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">Each night it felt it there waiting</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">so close, yet so far!!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; " ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center; text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; " ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center; text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20.5pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">Each night as dusk filled the sky,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20.5pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; "><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>it appeared out for the world to see!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">Yet there was some magic,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">that I felt it was just meant for me!!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center; text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; " ><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center; text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; " ><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:center; text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20.5pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">For me the star was all of the sky,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">nothing beyond it mattered, it seems!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">That when I closed my eyes and went to sleep,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">the star was all that was in my dreams!!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; " ><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; " ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">Then one day when you came across,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">And it felt like a dream come true!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">And you touched my life, so much so</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">That I felt that star in you!!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; " ><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; " ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">And if there was ever a day,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">when I feel you’re afar!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">I’ll look at that star,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; ">And I’d feel you close</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Rage Italic'; " >No matter wherever you are!!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Venushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348054545660598153noreply@blogger.com0