Zindagi - do pal ki ....err ....BUMP AHEAD ! ;-)

“I wanted to fly high and touch the sky, and now it’s that I can’t even creep” ..remember the story of the father-son duo, Daedalus and Icarus?...Daedalus’s instructions to his son to fly at mid-levels and his son’s fervent desire to fly high,…and the relative consequence? … Yup, he had lost his son forever!
Rash driving, has become one of those few trendy things that helps you bag a distinct(read superior) place among the fashion conscious peers of yours who gladly mark you as the 'super cool dude'; you become the 'guy of dreams' for every gal inside and out the campus, who then start the search for methods of wooing you, the hottest hunk ruling their hearts, in every possible manner; and nonetheless you manage to climb the top notch in the popularity chart comprising the names of those uber cool fellows who I feel should rather prefer to participate in shows like 'Khatron ke khiladi' than coming to college, ,after all 'What is this life if full of care'?
Well, these kinds of dicey games may, where on one hand, give you a certain high on adrenaline rush for the time being and some instant grabbing of eyeballs; but there’s definitely a spot where you are at crisis and that, I suppose, implies to your ‘rational brains’ … coz by doing that you not only attempt to put on stake the life of others but also place a question mark on the probability of your survival!
From the personal experience of my own, of the encounter between life and death, I found one thing that it’s plain blunder to confuse it with an object of sheer adventure coz playing peek-a-boo with something like your own life is a real dangerous space where you are venturing to, and that’s an idea I don’t think I would ever approve of…. raha sawal kudiyo ka, they would anyway dump you once they get a taste of your abnormal driving skills after catching hold of the backseat of your phatphati!
So, act sanely and give a thought to wearing the hood over head, driving at safe speed levels, applying brakes on bumpers, and abiding the traffic rules… that isn’t a bad idea at all…. coz as we all know that destruction is the easiest thing which an animal can also perform well by using it’s primitive untamed senses, so that isn’t some exceptional task, you see…. And perhaps, it’s so very ‘uncool’ to be handcuffed for the unintended mishap, that can even ruin few years of your life along with those of whom you have caused damage to… the momentary pleasure extraction procedures are clearly not as reliable as you view them…. And going by the B- town(the ultimate source of inspiration to the stunt maniacs), zindagi is ‘do pal ki’, and so we must always be cautious of the bump ahead, coz that is meant for the purpose of safety and definitely not for it’s antonym.

Dedicated to Pranjali Parashar - my classmate from college who breathed her last after meeting up with an RTA…May your soul rest in peace!

A murky tale !

Have been wanting to write over this subject since quite a long while now.It has not been much time that I have come across a strange 'ritual' that was(is still) completely an alien concept to what we proudly affirm as the Indian Culture - The Hen Parties! . . . . . . . . . Yup..the much hyped Western tradition has been imbibed by a certain bunch of socially celebrated elite 'Indians' so casually that the customary Sindoor and Mangalsutra have taken a backseat against a pointless and weird ceremony that I guess,outshines the rather more reasonable Pre-nuptials! ...And to top it all,the nudity,the vulgarity,dirty dancing,the undue splurging of the disposable money(that could have been served as alms for the destitutes) over liquor and flesh,..are few of the events that comprise the essence of such nights,,even the desserts served aren't spared when it comes to depiction of their sleazy fetishes...more disheartening is when you come to know that the people throwing or enjoying such parties see no harm in doing so,as they feel that this is what life's all about..to enjoy it to it's fullest..and it really doesn't matter even if the level of 'enjoyment' turns up to be uglier than the round of questionnaire in 'The Moment of Truth' or the most popular swayamvar girl vowing on her virginity! ......There are more additions to these hen nights besides those which I've enlisted,but it seems that God has gifted my conscience with a certain degree of authenticity that I don't feel like going beyond a point that hinders the grace of being his blessed child! Please google the term to know more.. PAUSE BUTTON ON
PLAY AGAIN.. So guys,do you still find the Indian woman beautifully draped in the six yard cloth piece,in a way that not even the toenail is visible,yet more sensuous than the skimpily clad ultra modern hotties with their plunging necklines? ............. 'Not anymore' has to be the answer of choice! . . . . Co-incidentally one of my good friends once messaged me some strikingly funny yet true lines - 'Badi badnaseeb hai aane vaali peedhi jo apne maa ke aanchal me naa so paayegi,kyuki jeans pehenne vaali maa aanchal kahan se layegi'. . . Be it the swift divorce rates,the dressing up style,the delicacies,the rampant hurling of abuses or the newly introduced internet slangs...we tend to replicate almost everything from these blondes! . . . . With this kind of the progress rate,I can foresee the height of patriotism being unfolded when we'll sing in one voice "The Star-Spangled Banner" instead of our very own "Jana Gana Mana"! . . . . . . Duhh...I've got a forgetful nature..didn't exactly got to remember that we Indians are born to ape the West in every possible way so that the xerox-sheet also surrenders in front of us chanting in Hinglish lingo "Jai ho Bharat Mata ki,...It happens only in India"! . . . . . . Hmm...'a fact worth getting thoughtful over', must be the prompt output from your meningeal enclosures at the moment...well,it's something that is bound to happen if even a trace of Indianness is intact in you..or else feel free to join the bracket of a desi idiom,we worthily put it together as - "Dhobi ka kutta,na ghar ka na ghat ka"..lovely,isn't it!

I guess I am done with my part of job of enriching your knowledge about the changing face of India,,,I think this's what the former prime minister of India wanted to convey by his slogan 'India Shining' which was rather misinterpreted as 'the rise of Indian standards'.Imposing exorbitant tax rates on entertainment won't help anymore..you gotta literally raise your standards to own the intellect that has a firm approach against the odd things happening around..

I'll pray that the 'previliged lot' acquires one such soon.

Signing out.
A follower of optimism.