From Light to Darkness to YOU!

The Lord said “Let there be light” and the earth was created. Well, this Christmas, a gentleman said, “Let there be darkness” and magic was manifested.

The magical spell of the darkness stayed on. It stayed on even when the darkness slowly transformed into light and reality. It stayed on even as the sunlight was ushered in through the tiny door down the hall-way. It stayed on even after the tiny beam of light from “somewhere up above” ceased to illuminate the magnanimous screen before me. It stayed on even as I walked through the same tiny door with the multitudes as they chirped gleefully to forage the perfect place to relieve their itching taste-buds and satiate their gastric yearnings. It stayed on my way back home – totally oblivious to everything around me. It stayed on as I write this. It probably has stayed on you as you read this.

What was it about 3 Idiots that struck a chord almost instantly with everyone who saw it? What was it about the director’s rendition of an author’s possibly embellished story of three students slugging it out for four years through the lows of dismal scores and the highs of booze with all the circus happening around holding them in place between the two extremes and keeping us entertained all through? No doubt that its depiction of emotions was so flawlessly real – so much so that it must have made you pull out a handkerchief and dab your moist eyes at some point in time in the movie. As also did it get you laughing so hard that your teeth and cheeks hurt after a long time as you clenched on to your tummy and your seat. It must have sent you on a trip down the memory lane – making all the people and places come alive and flash past your eyes that have oh! so very touched your lives! I was struggling to find and pin point to that one particular magical ingredient that did us all in! But then it struck me – it was us! Each and every single one of us! The portrayal of characters, events, and emotions – all of it was all that we have been through in our own lives! It truly was just us!

Accolades, applauses and laurels to the director. This movie is a testimony to the message that it gives out – Pursue excellence in your passion and success would have to follow you!

The song goes – AALLL IJJJ WELL! Ah well, my take-home from the movie – All is, well, within you! :-)

NUMB!!!

As emotionless and expressionless state of being the word is associated with, it is a feeling altogether - quite rightly of its own.

There are highs and there are lows and somewhere in between the two is the transition - a state where this four letter word stands tall, with its feet apart, hands at the waist, and stares down at you with it's lifeless eyes. It needn't push or scare away any emotion wanting to peek out to the surface, it's presence makes them all to simply not be there!

I contemplate - Is it the vestige of the night before - witnessing the deliriousness that life puts your very loved ones through? Or are you identifying with it as something of your own!

Numb - your mind, Numb - your soul.
Numbness devouring the shimmer of your eyes
Numbness - like the eternal dark hole!
No wait!!! Numb - I don't want to be no more!

A flash and a blink later I say - B'bye Pink Floyd! Led Zep - Here I come!

Random Rhymes

No one knows what the future holds..

Maybe the gems, the pearls, the diamonds or the golds..

Let the mystery reveal itself before your eyes....the puzzle of the pictures - we call life

Yet another piece to comprehend each day...each one seeks a place that fits the perfect way

Its all there before your eyes - the colors, the hues, the darks and the lights

you place each one - each day and each night

Time passes by and slowly it all begins to comes through....

As it is being done, a beautiful image is unfolding back at you!

Then you realize why it took so long

and why didn’t it fit it in when it had all been there all along...

VOTE!!!

Election season around the corner, another reason to rejoice - yep, another holiday!! :P

There, however, is a far graver importance to it than just that.

I registered to vote finally and am feeling thrilled about it - a right the Constitution of India has empowered each of us with.

Each passing day, we live our lives with a hope of a better tomorrow - a good future for ourselves and our loved ones. We strive harder

each day to see ourselves coming nearer to that dream - pushing ourselves to our limits, and then again, a little more. What has

this got to do with voting you would ask? Well, I'd say, just about everything. Putting aside the facilities (roads, rail, water, electricity etc)

that we expect from the Government, the quality of life would also be a direct result of the kind of leader who comes to power. For,

they shall decide the taxes we will pay, they shall decide the education our kids will get, it will be their decision which will affect the

businesses and our jobs. WE cannot change the decisions they make , but WE can decide who will make those decisions.

This time, just for a change, Vote for all those things that you want to change...VOTE for change..VOTE for YOURSELF! :)

PS: Check this link to make an informed choice: http://www.mumbaivotes.com/

On a Lazy Saturday afternoon....

Hurray!!! It is FRIDAY!!!! I rejoice in the silence of the morning and I smile. The smile stays day long – untouched and unscathed by anything and everything around me. Work, travel, food, chats, coding, mail-forwarding and awaiting the clock to strike 5.30 – hey, I do the same things on each of the weekdays, but today I don’t mind staying back until 9.30, today, I smile if I miss the bus and am happy to get my share of adventure – yeah, the uncertainty of the BEST bus coming on time, barging through the doors of the right bus at the very sight of it, hustling through the crowds and what not - that’s quite an adrenaline rush!!! And finally, when the day is done, the PC is switched off and the card is swiped the last time for the week, I attain Nirvana as I head back home. For the weekend is here!!!

Last weekend was quite different though, not just because it was an extended one, but for the realization that dawned upon me. The much-awaited weekends in Mumbai are spent in lazing around on Saturday afternoons, wondering what to do in the evenings, going to the mall/shopping/having pizzas on Sunday. The common thing here is not just the activities – it’s the crowds everywhere. It makes up for the train travel absent in some blessed peoples lives on the weekdays and assures them that they have not been outcast – they still are Mumbaikars! It all too rushes before the eyes and before you know it, BANG! Its over!! And yet another long wait for until the next one…

Imagine this – you are walking bare-feet on the white sands, the subtle waves of the sea beckon you, you trudge over and wade through the waters – so clear that you see your feet and your reflection in it. The early morning sun is still lazy to wake up and come out – it is hidden behind its blue and white blankets of the clouds. Far, far away, to your left and to your right, there is NO ONE!! The tranquility in the air is enlivening as it enthralls your senses. The experience – Divine!

It was a marvelous discovery and a humbling realization that just beyond the precincts of this concrete jungle and its multitude faces – their artificial smiles, restless minds and worn-out feet from running in the rat race – there is place where you meet someone very very special – Your Self! And then you realize, you cannot ever attain Nirvana, for Nirvana is you.