Questionnaire..

I have been missing my questionnaire round so here I come again.

Q: What are your thoughts on Kejriwal’s movement?

A: I have been watching recent political developments very closely. What I have seen very fascinating about this moment is the kind of response it is getting across the nation. Hope Kejriwal and co doesn’t loose the focus and Kejriwal doesn’t develop certain amount of love for grandeur.

Q: Do you think the politicians made irresponsible comment by choice or they are like that only?

A: Sometimes I do think that they make these comments to hog some attention but I also concede that sometimes they are misquoted and media, social media does the rest.

Q: Is Dhoni the best captain India has ever had?

A: I don’t think so. If you consider in periods then may be he is the best in recent times but what Dada did to team India and infused confidence in younger lot is very noteworthy. His leadership was inimitable.

Q: Should Sachin Tendulkar have played little longer in ODI format?

A: I certainly think so. He should have played against Pakistan but then this is His decision and we can question that. But as a player he has more to offer to Indian cricket.

Q: Do you think players don’t perform on purpose?

A: Now that is baseless. You can’t question one’s integrity. We can comment anything sitting outside but what they go through after loses is surely not a happy feeling.

Q: Whom you are putting your money on in coming Australian Open?

A: As Rafael Nadal is not there so will be cheering for Roger and Maria.

Q: How tough or easy it is from Kolkata to Gurgaon?

A: Just too cold, freezing cold but good to listen Hindi all around.

Q: Are the reactions from celebrities after every unfortunate incident just for a minute or do they genuinely care about common people?

A: That I can’t say, but it does feel good if they also voice their opinion rather than keeping mum.

Q: How to make the world a better place to live in?

A: Live and let live, help others and smile.

Q: What are your ambitions?

A: I myself don’t know. May be to own an IPL team :D

Q: Which party is better, Congress or BJP or do we need a third option?

A: I have seen it from close quarter, No party is best or worst, there are some individual in both the parties along with media who make it good or bad. Aur jaha tak third front ki baat hai I think it will never happen.

In the hopes of reaching the moon, never fail to see the flowers that blossom at feet.

 

Have a nice day :)

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all blog friends a very happy and healthy new year. Had lovely New Year with family after a long long time. On this New Year day let’s pledge to work for better tomorrow, free of corruption and crime. Hope you do something good that will make you proud, your family proud, your Alma matter proud and your nation proud. 

May you get what you want and may all your wishes come true!

Is the Police really to blame for?

For the last few days I have been thinking after this horrific and unfortunate incident that unfolded in Delhi, is the Police really to blame for?

I will talk about in generality and not on this specific incident that outraged the whole nation.

What kind of life a policeman lives?
He is selected by some strange methods, put on training and then given duty on some desolate area completely unfamiliar to him with 'meager salary’ and miles away from his family. He has to first understand how things work because he has to deal with public on hourly basis unlike most public figures.

A policeman life isn’t just restricted to protect public, but he has to first please the local politician there, then his superior then comes the public. So it’s not that simple that if a complaint is registered, they quickly start to act. They first have to check against whom the complaint is registered, if he is a tall figure in the locality obviously they can’t act against him. They have to find a method to come to truce where matter isn’t dragged any longer.

Secondly, a policeman doesn’t have much power to straight away act to the crime reported; they have to follow long procedure and etc. that is why they refrain to use their cognizance at times.

Third, their salary is not very handsome and apart from that they get regular transfer leaving their family alone so now he has to run two homes parallely. They don’t have much life either. When we are celebrating festive season they are there away from home to protect us so that everything goes peacefully.

I think the system needs some change and need some police reform to work closely with public so justice is given quickly without any delay every time.

Have a lovely day!

Rapes happen because we allow them to happen!

A girl is gang raped in the capital city, its debated in all news channels and in Parliament, there are reactions from everyone including bollywood biggies, bureaucrats, CEOs of the companies and politicians. Bollywood personalities seem to have intense discussion on social networking sites but at the end of the day what happens we all know it. Opposition gains the mileage, TV gets the coverage and celebs gains some new followers.

I fail to understand whether this is the problem of society or is it because of lack of proper administration.

It is not like if girl is wearing traditional attire is safe, these perpetrator don't see whether its night or day, what is she wearing, whether she is alone or having some company, they will try to accost the girl because they know nothing can happen to them.

Why don't our politicians act in unison when such gruesome crime happens against women, I want every MP to stand united irrespective of any party. If FDI in multibrand retail is important then women safety is equally important too!

Hanging, parading around the city, stoning and castrating wouldnt help, we need stringet laws, better enforcement.

I think the biggest problem in this country is politics. If some incidents happens in Bihar, Laloo would try to gain mileage, if it happens in West Bengal, left will play dirty politics, if it is in UP, Mayawati wouldnt spare and if it is in Gujarat, Congress will get another chance to target Modi. In every case it is politicize first, stirred to the core and then we wait for the result which is never going to come because of these protracted hearing in courts.

I think rape is more hienous and horrible than a murder. Murder happens because there is tension between two groups and it can be resolved but rape cant be prevented because such is the mental state of the (coward) people.

This is such a crime where victim faces the repercussion and not the accused. This should be stoped and everything should be done to protect the women of our society.

Hope when I wake up in the morning, I dont see another such story in the newspaper.
Good Night, stay blessed!

Life Of Pi

This is a movie based on the novel written by Yann Martel. The book is in my list since a long time but havent got a chance to read.

The movie starts with a small village in South India where Pi’s father has a zoo in Ponducherry. Due to some reasons his father decides to shifts to Canada with some animals from the zoo. They start their journey with Japanese ship but a storm hits the ship and it sinks. While everyone is sunk with the ship, Pi is the only one who is saved and finds himself with a Tiger, Hyena and Zebra in a life boat. He fights for his life and does everything to keep the tiger alive as well because he knows if tiger doesn’t get anything to eat that will be his last day. But gradually they (tiger and Pi) start understanding each other. Finally they reach the coast of the sea. While Tiger disappears in the Jungle, Pi was taken to the hospital by the people who want to know how the ship sank.

It’s so invigorating, it makes you glued to screen. It’s more or less like Cast Away in the middle. In Cast Away Tom Hanks is stranded alone at the sea sore but in Life of Pi, Suraj Sharma (Pi) is with the tiger.

Script is good though it is little slow in the middle. If you are an adventurous then this is the film for you.

Some dialogues from the movie

No one knows about religion until someone introduces it to us.

Religion is darkness.

Hunger teaches what we never knew about ourselves.

And above all – Don’t lose hope.

I will go with 3.5 out 5 for this amazing adventurous movie.

Happy Weekend!

Pistanthrophobia

‘Rahiman Dhaga Prem ka, Mat todo chitkay.

Tute se fir na jude, jude gaanth pad jaye’

The Doha by Rahim is not only true for love, its equally true for trust as well. Once the line is broken its hard to keep the faith rejuvenated.

Its not only in the case of love relationship, the fear of trust sometimes forbids to make friends, to get acquainted with strangers. We feel scared of sharing things because we always fear if the person might share it with someone else whom we don’t want them to know. It can happen with parents, with colleagues, with lovers and with friends as well. Sometimes kids develop this phobia at a very early age which makes them hard to talk to any unknown person even for the sake of their own good.

This generally happens when we have a bad experience in the past and that haunts us in future as well. We must choose our friends carefully and have full faith and this should be from the both sides. We should never break anyone’s trust because in the world everything can be recovered but lost trust is irreparable. It takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair. 

"You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses" - Ziggy

Have a lovely week.

Lajja by Taslima Nasrin

This book was written soon after the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992. The writer has narrated the plight of a Hindu family in Bangladesh soon after the riots spread in India and repercussion of it in Bangladesh.

Muslims in Bangladesh were savaging Hindus. Every hour incidents of rapes, incineration of temples, and house trampling of Hindu were flashing on TV. Despite this Sudhamay (leads protagonist and Hindu) was averse to others demand, while some Hindus were fleeing Bangladesh he wanted to stay in his motherland in the hope that riots will be recede some day. Like everyone he was also the staunch lover of his homeland and wanted to exercise his rights in his beloved country. But day after day situation was getting worse and they were being deprived of their fundamentals rights. Their atrocious behavior towards Hindu wasn’t waning.

One passage that really shook me,

“Loving ones country is a universal feeling. But when certain groups of people find that because they do not owe religious allegiance to the declared national religion, their religion is regarded as secondary or is perhaps even third grade in status. And when they are also branded as second class citizens, their egos take a tremendous battering.”

Taslima had tried to put her thoughts and reality of what was happening in Bangladesh without any bias and may be that was the reason that Muslims of Bangladesh issued Fatwa against her and fundamentalists in Bangladesh were clamoring for her life.

It’s really a good book to know the reality of what happened in Bangladesh after the Babri Masjid demolition. Many people don’t find courage to write against his/her own religion but Taslima Nasrin has it but then she has to pay hefty price for it. We need writers of this kind who try to reveal the reality. I think India has lost a very good writer in the name of Salman Rushdie. Hope in coming years we give enough space to the writer to write freely without and restrictions.

“True love is always inside us, loving is learning to use it.”

Have a great weekend!

Jab tak hai jaan

 I went to watch this movie with much expectation as it was Yash ji’s last movie and had 3 masters but to simply put it wasn’t a masterpiece but to my surprise theater was houseful even at 11 PM, he (SRK) surely has power to attract audience even if it’s not a par movie.

The movie is a triangle love story among SRK, Kat and Anushka which comes to light in the second half. Story is kind of same as of Yash ji previous films but somehow I dint get the logic of this tussle between God and Love.

SRK was at his level best so was Anushka somewhat but I don’t know when will Katrina learn to act. Even if it is a most intimate scene she looks emotionally hardened.

The story line is not that great and length of the movie makes it even tougher to stay calm for 3 hours. The movie attaints its best in last half an hour after SRK meets another accident and loses his memory. I liked the movie in parts but not as a whole.

Songs were good so was the location in Kashmir. Kashmir is really a scenic place, hope I will go there someday.

I will go with 2.5(+0.5 for that dance of Katrina before Isk Shava song) out of 5.

But one confusion when Imran (Rishi Kapoor) says

“Har ishq ka ek waqt hota hai?” Is it really so. I thought pyaar ka koi waqt nahi hota bas ye to ho jata hai :)

Happy Diwali!

May this Diwali brings lots of joy, happiness, good health, success and illuminates your life with wisdom . Lets kill the Raavan inside and awaken the Ram.

Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous Diwali!
Stay safe. Take care :)

Which category do you fall in?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Not the ones who tweet and those who don’t , not the ones who see glass half full or half empty, not the ones who support Congress or BJP (Democrats or Republicans) , not the ones who eat Veg or Non Veg, not the Hindus or Muslims and not the developers and testers but these are Optimists and Pessimists.

Yes you got it right. There are only two types of people, those who think that nothing can be changed and those who are making conscious effort to bring in the change. I don’t need to write the dictionary meaning of these two words, you are all aware of that.

Pessimists try to find the negatives in everything that comes in their way while optimists accentuate the positives and hope that good will prevail. Pessimists are never satisfied because they are always seen complaining, whether it’s good or bad doesn’t matter.

While optimists try to find solution of a problem, pessimists are smothered in the problem itself. Pessimist are seen criticizing the bravest of the idea coming from Government while optimists try to understand if it is good or bad for the country as a whole before announcing their verdict.

So let’s not become pessimist but hope that things WILL fall into place today or tomorrow.

Have a nice day!