What do I call thee, let me count the ways.........

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“I said I love you and see you as something more than a friend,
You said you see me as nothing more than just a friend.

You said you dint love me
And yet you get jealous when I go out with other guys

I am just another friend for you,
And yet you shower me with all your love and affection

You said we were just best friends and nothing more,
And yet I’m the first person to be informed about the happenings in your life.

You talk to me about your other girl friends,
And yet I’m the first to ride your new bike.

You are not the first person to wish me on my birthday,
And yet you come home to make me feel special.

The Black Wednesday

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I know you don’t respond to my nonsense prayers

When all I am bothered about is I and my life!

I know you don’t respond to my earnest prayers

When all that’s filled in my heart is deceit!

I know I have been selfish and conceited each and every day

But please listen to me today when I pray

Coz today my prayers aren’t about my life and my worries

It is about the lives of others and their miseries

Enough blood has been shed in the name of religion

Enough tears has flown for the conviction

Don’t you think its time you showed us some mercy

Coz I don’t want my land and people burning in fury

No land of mine will be under siege again

No person will lose their comrade yet again

Coz we shall join our hands

And rise to protect our mother land

Enough is enough! I would say

Give it back to them in their own way

Weapons of destruction we shall disuse

Our message of peace, you shall not ridicule

Don’t you think the time has come

For people to untie and become one

I pray to you to show us the way

To live in peace each and every day!

(Dedicated to the brave heros who lost their lives so that we could live to see a bright new day!)

Go Kiss the World!!!

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One book that changed my life, my thinking and my level of confidence, without any doubt has to be Subroto Bagchi’s “GO KISS THE WORLD”. These were the very words that his dying blind mother told him before her last breath.

He’s perfectly tagged it as Life Lessons for The Young Professional. At the end of each chapter, he summarizes the learning’s from that chapter.

But apart from this what impressed me the most is that he, like many of us, is a small town boy and has fought his way up and achieved his goals.

Happy Diwali!

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“ASATO MA SADH GAMAYA,

(Lead me from the Unreal to the Real)

TAMASO MA JYOTIR GAMAYA

(Lead me from Darkness to Light)

MRITOR MA AMRITAM GAMAYA

(Lead me from Death to Immortality)

OM SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTIHI"

(Let Peace prevail within oneself, let peace prevail in the society, let peace prevail in the world)

Let the lights of this Diwali guide you from darkness to light, enlightening your soul, fill you up with immense knowledge, so powerful, that no force on this earth can stop you when you set your eyes on the goals that you wish to achieve.

HAPPY DIWALI!!!

Melancholy………………………………..

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Nostalgia can sometimes make you remember some of the most awesome memories of childhood, which I had lost after I entered the rat race of the corporate world.

Just the other day, my brother and I were discussing the major impact Doordarshan had on our childhood. I can still remember the tunes of a couple of serials and hum them once in a while.

Of late, children seem to be caught up with all the absorbing gadgets and miss the most fascinating and important part of their life – Childhood.

FRIENDS

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What would you call people who respond to one phone call of yours when you are in distress? What do you call people who are simplicity and extravagance personified? What do you call people from who you draw strength when you are hitting a low patch in life???

GOD?

ANGEL?

MESSIAH?

I just call them as FRIENDS!!!

The Garden City

For a person who believes that Bangalore was, is and will be the best city ever to live, a visit to a city in the neighboring state came as a pleasant surprise. The wide roads, the various restaurants, the hang out joints, the bindaas guys and babes of the city were actually an eye opener.

After Bangalore if I had to actually rate my choice of preference for a place to stay it would probably be this city. But if I had to actually think back on the statement just made by me then I would in fact see a vast difference and yet vast similarities between the two cities.

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No doubt that one is “The” IT capital of the country and the other is just emerging to be one, people in both the cities are equally busy.

People in both the cities actually turn into maniacs when they start driving and I guess the same follows through out the country.

People in both the cities equally enjoying eating out (we Indians are known for our vast appetite for good food!)

No doubt the meters of the auto rickshaws in this city read kilometers or distance traveled very much unlike to the auto rickshaws in Bangalore which shows the amount, but in both places the drivers’ mentality is the same – to loot people.

But still there’s something that actually makes me feel that Bangalore is the best place to stay coz no matter how busy people are with their own lives, we still manage to strike a conversation with the person sitting opposite to us in the public transport system, and sometimes these meetings of minutes turn into relationships for a life time

The ultimate reason for our existance

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“I know how to travel between the present and the past. I know the world of the spirits, and I’ve communed with forces so amazing that no words in any language can describe them. I could perhaps say that I possess the silent knowledge of the journey that has bought the human race to where it is at this moment.

“But because I know all this, and because I am a Teacher, I also know that we will never ever know the ultimate reason for our existence. We might know the how, where and when of being here, but the why will always be a question that remains unanswered. The main objective of the great Architect of the Universe is to know Him alone and to no one else”

A silent fell.

“Right now, while we’re here eating, ninty-nine percent of the people on this planet are, in their own way, struggling with that very question. Why are we here? Many think they’ve found the answer in religion or in materialism. Others despair and spend their lives and their money trying to grasp the meaning of it al.. A few let the question go unanswered and live for the moment, regardless of the results or the consequences.

Mother nature's blessings

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The smell of mud as the first drop of rain touches the earth has always enthralled me. It has this distinct aroma which is hard to describe but it makes u feel like throwing up all your work and dancing with joy.

I can spend hours together watching out of the window as it rains. The pitter- patter of rain drops, the lashing of it against the window, the fluttering of leaves as every rain drop hits it, the ripples that are formed in puddles of water, the breeze within the power of rain, it starts as a passing shower, and then becomes a steady cadence. Heavy drops thud the skylight. Like a child's play xylophone, it gently chimes the metal vents on the roof. The music almost lulls me to sleep. It’s an amazing sight that one must see and experience. Words fail when you try to explain such mesmerizing acts of nature.

Depressing Depressions!

Its one of those days were you feel that the whole world’s against you and I’m in one of those rotten moods where I feel like cursing every damn person I come across with the most eloquent reprimand.

Its also one of those days when I really want to talk……………. just talk about all those thoughts pent up within me, the thoughts that are actually driving me crazy, the thoughts that are pushing me to the brink of insanity, the thoughts that are killing me. The only reason I don’t want to talk about them is because they don’t make any sense to anybody else other than me. You actually need to “be there- feel that” to understand the confusing turmoil happening within me.

Have you ever tried to doodle with your thoughts trying to make some sense out of the perplexity within you? If you’re actually as jobless as I am, try it one day. Sometimes it leads to amazing revelations about oneself; you discover stuff that you dint know about yourself and you’ll be amazed that you can actually think in that direction too. But most of the time you end up getting more confused than you were before.

When you are in one of these depressing moods, when you feel the need for a friend, a shoulder to cry on, it’s not hard to notice that you don’t find anybody next to you. You are left alone with these pondering thoughts with nobody to share, nobody to listen, and nobody to guide you in overcoming them. You are left with just one friend…. Your loneliness.

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The universal Magician

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I’m knowledge; I’m wisdom

I’m music, I’m rhythm

I’m love; I’m life

I’m innocence and rife

I’m day; I’m night

I am your life’s light

I’m nature; I’m beauty

You know me as eternity

I’m one; I am formless

I’m still and timeless

I’m strong; I’m invincible

I’m infinite and universal

Seek out; I am around you,

Look inside, I am within you

Ice cream Island

Who wouldn’t want to have an ice-cream? It does make a person add on a few extra calories but who cares? It’s the best anti-depressant I’ve ever come across.

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I remember running to my mom asking her for money at the sound of the ringing bell on the street, when I was young. The joy of smearing ice-cream across your face, having it drip down your fingers onto your dress as you eat, is something incomparable. No doubt, I would get scolding for spoiling a pretty dress, later on, but that is nothing when compared to the bliss of having ice-cream.

I once had my tooth plucked out when I was young. I was put on a strict ice-cream diet. The doctor advised my parents to give me all the ice-cream I wanted. I loved him for that.

The enchanting bamboo

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Recently, I happen to clear up some space in the attic and came across my old collection of audio CD’s. As I was browsing through them, I stumbled up a couple of CD’s of Surmani Pravin Godkhindi. There was this particular CD of his - A Feather Dances: 7 Rhythms of the Flute, which was my favorite for a very long time. As I reached out and opened this CD with all the excitement of listening to my favorite music once again, I was touched with disappointment to see the case was empty. I had already built in me the anticipation of experiencing the waves of his soulful “Bamboo Magic”. My search for this particular CD was futile and I realized that I had indeed lost a very prized possession. I spent a couple of days brooding over the loss and finally decided to buy a new CD.

You want magic???

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Something that always amazes me is the intelligence that the kids are born with now a days. This was until I discovered the joy of reading Calvin & Hobbes. My morning has to start with my cuppa of coffee and the all knowing and ever enthusiastic Calvin’s cartoon strip in the newspaper.

This guy’s just amazing. For a 6 year old kid, he has a damn good imaginative power consisting of Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, Captain Nitro, Transmogrifiers, dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus rex to be exact) etc, his misadventures, his unique views on a diverse range of political and cultural issues and his polls on his dad.