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