Two little conversations

Recently in the course of my travel to home, I met two persons, of different age, profession, education and lifestyle - united by Telangana and divided by passion and education.

One is a cab driver, whose views about Telangana were appalling. Before I got into that cab, he dropped a Mumbai student from ISB till station. He wanted KCR govt to send away outsiders as 'they did' with Andhra people. He could not proceed studies post matriculation owing to his disinterest and thinks ISB students take away jobs from Telangana. He looked convinced with my argument that it is the other way around. These outsiders generally take his cab and fund his livelihood. He represented the majority of Telangana I knew : attitude - careless, arguments - baseless, aimless and hopeless.

Then in the bus, I was seated beside an uncle in his mid 50s. We broke into a conversation that went so far into the night, others had to shut us up (it was 1:00AM). He works in Singareni mines ( I thought one more typical T fellow) and is passionate about english. We were talking about crosswords, anagrams, pangrams, kangaroo words, and what not. I was amazed at his achievements. He holds national records for biggest crossword puzzle and palindrome. He spoke very passionately about his assiduous endeavors and experiments with english. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing with him my literary interests.

I forgot to mention, his name is 'Police', yes. 

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/this-police-is-on-a-noble-mission/article5059991.ece

I wish Police uncle all the best for his book release; a book aimed at making english learning a fun and inculcating linguistic interests in school children.

Here it says it all. Have a look at the cover of the book

'Whistle Podu' has got a new context now

I write this in utter disgust over the political drama created by the elected representatives of our country. An assembly/parliament session cannot be held without a din, 'adjournment' is a mere order of the operations and things have took such a bad shape that it's difficult to imagine a session without pandemonium.
The level they have stooped to is disgraceful, shameful to the entire nation. Using a pepper spray in the august house, manhandling the chairperson, semi nude protests, slapping the marshals,... I'm sure, Telugu Film Industry is in dire need of such dramatics and creativity and not definitely Parliament/Assembly.

I strongly support  Ayn Rand's views on collective opinion when it pertains to our democracy in its current form. Collective opinion cannot be considered the ultimatum as long as the people are not matured enough ( or as she states that the majority is a bunch of morons).  We never accept simple yet brilliant solutions and we do not have a legacy of accepting our great people. We idolize leaders who take us from 'Unbearable' to 'Very dis comfortable'. But never think that these 'unbearable' situations are due to those very leaders.

I do not know what it takes to make people realize the greatness of a person suggesting so simple yet visionary and brilliant solutions and ways of governance. 'Brilliance', 'Stupendous', 'Sanity' -  the stature of any such adjective only gets heightened when used to describe him. Yes, we do have such a person in our own JayaPrakash Narayan, who has decided to dedicate his lifetime to see a better India and better lives for us.

I take pride in working as a volunteer for Lok Satta Party. I feel something special writing about them, may be this is manifestation of patriotism within me. I urge everyone to understand the ramifications if wrong people are elected to rule us and not to miss this chance to veto wrong politicians.

It is not enough, if only you go and vote for him. A revolution is need of the hour to see us out of this chaos. It would have been an acceptable regret had we not had a sane option. But, it's utter pity and shame on us, if we take this opportunity to vote out the ones selflessly fighting for us.

Few quotes I'd like to mention in this context:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"It is said God lets great things happen through people who least care for the credit"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein

"Avoidable Suffering and Unfulfilled Potential are two sins that bother me" - JP

It's a serious bother that our country is in a state where Good has to be sold and Bad is accepted as-is.

Let us bring about the change by voting for 'Whistle'. After all, WhistlePodu has got a new context now.

Oskar Schindler- a saviour

Oskar Schindler, a man who let happen the improbable, is there above too high to be remembered.

I believe, everything has to return back and every good thing has to necessarily trace back. He was grateful to everyone who played pawns in his plans. And he is treated with priceless gratitude on his farewell. The gesture to turn the gold tooth into a ring with the quote is truly moving.

"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire" and he did save a world -Schindler's Jews- entire.

 It's well above my reasoning to make out what made the Germans holocaust the pitied. The hatred, the sense of victory in their faces when executing the disarmed, the joy they saw in human slaughter were so real that I felt it beyond what is called picturization. The crux of the movie for me is when Oskar averted the last call to finish off the left Jews before the Germans surrendered. "Leave homes as men, not murderers".

Weight of the subject is overwhelming that Spielberg himself considered not matured enough to direct the film.

Schindler professed a wonderful quote that defines his stature; “Power is when we have every justification to kill - and we don't.”

life in melody

enuff..yes I might die of overjoy, if I listen to this melody anymore now
Every cell of mine sprung with new energies as my feet danced in the company of dear candra.
I heard an inner voice shouting louder than ever to come out of the shackles, and made me feel I was still alive.
It was ecstasy, no..It was even more than being in continuous state of orgasm, as I was devoted to them in action together- lyricist, musician, singer and breeze.

I felt so light, though I'm actually, for it was the unnamed and untouchable entities that were acting here.
I can live anywhere on this planet given such music exists, love exists.
Everything around me was a pleasure for an hour :)

Donno how the song is picturized, I have one already done so beautifully in my memory- better than what Mani might have made
Thank you Rahman, thank you mani ratnam,..
I'll be done for this life when I experience the song with a partner, who feels the same.
adi maatram chalu..adi maatrame

Change, good or bad, is inevitable

Wah!Change is beautiful, I felt an year ago.

But life had different plan for me, as usual it did not let me understand its intentions.

It gave me a blatant blow right on the face, not easily to be recovered. The change never seemed to be ominous for it was taking me along a beautiful path but to a phase of Hell.

A hell where loneliness rules, cry is the norm, self hatred and helplessness are rampant.

I could not have foreseen even a frame of present then.

Utopia crashes into barren land.

My territory has now become the only useless piece centered in hectares of varieties of vegetation.

My land forgot what it is supposed to cultivate and is jealous of the natural traits of newly seen foreign varieties.

It has cultivated love for some exotic species which can never grow on this terrain. 

Eventually it lost its identity, developed paranoia and became schizophrenic.

This Change has been hurting this stone, what was misinterpreted to be, a lot.

Hoping a good sculpture resistant to further similar attacks in adversity comes as a product of this emotional excursion.

words unadulterated..err feelings :)

Well, Its 4 u finally, my alter-ego
or rather to put it well, I'm your alter-ego, a disciple, a copy cat

I might be inspired by something, enchanted by someone, hated by few,lauded by a few...
But no one has been  like you
No one has known me as you have,may b more than me or may not be :P

I never thought I'd fight like that with someone other than my bro , n still be liked..

The word "lucky" is lucky to be used here,if I say I'm lucky 2 have found u :)
I feel My true self was potatoed out, when I was with you or perhaps when u wer wid me..

I'm happy to miss u, 4 I know how much I miss u ;)

emotional interception

I was wondering what life was all about...ironically it was few days after I received a good first salary....
everything startd seeming worthless.....my fav dishes turnd tasteless...money seemed to be pieces of paper..n i was wondering why people were behind the wealth
and what is happiness......

and with all d questions n scepticism I startd back to hyd...
while leaving home..mom suddenly turned at me, held me tight, kissed me and she was weeping
tears from nowhere ,considering d mood I was in, started rolling out of my eyes

Dis solved what was conundrum for me
D world seemed to b many parallel lines for me..but i saw d transparent yet d strongest adhesive dat binds d web n intersects all d parallels...

love in its purest form...
sad 2 miss u mom..
lucky 2 feel ur love..