I want a boy who...very romantic...guaranteed to bring a smile to your face :)

I read this somewhere and its too good and too romantic not to share. Enjoy!!!

I want a boy whose eyes will follow only me in a roomful of beautiful women,
Who will hold my hand in line at the mall and make all the girls jealous,
I want a guy who will tell his mother I have beautiful eyes.

I want a boy who knows the right things to say at the right times,
A boy who will write me romantic notes and leave them everywhere for me to find,
Who will give me flowers every once in a while for no real reason at all.
I want a boy who will dance in the rain with me,
Who will tell all his friends about me and smile when he does it,
Someone who would never be afraid to say I love you in front of his friends.

I want a boy who will count stars with me and be friends with my family,
A boy who could make me laugh like no one else can,
I want a boy who will hold me closer than normal when I'm sick,
But mostly I want a boy who is my best friend and will always be there for me.

I love airports and railway stations :)

Today morning I went to see off my hubby at the Beijing International Airport. It was 5:30 am, temperature was between -8*C to -10*C and yet I went with him. Why? The main reason is the hubby darling was going off on an office trip and I am going to be alone for the first time since we got married and I wanted to spend as much time with him as possible. I miss him already :(. I know I am acting like a lovesick teen after five years of marriage but I love him. Okay, so this was the main reason but there's one more too.

I don't know why but airports and railway stations do something to me (not bus stations because I hate traveling by bus - can't stand the fumes). Its like they fill me with a childlike anticipation. Probably because I generally associate railway stations and airports with vacations. No school, no exams, no work, no worries - Just fun. People and planes and trains going to exotic places around the world, the apparent happiness in the eyes of the vacationers, the lovey-dovey looks of the honeymooners, the red eyes of the tired executives, the harassed look of the parents, the sheer energy and organization which goes into getting millions of people and luggage to the right destination at the right time. All that fascinates me.
I generally do not get bored at airports and railways stations because I can observe such places for hours. They are a great lesson in human nature. Its interesting to see how people pass time when they have got nothing to do but wait. Also the notion of going and seeing a new place, meeting different people, knowing a different culture and eating different food fills me with glee. I suppose I was a gypsy in my past life. So every time I get a chance to go to an airport or a railway station, though I might not be traveling, just to see someone off (I hate goodbyes though) or to welcome someone, I go. I go to see the sense in all the chaos and dream of all the lovely places that people are going to :)

Inspite of my love for travel, I do realize that flying contributes a lot to global warming and though I wish there were more ecofriendly ways of traveling and transportation, till they are found all we can do is take a train instead of flying all the time, grow more trees, walk or use the public transportation instead of taking a cab or using a car and last but not the least recycle, recycle & recycle and hope that people will see the truth before its too late.

What is this life if full of care...we have no time to stand and stare...

शहर की इस दौड़ में दौड़ के करना क्या है?

अगर यही जीना है दोस्तों तो फिर मरना क्या है?

पहली बारिश में train लेट होने की फिक्र है...

भूल गए, भीगते हुए तेहेलना क्या है?

सीरियल के किरदारों का सारा हाल है मालूम...

पर माँ का हाल पूछने की फुरसत कहाँ है?

आप रेत में नंगे पाव तेहेलते क्यों नहीं?

108 हैं चैनल पर दिल बेहेलते क्यों नहीं?

internet से दुनिया से तो touch में हैं...

लेकिन पड़ोस में कौन रहता है जानते तक नहीं...

Mobile, landline सब की भरमार है...

लेकिंग जिगरी दोस्त तक पोहोचें ऐसे तार कहाँ हैं?

कब डूबते हुवे सूरज को देखाथा याद है?

कब जाना था शाम का गुज़रना क्या है?

शहर की इस दौड़ में दौड़ के करना क्या है?

अगर यही जीना है दोस्तों तो फिर मरना क्या है?

Where are we heading?

Our distinguished poet Shri Rabindranath Tagore once dreamed this for us:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high...
Where knowledge is free...
Where the world has not been broken up into fragements...

By narrow domestic walls...

Where words come out from the depth of truth...

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection...

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way...

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit...

Where the mind is let forward by thee...

Into ever-widening thought and action...

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

But today,

A 73 year old man in Austria keeps his daugher in a windowless cellar for 24 years and repeatedly rapes her and has 7 children by her. A man on Mira road rapes his daughter thrice a week for nine years with the consent of his wife because a tantrik told them that doing so would end their financial woes. He also lets the tantrik rape his daughter.

The girl who was raped was quoted as saying,'There were times when I had given up on life completely. When a child is in trouble, she first approaches her parents for help and protection, but who would protect me from my own father who behaved like a beast.' I would say its an insult to beasts to call her parents after them as even beasts protect their young. These people are worst. They have no right to have children. How can you hurt the very person you created? The person for whom you are responsible. And for what? Superstition? Money?
A political groups enters a pub and beats up women. A 19 year old medical college student is beaten up severely in the name of ragging by his seniors and he loses his life and his tormentors were training to become doctors! Three days in the wake of this incident a 20 yr old student in Andhra Pradesh tries to commit suicide after being made to dance nude in front of her seniors. Not even a fortnight after this ghastly incidence, another student is beaten up and has to be admitted to a hospital. A 12 year old dalit child is beaten up and thrown into the holi bonfire on the festival of holi. A female employee is murdered while she returns home from work and the assailiants go on a shopping spree with her money. Not to mention all the rapes, molestations, domestic violence, female infanticides, robberies, murders and other offences that go unreported. I could go on and on and on.

What is this world coming to? Every morning I am scared to open a newspaper or watch news. Who know what horror will be churned out next? Rape, murder, kidnapping, incest, bomb-blasts, riots, religious feuds, fraud etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. And the worst thing is that all these evils are man-made. Something that we have the power to stop. It is not in our hands to stop natural disasters but we can atleast stop these man made ones.

It seems that the world is spiralling towards darkness. Darkness of thought, action and karma. Lord Krishna has said in The Bhagwat Gita that he will come down on Earth when evil increases beyond limit. Messiahs and Prophets of other religions have made similar promises to their followers. So what are they waiting for? Do they still not think we need their help if they actually exist? After all most of the religous wars are because of them so they better exist or GOD will be the biggest lie of the human world. When people start raping their own children, when people are murdered in the name of fun, when there is no security for citizens, it does get you thinking how much worse we can get.

The mind is not without fear and the head is not held high...

Knowledge is not free but can be bought...

The world has broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls...

The words come out from the depths of lies...

The tireless striving is towards greed and corruption...

The clear stream of reason has lost its way in the dreary sand of dead habit...

The mind is led forward narrow religious views into ever-narrowing thought and action...

This is the state of my world today, my father, and it scares me.

Are we becoming less?

A friend sent me this mail recently and though it is funny, it does say a lot subtly about our life today.

21st Century

We are becoming lesser by the day...

Our Communication - Wireless

Our Telephone - Cordless

Our Emails - Useless

Our Cooking - Fireless

Our Youth - Jobless

Our Food - Fatless

Our Labour - Effortless

Our Conduct - Worthless

Our Relations - Loveless

Our Attitude - Careless

Our Feelings - Heartless

Our Politician - Shameless

Our Education - Valueless

Our Follies - Countless

Our Arguments - Baseless

Our Life - Aimless

Our Job - Thankless

Our Salary - VERY VERY LESS

This happens only in India...ha ha ha

I read this article in 'The Times of India' today and I think it is not one to be missed. A Policeman asked to return a bribe and that too with 9% interest. Its a first for India :) ha ha ha

Here is the link:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMDkvMDIvMjcjQXIwMDkwMw==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom

Also check this out. Lost & Found : A mobile phone in a buffalo's gut. Its hilarious :) ha ha ha
Here is the link:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMDkvMDIvMjcjQXIwMTAwMg==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
Have a great day and smile :) It increases your face value :)

I choose Love

When he won the Oscar award, A. R. Rahman said in his acceptance speech, 'All my life I have had the choice between love and hate. I have chosen love and I’m here.’ How true! Love rocks & Hate sucks. I think all the dudes from Taliban, Shiv Sena, Ram Sene, Jaish-E-Mohommad, Lashker-E-Toiba etc. should take a lesson from Rahman's simple words. Does it not make more sense to choose love and not hate? Why can't we learn to live and let live? What is wrong with sharing? Do these people really think they are showing manliness when they beat up women in bars or apply the Sharia laws which treat women worse than animals? Do they think they are making life better for people by banning all the beautiful things in life like education, music, poetry, books etc.? All my life I have seen the daughters of the strictest parents rebel while the daughters of the most liberal parents respect the freedom given to them. Why is it so? The simple reason is that every single person on this earth is looking for love and understanding. When you give someone freedom, you give them a message that you love and trust them and that feeling will be respected and reciprocated.

Once a reporter asked a very young and handsome religious guru with a huge female fan following how he practiced his celibacy. He said that you cannot change the world so when I feel that my eyes are registering something that I feel I should not be seeing, I advert my eyes. This should be a lesson to all those mullahs who say that there will be fewer rape cases if women are covered by a hijaab or burkha.

I once read some where that when a person seems least lovable, he/she needs the most love and compassion. History is proof that hate only brings pain and destruction so why not try love for a change? Instead of hating & complaining about the North Indians, why doesn't the Shiv Sena try to understand them and lovingly educate them about the Maharashtrian culture? I am sure they will understand. It might take time but then Rome was not made in a day. Painful as change is sometimes, it is the reality of life. You can't be struck in the stone age forever. Every person should have the right to be able to progress and you cannot curb that.

So why don't we all pledge to 'Make Love and not war' for a change. Why don't we leave aside our religious and geograpical differences aside and celebrate being human for a change and then one day like Rahman, we too shall proudly say that we chose love and we are in a peaceful world full of love and music. Jai Ho.

I feel helpless...

As I write this, 2009 has dawned. 31st December came and went and there were parties in all the cities of the country. The newspapers of 1st January 2009 carried headlines like 'People celebrated 31st December putting aside the terror'. Yes we all welcomed the new year with a dance party, food, drinks etc. Yes we all. Except the families of people who lost their loved ones in last month's terriorist attack.

Is public memory so short? Is there no value of life in this country of more than 100 crore people? So what if 200 people died? We still have a lot more. But ask the mother who lost her son, ask the wife who lost her husband, ask the children who lost their parent. They will tell you how helpless they feel. At one or other time in our lives we all have gone through this feeling and I feel we Indians have more than our share of helplessness.

We live in a democracy which boasts 'By the people, For the people'.But do we really matter? The people who died in the Mumbai terriorist attack died just because they happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.And what did our Government which is by the way 'By the people, For the people' do? NOTHING. They just looked at 'Big Daddy' America to scold Pakistan. Why are we so helpless? Do we have no self respect? As a common citizen, why do I feel so helpless? Where do I vent my feelings?

There is anger. Lots of anger. Towards the terriorists who killed innocent people for money or religion, towards the government for not retaliating, towards God for making such twisted people. Is religion that important? We are all fighting for a God none of us has even seen. Have the Hindus seen Ram or Krishna or Shiva? Have the Muslims seen Allah? Have the christians seen God? No. We have not seen him but have we all not felt God in a baby's smile? In the beauty of Nature? In small everyday miracles?

When a baby giggles, it brings a smile to everyone's face. So does it mean that when a Muslim baby smiles,its Allah and when a Hindu baby smiles, its Bhagwan? Why can't we see the God inside Humans? So what if I fold my hands in Prayer or open my hands inBandagi? Does it matter? What matters is the God inside me, be it Ram, Krishna, Wahe Guru, Allah or Jesus. God forbid if there is a Nuclear war, the bomb will not distinguish between Hindus and Muslims. It will kill all. It will also kill or affect people in other countries. Even countries who are funding and fueling this terrorism for their own selfish benefits. Where the wind blows, it will spread destruction.

I do not have a solution to this problem and it makes me feel helpless. I do not know how to stop this hatred. I do not know how to make my Government value my country's citizens. I do not know how to save my loved ones from this mindless violence or war. I do not know how to make my prayer reach the ears of Ishwar, Allah or God. I feel helpless when I think that tomorrow it might be me or one of my loved ones who will be the target of such a mindless violence. And then what will happen? The Government will do nothing and after a few days a festival will come and the whole country will get busy in the celebrations and my loved ones or I will become a statistic. Is there really no solution to this helplessness? If you have one, please let me know.