TALK About…

Let’s talk. Empty talks, talks filled with air, talks having some meaning, talks enough to create a web of thoughts in your mind, sensual talks, sometimes dry and sometimes wet, talks to spell bound, magical talks, talks used to play with the other mind. Life so short but deep enough to leave you perturbed. Talk about it, for talks are just to be spoken and then forgotten, talk about the people with whom you sleep in the night and talk about the people with whom you wake up every morning. Talk about the promises to be kept and some that needs to be broken, seal the talks with your lips and whisper some talks in the ears of the people you trust. Help people so that they talk about you and do betray some so that the talk about you intensifies.

Talk loud, talk soft, talk as if no one listens, there’s always a secret to be revealed and there’s some secrets to be kept within. Talk with your mind to manipulate ideas and talk to your heart to inculcate beliefs and if not anything, forget all the talks and succumb to the speechless talks. Talk about the warrior inside you and talk about the terror within your mind, talk about your unforgettable best and forgettable worst. Talk money, talk religion, talks which are colorful and some times painted with black and white. Influential talks, enough to change the direction of people lives and sometimes talk in vacuum which needs to be ignored. Talk intentionally to praise someone or pretend to be talking unintentionally to hurt some. Forecast your talks, take your talks to a state of déjà vu, feel as if the talks are talked before and talk as if every word woven are new. Gamble your talks, bet on it, win your talks and sometimes lose it. Do believe in some talks and doubt some talks too.

After all, these are talks which need to be remained as talks, sometime swift enough to experience you a new world around you and sometimes leaving you clueless, in a state of despair. An illusion, sometimes reality, talks are believed to be the most enticing piece of sound. Err, you still ready to sit besides me and have a TALK with me. The tables are set, lights are on, let’s talk……..

BREAKING Views!!!

I just read about the hue and cry made over Shobhaa De‘s comments on SRK and SRK hammering on Shobhaa’s neck. And, as expected, the Indian media has nothing better to show and flash every other ordinary masala news on their channels tagging it as “Breaking News!!”. I just watched this piece of nonsense by Aditya Chopra and believe me there was nothing in that movie to be cheered about, it’s more pathetic than Farah Khan’s creation last year. Every mediocre love story with great amount of publicity with SRK in it makes news among the Indians. It’s true that “SRK and Sex” sells, but what has not been mentioned are both getting sold at its worst form. Sex in its vulgarity and SRK in its mediocrity has ruled and surely going to rule in the future too considering the Indian mindset who have nothing but to get awed seeing such nuisances on screen.

How does it matter what SRK has to say on Terrorism and even if he gives some great speeches in his typical style, how would it change the fate of the nation?? Why we Indians can’t think that at the end of the day, they are the ones who live a lavish lifestyle on the money we spent to watch them on screen. When the whole Mumbai was battling terrorism, neither SRK nor Amitabh got affected, after all, there might not be enough security outside Taj but definitely there is security outside “Mannat” and “Jalsa”. Filmstars are like politicians, both attention seekers and making money for themselves. Being public figures, how many of them have bothered to work for public, the price tag for every star amounting to crores, how much do they owe to general public, nothing but mere 3 hours entertainment. Have we ever thought of this?? Being in fame and in news is what matters to them because the moment, they are out of the news; they are out of the audiences mind. I pity this country, the media, the politicians, and add to the list is the public of India. It’s sad but true, everyone is a victim of paparazzo, everyone needs to be in news, If Shobhaa says something, SRK will revert and adding to these, there will be many who will react to this including the media and what happens at the end of the day?? A new piece of NEWS is born…..

MARRIAGE Mania!!

With all grandeur, people are excited about my marriage. Everyone is waiting for my marriage with bated breath, the reason being, me the youngest of my family, well-settled, MBA with a good profile and a not-so-bad salary. The who’s who in my family are extremely concerned about the kind of girl, for some, she would be a sari clad “TULSI” from Kyunki fame and for some, she would be a mixture of traditional and modern and for some, a village girl who would be extremely cultured and for my friends, well, some still thinks, I will marry the girl whom I used to love though she’s married now and for some, I will, the moment section 377 is scrapped in India. Bizarre, but true, there have been lot of “bull and bear” expectations set on my marriage sensex. The excitement barometer rises high, every time a cousin of mine gets married or I get a new job. The “MARRCONOMICS” clearly states that to have a family afloat, a boy should get married to a girl or vice versa, work a night with dedication and stay happily, clueless for the next few months till suddenly you hear a “cry” in the hospital chambers, and then you decide the goal of your life and the amount of money you need to make till you are 50 depending on the “CREATION OF GOD”. For every person, the plot is nearly the same except the “here and there” incidents added or removed in order to make the picture look different from others. Life is no less beautiful than a Yash Chopra movie where the guy and girl with certain ambitions at some point of time suddenly forgets everything to find their love, can go any extreme to have their love in their life, forget career and ambitions, what ultimate matters is a life filled with punchlines like “Love will find a way”, “Someone, somewhere is made for you” blah, blah, blah and who else other than my sister knows it to the core and then an extravagant Sooraj Barjatya marriage is set where the couple gets married and happily stay ever after, sad, but it doesn’t work for me. The fascination of getting married has still not got on my nerves not, because I don’t want to get married but because, I don’t want to get married at the cost of my dreams and ambitions. I have never built fences around my life and have believed to live it with the beauty of boundarylessness of life. A child is certainly a gift of god, but for me, not necessarily when it has your own blood running in his/her body. For me, marriage is as sacred as worshipping god but more than that even if you emotionally bond with a person with respect even when not married is more sacred than anything else. But, my dreams have no roof in the society for I would be tagged as an “Ultra-Selfish” person who doesn’t value the dream of his parents.

So, let the euphoria continues, let someone else’s dream be fulfilled, the one who would be associated to me on the marriage night, let the friends dance and have all the fun to see one of their good friends getting wedded, let my parents see their reflection in me and my partner, LET THE MARRIAGE MANIA continues……

9 to 5 of a LIFE..

9-5, a time which is important for crores of people, especially men who believe that a picture perfect life starts with going to work in the morning so that he could earn money and save something for his family and give his children a future that they would be proud of. 9-5, a time which keeps thousands of people engage in their work and forget their family so that they can build a future rememberable for their family. 9-5, a time which is important for every middle class man whose ego is hurt if they spend time sitting at home from Monday to Friday when the whole world goes to offices for work. I, myself, have been a victim for more than one month when 9-5 engagement was almost zero.

Never could I have imagined in my wildest dream that today morning I will wake up with news which would make my morning a mournful one. My cousin informed me that my uncle who was in his early 40s expired leaving his 12 year old daughter and wife alone in this world. For the past three days he was in coma struggling with brain hemorrhage. The last three days of struggle was in fact a struggle which started in his life when he suddenly lost his job in a small private company. Life was completely perfect until one day he heard that the company he was working for made losses and he was asked to leave the job. And, then probably after that, there were blurs which affected their picture perfect small happy family and what remained were humiliation, struggle and desperation. The job loss had already taken a toll on his health and he became incapable to fight with his own conscience which could have questioned his existence innumerable number of times. Though he had four more brothers and a well settled family to take care of him and his small family but it was not easy for him to sit at home and see the pity on others eyes. He has worked in worst of places so that he doesn’t find disrespect in his daughter’s eyes or the discomfort felt by his wife when suddenly someone questions the profession of his husband. Working day and night and cycling 10 kms everyday for a meager 3000 was not an easy task for him, where instead of respect for his good work, what came across was humility. And, mounting pressure and self hatredness built the plot for his death.

Today, I have nothing to say, nothing to express as myself have been through this when I was sitting jobless for more than a month. It’s not easy for a man whose family have some dreams attached to him, when other’s lives are directly connected to your survival. And, when your own survival flounders, what remains is an empty picture, an imperfect one which doesn’t fit your family, neither it support the dream of your children nor it shows direction to your own existence. 9-5 a time which has taken lives of thousands and still will take in the future. 9-5, perhaps a blessing for some and curse for some others……