LIVE YOUR DREAMS

Unfair.. Why does Santa go to homes of only those who cud actually by themselves get what Santa brings them? Why does Santa not visit homes of those who actually need them? Why doesn't Santa give gifts to the poor and the drained? How could the Santa be so biased? Very unfair... Who will get gifts to to houses where Santa doesn't go? Should the children of those houses stop believing in Santa altogether? Should they forget about and stop believing in childhood too? Take birth and take the world straight as it is. No Santa, no Christmas, and may be no God too..!! Well this could be your chance, may be you are a Santa, may be you are God himself. You don't need to be God but you could try and be a Santa!! That's not tough. This year, let us rebuild lives. This year, let us nourish the childhood we have so fond memories of, in someone else's life too. This year let us make a child happy, let us protect childhood. This year make a child believe in Santa, by being a ...

The weather is bad again, and she has again forgotten to bring an umbrella. With the mobile phone battery dead she cannot even call back home to say she would be late. “Mobile phone is switched off,” says a worried Ashish, “why on earth would she switch off the phone? Could something have possibly gone wrong? She is never late beyond 8 pm.” Looking weirdly at her watch, 9:40, Kavya, dashed towards the local train station. Kavya, a 46 year old software engineer works in an MNC in Mumbai. She has 2 kids, elder, Ashish, 20, is an engineering student and younger, Amit, 18, is in medical college. And life for Kavya is as tough as it can be for a widow living with two children, with her job demanding as much from her as demand her home and 2 fatherless boys so attached to their mom after their father’s departure that they would get worried if she was late even by half an hour. And they would always dine together, just like they used to, with their father in too, till about 3 years back. ...

SNAP-1 :.............(A REPORTER SPEAKS) On 6th of April, 2010, between 6 and 7 a.m. about 70 Jawaans were killed by Maoists in the Dantewada Dist. of Chattisgarh. SNAP-2 :.............. (SOMEONE TWEETS) Our sincere tribute to the Jawaans.. Next 7 days in India..: Day 1-Ranting Day 2-Statements Day 3-Condemnation Day 4-Promises Day 5-IPL Day 6-Sania Day 7-Jawans are long forgotten. SNAP-3 :............... (A CASUAL TALK) ..VIRAAT- How is the tribute going to help the Jawaans or their families?? ..FRIEND- Its not gonna help them, its gonna help you, become more sensitive to such issues. ..VIRAAT- How pathetic, in this dire situation of hallabaloo in our country, when more then 70 Jawaans died, not fighting on the border but brutally murdered by fellow Indians, we are still thinking about ourselves. So selfish we are, paying tribute for our satisfaction. We should be angry about it and not contended by paying a two minute silence tribute. ..FRIEND- What do you suggest we s...

The ‘D’ October in Muzaffarpur was like a disease in approbation that made u dream of being under one of Alice in Wonderland skies and stuffed your nose with aroma of fresh air with a tinge of jasmine, but today it clogged his lungs and made him shudder from every nerve and sweat from every pore of his body. It was midnight and the fragrance outside didn’t seem to relieve him of the heat or humiliation within. Tonight desperation added a new element to his restless discontent. It rode his nerves like a hissing snake looking for somewhere to sink its fangs into. ‘Tapp’ fell another sweat drop on the glass of his specs. Hurriedly he took off the specs from over his big worried nose and gave another mighty push on the chest piece of the stethoscope placed on 12 year old Armaan’s chest. Shook his head in cringe. Another push… ‘Huh!!’...a sigh in guilt and he returned to his chair next to mine. Dr. R. Prasad or RP as we used to call him, from the Dept. of Emergency Medicine, was a man o...

Of late, medical profession has become near-synonymous to ‘strikes’, be it doctors at peripheral hospitals or resident doctors at government hospitals. While the former strike for higher wages and better medical equipments, the latter do so, sometimes for or against imposing the benefit of reservation, sometimes against procrastination of promotions, and now-a-days purely against the government rule to impose compulsory rural postings on every course that the doctors undertook. The rule said 1 year after MBBS, 2 years after post graduation and 3 years after a super specialization. So a doctor who started his studies at 19-20 would complete his super specialization and postings at the end of 17 years i.e. by the time he would be in his late thirties. While thinking of all this, on my way back to college, after hearty Diwali celebrations at home, I went through the same gamut of sentiments. How insensitive can doctors get? After all they earn so much. How greedy of them to refuse rural ...

I have always loved her. Always. Day or night, through all seasons, from dawn to dusk and to the next dawn again, whether I am awake or sleepy, studying or partying, her love has stayed with me like some omnipresent fragrance, hypnotizing me in every moment of my day and every dream of my night. She looks so simply pretty, so unbelievably gorgeous. I’ve seen her in many disguises, she is like some royal queen in that marrige-like decked up look, and like some angel in that pretty flowy nightdress.. But she’s looked mesmerizingly pretty when she’s without make-up, careless, when she lets the lucky air play with her long hair, open and her locks growing from side of her temples. She lets a lock or two fall on her face, letting them drink from the flow of soft beauty; these locks sometimes try to kiss her lips and at others try to curtain her eyes, bathing in the cool innocence, naughtiness flowing from her eyes. Oh! And her simplicity I’ve seen her whole nights, that baby look on her fac...

OH TIME!! LET ME... (i had written this poem shortly after leaving my alma mater St. Xavier's, found it in an old diary.. tell me if u like it.) The journey ends, the road goes on Life then sets in as if with a new dawn. But memories visit times, we weren’t alone Summon temptations last dusk had shown. Time! Oh time!! Break thou thy laws Let me again enjoy happy times, let me correct my flaws. Let me thank those who wrote my legend of friendship Beg pardon of whom I couldn’t follow the kinship. I look for those times in old books in my rack Let me have the days at St. Xavier’s back. Those summers, those winters, those autumns and springs To fly back to my school, oh time give me wings. Let me love all, let me laugh, have fun Let me be punished for home-works half done. Let me forget speeches on going to the dais Let me return home again with prizes and smile on my face. Let me do things, I regret, I never have done That’s bunking classes, going to movies to have fun. I was a nerd,...

this is a comment i posted to friend pankaj goenka's article on terrorism.. just thought its good enought to posted on my blog too.. Its not merely the question of this terrorist attack.. Today there has been a terrorist attack and we are crying on it, or feeling sad, or to a certain extent feeling angry too. Tomorrow there will be a flood stricken area and we will express our melancholy towards those who lose their homes, lives, rather everything. And the next day there will be a train accident and again there will be various blogs discussing it, blaming people- politicians or officers, youth or whoever.. BLAME... yes thats what we all do. Sitting in our rooms or savvy offices, having a cup of hot coffee, with added coccoa, while taking a break from our work we visit these blogs, either post articles or read them or post comments, blaming someone or other. We blame, blame and just blame.. But what do we do? NOTHING most of all.. We talk of a generation gap, youth doping, faulty go...

ok this is one of my favourites.. i wrote i when i was in the 10th standard and woo hoo it came out to be a sonnet.. MAGIC OF SUCCESS PEACE IN MIND, BLISS AT HEART, GOD IS BLESSFUL, BLESSED THIS PART. NONE TO HEAR, NONE TO SEE, WHERE IS SUCCESS? WHERE I BE. TIME SHUNNED ALL WORDS THAT BAFFLED AND BATTLED LIKE SWORDS. SUCH IS THE MAGIC OF SUCCESS.... FOR SPEND IT NOT ON SHADOWS WHO SPEND IT ALL ON WINDOWS. BUT TOIL AND MOIL THAT ALL DAY LONG, DO HEAR AT DAY CALL THE TRIUMPH SONG AND BLESSED THEY FEEL WITH FRIEND AND FOE, SOUL IS FREE, JOYS NO LIMITS KNOW, SUCH MAGIC OF SUCCESS DOES TIME BESTOW.

The Legend of Friendship The legend of friendship when time shall relate Recall I shall a beautiful mate Forgo then all pain and melancholy And remember days sweet and lovely Days of bliss, of luck, of joy of laughter, Days of fun, of mirth, of dreams, of wonder. Humming to melodious music, Tapping to jazz and pop. Wandering near river banks all day long, Playing thief and cop. Going to school, attending of classes, For being late-home missing of buses. Bunking Jha’s periods and attending Singh’s, And during Chaubey’s taking to wings. Had much fun, `twas a long run, Winters in shade summers under sun. See now what time has done, Some have lost, others have won. Still think I, what does loss signify? Should I agonize or on mate’s victory glorify? For some I lost, for me others did, For those others, I won and for me those some did. Agonize I wont for you are mine, I’ll wait silently for the reward of time. But where are those moments, where those days? Passes by time, the memory stays. ...

Turn Around and Dance Just slow down a bit Turn around and dance. Don’t hurry too fast. The music you wanna dance on, May not forever last. Just slow down a bit Turn around and dance. Why try uselessly? You can’t overtake yourself. So play your part, Rest a bit, rise to a trance. Slow down a bit Turn around and dance. Don’t be too fast For, the music may not last. Jack left you and you left Lynn In life’s path, forlorn a kin. Don’t you think you’re running too fast? Just wait and think, The music won’t last. Enjoy every moment, Give life a chance. Slow down a bit Turn around and dance.

S he smells of rose She smells of rose and shines of gold, Pulchritudinous, and heart so bold. Her looks can blossom drooping hearts Saddened souls and gloomy parts. In lonely starry dreamy nights I think of her with granted rights. But treading her path in dancing gait She makes me waver, doubt my fate, Will she be back? Or go ahead Leaving no footsteps to trace? Leaving behind the promise of a fire, In which, all my life, I shall warm my hands And be content of having met her once, Merely trying hard to hold her tight To my album of memories So that I don’t miss a single moment spent with her. I still get her fragrance, And get blinded by her smile, Still her smiles make me throb more hard. She shines the azure, And leaves the skies starry, This story to many a kinship I told, She smells of rose and shines of gold...

Speech by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalaam in Hyderabad Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat.We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan; he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspir...

Dear Mommy, I'm in heaven now, sitting on Gods’ lap. He loves me and cries with me, for my heart is broken. I so much wanted to be your little girl. I don't quite understand what has happened. I was so excited when I began to realize my existence. I was in a dark, yet comfortable place. I saw that I had fingers and toes and I was pretty far along in my developing, yet not near ready to leave my surroundings. I spent most of my time thinking or sleeping. Even from the earliest days, I felt a special bonding between us. Sometimes I heard you crying and I cried with you. Sometimes you would yell or scream, then cry, I heard daddy yelling back. I was sad, and hoped you would be better soon. I wondered why you cried so much. One day you cried almost the entire day. I hurt for you. I couldn't imagine why you were so unhappy. That same day, the most horrible thing happened. A very mean monster came into my warm comfortable place. I was so scared, and I began screaming but there wa...