A moment which I recalled...

Class 8th(or 9th)

I was sitting on a bench alongside the bench of "my" 3rd Crush of life. To say "my" would be a bit unfair cuz "my" doesn't include "couple of dozen others".

GIRL (along with her Specy fried; I found her cute too.. ;))
Hey Praveen, Have you ever read Blue Magzines.

I: Of course.
(saying, with esteem and thanking god that a couple of months ago a friend of mine told me what blue magzines are, infact he told me he had a magzine called "Playboy" with a topless picture of someone called "Pamela Anderson")

GIRL: How many have you gone through?!
(excitement was growing in her voice..)

I : A dozens, my dear (I never believed though such magzines existed. After all how the hell can anybody strip in front of a camera?)

GIRL : What all things are therein? (She was curiously forcing me into inquisition. Though I Was loving it

I : Oi...its adults' magzine. Lot's of that kind of stuff.

DON'T REMEMBER MUCH AFTER THAT....



A scene after about couple of months of this conversation:

I found a keyring in the feild. I was bioscope-camera-slideshow hybrid. Hoping to see something interesting I slid the roller on.

YUCCCKKK...SHIT...AARGHHHHHH....(I tried to vomit there and then)

After all first unexpected porn exposure can cause that much....


DON'T REMEMBER MUCH AFTER THAT EITHER....


These memories will stay with me for life as also some of these:

1. An LKG Kid who asked Ma'am for her permi ssion to go to toilet. But was denied. And after he did the enevitable. He is taken to his home, though a block across the road, but his pants off!

2. A kid who flunks in his admission test for class 1.

3. A kid who came 2nd in class 1, 1st in class2 and when he came 1st in Class 3, he cried saying to his mom "Mom, sorry i broke the trend, the series 212121212...."

4. A Class 3 kid who is afraid to go to school, because of a Class 4 Bully kisses him on his cheeks at every oppirtunity he has.

5. A Class 5 kid running in school corridore with 5 girls chasing him to pull his cheeks and kiss them. (I feel lke kickin myself now for that.)

6. Few Class 6 Guys laughing and bullying another guy who read from his Doc Father's book how babies are produced.

7. Bio Lecture of Life Processes-2 in Class 7 and revisited in Class 9, though by a female teacher in bromidic tone)

8. A girl who stays back with 11 Class nerd in PT period, to know more about Organic nomenclature, with her legs rubbing against his. And her ***** against his elbows as she leaning over so much on him getting involved in the book. He thought that might have happened due to cramped spaces and continued the lesson.

9. Perfect 4 years of college life, which I wouldn't ever forget. It had drama, suspense, thrill, action, romance, sleaze, friendship, trust, mistrust and of course 8 semesters with 68%!!!

Raping...In the name of God

It haapened in 1947 (partition), it happened in 1984 (riots following Indira Gandhi's assasination), it happened in 1990 (after bombay blasts), it happened in Gujrat (after Godhra) and it happened again in Orissa (following a VHP leader's assasination).

In world's largest democracy, everytime there are people who would hold ransom, the entire nation, stripping everyone, even of the fundamental rights.

There are some satyromanaic men (mind you many men are satyromaniac) who look for these opportunities to rape women, without being held by law.

Either they are restive or people at concerned positions unwilling to reign them in, I can't comment, precisely.

Recently, I read in a newspaper, An orphanage was ransacked, a few of teenage girls were taken in a room and brutally raped. Later the room was set ablaze by the same incendiaries. They did all that in the belief that the girls were Christians. Later it did turn out they were Hindus.

As a sign of no remorse, these Terrorists (I prefer to call them so, they had done nothing less than those crossing over border, in kashmir) blatantly continue to commit futher atrocities, swaggering around the streets like they have salvaged their religion.

The nation's soul is being pushed into a inquisitorial room, with questions being thrown into left, right and center from every corner of the world.

I feel ashamed that in this land of "Maryaad Purushottam ShriRaam", the women (even in national capital) are nowhere safer than the red-light areas of the West. All they fear, if a riot is waiting round the corner of next street.....

Wanna Puff??

"Cigarettes and Tobacco products banned from being consumed in public place"

A good but delayed concrete step, accoding to me.

I puffed my first Cig when I was 12, in 7th Standard probably. Smoked one each for three consecutive days. Tried to figure out what respite/enjoyment people get after inhaling in and breathing out a puff of smoke. Failure at that, fortunately enough, resulted to my shunning of the "habit-in-making".

Seven years later, I was holding again the "White-Brown (4:1) Stick" between my Middle and index finger. Its an age when cigarettes may end up being your buddy or better to term as a "nemesis" for the rest of your life.

In winter of 2005, I smoked 13 Marlboro back-to-back, celebrating life with my friends at Goa. Searching for rave parties to groove upon some sexy "Phoren" chicks who would have lost consciousness enough to our liking. But, sadly we couldn't find any. And spent entire nite boozing and puffing.

A very dear friend of mine, who found that I continued to smoke even after returning from GOA, scolded me badly, as his younger brother and sarcastically said "I will finance your Cigarettes for the rest of our college lives".

The "White-Brown Twig" which i threw down from the 3rd floor of our Hostel hasn't come back. Ask me If I am only glad about it.

Well I could have been happier if that friend of mine hadn't ended up being a habitual smoker himself.

May God give all of you the courage and will to shun the Tobacco-Pipe.

A Compromise!

No matter how liberal, conscientious, conscious and acknowledging we may have become towards the "Right to Equality" in past 61 years, but some orthodoxy simply refuses to go away completely, though it may be under recession.

A friend of mine told me about this friend of his, who will be getting engaged in a couple of weeks time. The girl, who was working in an immensely popular organization at a respectable position has to resign from her job, to relocate and live with her would be husband. Just a compromise, we may say and escape. But there is no escape from the realms of this sphere of truth, that, this is only one of the thousands compromises in waiting in the girl’s future’s kitty.

Compromises start early for a girl child in India. I have seen them all – from the worst to the subdued.

It feels totally outrageous when even the phenomenally educated people in this era put forth demands before the marriage alliances get arranged. Eg. No working bride.

For thousands of years old human beings chronological history, physical strength has been whole and sole reason for discrimination and oppression of the fairer sex. Male sexuality was unquestionable with proofs of polygamy in all major civilizations across the globe. Female sexuality was a question itself.

Cases of burning innocent women on allegations of Witchcraft have been equally prominent in West as well as East. Renaissance changed the ways of life in West. We are still waiting for ours. Aping Burger-Pizza phenomenon is simply not enough.

About Vampires, Rabies and Terrorism

Rabies, as written is previous post, is most vivid explaination, I found for Vampires.

Upon pressing the Ctrl+Z buuton, a few thousand times, take me years back and I recall seeing a TOI front-page pic, a Rabies Patient in a cell, chained from head to toe, who, doctors said would die in another 3-4 days.

He was shown scratching walls of that barely 8X8 ft room, helplessly. There was no toilet for him. The soiled floor was an apparent indication.

The image stayed with me forever.

I am not going to pen down all symptoms and effects of rabies. Briefly said, a rabies patient loses mental balance partially, always itching to scratch, bite others; Thus the disease spreads.

The only remedy therefore, once a patient gets past the treatable stage, is to put him in a scluded place till he dies and then cremate him immediately. (I don't want to sound callous and sadistic)

Bats, dogs and monkeys apart from man, are known to bear the Rabies virus.

Conclusively the myths revolving around Vampires are nothing else but Rabies cases that went off control.

Terrorism

Similar to Rabies, the affected person (A man fused with all those eternal knowledge about how to kill to attain heaven) , if beyond a treatable stage has no other treatment. Rehablitation won't work because by the time you will rehablitate him, he would already had infected couple others.

Its awesome how these mathematical things called Geometric Progressions work.

Remember that riddle :

a guy offers you 1000000 Rs per day of a 30-day month.
you have to shell out single buck on day 1, 2 on day2, Rs 4 on day 3 ........
Would you accept his offer??

If u did, You stood at a loss of 30-40 Crores at the end of the month.


My cousin, in army told me once, after release of Mohd. Masood Azhar (the man we released during Plan hijack of IC 814), they used to kill any surrendering Terrorists too during a Combat.

Why put them behind bars?; so that they can ransom the country against their release.

I sometimes dichomitized between whether to laugh or get angry, when all those media reports-

"Stoical Mumbai/Delhi back on track after attacks. Refuse to kneel down before Terrorism"

To hell with Stoical....Sirs and Madams, there are too many indifferent people around. They are indiffent as long as they are not the ones who are affected.

People don't even know who they share their apartments with.


MERA BHAARAT MAHAAN....

Vampires and Dracula

I read about "Vampires" over past few days.

Like all good things they come in "Variety"

From Chinese vampires (with red contact lenses and hair colored green or pink) to Japanese vampires (Foxes) to Greek Vampires (i found them particularly intersting, with bust of a woman and lower of a serpent, reminded me of my Nagraaj Comics days; remember Visarpi :-).....)

Our modern concept of Vampires, theoritacally, is of a neck-biting, blood-sucking character, who can't be killed; Thanks to all those hollywood oldies as well as recent flicks like Blade and Van Helsing.

I can't help myself from quoting the following text which says India has the oldest history of Vampires:

The ancient home of the Gypsies, India has many mythical vampire figures. The Bhuta is the soul of a man who died an untimely death. It wandered around animating dead bodies at night and attacked the living like a ghoul.

The most famous Indian vampire is Kali who had fangs, wore a garland of corpses or skulls and had four arms. Her temples were near the cremation grounds. She and the goddess Durga battled the demon Raktabija who could reproduce himself from each drop of blood spilled. Kali drank all his blood so none was spilled, thereby winning the battle and killing Raktabija.

Don't know what hindu fanatics can do to this naive writer, who thinks of "Kali" as a Vampire

No discussions about Vampires is complete without "Count Dracula" and "Bats"

DRACULA

Dracula, a fictional vampire character, is believed to be iconic among all the vampires. The first description about Dracula in 1879 novel by same name is as follows:

face was a strong - a very strong - aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples, but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.

Bats

There are just three (some may argue for four, specially batman fans) species of Bats around the world. And only one of the feeding upon blood. The drawn analogy was inevitable.

The Truth

The most convincing, credible and cogent explaination is Rabies (to be written about in next post)

God bless all!!!

Elvis has left the Building

is a phrase that was often used by public address announcers following Elvis Presley concerts to disperse audiences who lingered in hopes of an Elvis encore. - Source-Wikipedia


Its so amazing, how sometimes, simple worlds convey so much!

I was born nearly a decade after Elvis had died and I havent heard any of his songs, but nonethless agree, without a doubt, they would have been nothing less than phenomenal.....