Charged Up !!

Sometimes you jus’ know….

something big is comin your way….

Why ?! How !? What !? When ?!

all questions get no say..

Still deep inside..you know it all !!

Its gnna be BIIIIIIIIG !!!

Trust the ‘ME’ in me

Muscle over Merit – Indian Politics !

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The body of an Indian Justice Party (IJP) nominee for the Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency was found hanging from a tree.Forty-eight-year-old Bahadur Sonkar’s body was found near Raja Ka Talab, barely 500 metres from his home in Ahiyapur-Rasheedabad locality, 200 km from here.
The tragic death of Sonkar has sparked off protests by party supporters and family members, according to whom a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate is responsible for the killing.

Sonkar, who was contesting against the BSP’s Dhananjay Singh, had reportedly been concerned about his safety and had even asked for police protection from the Election Commission.
IJP President Udit Raj has blamed the Election Commission for the death, as they did not provide security
to the candidate even after repeated requests.

If this is the substance, what the leaders of the world’s largest democracy are made of, im really ashamed to be even an inifintesimally small part of this whole system (using the word democracy sounds like a joke). Now what bothers me even more is, why is this sudden uproar about using the ‘Power to Vote’ !? Why so much of money being spent by endless dozens of corporate firms – small, mid sized or large…sending out the same message in their internal/external communication – VOTE ! VOTE !! VOTE !!! Why the never ending Lead India 09 campaign ads of ‘Power of Vote’ !

What to do when this is the kind of choices one has to select a leader ?! I know most of you would say, the only solution would be jump urself into the dirty game if you want to make it even a bit more cleaner! Totally agree! Just being a mere spectator would not be of any use, like a cycle waala stopping over to analyse the accident situation & then moving on with his journey..

But is this the only way out ?! Is this the only solution ?!?!

If i want to Vote ! If i want good honest leaders to lead the Nation ! If i want the politics to be free of such criminals who’ve murdered people emotionally/mentally or even for real!..just as a step closer towards their “Kursi” …What can i do ?

The only thing that comes to my mind is maybe..More Awareness! More Noise !! More Activism !!!

Wat say ?

Had enough of bugs in the system !! ? !!

25 yrs..Justice for ’84 Anti-Sikh riots ?..Still a question!

Even though the Sikh journo Jarnail Singh apologised for his ‘Shoe-cide’ attack on the Home minister Mr. P. Chindambaram, the fire within the hundreds and thousands of sikh mothers, wives, sisters who lost their sons, husbands, brothers in the Anti-Sikh massacre of 1984 can’t be brought down easily.

The ’84 killings were mercilessly planned and executed by the state, with a breathtaking disregard for governance and constitutional rights. After this bloodbath, the state and its partners-in-crime preferred to forget the bloody drama they had enacted.

Are the lives of innocent men, women and children of so little consequence to politicians and men in public office that they can be brutally murdered en masse in the country’s capital for over four days before an effort is made to stop the killings? Does it then have to take nearly 25 years and 10 inquiry commissions to book the guilty for the chilling inhumanity against the Sikhs who, since the 1700s, have shed more blood for their motherland than any other people?

“In reality, the political careers of Bhagat and Tytler, far from suffering on account of ‘the taint of 1984’, blossomed as if they had been rewarded for engineering the violence. Having won the ’84 election under the shadow of the carnage, Rajiv Gandhi immediately promoted Bhagat to the rank of cabinet minister, and inducted Tytler into the government for the first time as minister of state. Both remained in the Rajiv Gandhi government till the end of its tenure in 1989″

— Manoj Mitta & H.S. Phoolka (When a Tree shook Delhi)

I really don’t understand …25 years..No Justice ! n Tytler is given a ticket….Is Congress inivting trouble on the streets of Delhi or is it simply Foolish ??

Free the Open Hand !

Rewindin today’s episode @ The Open Hand Monument – the symbolic structure of Chandigarh, makes me remeber the dialouge in the recently released movie ‘Gulaal’.

” Hamare jawano ne Jaan dekar Black Rock par kabza kiya aur government ne goodwill dikhane ke khatir woh pakistan ko wapas kar diya …Apne Chu****on par tike rehne se Kranti nahi aayegi … Kranti ke liye .. Gulaal ka laal rang hata kar Khoon ka laal rang lagana padega ”

n after fighting out our way to the Open Hand Monument (officially a public place esp. for the citizens of chandigarh)…i realized how correct this dialouge was..

Date : 2nd April 09

Place : Open Hand Monument, Sector 1, Capitol Complex, Chandigarh. (Next to Punjab Hry High Court)

Mission : To Visit the Open Hand Monument (Chandigarh city’s official emblem) on foot.

Comrades : Dr. Gaurav, Sawan, Prashant n Me.

Status : Successful.

Visiting our city’s official emblem “Open Hand Monument” needs an official permission from some officer in sector 9 in some govt. office through some process which a normal ‘someone’ like us would obviously hesitate to go through and thus refrain from visiting this absolutely fabulous symbolic structure of Chandigarh! My City !!

This is wat all d crap the PCR officials posted at the so called “Only High Court Judges” entry told us..”Permission kahaan hai”…”orders hain aap nai jaa sakte”…”terrorsists ki vajah se security hai”…”hamaare paas written order nai hai, but aapke paas kaunsa jaane ka order hai..” <– Crap : Do we need orders to move around in our own city!!

After givin us all kinda crap, Doc decided to shoot all dis in his handycam…fumblin at dis, d officials askd us to speak to d inspector incharge..n as he spoke, d inspector arrived dere…quickly analysin d situation in a snapshot..esp. wid d cameras in our hands, d inspector was smart enough to say “Nai nai, jao jao…aap jaa sakte ho…paedal (on foot) toh jaa sakte ho..bus bags ki checkin kara lo” !

N dere we were…wid our faces gleamin wid happiness n a sense of achievement on our way to the Open Hand ! The structure undoubtedly gives you such a pleasure, a sense of belongingness, a feelin of love n warmth of being a part of Chandigarh…of being a “Chandigarhian” !

n thanks to dese corrupt lazy officials dat jus play around wid d laws demselves and foolish educated citizens like us, who jus compromise wid each and everythin told to us..dat we stop questionin someone who challenges our rights !!

So…guys ! Time to wake up !!!! Don’t just blindly take the easy way out of compromising with anyone n everyone who restricts your freedom n challenges your basic rights! Take the courage n responsibility of questioning and findin out the real facts !!

P.S. : If you get time, for sure visit the The Open Hand. If the cops try to stop you or ask you to go through some other way from the High court after gettin some crap pass n all…Jus let us knw…! We’ll also come along then but not thru’ the High court wid a pass n all…but through the right path!! d one dat Le Corbusier had designed for the common Chandigarhian !

A.B.N.M

i dont give a damn !

Weird things have been happening around me  or rather i should say ‘to me’ of late…Ive started doing things i never wanted to and never did…like faking to b someone im not…faking to b happy for somethin i knw, im not…n in d end messing up everythin.. !

which was the last thing i wanted to do…coz all my fake smiles, excuses, work style..was to appear as a nice someone…to appear as a goodie-goodie person wid whom no one would hv any grudges..about whom no one would bitch…to whom, everyone would look upto…hahha…n in d end, wat happens is quite d opposite !

So, here on dis “Fools day” , i pledge to myself…No more FAKING ! No more Fake ‘Nicey-nicey’ boy..! time to cut d sh*t happenin around…n prove myself…if im doing somethin i like, im no more gonna hide it…if im chasin my dreams, d world can make all kinds of faces n bitch abt me…bt i dont care…cz im nt gnna gve some crappy stories to cover my failures…cz wat troubles me d most is not wat ppl say about me…but d uneasiness abt somethin dat i say abt myself..which isnt exactly correct…bt just said, cz dats wat d society wants to hear…dats wat would go thru’ deir one ear n come outta d other widout any trouble to d brain…thus, escapin all d useless When? Where? How? What? questions…

I knw im not a fake person…bt jus dat d way ive been handling my professional stuff..i.e.my career n all…hasnt been quite well…so i guess ive been going wrong somewhere..ive been takin sh*t wen i didnt deserve to…ive given ppl sh*t wen dey didnt deserve to…ive had fck-ups wid my career wen i didnt have to…all dis, cz each time somethin happened…instead of being myself, i searched around for d perfect way to handle d situation…i looked fr a situation dat would jus erase out d problem or atleast erase me out of d problem in d easiest way…but yea, i for sure forgot, if uve landed up in mess, u hv to get dirty, even to get out…!

So..now..im gonna jus carry around my true self…handle situations d way i think dey would b handled best…im not gonna be egoistic…bt i want to have d courage in myself to face d problems i create for others/myself…to own up my faults..to hv d sense to correct wat ive dne wrong!

…..and for what others would think of me…for what ppl would talk about what i did…

A.B.N.M

‘Appan bund ni maarde’

(English : ‘I don’t give a fcuk’ )

*Kindly excuse me fr d usage of ‘unparliamentary’ words