I see a Superstar in Rockstar!

I just watched Rockstar and I must say, what a commendable performance by Ranbir Kapoor! (Forget about weak script and Nargis Fakhri). Just loved it!

I watched most of his movies in recent times, and I do not see any tough competition in terms of acting skills. Ranbir puts himself in the skin of his character whether it's spoiled son in "Wake Up Sid" or flamboyant act in "Bachna Ae Hasseno"or intelligent salesman in "Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year" or politician in "Raajneeti" or innocent boy of "Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani"...

I definitely see a Superstar in this Rockstar!

Missing India

10^th December 2011

10:46 PM 

Currently I am in Staines, UK staying with three Bengali friends. I am here from last three months for my work. This blog is all about how did I find this place so far.

Staines, beautiful small town in south west of London, situated at the bank of the river Thames, colored with English culture. The first word come to my mind about Staines is small but beautiful!

London, what should I say about this city! This city is one of the most famous, and historical places in the world. You will find all kind of people here from all different parts of the world (Asian, African, European, American… ), Belonging to different religions of the world (Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jews, Buddhist and many others). This city has huge network of Tube (local train like our Metro rail in Delhi J).

When I was told that, I am going to UK for six months. I had mix feeling for leaving home and my country India but got a chance to see other parts of the world. Little sad, little excited!

Finally I arrived here at World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic Heathrow, London on 22^nd February 2011.

During my UK stay, I saw places here and I missed India like anything. I never imagined myself longing for India like this! That freedom, that oneness, those people, that “MY” feeling. I am missing INDIA badly. L

Today India has almost everything what other developed countries have. Yeah we may have some broken roads and may have more numbers of poor people and may be far behind in terms of cleanliness. But we are far ahead in one aspect that is Corruption! ;) But then what we got?

We got really good infrastructure (now, yeah after 64 years of independence, but we got it, and yeah definitely we need improvements!), best educational institutes, better and cheap medical facilities, best businessmen in the world, good transportation facilities (I do not expect AC trains or bullet train all over the country!), good communication facilities, one of the biggest cinema industry in the world and many more...

But what other countries don’t have is, our rich culture, our rich past, our education (yeah, I believe that we have better educational system, just one thing we need to improve is that we need to ease the pressure on the students.), our cheerful youth, and our spirituality (I am not talking about any religion, I am talking about meaning behind every religion, Spirituality). I saw a huge difference in terms of youth here and in India. Our youth is far more responsible and more progressive. 

Anyway we are still progressing and with that we also need to stick to our culture...

I am just missing India! L

Meaning of life

20^th November 2011. This was my regular weekend like every other weekend so far during my UK stay. I was travelling back to my home in Staines by crowded tube. I have my best buddies staying in London, and I visit them almost every weekend. As usual I was listening Hindi songs from my favorite collection, and reading one of the best spiritual scripture on the earth, “Yoga Vasistha”. I have been reading this book from long and trying to complete this book from long time too :). But somehow I could not complete it so far.

Then what was different this time from every weekend? While reading the book, for the first time, my mind questioned me one thing. That question was, “What is the meaning of my life?” and the second question was, “What do I actually want to achieve at the end of this life span?”

Why am I in this frame of family, friends, relatives, work, religion, and country? I am in search of the answers, and so I do not want to forget these questions till I get my answers…

I believe, everyone should ask these questions to himself or herself, do not consider your desires for the answers and then search the meaning of your life? Set the at least one life time goal, and move towards that direction.

I thought a lot on whether should I publish this blog or shall I search and if, I really find this question meaningful, then only I shall post it. But finally I decided to post to just share my thought. Who knows, someone of you might find this meaningful and get your goal of life and start searching answers!

It will definitely be interesting, deep and really meaningful!
So here I move in search of answers and may be to find "Meaning Of Life"!

iSad

Steve Jobs... R.I.P.

(February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011)


For the first time iFeel strange and sad for any public figure's death... It's been 4 days now, but still when iLook at apple, my mind says that world is surely going to miss this Legend...


iSad...

Sad and Angry!

13th July, 2011. Yet another serial bomb blasts, killing 18 and injuring more than 100 innocent Indians. 


Yet again it happened in our beautiful, peace loving country. Just not finding a single word for the people and their families who suffered. Feeling sad and at some moments helpless... but surely very much angry on PM Mr. Manmohan Singh and I am not able to understand that why is he still in this post????? He can't control corruption. He can't control terrorism. He can't control inflation. He can't even control his selected ministers and blame other allies. He is so helpless, he is so weak, he is so spineless, he is not at all "A Leader", he is just a simple human being like other Indians, and who is not a leader, have no rights to be in position of PRIME MINISTER! It is shame on him and Sonia and Congress! He himself should leave the post now... why people suffer because of your weakness mr PM?!?!


And moreover if this is less, today Mr. Rahul declares, "We prevented 99% attacks!" 
Is this time to say this?!?! Does he understand sensitivity of the issue?!?! Such an irresponsible statement. He just cares about not loosing some votes by taking credit of so called 99% prevented attacks. 


I am so sad and angry!


My prayers for peace and love all around.

Mumbai meri jaan...

Yeah!!! I know there are hundreds of articles and blogs on India's entertainment capital Mumbai! But this blog is all about my experience with Mumbai. So here we go...

Before I came to Mumbai for the first time, of course I heard lot about this great city, about the traffic, rain, local train, marine drive, polluted juhu beach, and lot more... Surely my mind has drawn a picture (actually a terrible picture!) of Mumbai with the brush of my imaginations. So with that terrible picture I reached Mumbai by Train. My friends, with whom I was supposed to share a flat, instructed me to get down at Dadar station.
Actually once I came to Mumbai when I was a kid, and I knew there are lots of local stations in Mumbai. So the moment, train reached at Borivalli at early morning. My anxiety started and I was looking at all the station's name with an eagle eye(I was wearing spectacles, that is my eagle eye!). Finally after half an hour  my train reached to Dadar. I was all ready to face the challenges of Mumbai. I hired the famous black and yellow taxi(my company was going to pay so I was not worried about fare! ;) ) of Mumbai. I was supposed to reach at Airoli, Navi Mumbai. I thought that as name suggests Navi Mumbai must be a very good NEWLY developed area, and would have nice locality and tall buildings and so on. Yeah, another picture of NAVI MUMBAI with my imaginations, but the thing was this picture was really good one!!! Anyway, I reached Airoli and saw those old tenements whose color was green due to those dirty green fungus on the wall, and that REAL picture of Airoli, Navi Mumbai broke the UNREAL picture of my imaginative Navi Mumbai!

That house was really horrible, but still I stayed there for two days as I had no other option on hand. I decided after two days that, I am not going to stay here at all! I told my friends that we are an SAP consultants man, we can't stay in this antique house. We'll search a new flat. But as I stayed there for two days, owner was not willing to leave me easily even I was ready to pay for those two days! Anyway my friend Manish came to rescue and had fight with that owner and I finally left that fungus full and stinking house. As there was no other option on hand, I stayed to my one of the oldest and best friend Parth's flat. From the other day, me and my friends Manish and Sahir(Junior Colleagues :) ) started searching for flat in Airoli. But surprise surprise... that day we all came to know, we are criminals! How? because we were "bachelors"!!! (I used "were" only for me, my two friends "are" still bachelors! ;)) Wherever we go and ask for flat on rent, the first thing people said, "No Bachelors, only married couple or family". What the hell! Bachelors are criminals or what? And very first time we all understood the value of "wife" in our "life"!

Anyhow my past life's good "karma" helped us, and finally we found one really good flat(there are no "quotation" so it was really nice flat! :)) after continues efforts of 15 days. Finally we shifted to our brand new really good flat and I started living with my new roommates Mr. Manish Hadiyel and Mr. Sahir Vhora.

Our flat was quite near to the office campus and we had company bus also, so we did not need to use any public transport. Due to this reason, even after staying in Mumbai, we were not actually living Mumbai!

Even my office team was good too, Mahesh(ganni uncle), Amol(bottle), Rajasekhar(paper), PradeepA(mota), Abhishek(ravan)! I am writing this at the moment and I can't stop myself laughing hard remembering those days. It was full on fun in office. I felt like, I was living the college life!

And at home, after staying few days with my roommates, I was sure that Mumbai life is going to be full fun, laughter riot and unforgettable. I tell you, Manish and Sahir are the guys with whom no one can stay low. These guys rocked our home by their funny jokes and masti. One more interesting characters became our very good friend was Mr. Dev! He was teammate of Sahir, but he mixed up with us so well and he was damn humorous. In fact, we all were humorous. Apart from me, everyone had amazing ingenuity which makes you roll on the floor laughing like anything and I am like Navjotsingh Sidhu, who can't stop laughing once started. The only difference between me and Sidhu is, I do not act and I actually laugh! :) And of course how can I forget Rajbhai and Varun too! Oh my... I am just remembering that time and my heart is filled with full of joy and happiness.

Now after these laughter riot weekdays, here is weekend. My fiancée-Darshana was also in Mumbai that time. :)))) But but but... she was staying in Goregaon East, which was almost 30 KM from my place. Travel from Airoli, Navi Mumbai to Goregaon East was real test of mine in Mumbai! I had to take auto from my home to Airoli Station, get a local for Thane, from there Dadar, from there Goregaon Station and from there take an auto to my fiancee's place! Woohhh... It was real test of mine! Initially I was feeling real hard. Eventually I found BEST bus direct to Goregaon. Anyhow slowly I started loving the local trains. Of course I was travelling for my fiancee, so I would definitely love any damn ride. But still there was something that, I started loving about local trains. Once during Navaratri, I was travelling at 12:30 in the night towards Thane. You can't even imagine the crowd at Dadar station. It gives you an impression that, its just 7 in the evening! There was not enough space to stand even in the train. I thought, this city REALLY never sleeps!

I visited almost all famous places of the city like Mahalaxmi Temple, Haji Ali Dargah, Gate of India, Hotel Taj, BSE, Marine Drive, Juhu Beach, Gorai Beach, Bandstand Bandra, Elephanta Caves. It was such a great fun travelling by local trains, BEST, Taxis and visiting all these places. All are such a beautiful place! And even some Mumbai special snacks are also mouth watering. I loved specially misal-pav. Above all I loved Manish's Bhaji-Pav. We still tell him that, buddy you are in wrong career. He should be chief chef at 5-star hotel.

I am simply in love with this city. And again that imaginative picture of Mumbai broke, and wonderful unimaginative picture of Mumbai got place in my heart instead of my mind!

Definitely, it is not easy to live in Mumbai, you need to be ruff & tuff, but Mumbai is the city where you would love to live hard!

What can you do for India? - 2

Exactly one year back, I started writing my thoughts into blogs. Last 15th August, I thought "What can I/You do for India?". I thought everyone should stop complaining about all other things and we should start doing small things to help India. So have I started anything? Yes, I have started doing some small things like not to throw garbage anywhere but only in dustbin, not to break traffic signals, not to waste water as much as possible, put my vehicle off on cross roads, gave little donation to NGO to make India a better place to live in.

I am sure, such small things surely will help a bit to make my country better place to live in. I do not want to blame my government for the drainage system blockage when people around throwing plastic and other garbage on road all the time, which in turn blocks drainage system. Take your own responsibility rather complaining and talking big. I am sure, I can still do lot more things then this and surely next 15th august, I promise myself, this list will have more things in it.

TALK LESS, DO MORE!

With this "small" message, Wish You All A Very Happy Independence Day!
Love you India.

वन्दे मातरम्