THE EBBING LIGHTS

The ebbing lights
bring me to you,
to pangs of pain
and peals of delights.
The receding waves
uncover now and then
the bed beneath
of cherished sands.
The river you were
has changed course
leaving behind rivulets,
with no choice
but to wait
to cut them deeper with
the pangs of pain
and peals of delights
when the light ebbs.

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THE STATE OF MEDIA

"Aap bade ho kar kya ban na chahte ho?"-"Sachin Tendulkar" pat comes the reply.The petite correspondant from Aajtak keeps asking this same question to kids that seem to be dressed up in full cricketing gear just for the occasion.And yes the correspondant has that trademark hindi reporter accent which irks me whenever I hear it.As this story ends we are taken to a cricket match being played between the so famous saas and bahus that rule the Indian telly.The camera closeups one by one on the players who have some of their own criceting wisdom family serial style to share.I switch to another news channel and they are showing sadhus play cricket near sangam in Allahabad while some foreign tourists watch on.Yes it is a fact that India is a cricket crazy nation but these mediamen and women just kill it.They over do it over and over again.They dont realize that to bring out the fanaticism over cricket you dont need to serve it as breaking news but just document it.However media in India just cannot get over its breaking news syndrome.Meanwhile India wins its warmup match against NZ.I switch back to Aajtak where broad block letters read out "JEET KI HUNKAAR" .Seeing it I realize maybe what I ask of these channels is a bit too much to
ask.


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DESPO NOT ME

Recently I was watching 'How I met Your Mother' season 3 on my laptop.In a particular scene Barney Stinson while reminiscing about his first sexual
experience says: “That was the night I was born. I rose like a phoenix from her mentholated bosom and strode into the world, Armani-clad and fully awesome.” Something hit me hard,something which was hard to admit and still harder to ignore.Thats too many 'hards' in a single statement but that is how I can best summarise what I felt.I never gave 'being still a virgin 'a serious thought,but the way Barney expressed himself and especially that mention to the phoenix thing did ring bells inside me.Someone seemed to be yelling-"he! you are still unused, and you had one of the best chances" .About the best chance thing- I study in manipal(popular belief has it that it is the land of pleasures galore).I try to talk my brain out of this 'student-life crisis situation' that it believes was my making all the way.I try to explain to it that how I with my meagre monthly allowances and fat intoxicant bills could do nothing but wait for time to shine upon me.My brain counters me by giving the example of the poor Andhra guy(he lost his V just in the 3rd semester) and our own 'bewda' who opened his account just last month.I try to reason that the poor guy was a geek and the girl he nailed was another geek who just thought that they could share some codewriting skills through mutual fluid exchange and that bewda's escapade was a fluke as the girl mistook his 'senti bullshit'(that he diishes out whenever he is drunk) for the vulnerability that girls so dig in for.At this point my brain went all guns blazing-"Why is it that things fall in place only for others?".This time I was silenced like a husband who just goes in the corner after he cant pull up more explanations.In my own corner I finally admitted to myself that it was lame of me to deny my body of such great a pleasure.If now I say that I am a 'mechie' probably most of you will typecast me as one of those despos who are now the face of our fraternity in every engineering college around India.But seriously I am not one of those types.My desparation is not all lust driven,its just the curiosity and the fact that I feel I have been a bit late on getting my hands on this type of experience.I feel kind of low about it but again something rings a bell inside me.Its my brain saying-"All is not lost, tomorrow is another day and we are going on a voyage

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CENSORSHIP

According to wikipedia censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.Well many people are opposed to this idea as they think it is an insult to the intelligence of humans.Such people reason that a mature person already possesses the maturity to respond to what is important rather to get tangled with obscure and immoral ideas.These days whenever I watch television I keep thinking that a new type of censorship based on stupidity should
be in place.Reality shows are the main source of my belief.All opposers to the idea of censorship may also support me too because no one can possibly stand stupidity.Well family based serials is where all this started but its too late to do anything about it now as it could lead to a nationwide disruption of family life.People hurling abuses at each other for reasons hard to comprehend,shedding tears as if they are in a private session with a psychiatrist and bonding so strongly after having just met for the first time are things that just force my rationale to question its premises.Whoever makes such shows must be some character.Also shows like TLC,Roadies,Splitsvilla are on the same bandwagon as no matter how much there following is,what they seve is sheer stupidity.Well I wont have a problem if inspite of being stupid they turn out to be interesting,but that's hard to find.

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OF BENGAL

One of my good friends today shared with me a conversation that he had with an uneducated Bengali when he had visited Kolkata recently.This friend of mine has his house in Kolkata at a place where nothing but barren fallow land existed since his grandfather had bought the land in the 60's.Today that place is overpopulated by malls and flyovers and other features of a newly urbanised Indian locale.Now this Bengali after a formal hi hello,jumped upon the topic of politics.Given the fanatical nature of importance that an average Bengali gives to politics,sports and culture my dear friend went all ears just to have a good timepass.This die hard follower of "didi" had a very strange but an interesting story to tell.According to him the locality that I am talking about here was once a very fertile piece of land that used to be green with the rice crop that grew here.Jyoti Basu's son slowly acquired the land by forcing the
innocent farmers out.This son of Jyoti Basu was a very fond of luxuries and thus he developed this area as an amusement area of his and also made a lot of money out of the process.This fictional dramatic story indicated that the story had been told to him for sole purpose of gathering an opposition against the existing Jyoti Basu government.Later on the man talked about the Singur issue and hailed the cancellation of the proposed factory being set up there as a big step in the empowerment of the poor."Cholche na-Cholbe-na"(has'nt worked and will not work) is what he very emphatically announced.My friend also discussed how people did nothing in his village but gather in the evenings to criticize MNC's and America.Hearing all this makes me remember the day when the Bihar
election results were out and everyone talked that from now on the people are going to vote on the basis of development only.That day I as an Indian felt very positive unlike today.

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WORLD CUP

Sachin Tendulkar was 10 when Kapil Dev brought the world cup to India.This is 2011 and what happened to cricket in India and Sachin himself is a story worth telling.Most of us have witnessed it but still the story never fails to amaze.Sachin is hailed as cricket's god and there is not a bit of exaggeration in there.Seeing him play one realizes that all the millions of neurons that he has,are trained to interpret the trajectory of the ball and send out signals to his framework to take the right stance and through a well coordinated series of movements at par with a ballet artist deliver the right amount of force to manoeuvour the ball through the right places.He is as perfect as it gets.He has been the spine of the Indian team for more than 20 years and still shows no sign of aging and on the contrary he has become more sound technically.Its no wonder that the present team wants to win the cup for Sachin.All of them have grown up watching him play and feel blessed to be in the same team with him.The present team is rich with energy and talent and it has got the right motivation.With a tactful captain that M.S Dhoni is we have the best chance that we have had since 1983.

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LAL CHOWK

The controversy is a part of our very recent past.I am not one of those well informed people and whatever general awareness I have is a direct result of my attempts at finding some raunchy "sansanikhej" masala news that they serve on every news channel that is(apologies to the exceptions that prevent the whole community to be cursed).The purpose of mine that I want to serve here is bringing out the ambiguity that exists over the so called freedom of opinion.First of all I dont believe that such a freedom should exist as it promotes stupidity.What I noticed as I watched the many debates that I witnessed over various news channels is that no matter what anyone said,he or she was branded either to be a moderate or a right extremist.I am not here to advertise the middle path.What I want to bring to notice is,the very wrong presupposition of the Indian media that the masses are incapable of an independent opinion.Should a
flag be hoisted at the Lal Chowk?There is only one standpoint from which such matters should be dealt and that is the nation's interest.The separatists are creating problems and trying to colour India's actions in dictatorial black.A strong message needs to be sent across to them and thus hoisting the tricolour in their bastion is very much needed and thus well justified.The problem lies in the fact that BJP was using it as a publicity stunt.This however does'nt imply that anyone who said yes to the unfurling was a Hindu extremist.On similar lines anyone who went against the unfurling was portrayed as a Congress sympathiser,BJP condemning moderate and progressive Indian.The truth is that these are the people who avoid confrontations and actions even when the country's interests are at stake.What is behind these biases that the Indian media holds is a big question?Every media person at that time argued that such an action would lead to the already volatile conditions in the valley to worsen.Well the conditions there have been bad for as long as anyone can
remember and it is going to get worser if the separatists are not dealt with strictly.Of late the separatists have also gathered big-wig sympathisers in the so called intellectual circle and also in the international media.In such challenging scenario the stance that Indian media has taken is the wrong one and it needs to be corrected.

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