Recondite Writer

Away from home, away from home, away from home, ...... a hundred miles.....This song (one which we used to hum in childhood) gets some strange feeling. We could associate with it. For walking had been so attached with us during our childhood. Walk to the school, walk to the playground, walk a good distance to get groceries and walk around the lake. Taking a solitary walk around the college area... The song used to get connected with us... As years passed by, walking did not leave. Though provided with delightful facilities walk never eluded. Walk and ponder. Ponder and walk. Walk long distances .Sometimes a silent walk. Sometimes a walk with a bunch of friends. Sometimes fast paced steps. Sometimes lazy, dragging steps. Walking remained.  Sometimes I wonder how a lazy walk from school to home, made me learn so many things. Though had a bicycle (preferred walking) . Would take a lift till halfway where my friend and I would part ways and before parting ways a ten minute of conver...

Though past few days has been rocked by terror, tremor, treachery and trauma , couple of good news makes one feel happy. The first one is the urgent rush of the blood donors to various hospitals in Delhi after the terror strike. Almost all hospitals and blood banks received several calls from callers inquiring the need of blood. (Though almost all the blood banks in Delhi had sufficient units ) It is a social revival of its kind where people have shed their inhibitions of donating blood. Government and social bodies should be congratulated to carry a drive which has informed and educated the people. The second news comes from Bihar where property of a tainted IAS officer has been turned into a Primary School. And several others are in pipeline. This is a massive step as we are all aware of the pathetic state of our schools . And most importantly the building being made from the plundered money of people is being given back to people. Well mostly these mansions made from pe...

Recently there was an article in Hindu http://orwell.ru/library/articles/hanging/english/e_hanging This article has  come up on the wake of giving mercy to the killers of Rajiv Gandhi. There has been huge row about forgiving those involved in it. It has been twenty years since Mr Gandhi died and more than 70 years since Mr Orwell wrote the article. Letting these people off the crime they did, seems to be logical amongst various set of society who thinks letting go the criminals is a way forward for an emerging society. Death sentence looks medieval or cruel.  But was the crime (murder) committed a civilized step ? A society that sentences killers to nothing worse than prison -- no matter how depraved the killing or how innocent the victim -- is a society that doesn't *really* think murder is so terrible.  When a killer is hanged till death, society is condemning his crime with a seriousness and intensity that no other punishment achieves. I still remember as a child th...

पानी के आधे भरे और खाली बोतल , यदा - कदा ग्लूकोस बिस्कुट के पैकेट , खाने का ये कागज़ सा लगने वाला सिंथेटिक प्लेट (पहले पत्तल आते थे ), केले के छिलके , खाने की टूटी सी रसोई , बदबू फैलाती हुई सड़ी गली सब्जियां , अजीब सी टोपी (जो सूत की नहीं है ) और बहुत सी जगह में कागज़ के छोटे छोटे तिरंगे . यही बची है आज मेरे साथ. लगभग एक माह के बाद वो त्योव्हार आएगा जिससे मेरा नाम सार्थक होता है. रामलीला. तब तक बीच बीच में कई त्यौहार आते जाते रहेंगे  कल ही अन्ना त्यौहार खत्म हुआ है !!

There are people who eat to live and then there are people who live to eat. I would fall in the category more weighted towards the latter. Food and I feel good. Food and life looks beautiful. By mere smell which is caught by our air cooler, I can tell you what is cooking. I even start dreaming of food. Gluttony is my trait. They would say I follow what I am. A Maithil. My partner's family had got a crash course before the marriage on the expectations of food habits of Maithils. I have heard and seen people eating and competing to eat .One of my cousin had a bet of eating maximum rasgullas without taking the ras out of it. And jolly he, he ended up eating 70 rasgullas. Not that he was full but the restaurant had no more stock left. There are infamous tail of Maithils and their food habits. And quotations. Even a bland khichdi has its proverbs... "Khichdi ke chaar yaar, dahi, papad, ghee achaar. Then another one says "Aadi ghee aur anta dahi, ohi bhojan ke bhojan kahi...

Suppose you are Veeru tied in a rope and a sharp shooter has aimed at your head ready to break it like a watermelon. Gabbar says chose one man to play for you. "Jab tak wo out nahi hoga, tab tak tumhari saanse chalti rahegi." Without a blinker of thought you would appoint Rahul Dravid. He would save your life. As he has been doing for India for fifteen continuous years. For no reasons he is called the Great Wall Of India. Dravid hates this figure of speech for him. A wall is lifeless all it does is blocks things. It separates intruders to trespass. Dravid does more than that. He stands, he blocks he reacts and scores. 12200 plus run and still counting. With his kind of average he goes , he is ought to make 50 plus run every innings. Wall, a lifeless being cant do it. For its not about blocking only, it is also about making runs and that too with conviction. Dravid, they say lacks aggression. For me, he is the biggest aggressor. Aggression is not about reacti...

So India is going to have their own slut walk. Aka Besharmi morcha, this is a new "firnagi" wave we are catching up. The history of slut walk is not too old. A Canadian Police officer's remarks started it all. And there has already been over 60 "walks" across the world. And Delhi girls are ready, few girls already selecting their skimpiest clothes as being interviewed in daily news channel. The fight is against sexual violence. That brings me to one question what took Indian women so much time to have an "andolan" now. The remark being made by canadian polcieman is every third Indian's view. Why did they need to follow some wave but not initiate it at first hand. Good that they are having a movement now. But unlike being followers can't we also raise voice against female infanticide. Violence (not only physical but social and most importantly economical ) is faced by majority of Indian women. Do we need any other country to start the march fo...